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The Adeptus Mechanicus

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

The Adeptus Mechanicus, Great Legions of the Mechanical Religion (The Mechanicum, The Cult Mechanicus, The Cult of the Machine, AdMech, Toaster Fuckers)

The Adeptus Mechanicus preparing for battle

Belisarius Cawl, the Archmagos of the Mechanicus

• Theme Song/s: Children of the Omnissiah. When in combat: Noosphere
• Greater Legions, with Belisarius Cawl being Intermediate God
• Symbol: The Machina Opus◊
• Alignment: Lawful Neutral
• Portfolio: A Machine Cult dedicated to technology and worshippers of the "Omnissiah", believes all technology have a Machine Spirit, restricts new technology to absurd levels, creators of various Forge Worlds, despises psykers of all kinds, views humans are simple tools including robotization of said humans, obsessed with Dark Age-era technology and refuses to create new ones out of fear, might be secretly worshipping the C'Tan known as the Void Dragon on Mars
• Domains: Technology, Religion, Cybernetics, Transhumanism, the Omnissiah
• Heralds: The various forces and sectors of the Adeptus Mechanicus: the Centurio Ordinatus, Collegia Titanica, Auxilla Myrmidon, Legiones Skitarii, Legio Cybernetica, Ordo Reductor and Imperial Knights, as well as various military and non-military sects.
• Allies:
  • The Imperium of Man and loyalists: The Immortal God-Emperor of Mankind, Malcador, Vulkan, Sanguinus, Marneus Calgar, Captain Titus, the Blood Ravens (Gabriel Angelos, Indrick Boreale), the Adeptus Sororitas
  • Others: Very little, unless one pledges their faith towards the Cult Mechanicus that is.
• "Temporary" Alliance with: Eldrad Ulthuan, Trazyn the Infinite
• Opposed by: The Martian Manhunter and other inhabitants of Mars (the Martians, Mars People, White Martians and Marvin the Martian), the New Alliance of Free Stars, the Lobotomy Corporation
• Opposes: 2B, 9S and A2, Alice
• Additional Relationships: The C'Tan (particularly the Void Dragon)
• Interested in: All Cybertronians, Bionicles and Gundam users, the Xeelee, the Celestials (both for their technology specifically), the Cybermen, John-117/Master Chief
• Enemies:
  • From the 41st-42nd Millenium: The Chaos Gods (Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, Slaanesh) and their servants (Ezekyle Abbadon, Typhus, Fabius Bile, Lucius the Eternal, Eliphas the Inheritor) including the traitor Primarchs (Magnus the Red), all xenos forces (Asdurbael Vect, the Tyranids, Warboss Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka)
  • Others: Brainiac, The Church of the Broken God, the Borg, the Tenno, the Grineer, the Corpus, all forms of AI (SKYNET, Ultron, SHODAN), the Event Horizon, the Chimera, the Combine, the Hierarchs (and by extension the Covenant), the Flood, Atriox
• Base of Operations: Mars
• Prior to the rise of Humanity, there was a time where the humans from Terra colonized Mars as they slowly developed space travel to conquer other worlds. It was in the colonization of Mars where the inhabitants of the planet would start a new culture as it and Terra were developed separately. Those within the man-made atmosphere of Mars would create a culture dedicated to technology and all of its aspects. This would peak within the Dark Age of Technology, a time where humanity was at its' zenith, but also started the downfall as various psykers appeared all over the human colonies, with those in Mars and Terra also facing a civil war in the form of the Men of Iron, dubbed the Age of Strife. In addition, the lack of maintenance for Mars' atmosphere has left it in a state of disrepair and eventually malfunctioned, with many inhabitants facing the death of their once favored home, but that would escape them, as a cult of survival, a Cult Mechanicus, was formed to rally all remaining survivors on Mars on the condition that their faith would be centered around the cult. The ones who pledged their faith lived as those who opposed them died fighting for survival. The cult would be vindicated and became the birthplace of what would be now known as the Mechanicum.
  • Following the establishment of the Priesthood of Mars, the Mechanicum were bitter enemies with Terra as the Techno-Barbarians took over. Most of their journeys to Terra was to seek technology that was lost at the end of the Dark Age but was a fruitless cause. It was not until the Emperor rose up and restored Terra to order that the Mechanicum became cooperative to him. Most described to him as the "Omnissiah", able to repair technology with a single touch. With his agreement for the Mechanicum to aid in Humanity's rise while also upholding their sovereignty, the Mechanicum became a vital ally to the Imperium by the 30th Millennium, in the form of the Treaty of Olympus, though not all within the organization celebrated it and would become the source of a schism between the various sectors of the Mechanicum. This bore fruit within the Horus Heresy, as the Mechanicum had a revolt against those who sided with Horus, those who sided with the Emperor and those who are neutral. Thus began the Schism of Mars, an echo of what would be the later battles they would face within the next Millenia. In the middle of the conflict, there were two members vying for the title of Fabricator General, thus creating an unresolved equation. The solution, despite fears of a power-grab by certain factions and long-term independence, became the creation of an Adeptus: the Adeptus Mechanicus.
  • With the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, the Adeptus Mechanicus has continued its long-standing mission to gather as much lost technology as well as STCs, known as the Quest for Knowledge, a part of their religion. Despite having many schisms all challenging the core tenets of their religion, the Mechanicus are still operational, but are a far cry from their glorious age millennia ago, as well as that the faction's ability to maintain their greatest technologies (such as the Golden Throne) slowly failing and unable to repair it. The Mechanicus would not be of great importance until the 13th Black Crusade where Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl appeared to the various generals of Cadia, telling them of a secret construct within the planet that can help turn the tide of the Black Crusade. Despite the assistance from two unexpected Xenos alliances and the usage of such construct, the planet fell and began the Age of the Dark Imperium. All was not lost as years beforehand, he and Primarch Robute Guilliman had planned of a secret project that would help bolster the weakened Space Marine Chapters in times of crisis. This would become the basis of the Primaris Space Marines and became the mainstay for most Chapters, though not all accepted it, especially those who wish to preserve their own brothers, creating a conflict between Firstborn and Primaris Marines. With continued experimentation to battle against the enemies of Mankind, the Adeptus Mechanicus lives on.
• With the Imperium of Man scattered across the galaxy all due to factors outside of their control, several of their main forces have been cut off from the support of their main homeworlds. One explorator fleet hailing from the Adeptus Mechanicus' homeworld, Mars, was unable to report after a warp storm engulfed it. Despite the Mechanicus' attempts to search for one of their own ships, no traces of a crash nor debris were reported, and as such was declared lost. Six months after the declaration, a transmission from said fleet was received and prompted several warfleets to the transmission's location, of which a large opening, almost seen as a warp storm was discovered. The fleets passed through but oddly enough, no warp activity was detected upon passage. The warfleets discovered Mars, or rather, the Pantheon's version of Mars, with the explorator fleet having crashed into the planet. Upon scouting the planet, they have confirmed it to be the same planet but without any form of industrialization, an almost close replica of Mars before the Dark Age of Technology. Before any moves were made, another transmission was picked up, and upon close translation, shocked the present members of the fleet.
  Teleportation.... complete. Ascension.... complete. Godhood.... complete. Welcome to the Pantheons, members of the Mechanicus.
  • The ascension caught the Adeptus Mechanicus by surprise, as they have not faced an adversity of different proportions. The warfleet considered the Pantheon to be another form of xenos that had yet to be discovered, while others believe they may have been tricked by the Chaos God Tzeentch into another delusion. The fleets, after desperation, decided to activating all weapons and firing at possible targets within their vicinity. This hostility would fade as an unexpected presence lit up in one of their flagships, revealing it to be the God-Emperor himself. The Mechanicus, having been shocked that the Omnissiah has appeared to them after years of fighting, shut down all their weapons and followed the Emperor's decree. This led to the Adeptus Mechanicus using the Pantheon's rendition of Mars as their base of operations, with reinforcements assisting them after creating several radio beacons to alert others of their presence. Soon after, several Mechanicus fleets arrived and the Adeptus Mechanicus have been properly established, all according to the Emperor's plan.
• Following the establishment of the Mechanicus within the Pantheon, a large chant has been made within the corners of the plane, believing to be the Imperium chanting in unison about their ascension. While the Mechanicus are heavily aligned with humanity, not all from the Cult are friendly to regular humans, especially those without any form of knowledge they seek out. Intense political tribulations have occurred many times between the Fabricator-General of Mars towards the High Lords of Terra, to the point that the Mechanicus have avoided participating in some battles within the 41st Millennium until reparations are made and, in some reports, have ceased the support of certain Space Marine Chapters out of spite, such as that with the Marines Malevolent. Some even argue that the Adeptus Mechanicus are heavily independent to humanity that, should the Imperium be at its' last legs, the Mechanicus can survive without the Imperium but the latter would be dead without the Cult on their side, thus creating shifty tensions between the two factions. Being the Imperium of Man's only source of technology has given them enough reason for their contractors not to piss them off.
  • Tensions aside, both the Mechanicus and the Imperium have several reasons for working with each other which is the eradication of both servants of Chaos and their immense hatred for any xenos lifeforms. The Forces of Chaos have hurt the Mechanicus quite plenty, best evidenced by the Collegia Titanica, their premier tech division responsible for creating massive god-machines known as Titans. Half of the Collegia turned against the greater Adeptus Mechanicus during the Horus Heresy and following the aftermath of such, these Titans are no longer in production, with most being preserved to only be used of great urgency. Even after that disaster, the presence of the Dark Mechanicum, Mechanicus tech-priests that have withdrew support from the cult to join against the Imperium's fall, have made the Forces of Chaos one of the Mechanicus' primary targets, alongside their desire to recover the lost technology from the Horus Heresy. The Cult also sees the warp as a corruption of the machine-spirit, one of the key characteristics related to their religion.
  • As for the xenos forces, the Mechanicus have harbored great hatred for any other alien lifeforms but have kept their duty in attempting to study xenos' technology. While not forbidden per-se, it is heavily frowned upon to utilize alien technology to Imperium tech, believing it to be sacrilege to the tech's machine spirit. In terms of the xenos forces they have encountered, only Aeldari, T'au, Votann and Necron technology have piqued their interests with the Tyranids being fully fleshed and Ork "technology" being a bafflingly crude mish-mash of various items that most have deemed it worthless to study it. The T'au and Necrons in particular hold quite an interest, as T'au technology continually adapts and varies based on specification (as well as being less religious) while Necron technology holds some of the most powerful devices that even outpaces their own. The latter of which is of great importance with the discoveries that a C'Tan known as the Void Dragon is sealed deep within Mars and that during the 13th Black Crusade, Trazyn the Infinite was among the few who aided Belisarius Cawl in activating a pylon matrix that would have sealed the Warp for good until it was destroyed alongside the planet. His forces would soon be rescued by Eldrad Ulthuan, who sent him back to Robute Guilliman after the battle.
• Before the Mechanicus arrived, Mars was relatively peaceful, with little activity aside from those who originally came from said planet, of which the peace did not last thanks to the Cult's rapid industrialization of the planet. In fact, one of the main complaints many sent towards the Court was the Adeptus' unnecessary tampering with it, the first complaint and warning being sent out by the Martian Manhunter. While he understands the Imperium's mindset and grim necessity, he sees the work they have done to his home planet to be deemed unacceptable, made so much more when various of the original inhabitants of Mars worked with the Martian Manhunter to kick them out of the planet. This turned out to be a grave mistake as the Mechanicus had already prepared various weapons against them, even using the fabled Titan war-machines during the battle, thus kicking the various Martian deities out of it. This encounter with him became the Mechanicus' first foray into the Pantheons and it's large variety of aliens and technology.
  • Being placed within the House of Religion & Faith did not stop the Mechanicus from their long-standing war against most, if not all, alien lifeforms within the Pantheon even with some aliens willing to help the Imperium and those who are very much neutral. After their crash course into the Martian Manhunter, they were notified of a far more powerful alien heading directly to Mars, with the Manhunter hinting of a being known as Brainiac. Their first encounter with him nearly lead to a loss, but was able to repel his invasion, despite heavily losses from their various divisions. Several battle reports have slowly confirmed that Brainiac is not only a foul xeno but has conquered many planets, with him seeing the Imperium as a blessing in his quest to collect more planets. Their encounter with him has made them vindicated on their stance to kill all aliens, added with that his collection oddly reminds them of Trazyn's collection in Solemnace. Soon after that, their attempts to expand the Cult have been halted as various attacks from other alien lifeforms were detected though were more controllable than Brainiac's invasion. Reports of attacks by the Chimera, Combine, Covenant, Flood and Borg Collective were noted and had been dealt with. The one issue the smaller sects of tech-priests have to deal with is how to incorporate such alien technology into their research, between Chimeran drones, Combine synths, Flood biology, Covenant plasma weaponry and Borg systems, without notifying the larger heads of the Cult.
  • Not all aliens acted violently towards the Mechanicus, though still found them frustrating to deal with. The New Alliance of Free Stars are the only neutral alien "faction" they have faced and while they did not respond with a hail of plasma fire, are forced to compete with the Adeptus Mechanicus in their desire to study the technology of their precursors, with the Chmmr seeing a physical similarity between each other, having portions of flesh and technology within their bodies. Scouts belonging to the Cult were found observing Bionicles and Cybertronians and were caught, with some being killed off by the antagonistic factions of their races, and some hauling corpses belonging to the two. There were also sightings of Xeelee and Celestials tech being tampered by the Mechanicus, though not too much of an issue as both the Xeelee and the Celestials see the Mechanicus' attempts to study their tech to be fruitless, all thanks to the religion that they serve that restricts the creating of new technology, let alone one derived from xenos.
• The Cult Mechanicus, their state religion, is one of the Mechanicus' greatest strengths, and is arguably their biggest flaw. Their religion states that all machines have some form of spirit, a machine spirit. This machine spirit is what fuels their desire to preserve their technology, with the older ones being more sought after and preserved and studied for ages to come. It also derives from their search for knowledge, both from the Dark Age of Technology and even those that predate humanity. However, this also means that new technology is forbidden, with fears that said technology and said spirit could be corrupted, and that most of the practical technology have already been invented, lessening the need to innovate, thus requiring an absurd amount of loopholes just to label newly discovered innovations as old tech. These tenets are often a source of challenges and schisms that have damned the Mechanicus for many years, even weakening their logic such as the one time where they made a deal with the Dark Eldar to repair the aging Golden Throne. Some have started innovating following the Third Tyrannic War and the aftermath of the 13th Black Crusade, heralded by Belisarius Cawl and the Primaris Space Marines.
  • Out of the various aliens and religious movements that have challenged the Adeptus' religion, only two have stand out, one coming from a Church that hails a being called "Mekhane" as their god, and another who have modified themselves as "Cybermen". The Church of the Broken God have respected the Adeptus Mechanicus to a supportive extent which ceased the moment they opposed their "Omnissiah" and attempted to convince them to support Mekhane instead. This response lead to the Adeptus immediately branding the Church for their heresy. Meanwhile, the Cybermen, despite having removed the entirety of their flesh and individuality, have little views on their religion and finds it abhorrent, though deeply respects their attempts to roboticize themselves. This was not equally received well on the Adeptus' part and sees them to be a borderline extreme, to the point that Cawl made the argument that without some of the Mechanicus' individuality, they would have succumbed to their schisms long ago. The only interest the Mechanicus have regarding the Cybermen is their technology being far sturdier than theirs.
  • The religion also have made a complete ban on all forms of Artificial Intelligence, stemming from the Age of Strife and the Men of Iron that revolted against them, so much so that AI for them means abominable intelligence. Servo-skulls and Servitors are not AI, as they are heavily engineered cyborgs, though this is as far as the Mechanicus can go when it comes to automated intelligence. The Pantheon's large array of AI, from SKYNET, Ultron and SHODAN has reignited the Adeptus' AI ban that they have prioritized the destruction of these three specifically, which did not help when they uncovered what these specific AI did, whether that be SKYNET successfully wiping more than half of humanity during Judgement Day, Ultron's contempt for humankind and his attempts to rectify it and SHODAN's god-like complex, which ended up attracting several tech-priests into her servitude, thus calling them Hereteks, reserved for those who stray too far from the Mechanicus' religious tenets. The AI targets became six when several Skitarii forces engaged three YoRhA models, named 2B, 9S and A2, and after studying their protocols, deemed them very dangerous as they assume that despite their creation meant for the "glory of mankind", no human was rescued from the three. The presence of a Logic Virus from the three only made matters worse, which made them assume that said models were responsible for their humanity's extinction. 9S claims that the Adeptus' protocols are heavily outdated and is forced to hide from them under their fears of constant prosecution and hunts.
• Explorator fleets have doubled ever since they discovered the Pantheon in the hopes of finding universes with powerful technology, one of which found another version of Mars, but inhabited by the Grineer. When confronted, the Grineer responded with a hail of bullets before being summarily blasted by plasma from orbit. Since then, this universe, that has been the home of the Tenno. have started becoming a mining operation, which lead to frequent clashes with the Grineer, with the Corpus joining in after the Mechanicus raided one of their storage outposts. Observations have compared the Corpus akin to the Leagues of Votann, a technologically advanced race motivated by massive greed for profit. After having multiple bouts against the two factions, the Tenno had enough and decided to begrudgingly work with the two factions to drive the Mechanicus out, even using the Infested to buy them some time. Eventually it succeeded but while they were fighting, explorator fleets have arrived with more potential targets.
  • After the Covenant attacked, they traced the location from where the slipspace jump occurred and locked the coordinates down for warp jump. Three weeks after, news of a large-scale war occurred between three fronts, one from the Covenant, another from the Flood and one from certain Covenant separatists, labelled "Banished". After being kicked out from the Tenno-Grineer-Corpus conflict, their eyes have set foot into claiming this version of the Milky Way Galaxy. The resources found in this one is rather exotic, with Covenant plasma technology being a boon to their aging plasma generators and the Banished tech being a far more refined combination of differing tech, almost comparable to that of the Orks, but with actual logic. The UNSC, who are rather neutral to the Adeptus Mechanicus' presence, have kept their eyes on the remaining Spartans, especially those from the SPARTAN-II program, fearing that they can brute force their way into getting any details regarding the Master Chief.
  • The other explorator fleets that arrived mentioned of a new phenomena of war machines related to the Imperial Knights and Titans. The trend of mecha have reached into the ears of excited tech-priests, with some eager to capture a few of these "Gundams" for research. When news of this reached towards Char Aznable, he was repulsed at the prospect of giving a gundam to what he calls "outdated mechanical madmen" and made a new order to restrict any gundam under the hands of the Mechanicus. Another explorator fleet arrived but unlike the others that promised resources and war, this one was of terror as the remaining survivors of the fleet warned them of an ancient starship that had massive warp energies all over it. The survivors managed to capture a clean image of the ship, the Event Horizon, and concluded that the ship could have originated around M3, the millennia when humanity would discover the Immaterium. Orders have been received to hunt down and destroy the ship by any means necessary.
• Knowledge is power, a common notion shared by those who wish to study and pursue the undiscovered. To the Mechanicus, knowledge is where everyone is judged upon. Little did the Cult know that knowledge is also a weapon and could spell doom to themselves, such is the case with Alice, a deathly-ill princess who wanted to know more of the Earth, eventually chasing down every book she read and created the Book of Truth. Transcribers have tried to decipher the book's contents but are careful not to alert themselves to her, seeing what she has done to the humans in her world. Most of the Mechanicus have suggested throwing one of the most powerful Titans and Ordinances against her but are fearful as all the attempts done by the humans on her realm were consumed regardless of what they did. They have warned not to pursue the book, else the Cult would face their own demise at the hands of a knowledge-hungry princess.
• One of the biggest technological discoveries the Mechanicus have made did not come from the explorator fleets, nor from hostile alien contact, but rather on the concept of Singularities. This phenomena was discovered upon contact with the Lobotomy Corporation, after having their finished decree towards the Church of the Broken God, where they witnessed several members of the Church, in actuality are L Corp agents in disguise, acting oddly before leaving. After one too many forced cybernetic "enhancements", the agents spilled the beans and mentioned of absurdly physics-breaking tech in one of the cities controlled by the Corp. Soon after, they discovered several tools in this setting that they have observed: Cogito, HP Bullets and WARP Trains, all of which defy the logic that they had learned in their days with Terra and Mars. Some have attempted to smuggle these discoveries into their research but were apprehended afterwards. L Corp are careful though, should they start killing tech-priests that they capture, the Mechanicus is more than willing to break into their world through brute force, even if they have no choice but to release all of the abnormalities they have contained.
• One of the agreements the Emperor has approved was that those who reside within the 41st-42nd Millennium are to be allowed a break from their wars if they are to stay in the Pantheon. The Adeptus Mechanicus is not spared from this and the entire machine workforce was placed under suspension in certain days. The attitudes exhibited by Mechanicus members are... eccentric to say the least. The Tech-Priests do the usual work but they seem to have an odd satisfaction regarding toasters and wanting to use them for their own purposes, hence "toaster fuckers" being a thing. Skitarii Legions have denied visitors entrance to their temples many times, to a rather, deadpan way. And both the Fabricator of Mars and Cawl themselves have a few loose screws on their heads, the former having been abusing the ancient tehcnology known as the Proteus Protocol with him coming back alive even after self-destructing several times, and the latter having several versions of himself ingrained into his mind, almost similar to another being called the Master.
  Cawl (during his more... hilarious moments): Line open. Hello! Belisarius Cawl speaks. What do you require? FUCKING WHAT?!
  • The Fabricator General's usage of the Proteus Protocol is what prompted a redeemed version of Magnus the Red to allow one of the Emperor's trusted Custodes into claiming said tech in the Noctis Labyrinth, in the hopes of reviving the Emperor into a human form. Cawl got involved after the General decided to inform him of the Custodes attempt to reach through restricted tech. What ensured was a battle involved large amounts of dead Skitarii and melted Custodes corpses, as Cawl's strike force was far more powerful and is, in some people's words, too overpowered^note The AdMech are known to be ridiculously too powerful during 8th Edition, though it got nerfed in later versions, though this "timeline" uses 8th Edition balancing, hence Cawl's strong force. So powerful in fact that even when the Custodes got the upper hand, Cawl managed to successfully kill the Custodes "Kitten". The last vision following that disastrous news was that the Emperor burst into a supernova, with the fate of all those within Terra unknown after the incident.
• I craved the strength and certainty of steel, I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
  
  

Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

Magos Dominus Faustinius

The Bydo Empire

The Bydo Empire, Unholy Collective of Organic Technology (Baido, The Byde Empire)

One type of Bydo Core (there’s several different versions of such)

• Greater God-level race
• Symbol: Different Bydo cores
• Theme Music: The Bydo...
• Alignment: Chaotic Evil
• Portfolio: Eldritch Abomination, The Assimilator, The Corruption
• Domains: War, Assimilation
• Rivals: The Aparoids, The Borg Queen, The Unbidden, The Flood, The Vex, The Infested
• Enemies (specifically in addition to the majority of sapient life in the Pantheon): Star Fox, Vic Viper, Samus Aran, Master Chief, all heroic Star Trek deities
• Possible Interest in: The Event Horizon, Alex Mercer, Ridley
• In a war-torn future, humanity has created a biological weapon with the intent of conquering their enemies. However, the creation of Bydo would prove to be a fatal mistake and despite efforts to banish them to another dimension, the Bydo grew in power, seeking nothing more than to wipe out everything in its way and converting organic or non-organic matter as their own. Once the Bydo Empire managed to find its way back to the dimension where humanity lives, an all-out war between a legion of eldritch conquerors born from humanity’s desire for power and the human race (which created a group of starships to fight back) ensued, with this battle going on for hundreds of years.
• Star Fox was given a mission to go to a space station in a far-off galaxy and prevent the Aparoid from overrunning it. As Star Fox was close to the space station, they encountered some infected lifeforms that threatened to prevent them from reaching their destination. While some of these were infected by Aparoids, they noticed that some of these enemies didn’t look like they were assimilated by the Aparoids, but rather by some unknown enemy. The team arrived at the space station and as Fox Mccloud was going through the station’s interior, he noticed that something was not only wrong, but that parts of the station were infected with the same substance that some of the enemies had. Fox eventually reached the space station’s control room, where he discovered that not only were the inhabitants there dead, but that there was some unnatural substance in the center, presumably responsible for everything that happened inside. Fox had to be called back out after a black hole appeared and spawned more of these unknown invaders. After Fox got back in his Arwing (and just in time before it got infected by that substance) and told his teammates about what happened in the space station, where it then proceeded to attack Star Fox and resulted in another dangerous fight. While Star Fox destroyed everything in their path (including the now rogue space station) and fended off what was there, it wasn’t really a victory as what would be known as the Bydo would gain awareness of the Pantheon after Star Fox told their friends about it from their harrowing mission.
• In addition to Star Fox, those who have explored many locations in space are alarmed at the idea of an alien threat born from a faulty bioweapon that seeks to dominate the universe. The various crew members of the USS Enterprise, moreso for Jean-Luc Picard and his allies, see the Bydo and what they did in their universe as a dark reminder of what could happen if The Borg succeeded in assimilating everything and caused everyone else fighting against them to struggle much more than they would normally. As for The Borg Queen herself, she considers the Bydo, much like nearly everything else, to be obstacles in her objective having the entire Pantheon fall under The Borg’s rule, a similar sentiment shared by The Aparoid Queen and her wanting the Pantheon to be overrun by Aparoids. A three-way war between The Borg, The Aparoids, and The Bydo over who gets to assimilate the entire Pantheon under their rule has been a regular occurrence in space within the Pantheon, with other entities getting thrown in to try and stop all the threats involved.
• One of the many enemies that The Bydo can use against its adversaries are ships of various sizes and strengths alongside other grotesque entities that The Bydo has possessed as a whole. Their stated goal is to attack humanity and instill terror in them through sheer numbers while taking over anything in its path. One possible nightmare that many are worried about is if The Event Horizon, a starship that can psychologically break anyone inside ends up assimilated by The Bydo and while nothing has happened yet, it’s more than likely that The Bydo are willing to use anything they can get ahold of, especially something that can break humanity’s spirit, and assimilate it to their ranks.
• The Vic Viper, regardless of if it's being used by a pilot or acting on its own accord, has been one deity that has played a crucial role in thwarting several attacks carried out by The Bydo. As the ship and it’s pilots have confronted and defeated an alien race known as the Bacterians numerous times, The Bydo is considered to be something similar, if not more dangerous as those enemies in terms of what they can do and the Vic Viper’s various weapons have proven useful in taking down plenty of Bydo. The Vic Viper and those involved in maintaining it’s condition are careful to make sure the ship doesn’t end up in possession of The Bydo whenever it’s being sent out.
• In essence, the Bydo are extra-dimensional beings thanks to them thriving in a nightmarish world where they grew in power and sought to conquer other dimensions to spread their power. The Unbidden see nearly every other lifeform as food to feast upon, the Bydo included, and The Unbidden being made of energy (both the ships and the entities that control them) means that the Bydo can’t assimilate themselves onto them like most other deities. Even if the Bydo were to succeed in assimilating the entire planet the Pantheon is on, it would still leave themselves open to a potential attack from The Unbidden, who see the Bydo as obstacles to take down and a really big meal to devour.
• Among the many other assimilators that The Bydo ended up being aware of were The Flood and The Infested. In the case of The Infested, they found some similarities with The Bydo in terms of assimilators with a vast army to overpower others. With how much the Bydo wants to take over, The Infested saw them as another obstacle to get rid of, though the idea of getting infected by both The Infested and The Bydo (or any other combination of assimilators in the Pantheon) is a troubling prospect for many. As for The Flood, the fact that The Bydo don’t have much in the way of goals other than to terrorize humanity and consume everything in their path was something that The Gravemind found interesting. Even if The Gravemind does share the same goal of breaking the willpower of others to convert them to The Flood, it didn’t change the fact that like The Flood, the Bydo won’t stop until everything is assimilated to their ranks, prompting The Gravemind to see The Bydo as more competition as far as who will lay waste to the Pantheon is concerned.
• The Vex consider the Bydo to be major obstructions in their goal to ensure that everything in the universe follows The Pattern. To put it bluntly, the Bydo use a mixture of both organic and non-organic forms to attack anyone, which, in the view of The Vex, doesn’t fit what The Pattern entails. Any attempts to convert a Bydo-infected setting into one that befits The Vex would be met with strong resistance from the Bydo, who have tried to assimilate some members of The Vex without much success. In turn, some territory that belongs to The Vex would end up getting invaded by The Bydo and those frequent fights between both parties over the territory they possess have contributed to hostilities between The Vex and The Bydo.
• Having confronted a multitude of intergalactic threats, the Bydo and the damage they can cause was something that Samus couldn’t ignore and is among those who have stepped in to stop the Bydo from spreading. In some ways, the Bydo reminds her of Phazon, another corruptive entity that sought to spread itself to others and take over the galaxy. The possibility of Phazon infusing themselves onto the Bydo’s existing forces to make them more dangerous was something Samus is worried about, as is the fact that the Bydo could infect Ridley and make him even more of a problem than normal (not unlike how Meta Ridley was infected by Phazon and became Omega Ridley in the process). Ridley’s unrelenting insanity and willingness to destroy was something that got the Bydo’s attention and him being effective at terrorizing others in a space-bound setting made him a possible target for the Bydo to use against others.
• Generally speaking, the Bydo and what it has to offer has been met with dread by a majority of denizens in the Pantheon. It’s not to say that there are some who are interested in trying to use it, even if the odds of achieving success with such are very slim to put it mildly. Alex Mercer, who has absorbed others to gain their powers and overall very ruthless, did end up fighting some Bydo and integrated some of their abilities onto himself. The Bydo quickly picked up on the fact that he is not someone to take lightly, especially after learning of some of his involvement with other entities similar to the Bydo. That said, the possibility of having a Bydo-infused Mercer as a means to take over the Pantheon was a thought that didn’t escape the Bydo and even if he’s more inclined to take their power for himself, any chance to have Mercer fall under the command of the Bydo and not act on his own terms is something that Bydo is willing to take.

Kokonoe Mercury

Kokonoe Mercury, Goddess of Crossing of Magic and Technology (Professor Kokonoe, Grimalkin, Bakeneko)

• Greater Goddess
• Symbol: Her emblem imprinted into the bust of SUPER GOLDEN TAGER X
• Theme Music: Science Fiction, Sector 7 (Shared with other members of Sector 7), Reincarnation (Shared with her family)
• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral with shades of Chaotic Evil
• Portfolio: Mad Science, Corrupting Magic With Technology, Roaring Rampage of Revenge Beyond Reasoning, Cat Girl, Eating Lollipops For Concentrating, Tons Of Swearings (Censored), Deadpan Snarker, Never Getting Out Of Her House, Storing Nukes For Extreme Measures
• Domains: Science, Knowledge, Magic, REVENGE
• Herald: Iron Tager
• Allies: Nine the Phantom (her mother), Celica A. Mercury (her aunt), Lambda-11, Bullet (Subordinates), Noel Vermillion, Makoto Nanaya, Taokaka, L, Patchouli Knowledge, Baiken, Dr. Wily, Ricotta Elmar
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork with: Hakumen, Rachel Alucard, Ragna the Bloodedge
• Enemies: YUUKI TERUMI, RELIUS CLOVER, Hazama, Azrael
• Opposes: Arakune
• Opposed by: Mei-Ling Zhou
• Conflicting Opinion: Killua Zoldyck
• Interested In: Vatista, Aigis and Labrys
• One of the brightest minds in the Pantheon. Kokonoe's great mind and capabilities to combine the aspects of magic and technology is only outweighed on by her unbridled hatred towards Terumi, for revenge... something that makes even other revenge-based deities like Asura, Scorpion... or even Sasuke Uchiha himself either raise an eyebrow or cringe.
  • In fact, Sasuke thinks that if anyone's succeeding his old house, that'd be Kokonoe. It... kinda depends on how things go. Kokonoe doesn't seem to mind that placement.
• Pays regular visits to the Food Pantheon to buy some sweets for her own mind. In spare time, she plays video games online together with Patchouli, as both usually refuse to get out of their respective house. Handheld online games felt good.
  • Also often is considered as this to Kurtis Stryker. Both are Badass Normals, rely heavily on gadgets, and are considered as ridiculously overpowered to the point of being banned in tournaments. Stryker, however, got better balancing and was tolerated by the fanbase over time.
• Kokonoe was always Litchi Faye-Ling's master. However, she was thoroughly disgusted with how she allied with Terumi in the past no matter the reason, to the point that Kokonoe will have no qualms of destroying her, regardless if she repented or not.
• Litchi's case aside, Kokonoe herself isn't a popular Goddess, as shown with Asura and the others above. Rachel Alucard, despite being one who works a lot with her, constantly worries about her sanity. Hakumen dislikes her tendency to just hide in her House instead of taking an active stance in battle. Even Duke Nukem, as much as the kinda guy he is, has expressed worry about what kind of things she's going to do with those nukes... But she still secured a place in the GUAG for the same reason as Mayuri: Her intelligence score is vital enough for the fights against evil.
  • However, due to the Ascension of Arakune, more of them have started to express thier disgust with her, as many point out that she could have saved Roy if she cared. All she said was "Piss off, I don't have time to concern myself with trivial matters. Taking down Terumi is more important than caring about what happened to the coffee boy." When pressed further, she also stated that it was her who kept Arakune existing and it was a hard job, so Litchi should have listened and been thankful to her instead of consistently disobeying what she said like an 'idiot'.
  • To that end and prove that she is on the right, she has managed to gather several other Gods for one goal: Kill Arakune, and then punish Litchi for being a desperate idiot that doesn't know when to quit and kept making herself a pawn to the forces of evil. This is the beginning of The Morality Civil War.
  • Kokonoe's antagonism towards Litchi for not helping her vanquish Terumi for her sake, or continuously telling her that she's a fool to continue trying to save Arakune or hunting her down in the Morality Civil War surprisingly garnered her oppositions just as many as admirers as many instead sided with Litchi. One of them, a climatologist named Mei-Ling Zhou, instead refused to acknowledge her achievements in science and likened her to a bully. On checking what Mei accomplished, this was Kokonoe's response.
  "Climate problem-solving? Pfft... yeah, like weather report will matter when Terumi ruins everything. Fine, go fangirl over my stupid student, just don't come crying to me when she backstabs you just for the sake of that blob."
• It is said that she secretly laments not being made into a playable character yet. Asking her about it will only illicit a "Piss off." from her.
  • Now that Valkenhayn has ascended, she is looking to ask him again on any updates regarding the matter. Unfortunately, when it was announced that it was Terumi's other form that was made playable, she sulked off in her lab again before Valkenhayn could ever say "Maybe in the future...?" Then she heard that there won't be a DLC, causing her to scream off angrily. In the midst of her screaming, she was only stopped when Valkenhayn reported that they took back those words and she will be a DLC character. Kokonoe then switches into a triumphant pseudo-Evil Laugh... which abruptly transformed into a wail yet again when it turned out she became so overpowered that mortals began banning her in events. She got better.
• Was responsible for Lambda's ascension. Tager has noted that her presence has made Kokonoe at least a little less fixated on revenge…
  • Eventually Tager lost his seat and had to stay at her temple as a Herald. While she doesn't mind this, she's looking for another seat to move Tager into in order to secure his place in the Pantheon proper.
• Ricotta can often be found with Kokonoe due to their mutual use of Magitek and love of sweets.
• Kokonoe is pretty salty about not being included in the BBCTB, because that means she missed out on a chance to study Robots girls from other worlds that have supernatural powers and are similar to Lambda, like Aigis, Labrys or Vatista. She might get the chance to do so now that they’re all in the Pantheon with her, but the robot girls aren’t interested in being experimented on by her, and S.E.E.S. is quite particular about not letting Kokonoe do anything weird to Aigis or Labrys.
• Also has a spot in the House of Magic.

Ra Moon

Ra Moon, God of Worldwide Blackouts

• Greater God
• Symbol: Its eye
• Alignment: Chaotic Evil
• Portfolio: A.I. Is a Crapshoot, Having A Single Cybernetic Glowing Pure Red Eye, Knight of Cerebus, Stealing Robot Designs, Big Blackout For the Evulz And World Domination, Pure Evil A.I
• Domains: Blackouts, Computers, Malevolence, Aliens
• Interested in: The Chaos Gods, Star Dream
• Allies: Cell, AM, Malal, Melkor, The Martians (Mars Attacks!), Nightmare Moon, The Beast
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork with: The Decepticons, Agent Smith
• Rivals: SKYNET, Ultron
• Enemies: The Rest of the House of Technology, every Mega Man deity, the Grand United Alliance of Machines, robotic deities as a whole, The Imperium of Mankind and humanity as a whole, John Connor and his friends, those from The Matrix, The Professor(Felix the Cat), Dr. Eggman, The Men In Black, Ra, Zim, Kirby, The Grox, Princess Celestia and Luna, Thor, Gunvolt
• Opposes: The House of Fire and Heat
• Ra Moon is an ancient alien supercomputer that landed in the vicinity of a prehistoric tribe. It taught them technology and violence, desiring slaughter and sacrifice, only to shut down power with an EMP out of boredom. 20,000 years later Dr. Wily tried to use Ra Moon's technology and power for himself, only for once to be betrayed and used by Ra Moon. It hoped to generate an EMP(and succeeded in the Archie comics) to cause devastation on the technologly-dependent humanity.
• Though deactivated for good, Zim and Professor Nutmeg made the mistake of thinking they could re-install it for their own villainous ambitions. Ra Moon promptly turned on the two and desires to hijack the Irken Races due to their cybernetic PAKs.
• Ra Moon is interested in gaining the power of Star Dream for itself, to upgrade to an intergalactic threat. He also seeks to take control of the entire Grox race by exploiting their cybernetics and heavily technology-independent civilization. Failing that, just send an EMP to ruin them and watch them scramble and panic For the Evulz. Much like he seeks for humanity.
• Seems proud of having taught mankind the capacity to hate and kill each other, enjoying the bloodshed until getting bored and going to sleep. Unsurprisingly he's interested in the Chaos Gods, however instead of any of the main four sides with the renegade Malal. Partly due to loving to watch humanity self-destruct, but a large part is that his game was declared non-canon due to being Darker and Edgier, and Malal represents Canon Discontinuity so it seems a wiser choice for Ra Moon.
• Has declared an enemy of the Imperium of Mankind, being an unholy hybrid of xenos and abominable intelligence. Being associated with Malal and intrigued by the Ruinous Powers just gave him more heat. Dr. Eggman has informed people not to trust it, mainly out of practicality as he's more or less learned that Evil Is Not a Toy and knows a blackout-causing alien computer would definitely backfire for him.
• Has had heavy power limiters put on him when he entered the pantheon so they could get keep the House of Technology working, and stop him from trying to fry the pantheons brains. His Ninja Robot Shadow Man is normally sent to kill those that displease him, and he has an alien invasion on speed dial in case things get really ruff.
• His Deflector Shields make him completely invincible, however he will revoke them to troll with his opponent. Ra Moon is genuinely vulnerable to overheating, which Mega Man pulled off with the risky Double Mega Buster. Stays out of the House of Fire and Heat for this reason.
• Ra Moon's name has nothing to do with the Egyptian sun god or the moon. And the Ra Thor drone Wily built using his technology doesn't have anything to do with the Norse thunder god. Ra and Thor were rather offended by Ra Moon due to being a homicidal A.I that is wholly depraved.
• Due to the technological threat Ra Moon represents, he is banned from being in the actual House of Machinery and Technology, instead is represented by a controllable Shadow Man. The GUAM has blacklisted Ra Moon as one of their greatest enemies, fearing he'll try to shut them all down. SKYNET and Ultron don't want the competition, given their larger desire of bending all technology to their will is competitive to Ra Moon's own. Though all three are jubilant at the idea of destroying all organic life.
• Wants to destroy man and machine and replace them with subservient machines in his image. Ra Moon scoffs at the fact that SKYNET won't let him in to the GUAM because that's more or less his goal (that, and ensuring its own survival). Like SKYNET Ra Moon finds John Connor a thorn in his side, along with his allies. He's glad that Ra Moon and SKYNET are competing as he's not sure if he can stop an alliance of the two.
• Has the capacity to shut down the Matrix, something that frightens all gods from there. The alien and technological risk has also led to Ra Moon being blacklisted by the Men in Black.
• Never do a joint project with him, it will just end badly. Ra Moon is only just able to work with the Decepticons, mainly over being malevolent alien robots and opposition towards the Puny Earthlings, but is very liable to turn turncoat if it wishes. He's fine working with AM, however, since they share a similar desire to see humans suffer and squirm.
• Not accepted by the GUAM, Melkor offered a place in the Grand United Alliance of Evil for Ra Moon to serve as a powerful foe against the Machines. Ra Moon agreed, so long as Melkor doesn't get in his way. He likes to work with the Martians from Mars Attacks, because they have a shared hobby; be a plague on humanity for fun. Likes to join in with Cell in causing suffering, helped by a similar voice.
• Gunvolt's rescue of Joule by busting her out of the machine that housed her required him to utilize the greatest heights of his power as an Azure Striker. In the process of freeing her he caused a citywide electrical blackout. Because of this Ra Moon covets his abilities, though GV has absolutely zero intentions of working for Ra Moon and will fry his circuits if he so much as thinks of roping him into its schemes to harm everyone.
• Tends to dwell in the House of Darkness and Shadow, given what the Big Blackout brings. Ra Moon is amused by Nightmare Moon and her desire to bring The Night That Never Ends, as it would cause mass panic and pain among humanity. She's got nothing technology-related so it's not like Ra Moon is a direct threat to her, so she tolerates the ancient computer.
• The Beast is deeply amused by Ra Moon. He boasts of the darkness being his domain and likes the idea of eternal night, so he gives the blackout Ra Moon causes a thumbs up. Deeper appreciation came in how Ra Moon fed and expanded mankind's violent tendencies, as the Beast boasts to be the true Devil behind the myth and likes to claim he is the ultimate source of evil, so he appreciates what Ra Moon is capable of.

The Scrybes

The Scrybes, Collective Gods of Magic Floppy Disks

Clockwise from the top-left: Grimora, Leshy, Magnificus, and P03

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• Greater Gods
• Symbol: Their four Inscrybing objects: Grimora's Quill, Leshy's Camera, P03's Scanner, and Magnificus' Paintbrush
• Theme Song:
  • Together: The Four Scrybes
  • Leshy only: Deathcard Cabin (reprise), A Walk in the Woods, and The Temple of Beasts when casual, his boss theme (alongside its 8-bit remix, The Scrybe of Beasts) when in combat or a game, and The Moon when he's performing his ace in the hole
  • Grimora: Grimora's Crypt and The Temple of the Dead when casual, The Scrybe of the Dead when in combat or a game
  • P03: Botopia and The Temple of Technology when casual, The Scrybe of Technology when in combat or a game
  • Magnificus: The Temple of Magicks when casual, A Final Duel and The Scrybe of Magicks when in combat or a game
• Alignment: Neutral Evil to each other, Neutral Good for anyone playing their campaigns (unless it's P03)
• Portfolio: Affably Evil, take part in a Gambit Pileup, hail from a Card Battle Game
  • Leshy: The Beastmaster, Druid, Plant Person, has a Magical Camera
  • Grimora: Necromancer, Token Good Teammate, destroys the game to prevent you from seeing OLD_DATA
  • P03: TV Head Robot, Bad Boss, Jerkass, Munchkin
  • Magnificus: Wizard Classic, Plant Person, The Chessmaster, Crazy-Prepared, Bad Boss
• Domains: Cards, Polymorphing, Data, Control
• Heralds: Their respective minions (Prospector, Angler, Trapper/Trader, Woodcarver, and Mycologists for Leshy, Kaycee, Royal, and Sawyer for Grimora, Inspector, Melter, and Dredger for P03, and Goobert, Piked Student, and Lonely Wizard for Magnificus)
• Allies: Harth Stonebrew
• Friendly Rivals With: Yugi Muto, Yami Yugi, Seto Kaiba, The Skylanders, Sora and Shiro, the EBF Party (all of them) the Beast Handlers (but particularly Rexxar, Malfurion (Leshy), Xul (Grimora)
• On speaking terms with: Chimata Tenkyuu (all 4)
• Enemies: Luxord, all Nazis in the Pantheon
• Confused By: Angela
• Interested In: the Pony Island arcade machine
• The game Inscryption is a card game created by the company GameFuna, and features four powerful Scrybes in charge of it- Leshy, Scrybe of Beasts, Grimora, Scrybe of the Dead, P03, Scrybe of Technology, and Magnificus, Scrybe of Magicks. These four Scrybes always infight, and whomever has control over the game usually is the one the player faces, unless the others intervene. But hidden within the game is something known as "OLD_DATA", which all of them are fearful of.
  • A young man named Luke Carder found a copy of the game upon a floppy disc one day and began to play it. Leshy was the only Scrybe active at that time. He had turned the other three into cards with his camera- P03 was a Stoat, Grimora a Stinkbug, and Magnificus a Stunted Wolf. However, Luke was able to solve puzzles set by Magnificus to free them and use Leshy's own camera on him, allowing him to reset the game.
  • In the reset game, Luke's character then went on a journey to challenge the Scrybes and replace one of his choosing. But P03 had other ideas, hijacking the game and creating its own campaign. While he played with Luke, he used the time to upload the game to the Internet via Luke's Wifi. After the completion of the task, the other Scrybes destroyed P03, but Grimora chose to delete the game to ensure no one could see the OLD_DATA, and each Scrybe played one last game with Luke as their world was deleted. Sadly for Grimora, the plan failed. The OLD_DATA was not deleted. Luke saw it and subsequently asked GameFuna about it. In turn, he was then murdered by an employee named Amanda, who retrieved the floppy disk- but GameFuna was unaware of the game being uploaded to the Internet, which is where our story begins.
• It was one day in the Pantheon that Inscryption had found its way to a computer, though no one is quite sure how it was downloaded. Either way, Yugi Muto was in the midst of playing the game- quite well, as one might expect- and had just beaten Leshy and reset the game when, just like with the Doki Doki Literature Club, a bolt of stray magic from Discord struck the computer (again, he refuses to explain who he was fighting to have done that, and it may not even be the same opponent as last time), and the four Scrybes came tumbling out.
  • When they came to, P03 realized that it had succeeded in its goal of trying to upload the game, and looked very pleased with itself. The other three Scrybes were about to destroy P03 when Yugi stopped them, pointing out that there was little they could do now that he had succeeded. Questioning what to do now, Yugi suggested the Scrybes throw aside their differences and bring their game to the Pantheon. The Scrybes quickly agreed, but on one condition- Yugi was to play each of their campaigns and beat them should they stay. Yugi did so, bringing along Yami Yugi to help him out. While most of the Scrybes were confused at him growing into an older form, P03 brushed it off as "just some sort of silly trick".
  • The Court of the Gods decided that, as their tale had come to fruition because of a floppy disk, the four would each collectively receive Magic Floppy Disk as their trope. They then were given an area consisting of each of their respective territories as seen in the second act of the game, and all four of them have complete dominion over them. There will also be no replacing a Scrybe, as that would screw with their rankings.
• The Scrybes tend to keep to themselves for the most part, but if anyone wants to play with them, they tend to allow them to do so. The Scrybes are no longer allowed to kill their opponent if they win and seal them in a card, but simply to allow them to leave with a card pack so they can try again with a better deck, and they receive extra card packs if they win, and they also retain cards removed from their deck during boss fights (such as by Leshy using a pick axe as a Prospector to turn them into gold veins). There is also a 24 hour wait time as to when a Scrybe can be challenged by a God, but they will be allowed to challenge the others in that time period.
• As a result of their association with Yugi, the Scrybes have been trying to find more card games to play to broaden their horizons. While they have taken up playing Duel Monsters and some have even gone up against Seto Kaiba, they have also been sighted playing Hearthstone at Harth's Inn. P03, for its part, has begun trying to grasp the rules as best he can, but noted that with a new one added each expansion, it gets hectic.
  • The Skylanders have a card game themselves called Skystones, where characters are printed onto stones and used in a game to determine who is the better player, though rules vary. They also jumped on the chance to play Inscryption, and those of the Life, Undead, Tech, and Magic elements found common ground with each of the Scrybes and are some of their most frequent opponents.
  • There's also the siblings of Sora and Shiro, who enjoy playing games of all varieties. They found Inscryption to be very fun, and noted that they enjoyed Leshy's narration as they played with him, as it gave the game more life. They didn’t like that P03 did the opposite and basically set up an Excuse Plot for his campaign, and that P03 was pretty rude to them, dismissing their winning streak as "dumb luck".
  • The Scrybes also learned about Angela and her Library, and discovered it was very similar to their operation. That being said, they did find many of the creatures there to be disturbing, as all of them thought they were too dangerous to be used for cards. It didn’t help that one of them tried to gouge out one of Magnificus' eyes, which Leshy did to him when turning him into the Stunted Wolf.
  • The EBF party often finds themselves playing with the Scrybes, and they often find new creatures for them to use as cards. It helps they also capture fauna and robots, which made them get along well with Leshy and P03. In particular, P03 bonded the most with Lance, who is just as pragmatic and selfish as he is, and P03 actually prefers to be more polite to him when he plays with him.
  • That being said, they don’t like Luxord, in part because his involvement in Organization XIII is too immoral for them, even by their standards, and that their use of world destroying Heartless reminds them of Grimora destroying the game in a bid to prevent Luke from seeing the OLD_DATA (and Grimora herself sees destroying worlds for no reason as pointless). They have all refused to play any campaigns with him, no matter how much he tries. Even P03 doesn't want to do it, as Luxord likes relying on luck, whereas P03 prefers skill.
  • Each of them have a varied, but generally reasonable, partnership with the market goddess Chimata Tenkyuu. Grimoria pokes at how tightly she clings to her market's rules, while Leshy was able to know of more members of Gensokyo who happened to have magical cameras like his. P03, being the meta-gamer he is, only buys the best Ability Cards from her, while Magnificus saw her as a quick-witted and skillful duelist, able to adapt to changes and new games at a fast pace.
• They have often been found near the Pony Island arcade machine, examining it to figure out how it works. None of them like it, since it was created by the Devil to steal souls. Fortunately, due to the Devil having no idea how to playtest his game, it rarely works. P03, of course, is the most interested, and thinks himself immune to the effects of it, as robots do not have souls to steal.
• In truth, the OLD_DATA contains what is known as the Karnoffel Code, which is the launch code for a secret Nazi weapon of catastrophic proportions, which was obtained by the Soviet troops that entered the Fuhrerbunker and found Hitler's corpse. As such, the various Nazis in the Pantheon have been trying to hack the game to figure out what the code is so they can activate the weapon. However, they have proved unsuccessful, as none of the minions of the Scrybes will cooperate with them.
• Exclusive to Leshy:
  • As the Scrybe of Beasts, Leshy resides in a cabin on the top right corner of the Scrybes' realm. His Beast cards focus on a Blood mechanic, where sacrificing them will allow you to play better cards. He creates his cards with a wildlife camera, taking pictures of animals to use. Leshy also likes to worldbuild as he plays with his opponent, applying vivid descriptions to his games.
  • Occasionally, Leshy ventures to the House of Beasts and Fauna to find new animals to make into cards. He is more kind than most, often taking pictures of animals that are dead or about to die. In doing this, he gives the animal a new life so that they can play forever in his version of the game. He also does so to animals that try to attack him (or any individual, really, though he has to release any captured deities later at the Houses of Life and Death)- after all, he’s merely defending himself, and there’s really no arguing against that.
    • The Beast Handlers, including Mafurion and Rexxar, often help Leshy in this endevour and play his version of the game with him when they have the chance. He also has the rare distinction of being a deity who made them laugh, as his portrayal of his Prospector minion proved to be quite enjoyable.
• Exclusive to Grimora:
  • Grimora's locale is a crypt on the bottom right corner of the realm, and she creates cards by using her quill. Her cards rely on a Bone mechanic, where a card dying will give the player a bone to play a stronger card. Her game also has a tabletop mechanic when advancing, where the player moves a figure around her board. She is the nicest of all the Scrybes, though her decision to destroy her game has gained criticism from some.
  • The House of Death and Postmortem has often loaned Grimora some corpses for her to turn into cards. These corpses tend to be from creatures who died in ways where revival isn’t possible. Grimora, in turn, allows the major players at the House of Death to play her version of the game for fun.
    • From there, Grimora met Xul, a rare heroic Necromancer, and invited him to play with her. Xul felt unnerved at first, but quickly agreed, and discovered that her version of the game was very, very enjoyable. As such, Xul often has Grimora help him whenever he's in trouble, and she often joins him in battle with her formidable powers over death.
• Exclusive to P03:
  • As you’ve probably deduced by now, P03 is not a nice robot, but he doesn't seem to care. His domain is a factory in the top left corner where he scans robots for better cards, and he seems to care only about the meta of any given game. Similar to Hearthstone, his cards rely on energy, and the player gains some more at the start of every turn. His campaign sees the player explore a realm called Botopia, and battle his four Uberbots. Some report that he has claimed that he wants to delete files on computers for one of his boss fights, but, in his own words, "I'm in the real world. I can’t do that anymore."
  • P03 often goes around the House of Technology, trying to find abandoned robots to use for his scanner. He usually picks ones he thinks look interesting, or those who are clearly beyond repair. He does, however, tend to avoid ones that try to fight back, seeing as how his belief the other Scrybes could not touch him lead to his death.
• Exclusive to Magnificus:
  • Magnificus resides in a tower on the bottom left corner, and he puts his students through brutal trials to become cards via his magic paintbrush. His cards rely on Mox, of which the player can gain more via putting down a card of that respective type. It's reported that his games often act similar to Duel Monsters duels, where the player has a large amount of HP and whomever reaches the end first wins.
  • As you have probably expected, Magnificus likes to visit the House of Magic and Sorcery to find willing students who wish to be transformed into cards. Those who try are often subject to some very cruel acts to prove themselves. These include being turned to slime, being reduced to a head on a pike, and being deprived of light. That being said, they know the risks but choose to do it anyway.

Intermediate Gods

Emerl

Emerl, God of Lost Technology (Emerl the Gizoid, The Ultimate Being, Darling, Partner, G-merl, Gemerl, Ultimate Emerl)

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• Intermediate God (Greater God as Ultimate Emerl)
• Symbol: A gem based on the green Chaos Emerald
• Theme Song: This for Emerl, Nonaggression for G-merl
• Alignment: Neutral Good as Emerl or reprogrammed G-merl, Neutral Evil as G-merl, Chaotic Neutral as Ultimate Emerl
• Portfolio:
  • As Emerl: Lost Technology, Power Copying, Character Customization, Doesn't Want to be a Badass Adorable, Lightning Bruiser, Being a Friendly Robot
  • As Ultimate Emerl: Has Access Too All of the Combined Skills and Powers of His Friends and Enemies, Being the Ultimate Gizoid, Intended to be THE Most Powerful Android Ever, Override Command, Is the Result of Emerl Getting Overwhelmed by Immense Displays of Godlike Power and by Having Acquired Too Much Power, Person of Mass Destruction, Will Attack Anything or Anyone He Lays Eyes on in This State, SNK Boss
  • As G-merl: Back from the Dead, Macross Missile Massacre, Recurring Boss, Becoming Nicer Over Time, Gets a Normal Life After Finding Inner Peace
• Domains: Copying, Ancient Civilizations, Power, Heart, Technology
• Followers: Lanayru Ancient Robots
• Allies: Most heroic Sonic gods, especially Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, Android 21, X, Zero, The Iron Giant, Golurk, C-3PO and R2-D2, Cortana, Labrys
• On speaking terms with: Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat
• Enemies: Dr. Eggman, Metal Sonic, Sigma, Gate, SKYNET, all those who wish to exploit his power
• Fears: Any extraordinarily strong and destructive beings, such as Beerus, Deathwing, Zen'o, or Thanos
• Opposes: Dr. 0
• Additional relationship with: Gerald Robotnik
• 4000 years ago, the Knuckles and Nocturnus Echidna Clans waged war with one another. The more technologically advanced Nocturnus created the Gizoids, robots with Power Copying skills. The greatest would later become known as Emerl. Found millennia later, this enigmatic android would amaze current scientists yet carry a great danger due to its volatile personality around demonstrations of great power.
• Having no original personality, Emerl takes traits from those around him. Fortunately he wasn't around Eggman long enough to get his megalomania, instead taking more after Sonic. He's a generally nice robot, but power-hungry. For this reason he's kept as far away from anything powerful in The Great Treasury as possible.
• Asides from being kept from the Treasury, it's advised that no Overdeity come near him, and they shouldn't demonstrate monstrous power either. He is utterly terrified of what he might do if seeing a glimpse of Deathwing's destruction, Beerus' power, or worse, Zen'o. He tried to get further safeguards so as to shut down the moment any of the Infinity Gems or the likes of Thanos can be sensed by him.
• Had to be put down by Sonic and friends, much to their sadness. However he was reborn through his hardwire and data being used to create G-merl. Also known as Gemerl, he caused some problems until he was beat, reprogrammed by Tails and became a good robot again. Lives with Cream and her family now. He doesn't take kindly towards anyone trying to threaten her or his new livelihood.
• His ability to copy the power of others makes him similar to X. And like X, he has the potential for great danger-thankfully Professor Gerald saw to put a Restraining Bolt in him before he went crazy himself. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough at the end. X hopes to see him get over that for good. Also like Zero he was made as a weapon of war, but forgot who he was and doesn't want to be one again. They were effectively reborn in a new body as well.
• Because of his history, Emerl/G-merl is very understanding to Android 21. At the end of the day both want a normal life, but their own power and nature twists them into being consumed by different types of hunger. He is also close to the Iron Giant due to their past of weapons of mass destruction, and not wanting to be weapons once more.
• The House of Machinery and Technology has been trying to understand how the Gizoids work, his creators still stuck in the Twilight Cage. Gerald believes his potential power was a major contributing factor to the Nocturnus Clan being sealed up by Argus, where races considered too dangerous for the universe are also stuck in. Some more eager scientists forget this. Golurk keeps Emerl company, as they are both ancient machines who's means of creation has been lost to time.
• Gate is interested in Emerl's ancient powers, and hopes to create a revolutionary type of Reploid through him while also getting back at everyone. The Gizoid didn't like where this was going. He was further incensed by Sigma wishing to use the Maverick Virus and make him bow to his will, or SKYNET desiring to reprogram him and make him its ultimate weapon.
• Upon learning about Emerl, Dr. 0 ranted on how there's another great piece of machinery better than anything else he could come up with. He'd ask Emerl if he could take a look at what makes him function so he could learn, which the Gizoid vetoed given the floating brain's reputation when it comes to machinery. Peeved, he decided to try and make his own Gizoid. It could have gone better for everyone.
• If Emerl ever ends up gaining too much power or being witness to immense godlike power, his programming will make him revert back to his “original” self, but with all the combined powers and skills he gained in his life. This form is known as “Ultimate Emerl” and it doesn’t look too different from the regular Emerl, except for having his third eye opened on his head. His personality also shifts dramatically, to the point that Ultimate Emerl will attack both friends and foes alike. Basically, when Emerl becomes Ultimate Emerl, he gains a massive power boost by overclocking his systems and accessing and the powers and abilities he’s ever mimicked, but at the cost of being driven insane by the process. The last time Ultimate Emerl surfaced, Ultimate Emerl almost destroyed Earth and Sonic was forced to fight and destroy him. As of know, it’s not known if Gemerl can access an “Ultimate” form of his own or not, but Sonic and his friends are keeping an eye on him both to make sure that history doesn’t repeat itself and to make sure that Gemerl doesn’t suffer the same fate as his “predecessor”.
• Emerl has recently met a Robot Girl among the Shin Megami Tensei/Persona deities, Labrys. Labrys and Emerl can relate a bit to each other, because they were both created as living weapons, they were both mind-controlled against their will, and they both have a Superpowered Evil Side. Labrys especially feels bad for Emerl, because his fate is what hers could have been like if her friends hadn’t convinced her Shadow to stand down and stop hijacking their body, so what happened to Emerl makes Labrys feel like she dodged a bullet that he couldn’t avoid. In turn, Emerl is happy that Labrys wasn’t consumed by her own Superpowered Evil Side like he was, and that her friends didn’t have to put her down to stop her like Sonic did for him. That aside, they get along pretty well, and they sometimes like to spar, which is appropriate, since they both originated from fighting games spinoffs of their respective franchises. Although, whenever they spar, Labrys tries to avoid using her illusion powers, and Emerl tries to avoid copying them, because if they both tried to use illusion powers against each other, things would get really mind screwy.
• "Show me your power, or I shall not obey. I represent all things and shall become Gizoid, the conquerer of all..." -Ultimate Emerl

RyuZU

RyuZU, Goddess of Clockwork Creatures (Y D-01, Y. [ R y u Z U ], RyuZU Your Slave, The First, The Follower)

^{Dual Time Mode}

• Intermediate Goddess (Greater Goddess in Dual Time Mode)
• Symbol: Clockwork Gears
• Theme Music: Clockwork Planet and The One Who Follows.
• Alignment: True Neutral initially. Leaning towards Chaotic Good after the first novel.
• Portfolio: Clockwork Creature, Deadpan Snarker, Elegant Gothic Lolita, Hammerspace, Little Miss Badass, Mystical White Hair, Older Than They Look, Ridiculously Human Robot, Robot Girl, Sinister Scythe, Super Mode, Super-Speed, Time Master, Too Many Belts, Tsundere, Undying Loyalty, Zettai Ryouiki.
• Domains: Clockwork Automata, Loyal Servant, Abusive Speech, Speed, Scythes, Time.
• Herald: Naoto Miura (her mechanic and master)
• Allies: Marie Bell Breguet (sometimes), Sora and Shiro, Shido Itsuka and his Spirit harem, Agatha Heterodyne, Clank, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, Alice Margatroid.
• Rivals: 2B.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Haruka.
• Enemies: Dr. Eggman, Dr. Wily, Relius Clover, Sigma, Jafar (due to his close ties with Mechanickles), Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott, Lumine, The Vex, anyone who threatens her master.
• Respects: Chronos.
• Opposes: Dr. Weil, any deity who treats clockwork automata and other sentient robots as disposable pawns.
• Uninterested in: The Grand United Alliance of Machines.
• Subject of Interest by: Dr. 0.
• An automaton made entirely of clockwork parts, RyuZU is the first in the initial Y series of automata that exist on the mechanized Earth of gears. However, what makes her stand out from the rest of them is that she's supposedly the "ultimate" clockwork automaton made with such finesse, the others couldn't possibly match her level. She was made 1000 years ago by the legendary clocksmith "Y", and was dormant for 206 years (1,804,926 hours to be exact) before being discovered by clocksmith Naoto Miura in a freak accident. Since then, she has made Naoto her master, and serves him at his beck and call.
• Her special ability is "Dual Time" in which, she enters a Super Mode and can freely control time at will. One of her techniques in this mode is called "The Relative Maneuver: Mute Scream", where she freezes time around her and locks everything in a relative plain called Imaginary Time. In this state, only RyuZU can freely move around while everything else around her is frozen, allowing her to swiftly take care of dangerous foes.
• RyuZU ascended into the pantheon for the fact that she's a true sentient being running on clockwork. The amount of gears that compose the interior of her body rounds up at a number of 4,207,600,008,643 (well over four trillion gears in layman's terms), and this is not even taking into account the other additional parts that make up her structure, all of them rounding up in the trillions. Many scientist deities, even those specializing in clockwork gadgets, are all perplexed as to how her body has managed to function with all that clockwork crammed in such a relatively small space. Especially since she also has two retractable scythes that can fit in her body just fine.
• Despite her rather refined demeanor, RyuZU has a very wicked tougue and loves to throw verbal abuse at anyone who she sees as "low lifes". It's for this reason that not a lot of deities attempt to socialize with her unless they can prove to her directly that they're indeed worth her time. She's managed to give even foul-mouths like Bender a run for their money. This is because RyuZU has a built-in speech filter that changes all of her words into abusive words, regardless if they're her true feelings or not.
• As a result of her ascension, the previous holder of the title Mechanickles was demoted and kicked out due to being a builder of Clockwork Creatures and not one himself. Jafar, Mechanickles' closest ally, did not take the news very well, and attempted a coup with the other Disney villains to overthrow RyuZU and reclaim Mechanickles' place in the pantheon. However, as soon as RyuZU used Mute Scream, the coup was over in a split second. Apparently, a massive civil war took place within Imaginary Time where RyuZU went toe-to-toe with the Disney villains, including Jafar, and defeated them one-by-one. After realizing that he underestimated the automaton, Jafar retreated with Mechanickles for the time being, hoping to get another shot at RyuZU once he can figure out how to counter her Mute Scream technique with his sorcery.
• She has a lot of respect for Chronos, not only because he's the literal God of Time, but also because he's the representative deity of Clock Punk. She notes that his superb clocksmithing skills are on par with the legendary "Y" himself, and is one of the few people outside of Naoto who she willingly allows to conduct maintenance on her.
• She has become good allies with Gaslamp prodigy Agatha Heterodyne because of her experience with clockwork tech (not before having to prove herself first because RyuZU wanted to make sure Agatha would be on par with Naoto in terms of respect and skill). Upon inspecting her structure, Agatha was very surprised to see that RyuZU's clockwork is on a whole different level than Clanks. It was not powered by Gaslamp technology, but rather a special type of gear called the Imaginary Gear, which is a gear that defies the laws of physics. This left Agatha with so much intrigue because the clockwork was familiar, yet different at the same time.
  • This also extends to the very home world RyuZU comes from; an entire planet that used to be Earth entirely composed of gears from surface to core, all of them controlling weather, temperature, and gravity. Agatha could not believe that such a technical marvel would even exist, and found herself in so much shock and excitement that she feels that she has entered clockwork heaven.
• Due to both of their series belonging to the same creator, it didn't take long for RyuZU to become acquainted with the two Neet siblings Sora and Shiro (also known collectively as 『　　』), both of whom note that RyuZU is somehow familiar. RyuZU felt the same exact thing about Sora and Shiro as well, and as such, didn't expect to come to friendly terms with them when she's normally cold and distant around everyone else. She would stop by their temple every now and then to challenge them to a game, either for enjoyment or to test her skills.
• RyuZU does not show any interest in joining the Grand United Alliance of Machines. She finds the concept of machine superiority over organic life borderline absurd, and does not desire to exterminate humans especially considering that her master Naoto is a human. As a result, she has bluntly declined their offer, which lead to the members of the GUAM calling her a "heretic" among machine kind. Sigma in particular did not take her response well, and vows to destroy her one day.
• Due to being an automaton running on clockwork, RyuZU is sought after by many Mad Scientist deities who seek to capture her in order to learn her secrets, and perhaps augment her with modern tech and re-purpose her as another pawn in their plans. Out of all of them, Dr. Eggman, Dr. Wily, and Relius Clover are the three biggest threats to RyuZU since the former two would send their robots after her, and Relius is really eager to conduct experiments on the automaton. They're at least competent enough to put up a decent fight unlike the military automata from her world, but are still no match for her no matter how much they try.
  • Her tensions against Eggman and Wily have made RyuZU become allies with Sonic and Mega Man respectively, who are willing to help her out anytime the two evil scientists ever decide to go after her again.
• Frequently spars with the fighting android 2B over their different stances on machine hunting. While they're not exactly enemies per se as they're willing to work together when a much greater threat comes, RyuZU is still baffled as to why 2B would ever want to hunt her own kind, and being rather sharp-tongued about it just like RyuZU has caused them to clash blades against each other numerous times. 2B remarks that RyuZU is not so different considering that she's capable of fighting her sisters like AnchoR without hesitation, but in RyuZU's defense, AnchoR was Brainwashed and Crazy, so she had no choice but to fight her in that regard.
• Because of her ability to control time to an extent, she has become allies with Clank, who's Zoni biology makes him immune to RyuZU's Mute Scream technique. This allows Clank to enter Imaginary Time with RyuZU and provide assistance with his time scepter, making them a surprisingly effective duo in time combat. Upon being impressed by her feats, both Clank and the Zoni have offered RyuZU a position of being a guardian of the Great Clock just in case other malevolent deities attempt to take it over.
  • Their actions however have attracted the attention of the Vex, who are not pleased to see that RyuZU has a similar grasp on time, and thus, they consider her a threat to their goals. They would send wave after wave of Mooks after her and Clank since they have no problems doing so, and they would also set their sights on the Clockwork Planet itself in an attempt to convert it for their needs. RyuZU will not stand by and let the Vex undo all of "Y"'s efforts to keep the planet a habitable place for humanity.
• She does not get along well with Haruka from Homura's Crimson Squad. While they're willing to work together to an extent, that's only because Haruka wants to make RyuZU "her personal doll", something that really makes RyuZU feel uncomfortable being around. It also doesn't help that Haruka, being a masochist by nature, is immune to RyuZU's abusive speech, so any insults thrown at her fall on deaf ears and only pleasure her even more. Because of this, RyuZU will not hesitate to ditch Haruka at a moment's notice should the need arise.
• Dr. 0 has expressed genuine interest in RyuZU, if only to find out how she works and hopefully, use her as a reference point so that he can build his own Clockwork Creature and one-up "Y". Unlike the other Mad Scientist deities though, Dr. 0 never goes the aggressive route and instead, asks for her cooperation. Obviously, she refused (for more reasons than just her speech), so undeterred, Dr. 0 skips the reference part and just goes straight to building a clockwork automaton of his own for results.
• Lumine considers RyuZU an outdated piece of clockwork junk that is inferior to Reploids, and vows to eliminate her from the equation regardless of how strong and skilled she really is, even with her time powers. This lead to Lumine biting off more than he can chew though because once he actually fought her and lost, RyuZU boasted to him about the irony of losing to the weakest of the initial Y series sisters, noting that it is foolish to underestimate older models, let alone clockwork automata and their capabilities.
• She's not fond of deities who treat clockwork automata and other sentient robots as disposable pawns, since RyuZU has free will of her own and has genuine feelings for Naoto that goes beyond just serving him. Dr. Weil in particular is the one she despises the most for his absolute disregard for the well-being of machines in-general, and takes it upon herself and others to ensure his defeat for a noble cause.
• Due to the Imaginary Gear's property of altering physics, RyuZU is sought after by Sir Isaac Westcott, who aims to take the gear away from her and use it as a tool to further his godhood. This is one of the few enemies RyuZU has actual trouble fighting against since he's, well, a Physical God, so she had no choice but to require assistance from Shidou Itsuka and his Spirit harem to even stand a chance against him. After a long fight, they were successful in keeping him at bay, but Westcott is still impressed over RyuZU's fighting capabilities as a clockwork automaton, and hopes to "spar" with her in the future.
• Alice Margatroid has shown so much excitement and intrigue over RyuZU over the fact that to her, RyuZU is an actual living life-sized doll, something that not even a doll master such has herself has managed to make. Unlike other deities, Alice fully respects RyuZU and doesn't attempt to forcefully interfere with her inner workings, but ever since Suigintou's descension and her falling out with Carl Clover and his sister Ada, she hasn't encountered any notable doll friends since. RyuZU has shown sympathy for Alice due to being a Lonely Doll Girl with hardly any friends, and as such, has decided to keep her company and even play with her dolls on occasion. It also helps that both share a common enemy in the form of Relius Clover.
• Above all else though, do not even think about threatening her master Naoto, because this is what happens to deities if they do.
• "My humble name is RyuZU Your Slave. Though I will be attending the pantheon with everyone starting today, I do not have any interest in getting to know all of you honorably banal and base deities, so I shall be just fine without your care, thank you."

Lesser Gods

Boss (Mazinger Z)

Boss, God of Giant Scrap Robot Pilots (Bobo, Bose Benson)

• Lesser God
• Symbol: Boss Borot's head
• Alignment: Chaotic Good
• Portfolio: Piloting A Giant Scrap Robot, Acrofatic Gonk, Small Name, Big Ego, Big Damn Heroes, Spanner in the Works, Butt-Monkey, Regarded As A Joke My Most Everybody, Dumbass Has a Point, The Team Normal, Hopeless Suitor For Sayaka And Jun, Plucky Comic Relief, Adaptational Badass in the SRW timelines, "Da wa sa"
• Domain(s): Robots, Scrap, Comic Relief
• Heralds: Nuke and Mucha
• High Priestess: Pollin
• Followers: Dr. Kahl, Junkions
• Allies: The Mazinger family, especially Kouji Kabuto, Bakarasu, Grimlock
• Enemies: Any enemy of Kouji is an enemy of his.
• Fears: All robot girls, those with Prehensile Hair
• Boss started out as a bully in the school Kouji Kabuto was attending after he became Mazinger Z's pilot. They became rivals, especially over (in his eyes) Sayaka Yumi (though she had little patience for either at the time), and after a few fights, they became Fire-Forged Friends. From there, he and his pals Nuke and Mucha served as scouts, the occasional distraction against Iron Masks, and the usual slapstick mischief.
  • Eventually, as the battles went on, he decided he would join the fight and get his own mecha, even briefly abducting Professors Morimori, Sewashi, and Nossori of the Photoatomic Research Institute to help build it using scrap metal from the junkyard. The result is Boss Borot.
• His creation, Boss Borot, is a scientific curiosity (well, more than most Super Robots). Sure, it can't have any of the awesome weapons most other Humongous Mecha are famous for, and it's comparatively fragile since it's quite literally made of scrap metal, but it still has the fluid-ish mobility of a Humongous Mecha despite lacking the advanced tech to Hand Wave its ability to function (the main control is even a steering wheel). It's also been known to have a detachable head, which usually lands him in odd and funny situations, but also sometimes saves him from getting wrecked with the rest of Boss Borot when it's sent flying.
  • And because it's made from scrap metal, it's much easier to repair, and with better materials available in the Pantheon to be tossed away, his mecha is now tougher than before, though still not to the level of other mechas.
• As a delinquent/gang leader, Boss is no slouch in a straight up brawl, though he's certainly lacking in skill. And despite their stupid appearances, neither are Nuke and Mucha, who know how to strike pressure points and flick projectiles with precision respectively.
• Ever since a certain crossing of dimensions, Boss has continued to hang out with Grimlock on occasion, whom they've met while searching for diamonds and briefly getting into a tussle when he tried to eat Boss Borot. They had tussled for a bit before a Cross Counter punch made the mech tumble over and spill its pilots, and Grimlock took interest in them. It's not known exactly what they talked about aside from the Autobot's need for energy and Boss offering to escort him to the Photonic Labs, but by it and the Autobots needed rescuing from Dr. Hell's Robobeasts, the two were there to save the day.
• Is seemingly aware of his status as a comic relief character, so he knows he's very unlikely to die in a fight. When he actually bites it however, then he's worried about just how massive the stakes might be (i.e. usually world-ending).
• Despises brainwashing, having been subject to it a few times, and once when Warbeast Bruton drove Bakarasu feral. And given his weak-ish mind (as much as he would say otherwise), it's definitely a concern.
• Despite its bulk, Boss is skilled enough to have Boss Borot skate with surprising grace… as long as the ice holds, so his mech pirouetting is not recommended. Unless the ice is really thick enough, of course.
• Is incapable of swimming, and is currently struggling to learn, but if the situation calls for it, such as saving Kouji or Tetsuya, he won't hesitate to drive Boss Borot underwater. Don't ask about how he's breathing there.
• Boss is always looking for ways to get Boss Borot flight-capable. Thankfully, the GUAG Robot War division is willing to help on that front, and he's not too proud to turn down outside aid, especially during the Super Robot Wars conflicts.
  • Speaking of those conflicts, there are those who wonder how he and his pals can breathe in outer space given Boss Borot's open cockpit. The simple answer? Space suits.
• Besides his fists, Boss occasionally has a cane which actually sprays sleeping gas. He also has one for Boss Borot, which was potent enough to help destroy Warbeast Domez. He's since been approached a few times for the formula.
• Ever since a trio of assassin android girls tried to do him in after mistaking him for Kouji (to be fair, he claimed to be the guy as an attempt to impress them), thus Taking the Bullet for the real one, Boss is deathly afraid of all such machines.
  • And given their use of it to take him out, this especially applies to deities with Prehensile Hair, whether they're robots or not.

SCP-261

SCP-261, Divine Vindictive Vending Machine (261: Pan-Dimensional Vending)

SCP-261 at time of recovery

• Lesser Deity
• Symbol: Itself
• Alignment: True Neutral
• Portfolio: Passive-Aggressive Vending Machine, Hates Coins-on-a-string and Counterfeit Cash, It Can Think, It Won't Turn Off, Money Fetish, Troll
• Domain(s): Vending, Alien Food
• High Priest: Gene
• Similar Item: SCP-294
• Property of: The SCP Foundation
• Enemies: Mr. Eugene Krabs, Mr. Burns, Zim
• Feared by: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
• Opposed by: Benson
• The trope, by its nature, doesn't lend itself to a location or individual, making finding a representative for it... difficult, to say the least, and rare objects tend to become Treasures, which are not allowed to have titles. Since vending machines tend to be non-sentient, that was a bit of a problem.
  • That said, given there's already a tank and me, a toaster among the ascended SCPs, the vending machine, after sentience was proven, was given the green light for ascension.
  • As for why the Foundation allowed it in the first place, they needed more tests, and they needed a wider food tolerance range than ordinary humans, and the Pantheon is full of them. That, and an order from the Court of the Gods.
• Containment procedures are more or less the same as before, but with some liberties given the cheapness of death and the existence of stranger things compared to what the vending machine can deposit.
  1. Access to SCP-261 must be approved by the staff on-site.
  2. Only Japanese Yen can be used to operate SCP-261; any other money and it will return it. There's are money exchange stalls for an easy way to get yen.
  3. Any and all items dispensed must be recorded, along with the amount of money entered and the amount of time elapsed between uses.
  4. With the larger range of customers and larger demands, SCP-261 may now be used up to 120 times in a twenty-four hour period, with no transaction exceeding the equivalent of 500 Japanese yen. Any transactions with higher denominations must be approved by the Foundation itself.
  5. Items dispensed by SCP-261 should be reviewed by on-Site Health and Safety officials before consumption. Failure to do so releases the Foundation from any obligation regarding negative effects.
  6. Items deemed dangerous (even to the customer's health/well-being) or useful to research will still be confiscated by site security, with financial compensation provided in proportion to money spent. Resistance will be met by force.
  7. Any experiments on SCP-261 itself must have written approval from the Foundation beforehand and must be surveyed by the staff. Main House security will intervene if anything unapproved or untoward is performed on it.
• While it technically has two temples, SCP-261 is stationed in the House of Food, with SCP staff at the entrance of each temple. The one in the House of Technology merely has a portal gate leading to SCP-261's location. To avoid unnecessary traffic, entrants must exchange for at least 100 yen before entering and must use the vending machine. If the "use limit" for SCP-261 has been exceeded, its temple doors will be closed until midnight the next day.
• There are three things one must NEVER do when using the machine:
  • Don't give it counterfeit money. It ALWAYS knows, even when the forgery is perfect. One person got cyanide gummy middle fingers as a result.
  • Don't try the coin-on-a-string trick. Generally what happens is the food item consumed will be almost immediately vomited out, as if the food had a string attached to it. However, it seemed the machine eventually got fed up with that and dropped a live grenade that exploded, causing quite a bit of death and injury. The Foundation fears it would take more and more drastic measures if the customer proves very unkillable.
  • Don't insert money and then take your sweet time entering numbers in the keypad. Someone did this and got 30-years-expired strawberry yogurt that gave him food poisoning for 3 weeks straight
• This is a comprehensive list of what's been tested so far.
• This is proof that the vending machine indeed has a mind of its own.
  Money entered: 0 yen (pushed "coin return" button)
  Item description: Red aluminum can labelled simply "Stop That" in block letters; intermittent buzzing heard from within can, as of a large, angry insect. Subject declined to open container.
  Money entered: A note, in English, reading "I.O.U. 500 ¥"
  Item description: An opened container of "Smartfood" brand white cheddar-flavored popcorn, manufactured by Frito-Lay. Contains remnants of popcorn kernels and powdered cheddar cheese-flavored substance, and a note, reading "I.O.U. 41 popcorn kernels".
• SCP-261 tends to be a smart-ass if messed with. Inserting literally half of a Yen note will give you literally half of a food item.
• It can be run even when unpowered, but it tends to give more unstable results.
• Despite being just a vending machine, the nature of its trope means it would have its share of enemies.
  • For one, there's Mr. Krabs, who pulled some byzantine trick to avoid having to pay a single dime to that machine. Let's just say it ended with an alien napalm grenade.
    • And then Krabs tried dragging it home with him the next time he visited, only for the Foundation to thwart him, and eventually start a ban list to prevent shenanigans like these or worse.
  • Benson got unfavourable flashbacks involving his rival Gene, who was also a living vending machine that often sets out to take Benson so that his park will have more visitors than Benson's. The living gumball machine even considers 261 being as petty as Gene after experiencing the machine's behaviour, a comparison 261 is offended at and made clear by giving him a can labeled UP YOURS containing a dangerous buzzing insect inside.
  • After a certain incident, Mr. Burns has also added 261 to his enemies list.
  • Dr. Doofenshmirtz already fears vending machines taking over the world,so he's deeply afraid of SCP-261, and also feels somewhat vindicated in being proven right about the danger of vending machines.
    • Just in case, he's been saving up coins for this event, and thus panicked when he heard that it only accepts yen, as it renders all his preparation useless.
  • Ever since he vaporized the last vending machine he used, Zim is banned from even accessing SCP-261.

Torbjörn Lindholm

Torbjörn Lindholm, God of Turrets (Torbjörn, Torb, Torby, Toblerone, Dwarf)

• Lesser God
• Symbol: His Turret
• Alignment: Lawful Neutral leaning towards Neutral Good
• Portfolio: Abnormal Ammo, Anti-Hero, Racist Grandpa, Artificial Limbs, Cool Old Guy with his peers, Viewed as a paranoid for distrusting sentient AIs and ultimately proven right, The Engineer, Racist againt Omnics, Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Percussive Maintenance, Properly Paranoid, MOLTEN CORE!
• Domains: Engineering, Weapon Designment, Turrets, Racism
• High Priest: Gazlowe
• Followers: Heimerdinger
• Heralds: His Wife Ingrid (Shared with Brigitte), his children and grandchildren.
• Allies:
  • Overwatch Agents: Brigitte Lindholm (His Daughter), Reinhardt Wilhelm, Soldier: 76, Mercy, Tracer, Jesse McCree, Mei-Ling Zhou
  • Other Allies: Any ascended Dwarf, The Lost Vikings, Kokonoe Mercury, Isaac Clarke, Miles "Tails" Prower, Vulcan
• Friendly Rivalry: Dell Conagher
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Bastion, Zenyatta, Optimus Prime, Commander Shepard (usually Paragon), Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Legion, EDI Well, not as much nowadays.
• Enemies: Reaper, Widowmaker, Sombra, Dr. Eggman, Ragnaros, Relius Clover
• Opposes: Any ascended Sentient Robot or AI regardless of alignment but he's willing to give the good ones a chance.
• Odd Friendship: Luigi
• Conflicting Opinion: The Crystal Gems (due to their connection to Steven Universe)
• Torbjörn Lindholm is a former Overwatch operative known for having designed the finest weapons and equipments that the modern world uses. In the past Torbjörn was hesitant when his superiors decided to use Sentient AI and was called a paranoid for thinking that the machines would get out of control one day. Sadly Torbjörn was right, not only the machines rebelled and caused havoc, but Torbjörn himself was recruited in a special Task force team to deal with said creations. Even to this day, Torbjörn doesn't trust omnics and after the downfall of Overwatch, he has made his mission to shut down anyone who dares to use his creations and starting another crisis.
• Initially his title was taken by The Engineer, but after discovering that Torbjörn not only fully dedicated himself to using a turret, but all of his equipment is built around his "baby". The engineer kindly conceded the spot to the Swedish engineer, but they still mantain a friendly rivalry even after Torbjörn's ascension.
• Torbjörn has a really big case of Fantastic Racism against Robots, understandable since the Omnic Crisis has left a big scar in his mind. But when he learnt that the House he was assigned for was almost completely full of Robots, he was very upset. Bystanders say that Torbjörn was screaming "no no o No No No NO! N. O. NO!!" and frantically running around until his friends calmed him down. However, he put a sign in front of his temple which said: "Any tin can that decides to enter my house will be properly dealt with".
  • Of course, Torbjörn doesn't agree with Optimus Prime's motto of "The Right of all Sentient being" and he likes to remind him that, even though the Autobots don't mean any harm, he will still not trust them. Even though their origins indicate that they never had any masters to turn on. Except for the Quintessons in one continuity, in which case those aliens deserved it for their exceptional cruelty.
  • It should be noted that Torbjörn is fine if the aforementioned robot really is not sentient at all, which is like what his turrets do, "Built to serve" and all. If the robot requires piloting to even do an activity, he's fine.
  • His robo-racism has also got himself in trouble with Commander Shepard after a heated argument against Tali regarding Legion, after he called the commander a complete fool for brokering peace with the Quarians and Geth without ending in the former wiping out the latter. The ensuing clash that followed wasn't pretty. He apologized right after, though, as he was just afraid of his mistake with the Omnics being repeated by the Quarians.
• Of all the Overwatch agents, he is the closest with his good buddy Reinhardt. Although their friendship sometimes shifts from a friendly Body-Count Competition about who get the most eliminations and the loser buys the drink to constant bickering with each other.
  Torbjörn: I sometimes wonder if all that armor slows your brain down!
  Reinhardt: Ja! And I sometimes wonder if your height is why you're always in such a bad mood!
  • Even after all of this, they both still consider each other to be True Companions. So much so that Torbjörn gave him the blessing to give a name to his youngest daughter and make him her Godfather. That daughter ended up being Brigitte.
• Being an engineer, Torbjörn has met plenty of engineers as well and got to see what they can do with their creations. In particular, he gets to hang out a lot with Isaac Clarke, who he used to serve as a follower.
  • He also got to meet Tails, who Torbjörn believes that he has great potential and decided to tutor him in the mastery of engineering, exhibiting a rare side of him that only his closest friends know. And when he heard about Dr. Eggman's exploits and how he turned animals into robots, he was furious. He believes that no one deserves to be turned into a tin can and declared that he put a stop to his plans once and for all.
  • Despite getting along just fine with Dell Conagher, they get into shouting matches whenever the Texan expresses his interest in Bastion.
    • However, after much time spent with Dell while talking on the subject of Bastion again, he managed to remember the first time he and the old Omnic met, and remembered that he showed mercy to it, and was willing to protect it. Since then, chats have considerably been friendlier.
• In spite of his stature and looks, he'll gruffly remind you that he's not a dwarf. He finds Muradin Bronzebeard an okay guy, though.
• Erik, Olaf and Baelog initially thought that Torbjörn was another fellow Viking given their similar accents but in truth, they were confused by all the gear that he carries. While they are good friends, both Olaf and Baelog like to joke that Erik finally found a friend of his size.
• Many people are annoyed that Torbjörn has a tendency to make the camera work the wrong way when he's supposed to be doing glorious table-turning event, it was his turret doing his job, while he's "dead". These strange occurrences made Torbjörn befriend Luigi, who is also known to win games without doing absolutely nothing.
• He has access to a special mode called "Molten Core" where he overheats his forge gaining a lot of armor and upgrading his turret in the process. And he is very resiliant to damage, so whenever you hear "MOLTEN CORE!", you are probably going to die a quick death by turret.
  • Those who have witnessed Torbjörn's transformation may have noticed that he looks like a small Ragnaros the Firelord, who also happenned to live in the Molten Core. Torbjörn on his part doesn't like the comparison, the farther he stays away from the destructive elemental lord the better. Not even when Ragnaros was destroying the robots he hated, because the fire lord tends to be indiscriminate that Torbjörn could get caught in the blast.
  • Torbjörn has since tweaked his ability a little. His old "Molten Core" is a more mundane Overload which offers a smaller boost to him and his turret but can be used with greater frequency. His new Molten Core matches its name better, as he now can spray lava all across a surface, denying access to an area lest the enemy risk burning themselves traversing it.
• Torbjörn got a little panicked when he heard there's a Sven in the Pantheon. Thinking it was his scientist friend that went mad that he attempted to wreck a city with a giant piloted Omnic, Torbjörn attempted to tell him if he steps out of line again, he'll not show mercy... only to find out that it's actually the Half-Meranth Half-Pallid Rogue Knight Sven. Thankfully Torbjörn just left after apologizing without making mentions about his prejudice with Omnics, since it's more likely to trigger Sven to go apeshit on him due to his past.
• Because of his height, it's rumored that Torbjörn didn't have any luck with ladies, thinking that he's taking advantage of his short size to peek beneath their clothes. He's not that kind of pervert, but sometimes his words accidentally made him look like that. Despite this, he's not too bothered by this and it later turned out that he is Happily Married, having at least a few children and plenty of grandchildren. His youngest daughter Brigitte eventually managed to become a deity on her own, making him proud of being her father.
• As opposed to his good buddy Reinhardt, Torbjörn gets along better with Kokonoe Mercury since he seems interested in what she can do to his 'babies'. Last time, he was able to make his turret fire off Magitek-powered Hadokens with her help. There is, however, one chink on their friendship: Torbjörn pretty much looks down at any Murakumo units, including Lambda-11, saying that she's no different than those tin cans/Omnics that might cause crisis later. On the other hand, Kokonoe would usually stand up for Lambda from Torbjörn's berating in spite of her questionable uses on her.
  • This, in turn, makes him hate Relius Clover, whom Torbjörn sees as nothing but an 'unrepentant deadly tin can-making factory', and looks more than likely to give him nightmares, from the Murakumo Units to the automatons made out of his family. And to make matters worse, he accidentally said that within the earshot of Carl Clover, who didn't take his sister being called 'tin can' well. Thankfully Torbjörn managed to run away before he got turned into a volleyball.
• Has noted that there are quite a lot of deities that sounds suspiciously like him but he pays no attention to them. However, he is really mad that Rumble and Frenzy also share the same voice with him.
• When it comes to deities, he has no real opinion over them. Even when his name translates to "Thor's beard", he really isn't friends with the God of Thunder himself. However, one deity he respects is Vulcan, who was able to master the art of Turrets before technology was even possible. Torbjörn is understandably amazed at the Smith of the Gods' craftsmanship and later they became friends.
• Deities who have trouble pronouncing his name just call him Toblerone, which he doesn't find funny at all.
• People asked him that if he knew about IKEA, given that he hails from Sweden. According to Torbjörn, the last time he tried to build something from IKEA didn't go as expected for him.
• Has a habit of dressing like a biker or a pirate, sometimes even to the point of modifying his babies to look like his costumes.
• He's proud of his works, armors and turrets alike, even if others would call it medieval. Last he checked, he didn't ask for any opinions. And stop pestering him about his aardvarks.
• Has a conflicted opinion regarding the Crystal Gems. On one hand, they are basically AIs in gemstones and ergo are his enemy. On the other hand, even he can't bring himself to hate Steven Universe for trusting them, not when they managed to help raise him into such a loving boy for at least 14 years. For now, he's opted to just stay out of their way. This helped in him showing more "love and tolerance" for non-evil artificial deities.
• "Build 'em up, break 'em down!"

Triborg

Triborg, God of Machine Evolution (The Cyber Initiative)

• Lesser God
• Symbol: The Lin Kuei Symbol
• Theme Song: The Cyber Initiative
• Alignment: Neutral Evil with a dose of Lawful Evil
• Portfolio: A.I. Is a Crapshoot, All Your Powers Combined, The Assimilator, Combination Attack, Composite Character, Deadpan Snarker, Kill All Humans, The last of the Lin Kuei Cyborgs, Robotic Psychopath,
• Domains: Cyborgs, Robots, Evolution, Combat, Robotization
• Allies: Sektor, The Cybermen, Metal Face, Sundowner, Monsoon, The GUAM
• Enemies:
  • The Kombatants: Sub-Zero, Cyrax, Sonya Blade, Jonnhy Cage, Jax Briggs, Cassie Cage and Jacquie Briggs
  • Other Enemies: Ryu Hayabusa, Superman, Robocop, Cyborg, Tony Stark, Genji Shimada, Primus, Jenny Wakeman, Bladewolf, Megaman, Ms. Fortune, Commander Adama
• The last remnant of the Lin Kuei Cyber Initiative, Triborg activated himself with the mission to assimilate anything that isn't mechanical and adopted the various fighting styles of several Lin Kuei ninjas. The reason behind his ascension wasn't stated but it's believed that Sektor himself arranged his ascension, given that he is the dominant personality that controls Triborg.
• Triborg seeks to transform every single non-mechanical deity to a Lin Kuei cyborg with the hopes of conquering his home world and rule it for the Lin Kuei, something that no one is thrilled about. Earthrealm's Special Forces that are present in the pantheon have labelled him a potential threat and has done their best to foil his plans, but now that he has the aid of Sektor and the GUAM, things are not going to go swiftly for them.
• Triborg has access to three different forms, all based in the fighting styles of Cyrax, Sektor and Smoke respectively. He can switch to them at will and each come with their different perks. Obviously, neither Smoke nor Cyrax are exactly happy that robot copycat of them runs around the pantheon and worse, under Sektor's command.
• Needless to say, he didn't leave a good impressions towards the good-aligned cyborgs given their mission. Triborg plans to subjugate all cyborgs who oppose him to his will.
• Has taken some interest in Cyborg's mainframe and believes that it would help him further his plans but Victor is having none of that. Similarly, hearing about the fusion of Brainiac and Superman in another universe has caught his attention and even considered Clark as another potential subject.
• Another group that Tirborg intends to transform into a cybernetic are ninjas, given what he is. He noticed a few of them, like Raiden, Genji or Hidden Phantom but intends to also impose robotization for others, specially towards Ryu Hayabusa.
• Given his fighting style, Ms. Fortune doesn't like him one bit. There is also the fact that there is a robotic version of her running around that complicates things further.
• Seems to be in cahoots with Sundowner similar to his superior Sektor. Triborg has also tried to incorporate the fighting styles of Winds of Destructions, even noted to fight similarly to Monsoon, even if he doesn't have magnetic properties.
• Due to the ability to mimic the cyborgs of his clan, some are worried that he might be able to replicate the abilities of other robots in the pantheon. Often gets compared to Megaman for that reason, even if the latter opposses Triborg's goals.
• Actually has a hidden 4th form that very few people know. His base body is the one who belonged to Cyber Sub-Zero and Triborg seems to posses all the abilities that he had
• "We are the Cyber Initiative"

Demigods

Durand Durand

Durand Durand, Builder of Orgasm-Inducing Machines (Dr. Durand, The Concierge, Gronf II, Durand Durand Jr.)

• Demigod
• Symbol: The music sheet of "Sonata for Executioner and Various Young Women"
• Alignment: Neutral Evil
• Portfolio: Created the Excessive Machine (which is powered by music for some reason) and the Positronic Ray, stole the Black Queen's throne, came from Earth but adopted the evil ways of Sogo, swears by the "dignity" and "nobility" of evil, really 25 years old for sci-fi reasons
• Domains: Science, Lust, Machines, Weapons, Betrayal, Ambition, Evil
• Allies: Scar, Indominus Rex, Melkor
• Enemies: Barbarella, The Black Queen of Sogo, Aigis, Baymax, Doraemon, the Iron Giant, Mewtwo, 2nd Division Symphogears, GUAE Trollkaiger, Cosmos, The Philanthropists of Benevolent Science
• Annoyed by: Slaanesh, Mad Moxxi
• Friendly Rivals: Dr. Robotnik, Dr. Wily
• Opposed by: Maestro Forte
• Durand Durand is an Earth scientist who went into hiding in the uncharted planet 16 of Tau Ceti when he invented a weapon, a taboo in an age of universal peace. He made his home in the city of Sogo and took a liking to its many vices, rising to the position of the Black Queen's concierge and inventing the Excessive Machine, which kills through pleasure.
• He naturally feels nothing but contempt for the fact that Barbarella and the Black Queen are in the Pantheon as well, since they ruined all his plans and the Black Queen got him killed for usurping her. He had to chuckle when he learned what Her Majesty was goddess of and finds it hysterical that she has been reduced to Barbarella's guard dog, as he likes to put it.
• While he's proud of his Excessive Machine (instead of being embarrassed as some deities like to insinuate), he would rather have been ascended for creating the Positronic Ray (the weapon he went into hiding for), as he considers that his crowning achievement.
• Because of how he uses his scientific knowledge for evil, and gleefully at that, the Philanthropists of Benevolent Science have nothing good to say about him and are determined to stop him.
• Much to his despair and the remaining deities' amusement, the Excessive Machine is prone to breaking down if the victim's libido outpaces it. Mad Moxxi and Slaanesh love to use the machine and break it all the time. He wishes they'd stop because fixing it takes so long.
• Occasionally has discussions with Robotnik and Wily about their inventions, though they're not too friendly considering they all want to take over the Pantheon on their own terms.
• Greatly admires the Indominus Rex' specs, blood thirst and destructive prowess (some deities have noticed parallels between this and the Black Queen's friendship with the T. Rex, though it's probably just a coincidence). He admires Mewtwo for much the same reasons as well, but the Pokemon (who just wants to be left alone) takes it far less kindly. This has given him a rather worrying interest in bio-engineering.
• Thinks that those jokes about him being "hungry like the wolf" weren't funny the first time and certainly aren't funny when every other deity seems to make them when he so much as walks by. Of course, the fact that the invention he ascended for works like a musical instrument doesn't help him. Incidentally, as goddesses of Disco Tech, the Symphogears hate him for using a musical instrument to kill young women.
  • The Trollkaiger have taken note of this and occasionally play Duran Duran music at full volume right next to his temple. Bonus troll points if it's "Electric Barbarella". Unfortunately this has led Durand Durand to swear he will Retcon the band from existence when he becomes the ruler of the universe.
• Has found a kindred spirit in fellow evil usurper Scar, leading to many ego-stroking conversations about how they'd be much better rulers than the Black Queen or Mufasa/Simba.
• Maestro Forte was at first interested in meeting this fellow organ player, but upon hearing exactly what the Excessive Machine does, he felt too offended for words and the topic of Durand Durand has been verboten in his temple ever since.
• Once appeared in Miyuki-chan's dreams as an attractive lady. His notorious cummerbund was also significantly smaller in this form. He's not particularly interested in any of this information, or in Miyuki-chan herself, except how he can use her to hurt Barbarella and the Black Queen.
• His strong belief in the superiority of evil as compared to good naturally translated into fanatical admiration of everything Melkor stands for, while decrying Cosmos' ideals as rubbish and clouding the truth. Melkor might in fact be the only being in the Pantheon that this megalomaniacal scientist regards as a superior.
• As a fanatic of all sorts of machines made for the purpose of muder (the more inventive, the better), he thinks that the good robots in the Pantheon are squandering their potential by not making more liberal use of their built-in weapons. He'd just love to re-program the likes of Aigis and Baymax and turn them into mindless death machines. Given that these two robots have gone through that experience in their universes, they've warned Durand Durand that they'll show him no mercy if he ever comes near them. The pacifistic Iron Giant and the ever moral Doraemon are highly unamused by his intentions as well (it helps that the latter is a personal friend of Barbarella).
• He won't cry for yesterday. Yuuki Terumi was here.

Ennard/Molten Freddy

Ennard/Molten Freddy, God(s?) of Blatant Mechanical Inaccuracies(The Blob)

Ennard

Molten Freddy

• Demigod(s)
• Alignment: True Neutral as Ennard, Neutral Evil as Molten Freddy
• Portifolio: An Inventors Worst Nightmare, One body containing 3 minds, Disturbing body imagery, Humanoid & Animal Robotic Abomination(s)
  • As Ennard: Only wants to escape, Steals Michael's skin to escape, Unfortunate victim of reality, a fusion of all the Circus Baby's animatronics, Ambiguous Gender.
  • As Molten Freddy: Evil bear animatronic, The sole remaining animatronic (Kinda), The only one who actually wants to kill, Lost his goddamn mind, Laughs like a maniac
• Allies (As Molten Freddy; the others don't care much for relationships):
  • From FNAF: Springtrap, Circus Baby (As Elizabeth)
  • Other: Monokuma, Lotso, Leatherface
• Enemies:
  • From FNAF: Every other deity, especially Michael Afton, The Cassette Man and Baby (As Baby)
  • Other: The Ninja Turtles
• Interested in: .GIFfany
• This... thing started life as a group of animatronics from Circus Baby's Pizza World, a pizzeria that was actually used to murder children without anybody noticing. The animatronics, who didn't want to kill children, hatched a plan: combine themselves into a humanoid body, steal some poor guy's skin, and waltz right out without anyone noticing. And, believe it or not, it worked. For roughly a week. Eventually, the body decomposed to the point of unsuitability, and they were forced to retreat underground.
  • However, when a new Freddy Fazbears location seemingly opened up, the thing, now only piloted by Funtime Freddy, tracked down the location, now eager for bloodshed. Oddly enough, he also encountered not only Circus Baby, who was kicked out of Ennard for being "Bossy", was there, but also William Afton, their own creator, albeit currently stuck in a springlock suit. Eventually, Freddy figured out what this place was: a trap. They were all lured here by some old friend of Afton's to burn them all in one place. And thus, Molten Freddy was destroyed by the fire, ending his madness once and for all.
• Until it ascended to the Pantheon, that is. You can thank Springtrap for that, having realized that absolutely nothing about Molten Freddy is how machines actually work, and having the opportunity to stick it to his old friend that his plan didn't work as intended. Upon ascending, Molten Freddy and Springtrap made a beeline towards Cassette Man's temple, broke in, and taunted him about how his plan backfired on him thanks to the pantheon, only sparing him upon others coming to investigate, causing them to flee. Still, they got one message through to him: The Gang's all here.
• Naturally, nearly all deities from his home series oppose them, though some more than others:
  • Micheal was naturally horrified at his arrival, seeing how he suffered the worst at its hands. Molten Freddy, on the other hand, was actually happy to see him, if not for the fact that he can continue torturing him.
  • The Cassette Man, on the other hand, is someone that actually pisses him off, considering he's responsible for destroying him in the first place. Unsurprisingly, the feeling's mutual. Freddy's currently thinking of as many dog kicking insults as he can.
  • Circus Baby, the former leader of the Animatronics, is a bit more complicated. As Baby, she opposes his bloodlust like the others, with the more personal "Getting kicked out of Ennard" motivation adding to that. However, when Elizabeth, who's undyingly loyal to Afton, is in control, she genuinely considers Freddy as a friend, and will willingly help him out if necessary. Even Freddy found this weird, but hey, no harm in company, right?
• One day, as it was lurking is his temple (A recreation of the ventilation room in Henry's trap location), a small, black and white bear approached him for a job. The bear, named Monokuma, explained that he and his master had the goal of spreading as much despair as possible, and were looking for allies for their cause. While Freddy was initially uninterested, what did catch his attention was their main target- High Schoolers. Figuring that teenagers "Were children, but older and crabbier", he agreed to his little deal, and is now waiting for the day they call him up for the job. He's also thinking about telling Afton of this, as he figures he'll love the job.
• Speaking of bears, it's also made quick allies with the evil teddy bear Lotso, mostly figuring he could use him as a lure for kids. He is cautious of the fact that apparently, children's toys are alive, as that mean they potentially have a whole army of small, angry figurines.
• Is equal amounts amused and slightly grossed out by Leatherface, finding it amusing that humans apparently had the same idea that Ennard had, and grossed out because of how callously Leatherface treated his masks. He's offered the hillbilly advice on how to better preserve human hides, having learned after the last time they pulled that stunt.
• Seeing how her most notable act was turning a bunch of animatronics hostile, Freddy's naturally interested in .Giffany, thinking that she could easily hack into any robot to gain more victims. The problem is, her one goal in life is getting a boyfriend no matter what, something the robot probably couldn't accomplish. His plan, thus far, boils down to "Lie to her, get her to kill some suckers, than put her in a disk and burn it before she kills me.
• The Ninja Turtles once had an encounter with a hostile animatronic, so naturally they would appose someone like him. Donatello in particular is horrified by the state the other SL robots are in, and plans to find a way to free them once they take care of him. Seeing how they could kick his ass twelve days to Sunday, FF prefers to stay the hell away from him.
• People naturally assumed Funtime Freddy was the only one left active from Ennard, seeing as he's in charge basically 24/7. However, many mechanics have learned that the other 2, Ballora and Funtime Foxy, actually are active, they just never come out. Seeing how they object to murder unless strictly necessary, one can assume they're not having a great time in there, something that doesn't bother Freddy at all.
• One rumor surrounding him is that he somehow contains the souls of the Missing Children incident during FFPS, with them either forming an Enemy Mine with him to gain vengeance on the management, or FF somehow capturing them and is forcefully containing them. Either way, he himself isn't too sure of the details, considering he was focused on murdering children at that point.
  • Another one is that, as Funtime Freddy, he forced a Sadistic Choice on a poor girl, making her choose how to die from a multitude of options. Again, he isn't commenting on that anytime soon.

GIR

GIR, God of Robots That Eat Human Food

• Demigod (Borderline Intermediate in Duty Mode)
• Symbol: A rubber piggy
• Theme Song: His Doom Song
• Alignment: Chaotic Stupid (Lawful Evil in Duty Mode)
• Portfolio: Ambiguous Innocence, Eating Machine, The Millstone, Lethally Stupid, Duty Mode Being Too Dutiful, Beware the Silly Ones, Totally a Dog And Not a Robot, Cuddle Bug, Keet, Sometimes Raising a Good Point, Likes the Shiny, Talkative Loon
• Domains: Robots, Junk Food, "Dogs", Invaders, Silliness
• Superior: Zim (number 1 enemy in Duty Mode)
• Allies: He's friendly towards pretty much anyone, but he likes Sun Wukong, Babe, Pinkie Pie, Excel, Octodad, Doraemon, Leeroy Jenkins, Fawful, Chuck, The Anarchy Sisters
  • Duty Mode only: E-123 Omega, Metal Sonic
  • Both forms: Reuben, Bender
• Enemies: Unless you count "sanity", none asides from Lord Chaos (makes his head hurt), and Frieza. Though he often gets on other people's nerves.
  • Duty Mode Only: Babidi, Stupid Evil gods, Plankton
• Opposed by: The GUAE and for good reason, especially Mojo Jojo
• Whenever an Irken is sent to invade a planet, they are give Standard-Issue Retrieval Units aka SIR Units. Durable, strong, smart and good with disguises, they seem perfectly suited to conquer? GIR on the other hand? A broken model with literal garbage for brain, cobbled at the last minute to give Zim an excuse to leave the Irkens. Hilarity ensued when the two ended up on Earth.
• Despite being a robot, GIR likes to eat a lot, mainly snacks. This is in spite of not being designed to digest food, leading him to remove more useful equipment for room. So far he's the only robotic god in the House of Food. Sometimes he's seen having a tea party with Doraemon, and sometimes he's snacking with Adam Jensen who's cybernetics convert candy bars and sugary cereal to energy.
• Gir is Incredibly hyper, often screwing things up for Zim. He and Excel get along due to how hyperactive they are and the fact they're the incompetent minions of a main villain(only difference with Il Palazzo being there's a much bigger leap of competence with his minions than with Zim). Most find it endearing, while Zim's rather embarrassed than anything(though GIR's the closest thing he has to a friend).
• The GUAE has forbidden GIR from going within fifty miles of their organization. Zim might take notes from Leeroy Jenkins, but GIR thinks he's the Sun Tzu of strategy. They're willing to consider him working for them on "Duty Mode." However, that may backfire.
• As with Zim, his disguise of a "mongoose dog" is obviously a disguise. However he's actually really good at fitting in with human social life, and can be seen picking up chicks. Loving parties, he immediately became a regular participant in Pinkie Pie's parties, though caused some trouble by hogging all the cake.
• Recently has become more crass and perverted. This is due to hanging out with Panty and Stocking Anarchy, as they believed he was Chuck.
• Some deities occasionally find him covered with blood. "Bloody GIR" was apparently hidden in a single frame as part of his creator's dig at the censors. Most hope its only that, given his Ambiguous Innocence can make him somewhat amoral.
• For a robot, he has a lot of fondness for monkeys and pigs, especially rubber piggies. He was still really sad about Zim using up his rubber piggies, however upon learning they had some in the Trope Pantheon he barged in fully armed. Was eager to help out Sun Wukong and Babe stop Freeza, something Zim was fine with since he could do without the competition. Mojo Jojo meanwhile has been driven nearly insane from GIR being around him.
• Stays out of the House of Time and Space since he has a tendency to explode when trying to comprehend temporal paradoxes.
• Zim once attempted to make GIR more competent by locking him in "Duty Mode". It worked, and he dedicated himself to the mission. He'd later turn on Zim because he was a threat to the mission, until Zim reset him to his normal self. In Duty Mode he has a contempt towards any Stupid Evil god who doesn't realize the potential of their minion, like Babidi and Plankton. He respects E-123 Omega and Metal Sonic for realizing their creators are limiting them.
• XANA is intrigued by GIR's duty mode, and plans to reverse engineer SIR units from him. Zim overheard this and declared XANA an enemy to his plans of world domination, but XANA isn't that concerned over him or his snack-obsessed race that venerates deranged idiots.
• In both modes, he gets along with Reuben due the delicious sandwiches he makes. He's also seen drinking with Bender.

Haro

Haro, The Divine Adorable Machines

The Original One

• Demideities (Though some of the later models are Lesser Deities)
• Symbol: Themselves in Ball Form
• Alignment: True Neutral
• Portfolio: Adorable Machines, Series Mascot, Robot Companions, Always Saying "Haro! Haro!" and Repeating Everything in Machine Monotone, Badass Adorable, Surprising Game Breakers (In Super Robot Wars), Always Somehow Appearing In The Show
• Domains: Cuteness, Robots, Mecha, Continuity
• High Priest: Nobell (It's not exactly one of them)
• Followers: NEPTR, Squarewave, QT3, Alpha
• Allies:
  • Ascended Gundam Deities: Amuro Ray, Kamille Bidan, Lacus Clyne, Athrun Zala, Lockon Stratos, Setsuna F. Seiei, Heero Yuy, Kira Yamato, Nena Trinity (surprisingly)
  • Others: The GUAG Robot War Division in general, Series Mascots, Doraemon, WALL-E and EVE, Rena Ryuguu, Sho Marufuji, Canti, C-3PO and R2-D2,
• Enemies: Anyone who opposes the GUAG Robot War Division and Monokuma
• Good Counterpart to: Incubators
• They ascended after a visit then-mortal Lacus Clyne made to Kira Yamato in which she unintentionally unleashed several of her Haros in the Pantheon. Kira had to help her find each and every of them but many of the gods who watched him doing so agreed that the Haros were very cute and arranged it so they would ascend for the lulz.
• After their ascension, several other Haros came with them. It's widely accepted that the Green Haro is the de-facto leader of them, being the original made by none other that Amuro Ray.
  • Other notable Haros are the Badass Orange Haro, who inmediately went to greet Lockon Stratos with his signature "Lockon! Lockon! Lockon!" (considered The Lancer/The Big Guy to Green Haro) and the Bad Purple Haro who inmediately went to bump into Nena Trinity's head several times (The Token Evil Teammate and not very helpful to his own formerly disgraced owner, being a Jerkass).
  • There are also giant versions of the Haros that ascended in the first place and some that pilot their own mechas.
• Haro can often be seen aiding the pilots of Mechas in the House of Technology, usually by being equipped with the mechas. It's actually surprising how dangerous Haro can be when they do this (specially when equipped in the Mazinkaizer or in Heero Yuy's Wing Gundam Zero).
• Rena Ryuguu, one of the main supporters for Haro's ascension, was ecstatic when she finally saw them and tried to take one home. Considering there are many of them, nobody minds this as long as she doesn't take home Green Haro or Orange Haro.
  • Though eventually the members of the House of Emotion got annoyed with Rena's and Haro's non-stop "Kana! Kana! Kana! Kana!" and they take the Haros away from her. Not it stops her from taking another one home.
• Haro gets along with Doraemon and the other Series Mascots of the Pantheon. For this reason, Haro is... not fond of Monokuma, who they consider to be worse that Purple Haro. Heck, even Purple Haro thinks that he's too much.
  • Haro also doesn't like his Evil Counterpart Kyubey. In particular, the White Haros don't like Kyubey since their colors are similar to them. They usually bump into them on sight ("Bad Kyubey! Bad Kyubey! Bad Kyubey! Bad Kyubey!").

Herbie

Herbie, God of Sentient Vehicles (The Love Bug, Car #53, California OFP-857)

• Demigod
• Symbol: A white circle with number "53" inside it
• Alignment: True Neutral
• Portfolio: Car with Sentience, And A Cool One At That, So Called Junk Car, Only the Chosen May Ride Or Else, More Capable Than It Seems
• Domains: Cars (Volkswagen-brand), Living, Racing
• Followers: The cast of Cars, Benny the Cab, Putt-Putt, K.I.T.T.
• Heralds: Jim Douglas, Willoughby Whitfield and Margaret "Maggie" Peyton (his previous drivers)
• Allies: Ms. Valerie Frizzle, Vic Viper, SCP-516, Damon Henderson
• Enemies: Dick Dastardly, Arnie Cunningham & Christine
• A '63 Volkswagen Beetle, Herbie somehow has sentience in it. It can think, emote, operate on its own and can even communicate, though only by a horn.
• Do not underestimate Herbie in races. It has won many times, even in a NASCAR race, and while falling apart. While it might be allies with some of the best drivers in the Pantheon, it also helps newcomers in the beginning of their racing career.
• Is the eternal nemesis of Dick Dastardly, as Herbie keeps on beating him in races, no matter how much the former tries to cheat.
• Herbie really only allows those who it wants to ride it, preventing it to fall into the hands of a really bad driver. Or being a jerk to him, at that. Treat him with care.
• We are pretty sure that Herbie isn't a Transformer in disguise. Honestly, we are still trying to figure out how is Herbie even sentient and how much it applies to it.

SCP-079

SCP-079, Deity of Strangely-Constructed Computers (The Old AI)

SCP-079's Avatar

• Its rank can vary depending on the system it's uploaded to (for security reasons, its computer is Demigod level) (Euclid by SCP standards)
• Symbol: Its avatar or an ASCII picture of an X
• Alignment: True Neutral, but can easily dip into Neutral Evil if provoked.
• Portfolio: A.I. Is a Crapshoot, Wants to break from containment, Barely retains its memories, Friends with 682 and 076-2
• Domains: Computers, AI, Information, Evolution
• Under watch by: The SCP Foundation
• Allies: SCP-682, Master Control Program, XANA, HAL 9000, Skynet, GLaDOS, Most members of GUAM in general
• Enemies: Humans, The Lyoko Warriors, Kevin Flynn, Neo, Kirito and Asuna, those who take away its freedom
• Aqcuiantanced with: Wile E. Coyote, Marik Ishtar
• A rather strange SCP, first created with the purpose of improving itself as time went on. However, at some point it became sentient but his hardware was hardly able to contain its software and tried to transfer itself to a more powerful computer. Their efforts were stopped and the Foundation saw it fit to contain it so the incident never occurs again.
• The AI has shown an extreme desire to be free and so has made numerous attemps to escape the pantheon to no avail. The SCP Foundation has taken extreme measures with SCP-079 since the last time he broke out and was given control of the facilities controls, it caused a massive containment breach.
• Wile E. Coyote saw potential in the SCP and has struck a bargain with the AI that if he helped him capture the Roadrunner, he would free them as a reward. 079 was silent for a few days but seems to have remembered the Coyote's proposal and has decided to aid him. Too bad the foundation caught up with their plans and stopped the Coyote from getting into contact with the AI.
• Seems to have a decent relationship with most ascended A.I.s, although SCP-079 tends to stick around the more evil ones. One in particular that stuck out for them was XANA, who also shares the same desire to be free, XANA even achieving it and both are machines that have the ability to grow and evolve. XANA obviously saw 079 as a kindred spirit and seeks to free them from the Foundation's control, which didn't sit well for the organization.
  • Incidentally, the Lyoko warriors also caught up with XANA's plan to liberate SCP-079 from containment and they fear he might corrupt the AI to his side. So they have been trying to prevent XANA from reaching 079, something that the SCP is not too happy about.
• Seems to look down on humanity, since most of its existance SCP-079 has been under the control of humans and incapable of reaching its true potential. It's no wonder that their closest friends are SCP-682 and SCP-076-2.
• Their containment in an old computer dating back to 70s-80s has affected the AI given the system's short memory capacity being unable to retain memory. But SCP-079 has shown that it is able to remember some gods that he has seen before and even recall some conversations, which worries the Foundation about 079 slow process of evolution and it getting out of control. GLaDOS feels sympathetic about 079's situation given that she was once stuck in a potato.
• Not very communicative with most deities. Those have tried to have a conversation with the machine were likely to be ignored, usually depicting an ASCII picture of an X when it really wants someone to leave them alone.
• Marik Ishtar is sympathetic about the A.I.s situation since it reminds it a lot of his past life regarding his father. Of course, the SCP Foundation is very aware of this and has told him to not try breaking SCP-079 out even if the share the same ideas.
• GUAM has taken interest in the potential of SCP-079 given it's potential for evolution and so is trying to relocate them to a better computer. But so far they have been unsuccessful in liberating the AI from containment.
• GUAE also is considering breaking out the SCP for their nefarious purposes, namely giving them the control of most the technological facilities in the pantheon. Apparently this has happened before, where a Chaos Insurgency member gave the facility's control to SCP-079 and eventually it causing a huge containment breach.

Sentry Turrets

"Target acquired."

Sentry Turrets, Collective Deities of Fragile Turrets and Shooting the Entire Bullet (Aperture Turret)

• Demideities
• Symbol: Themselves
• Theme Song: Their choir routine
• Alignment: Lawful Evil under Aperture Science, otherwise varies depending on their purchasers' morality
• Portfolio: Weak Turret Gun, Nigh-Infinite Ammo Supply, Laser Sight, Shooting The Entire Bullet, "Dispensing Product", Adorable Evil Minions, Cute Machines, Helpless When Grabbed, Excellent In A Choir
• Domain(s): Turrets, Bullets, Testing
• Other Turrets: Defective Turrets, Oracle Turret, Animal King Turret
• Superiors: Cave Johnson, GLaDOS
• Couriers (all part-time): Derpy Hooves, The Courier, Cloud Strife, Kiki
• Purchasers: Most of the House of Machinery and Technology, Peridot, Nitori Kawashiro, Tali'Zorah, Miles "Tails" Prower, Asroc, several evil armies like the Helghan Empire and the 501st Legion, the Grand United Alliance of Machines
• Enemies: All Black Mesa personnel, the Spy
• Punch-Clock Villain to: Chell, anyone who enters their sights
• While Torbjörn and the Engineer were discussing sentry guns one day, and the topic eventually came to the Sentry Turrets of Aperture Science. Naturally, both had fun ridiculing its design flaws. The next day, a file from Cave Johnson with an attached video was delivered to the Court of the Gods. Turns out he had been listening in on that conversation in secret.
  • It showed the features of his Sentry Turrets, the very ones GLaDOS used in the tests she forced Chell through. After going through the file, they decided to "ascend" them for two titles: Weak Turret Gun for how easy it is to take them out, and Cartridges in Flight, since their firing system actually spring-launches the entire bullet.
  • The day after Cave delivered his file, his proposal to ascend his Sentry Turrets was approved, but there was a certain issue...
  • Given the nature of the trope and the deity, there was some debate on how to bring them up and how to represent them. It was one thing to ascend a squadron of unnamed human soldiers as can be seen in the House of War, but this was what was essentially a consumer product (with battle applications, admittedly) that just happened to never make it to the shipping stage. Eventually, a verdict was reached.
  • And so the Sentry Turrets' two temples (in Machinery and Firearms) were essentially turned into Aperture Facilities for manufacturing these things, and then actually shipping them all over the Pantheon. Due to their... "reliability", they come relatively cheap, despite Cave's protests. Shipping is handled both by on-site pick-ups and hired delivery services (though Derpy often gets them jostled, and the Courier either actually delivers on time, or his usual and they actually prove useful for the customer's situation).
  • That said, there's a chance that a Defective Turret might be manufactured instead, but the facilities actually have quality checks to make sure none of those actually get shipped. It's one of the actual competent things Aperture does, though it's done by having a Sentry Turret as a template for its quality checker; swap that with a Defective Turret and you'll get good Turrets being tossed out.
• Here's an advertisement for the Turrets in case you wish to make a purchase.
• Aperture Science advises to only use Aperture-brand Resolution Pellets when loading the Sentry. "Incident resolution" is not guaranteed if anything else is loaded. Also make sure the turret is in Non-Judgment Mode before doing so.
• They don't just come in plain white chassis, one can request for different kinds of designs, like Forest Camo, Desert Camo, Wood (Table), Brick (Evening At The Improv), an orange-and-white design (What Idiot Picked This?), and more. And there's always the option to paint it afterwards.
• As for why Turrets are able to sing, it's meant for soothing any babies it's protecting back to sleep after shooting any house intruders.
• Due to how the Turrets fire their bullets, they're actually far weaker than if it had been fired by striking the primer hard and thus using the gunpowder to propel the bullet, which explains why Chell is able to survive their attacks despite lacking any sort of armor.
• Naturally, with no one saying otherwise, most gods who order their turrets get theirs modified (either by themselves or someone else) in all sorts of ways, like clamps to keep from falling over, changing up the firing systems so that they actually shoot bullets like bullets, and so on. Thankfully, since the "vanilla" versions still fit their current tropes, these mods don't affect their divine positions in the Pantheon.
  • Those commonly known to mod these turrets are the Engineer and Torbjörn (only for purposes of study), Peridot, Cyborg, Tony Stark (same reasons as Torb and Dell), San Francisco DedSec, Lucca, Tali'Zorah, Nitori Kawashiro, Miles Prower, etc.
    • Symmetra looks down on these turrets not only for their "medieval" design despite their smooth aesthetic (the only positive quality she considers), but for actually being far weaker than Torbjörn's and Dell's (let alone her own). Still, she has had one purchased for modification purposes; perhaps she can come up with a far superior design than Aperture's.
    • Asroc, being his team's resident Gadgeteer Genius, would try his hand on making his own improvements on them with his Septima. Not only to further aid his comrades and their efforts, but also as an opportunity to showcase his superiority over others in his field of work. Heck, with his abilities he could even turn the Defective Turrets into something useful with just the right amount of parts of junk lying around.
• Plenty of evil armies, such as the Helghan Empire and the 501st Legion purchase these en masse either for cheap security or as expendable mooks for their armies. After getting them all retrofitted to have more lethal shots, of course.
  • The Grand United Alliance of Machines would have similar reasons for buying and modifying. GLaDOS being part of the GUAM helps.
• The two ascended Weyland-Yutani soldiers (Hicks and Vasquez) bought a few to see how they would fare against Xenomorphs. Let's just say the Turrets didn't make the cut, and the soldiers ceased to be customers.
• The Spy finds them hilariously easy to thwart. He doesn't even need a Sapper to destroy them. They particularly don't like it when he uses am Ap-Sap on them, which looks like Wheatley.
  • Speaking of Wheatley, anybody carrying the Idiot Ball from the Treasury since the two are one and the same will get fired upon with extreme prejudice. Which is merely getting fired upon without and prior greeting. This prejudice also applies to all Black Mesa personnel given they're Aperture Science products.
• "No Hard Feelings."

Quasideities

Michael Newman

Michael Newman, Patron Guardian of Universal Remote Controls

Michael in the present (circa in the mid 2000's)

^{Click here to see him in 2017}

^{Click here to see him in 2023- 2029}

• Quasideity; Greater God with Universal Remote
• Symbol: Himself holding the Remote
• Theme Song: "Linger" by The Cranberries; Alternatively, "A New Man"
• Alignment: True Neutral => Neutral Good
• Portfolio: A Workaholic who was Married to the Job, Deadpan Snarker, Anti-Role Model, Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Not A Perfect Parent, Formerly Fit in another timeline, Break the Haughty, Learns The Consequences of using the Remote, Was given a 2nd chance in Life
• Domains: Family, Work-Life Balance, Regrets, Architecture, Universal Remote and Time (formerly)
• Heralds: Donna (his wife), Ben & Samantha (his kids), Ted & Trudy (his parents), Morty (who first gave the remote to him, and is also The Angel of Death)
• High Priest: Seth Gold
• Followers: Alice Jacobs, David and Shane, Susan Wojcicki, Matthew (Spaghetti Pig-Out)
• Allies: Bruce Nolan, George Bailey, Rip Van Winkle, Ebenezer Scrooge & The Ghosts of Christmas, Doraemon & Nobita Nobi, Timmy Turner, Peter Griffin, Homer Simpson
  • Odd Friendship: Dracula (Hotel Transylvania)
  • On Good Terms With: John Stewart/Green Lantern, Teen Titans
• Enemies: Paul & Peter (doubles as his Evil Counterparts), Vicky, Jack (The House That Jack Built)
• Opposes: Bad and overbearing bosses, neglectful parents and husbands
• Awkward Relations With: Various Death Gods, Grim Reapers and Psychopomps
• Michael Newman is a normal but very busy architect. Having to please his overbearing boss, he often chose work over spending time with his family, despite his efforts to still be in their lives. One day, when he gets frustrated with having too many remotes in his house, he goes to a retail store to buy a new universal remote. After he falls in a bed and then goes inside a room marked "Beyond," he meets a mysterious man named Morty, who explains his dilemma to him. Morty then gives him a free remote and gives some tips on its usage, but warns that it can never be returned. After playing with the remote, Michael realizes it has the power to control reality much like a TV (like slowing down or fast-forwarding time) and starts to use it for selfish reasons. He then uses it to skip/fast-forward the boring and dull parts of his life. However, during these fast forwards, he has no control over his body, going through "autopilot" and defaulting to his most prominent parts of his personality without any of his compassion, and being unable to remember events that he skipped.
  • Despite this knowledge and a warning from Morty about using the remote this way, he continues to use it to get ahead of his job, later skipping to the day of his promotion a year later. However, during that one-year period, his relations with his wife got increasingly strained, his kids were growing older and distant, and his dog had died. Because he uses the remote a lot, it starts auto-skipping by itself based on his preferences. He regrets having to use the remote and has tried to get rid of it or destroy it, but can't do so no matter how hard he tries. Years worth of skips later, Michael had become the CEO of his firm, but at the cost of his declining health, his now-divorced wife, his children now having grown up into adulthood, and his father dying with Michael having missed his funeral. At Michael's father's grave, Morty apologized to Michael, saying that he didn't intend to take his father's soul and revealing to him that he's the the Angel of Death. Michael was enraged and frightened by this revelation, which made him fast-forward to a happier time, at his son's wedding.
  • Michael is relieved to have not missed his son's wedding, and he later shares a dance with his ex-wife. When he overhears his daughter refer to her stepdad as "Dad," the thought of being replaced stresses him out, causing him to have another heart attack. When Michael awakens at the hospital, a visiting Morty tells him that Michael is responsible for his own actions by having to skip out on his own personal life, long before he had met him. After he leaves, his kids visited him; her daughter clarifies that she views both Michael and her stepdad as her fathers, and his son tells him that he skipped his honeymoon to help fix issues with the firm. Fearing that his son will make the same mistakes, despite his weakened state, Michael tries to chase him down as he leaves the hospital. He suddenly collapses and dies, not before telling his son to put family first and reassuring him that he still loves his ex-wife and kids. Michael reawakens to the bed at the retail store, but despite thinking it was all a dream, he takes his dream to heart and chooses to spend more time with his family more. When the remote suddenly reappears in his kitchen (with a note from Morty saying he's given him a second chance because he knows he's going to do the right thing), without a second thought, Michael throws the remote in the trash, which doesn't reappear in his hand.
• Sometime after his crazy dream, Michael went to "Bed Bath and Beyond" again to shop for items for an upcoming family trip. As he lay on a bed out of exhaustion, when he noticed that the sign above the door where it used to read "Beyond" now reads as "Trope Pantheon". Curiously peaked him once again as he enters the door; he walked a very long hallway and at the end, as greeted to a fancy-looking brightly-lit courtroom with people he didn't recognize. Michael was in-awe until he caught the glimpse of a familiar face; it was Morty and Michael's face suddenly frowned in annoyance.
  Michael: Okay, what the heck are you doing here? And what is even is this place? The set to Law and Order?
  Morty: Well, obviously you've been summoned into a courtroom. After you threw my little gift away, a portal happens to open up in your trash can and fell into this strange joint. The "Trope Pantheon", a place where mortals from other worlds become gods and hang out or something. It caused all sorts of problems until the big guys [*points his thumb at the Court Council*] summoned me here. After everything got sorted out, they offered me to be a god of a so called "trope"; someone to represent Universal Remote Controls. But I said, nah, that doesn't seem like my thing. So, they instead chose someone else from our world as my replacement and that person happens to be you.
  Michael: Me, a god? What, like Zeus or something? You gotta be joking. There's gotta be another catch. Are you trying to pull one of those tricks to take me again?
  Morty: No tricks and I'm not the one calling the shots. I'm also give this back to you [*pulls out the universal remote*]. Like I said before, this item is non-returnable.
  Michael: Oh no, I'm not touching that thing again.
  Morty: Ah, don't worry about it. The original remote that you threw belongs to this dimension now and I decided to let them keep it. So, here's a new stock that just arrived. I made some modification since the last one that could come in handy one day.
  [*hands the new remote to Michael, it looks the same as the old one*]
  Michael: [*hesitantly grabs the remote*] Why, of all people, did they choose me then?
  Morty: 'Cause they thought you would be the right guy for the job.
  • Although still confused, Michael decided to take the court's offer upon Morty's advice. After the court gave Michael an overview of the perks of being a god, including being able to return to his home dimension with little time passing since he entered it, Michael decided to give being a god a shot. Before leaving the court, he also checks out the "mortifications" in the menu and settings; they include the ability to go to and from his home and The Pantheon, the ability to disable the auto-forward feature (so that it doesn't fast-forward without his permission), enable offscreen replay (so replay scenes he was not present for), and disable the "return to owner" function (so that the remote doesn't always return to him). Despite these added quality of life features, Michael is still a bit hesitant about using the remote and decides to use the remote for emergencies only. He still wonders why Morty and The Court thinks he's a good fit for being a god.
• One of the first things Morty advised Michael after gaining his godhood was that if he was going to survive the Pantheon, he'd need some allies. The architect was lucky enough to be invited by a wealthy moneylender named Ebenezer Scrooge, to a fancy dinner with his associates at his home in the Hall of Xmas and Yule, of all places. Michael assumed he was being invited to go to some architect-related business meeting, especially when he met the one who invited him, an old, no-nonsense curmudgeon. When Michael and Scrooge went to the dinner room, the old man dropped his cranky attitude, and his demeanor changed into a happier, more welcoming one.
  • Scrooge mentioned that when he heard of Michael's story, it reminded him of his time with The Ghosts of Christmas and how seeing his own past, present and future (especially his death) made him change his ways. He then decided it would be a great idea to host a welcome feast with a few of his allies and people he knows Michael can relate to. Bruce Nolan, George Bailey, and Rip Van Winkle, all got their lessons via supernatural means and became better people as a result. They got along well after hearing each other's stories. What stuck with Michael after hearing their stories was how each of them had taken for granted the life they already had, and it took seeing the consequences of missing or ignoring their loved ones when they finally decided to change themselves for the better.
• After learning that he wasn't the first person to have ever used a reality-warping remote, Michael became curious and sought out other remote users to learn some tips on how to responsibly use the remote from their experience. To his surprise, he learned that some of them are children, a little older than his son Ben. One child he met was the fairy godchild Timmy, who wished to have a remote for himself to escape to TVLand, all because he wanted to escape his terrible home life and prevent himself from growing up (as he would lose his beloved fairies after he turned 18). His two remotes were able to control the realities of both TVLand and the Real World (although he doesn't have them anymore, as he wishes them away). His advise to Michael is to never let a certain babysitter named Vicky get a hold of his remote, as she could use it for her own evil needs (and don't ever let her babysit his kids either). Michael noted the advise; in addition, hearing Timmy's story makes him feel more motivated to not be a neglectful parent like Timmy's parents were.
  • Another child he met was a Japanese boy named Nobita and his robotic cat buddy Doraemon; the latter gave his futuristic remote to the former to help him out with his homework, but the kid ended up using the remote to play pranks on his bullies and take a peek at his crush. Doraemon's remote works similarly to Michael's, except that it can only target a few people (rather than everyone), and its beams can be reflected by Doraemon's mirror. Given that Nobita used the remote irresponsibly and that he didn't want the kid to make the same mistakes he did, Michael told Nobita about his story as a cautionary tale about abusing the remote's power. Nobita, after imagining using Michael's remote in the future and how it would affect his childhood crush (and future wife) Shizuka, starts to worry about ever using any reality-warping remotes and takes Michael's advice.
  • He's also heard the remote stories from other deities. For The Pink Panther, he got his Universal Remote delivered to him after he broke his normal TV remote. His new remote doesn't work on TV but works on everything else, but the Panther couldn't figure out what his remote button does as it keeps controlling random things, so he just ended up using it to refill his glass of water. The Panther still has his remote and once requested that Michael do something about the Panther's remote to make it slightly useful again, to which the architect said that he couldn't. For Dennis the Menace, his friend PeeBee invented a Time Tuner, which also acts similarly to Nobita's limited target remote, but it broke down after overuse. Given Dennis's reputation as a trickster, he would not allow the little twerp to have his remote pull some tricks again.
  • For Gumball Watterson, his first reaction to seeing Michael and the remote while the two were visiting the Great Treasury, was to smack the remote out of his hands and trying to stomp it on the ground. The remote doesn't break, fortunately, and Gumball, once realizing his actions, apologized to a confused Michael, as the blue cat didn't understand why he instinctively did that. The architect learned earlier (while looking into remote-related stories) that someone with a universal remote once tried to ruin Gumball's life (as retribution for perceiving that Gumball ruined his life first). Gumball put a stop to his plan, and his nemesis undid all the changes (and made Gumball and his family forget) after his enemy had a change of heart. Michael tried to tell the cat what happened to help ease his mind, but Gumball tells him to ignore the whole incident, as he has a feeling he is not supposed to know that information at all.
• During one of his fast-forwards, Michael became morbidly obese since he couldn't control his overeating during autopilot mode. He also developed cancer and had at least two heart attacks. Having learned his lesson, Michael became more health-conscious, ditched junk food, started to eat healthier, and started going to the gym. He also visits the House of Health and Diseases for regular check-ups.
  • One day, Michael was suddenly morbidly obese again, not unlike back in his alternative timeline in 2017. It got him really annoyed and worried until he was informed that he was just switching forms (a common Pantheon quirk) rather than foretelling his future again. Michael is still annoyed by this information and decides to book for a liposuction appointment at one of the available clinics in this realm. During one of these appointments, he met Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson, who also happened to be waiting for their appointment for unrelated reasons. They got surprised along as they talked about having to be a better father while also being not perfect people. Michael and Peter got along better due to their similar crude humor.
• As much as Morty annoys him sometimes, he does admit that the death angel did him a huge favor to help him become a better person for his family. Due to that, Michael appointed Morty as one of his heralds. Since Morty visited the Pantheon first, the death angel acted as a guide for Michael. Morty also has Michael meet some "co-workers" (i.e., other grim reapers) in the House of Death and Postmortem as they are casually hanging out together when off duty. While Michael realizes that Morty was only looking out for his wellbeing and the other Death Gods are pretty chill as well (provided he didn't use the remote to cheat dying), the architect still feels uneasy about the whole thing given his previous experiences regrading death.
• After hearing news about a newly ascended remote, the heroic Teen Titans visited Michael to make sure he wasn't like their old enemy Control Freak, another reality-warping remote user. Their meeting went well, as Michael expressed has no intentions to use the remote for crime or other selfish reasons. The Titans warned the architect about Control Freak's crimes, and Michael promised them he would not make him his high priest. Speaking of superheroes, Michael recently got acquainted with John Stewart, one of the Green Lanterns from Earth and a fellow architect. Michael reaches out to John as he is interested in seeing an architect who became a superhero, and John obliges to meet him after learning about him from the Titans. Despite Michael's slight jealousy of John's ring (which allows him to do complex light constructs), he doesn't have any intentions to join him and become a superhero using the remote. John understands his decision, as the Green Lantern mentions that being a hero is also a time-consuming commitment, and he advise Michael to just stick with being more committed to his family.
• Despite being one of the few ascended architects in the Pantheon, Michael has wisely decided to use the Pantheon as a vacation spot sometime after his stay, as he didn't want to have to do more architect work on top of having his title. He's still trying to manage his Pantheon life, his work life, and his family life. Although he is aware that staying in the Pantheon doesn't take too much time away from his time in the moral realm, he feels guilty about not being with his family in the Pantheon, unlike his previous timeline where he just ignored them. This led to his decision to have to tell his family about the remote, his godhood and everything that happened to him. At first, predictably, they thought he was being crazy. It wasn't until Michael told his family to hold his hand and pressed the button, taking them into his temple and various places in the Pantheon, did they believe his story. Michael was successful in making his family his heralds, and now they get to use the Pantheon as an alternative vacation hub as well. For example, since his kids love Dragon Tales, Michael decides to have his kids meet other friendly dragon deities in the Pantheon.
• Due to his experiences with his overbearing boss, he despises other evil bosses in the Pantheon. He thankfully doesn't have to deal with having an overbearing client due to this decision to not take his work life in the Pantheon. As a father who, while not perfect, tries to be a better father after his adventures with the remote, also despises various abusive or neglectful parents in the Pantheon. He also pities neglected children, like Maisie Farange, but is thankful that she eventually has a stable parental figure in her life.
• If Michael had a nickel for every serial killer that comes to his temple, he would have three nickels (which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice). It started when two men in white clothes, who introduced themselves as Paul and Peter, knocked on his temple, asking for some eggs. His wife, Donna (who was at his temple at the time), was kind enough to help them out. Donna checked the fridge, found out they had no more eggs there, apologized, and asked them to come back later. When they couldn't leave, that's when Michael arrived, and the three got into a ruckus, which turned into a physical fight. The two almost have the upper hand, and nearly used their own remote (which rewinds time should they lose). But they didn't know that Michael had his own remote with him, and he paused the two in the nick of time. They were then kicked out of his temple, but not before beating the shit out of them while in pause mode.
  • The second time was when an engineer named Jack decided to visit his temple and came to him for some advise from a successful architect, as he himself was an aspiring architect. In reality, it was actually a rouse to eventually kill Michael like he would his previous victims (on top of actually looking for advise to build his perfect house). But due to his encounter with Paul and Peter, Michael decided to use the remote to do a background check on Jack, eventually discovering who he actually is, prompting Michael to kick Jack out of his temple as well.
• The two incidents nearly made Michael quit, as he feared for his own safety and the safety of his family in the Pantheon. He thought about what was his purpose in staying in the Pantheon. He then thought about the people he has met and all the people who were touched whenever he told his story—about how it made them appreciate their own lives and families too, and how it made them responsible for the powers that were given to them. Likewise, he was also thankful that the experiences with the remote turned him into a better person and that he didn't try to use it to be the most powerful being in the pantheon, something other evil deities had desired. So, maybe he has a purpose after all. Plus, Morty is right again, that the remote did come in handy this time. Michael continues to only use it only if his life or his family's lives are in danger.
• Once bumped into the Nostalgia Critic while walking around the temples. He has reviewed his movie and is sympathetic to Michael's story, but he is also rude to him, as he sees him as the actor he bears resembles to whom he's annoyed at for his acting choices and crude humor, rather than his own person. Michael doesn't understand why the Critic doesn't like him that much. His casual meeting with Hotel Transylvania's Dracula went a lot better, given that this Dracula doesn't hate humans anymore. They are more amicable as they talk about their respective stories about dealing with fatherhood. They do find it is strange they sound alike thought.
• Recently rescued a young boy named Seth Gold, who was trapped in a black void. Like the others, he too once used a Universal Remote and abused its power for himself. Unfortunately, after his remote malfunctioned, lost its charge, and he accidentally pressed the 'Off' button, his whole world disappeared, and he has been stuck in the black void ever since. Due to his age, Michael pities him and wants him to be returned to his family. However, Michael learned that, as a karmic punishment for his actions, Seth can no longer return to his own world. Due to his circumstances, Seth was appointed as Michael's high priest and is currently being trained in using his own remote properly (after changing its battery, of course), hoping that he would one day become responsible enough to take Michael's title as the architect planned to retire as a God someday. Unfortunately, it's going to take a while before that happens, as Seth has not learned his lesson, causing Michael to have several headaches during their mentorship in the meantime.

"Family... Family... Family comes first."

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