Basic Trope: In the moment of hero's greatest need, a god intervenes to help.
- Straight: When he's about to be killed by a firing squad, Bob is saved by the voice from heavens, ordering the executioners to stop.
- Exaggerated: The god personally arrives on Earth and banishes the firing squad, then makes Bob the ruler of the entire world.
- Downplayed: After the firing squad shoots, it turns out that somehow, none of the bullets scored a killing hit. The squad subscribes it to God's will and lets Bob go scot-free.
- Justified:
- Bob is about to be sent on a Mission from God and so he must live.
- Bob is the god's child and the god, as a good parent, wants him to live.
- Bob is so faithful, it impressed the god enough to save him.
- Inverted:
- It's the devil who saves Bob.
- It's Bob who saves the god at the last moment.
- God orders the firing squad to execute Bob.
- Subverted: It seem that it was the god who spoke from heavens, but later it turns out it was Bob's sidekick Alice, who used helicopter and loudspeakers to fool the pre-industrial-age firing people.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice turns out to be a god.
- Alice got to Bob in time by what she describes as God's miracle.
- Parodied: The god intervenes to help Bob get a sandwich.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob is rescued from firing squad by who he thinks is God, but it turns out to be Alice, who claims that she managed to rescue him thanks to God's intervention. Only the "god" turns out to be the devil and the real god didn't intervene. Then the god intervenes and has Bob killed, as Bob was the bad guy in this scenario.
- Averted:
- God's Hands Are Tied
- Bob's universe has no deities.
- Enforced: The author is pressed for time and has no idea how to get out of the corner he got himself in, so he saves Bob by God's hand.
- Lampshaded: "The god himself has saved you!"
- Invoked: God sets up the stage for his Big Damn Heroes to rekindle people's faiths in him.
- Exploited: Bob uses the fact that he was saved by god to gain more followers for his La Résistance.
- Defied: The devil captures the god's attention for the time it takes the firing squad to kill Bob.
- Discussed: "Nothing Can Save Us Now!" "Well, an act of god could..."
- Conversed: "Oh, come on, he's just about to be saved by that god he keeps on talking about, isn't he?"
- Deconstructed: Because God is always getting Bob out of dangerous situations, Bob no longer feels the need to further his own abilities.
- Reconstructed: Bob learns how God acts and figures out how to mimic him.
- Implied: The execution scene isn't shown, but Bob walks out of prison unscathed and becomes a more religious person following that day.
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