Basic Trope: A god adapts their role to the modern day.
- Straight: Umeme, the East African god of lightning, used to torch rain forests, trees, and living beings for fun. In modern day, he is less crazy and regulates over all the electrical technology in the world.
- Exaggerated: Umeme can control anything related to electricity, including power plants and electromagnets. Technically this includes the air itself...
- Downplayed:
- Umeme has very little control over electrical technology.
- Umeme is a demigod that learned to change with the times
- Umeme hasn't learned much from zapping people back during the age of Egypt.
- Justified: Gods Need Prayer Badly, so it's only natural for Umeme to provide blessings that are relevant to his followers' needs as their culture inevitably changes and evolves.
- Inverted: Bob, the American god of electricity, used to be a tech-savvy god who teaches humans the art of telecommunication. Now he has gone native and becomes a Mad God who would torch cities and trees for fun, life be damned.
- Subverted: Umeme is first seen commanding the Ugandan military in a modern fashion, before making a childish snap decision to just electrocute the battlefield, his own soldiers included.
- Double Subverted: ...Turns out this was a protocol made by Umeme where these men would lay down focused panels to prevent his attack from short-circuiting all of Uganda before he let out a weak wave to incapacitate enemy soldiers and only kill their commanders.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Umeme only has control over a certain technology.
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: As the franchise went on, a desire for quality and "Integrity" grew. The producers realized having a toga-clad African thunder god running around in a photo-realistic Urban Fantasy setting wouldn't cut it and demanded Umeme be removed or changed.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: The writers wanted to create a unique interpretation of Umeme.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Umeme is a traditionalist who makes an effort to remain as he's always been.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: A power plant has a shrine to Umeme and people offer a prayer to it every day.
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