Is it possible to kill god

Death claims he will reap God at the end of time. Death does dispute this by calling him a "mutated angel", but right before he's about to take him, Castiel solves the stand-off by freeing Death.

The Winchesters have killed a number of pagan gods, including a Vanir. In the Season 10 finale Dean kills Death with his own scythe. The Winchesters spend most of season 11 trying to figure out how to kill Amara, who is God's sister and His equal in power.

And during one attempt near the end of the season, Amara almost kills God. Since they're actually primordial entities predating creation, either of them being killed would have some dire consequences to the universe at large.

In the season 14 finale, God creates a special gun, "the Equalizer", which he claims has enough power to kill an increasingly deranged Jack, the half-angel son of Lucifer. When God's own manipulations come to light and He opts to smite Jack personally when Dean refuses, Sam picks up the gun in a desperate attempt to kill God. It seemingly has no effect, but the next season shows that it did damage Him, as it ties his essence to that of Sam and traps him in one universe.

He eventually manages to repair himself after pushing Sam over the Despair Event Horizon. In season 15, it transpires that Death is planning to kill God after he truly goes off the deep end. She thinks that Jack could potentially become powerful enough to actually succeed, especially since God has an Achilles' Heel : in order to create the universe, he had to write himself into its make-up, which also made him mortal.

The brothers still worry whether killing him with Amara still around could throw reality out of whack. If they do go through with it, they'll both have to go. Ultimately, after Death is revealed to have been playing them and is taken off the board herself, Jack manages to steal all of God's powers and leave him trapped as a God in Human Form , doomed to die of old age someday.

The third act of Fireaxe 's epic four hour metal album Food for the Gods centers around Satan leading an army of demons and damned in a full-on assault of Heaven with this goal. And it works! Sort of. Aviators 's album Godhunter. At the end of the world, the immortal ruler of the last city on earth sits on his throne, awaiting the Godhunter who will put an end to his eternal reign. When you see the hunter coming Then you hide or keep on running Cause she's slain the gods before.

Mythology and Religion. From the same source, this act was subverted three days after its commission. His sister put him back together. In Greek Mythology , the Ophiotaurus was said to grant the power to defeat the gods to anyone who burned its entrails.

The Titans managed to kill it, but Zeus sent an eagle to snatch its entrails before they could be burned. In Pacific Mythology , the prophet Lanikaula defeated and killed the Pahulu, gods of sorcery that used to dwell on the island of Moloka'i. In Japanese Mythology , the goddess Izanami died by giving birth to a god of fire. Her husband, Izanagi, killed the child Kagutsuchi out of grief.

After her death, Izanami fell into the underworld and became a zombie goddess. The Kojiki also has cases where mythical Japanese emperors fought and killed the 'gods of the earth', probably allusion to the pacification of rival tribes. However, the emperors themselves were descended from Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess of the Heaven, so these are probably cases of takes one to kill one.

Norse Mythology : Balder is killed by an arrow or spear through the heart shot by Hodr, but he was set up by Loki. He knew Balder's only weakness: mistletoe. In Gesta Danorum 's version, Baldr dies via a sword called mistletoe. In Odinani religion, every god except for the Superior one who is the origin of all things, only exists to serve a specific purpose.

One that purpose has been fulfilled they die. In this case "killing" them would be a good thing, as it means you are becoming more self sufficient. Two of the most important characters in Navaho mythology are twin miracle-performing sons of White-Shell Woman, Yolkai Estsan, chief goddess, named Nayenezgani whose name literally means Slayer of Alien Gods and Tobadzischini who killed numerous divine bird, animal, rock, and human monsters, typifying evils, that wantonly destroyed human life.

Tabletop Games. It's actually possible to do this in Call of Cthulhu , but it's very difficult to do so. One method involves summoning the God without his consent, which pisses it off but temporarily weakens it enough to be killed by extreme means. Case in point: Old Man Henderson summoning Hastur which was possible because Henderson was his greatest enemy at the time and then detonating "enough explosives wired to make Michael Bay blush".

Module Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits. If they did so her spider ship would cease to exist, but they would be saved and returned to the Prime Material Plane by their deities. Deities could only be killed by a more powerful deity or any deity using an artifact. Mortals could never kill a deity. Deities sometimes created avatars lesser versions of themselves to act on the Prime Material Plane.

Avatars could be destroyed by mortals. She then killed everyone who worshipped him, razed his temple and destroyed all written lore about him and mazed anyone who thereafter joined his faith, leaving only one priest alive perhaps as a reminder.

The priest? Was one of her own servants who turned from her to worship Aoskar, which is what kicked off her deicidal fit. She bars all gods from Sigil now, though Aoskar was really the only exception in the past anyway. In the Dead Gods module for Planescape , the demon prince Orcus, after being slain by the drow demigoddess Kiaransalee, somehow returned as an undead demon prince under the name Tenebrous.

Worse, he learned the Last Word, an utterance capable of slaying deities, and used it on Primus, god of the modrons, and the illithid deity Maanzecorian. A group of adventurers was able to use the power of the Last Word against Tenebrous, after which a group of greater deities nullified the Last Word's power. The Vasharan, an Always Evil Human Subspecies introduced in the Book of Vile Darkness , are the descendents of mankind's Psycho Prototype , who upon being created by the deities almost immediately turned around and tried to murder them.

Since the Vasharan are utterly amoral sociopaths, their desire to find a way to kill the gods is the only thing that holds their society together.

Killing gods were a fairly trivial task although it's rarely easy in 3. Exalted is full of exaggeration , and this trope is no exception.

You can trivially kill the vast majority of gods right out of chargen. And not only you can kill typical day-to-day house-spirit gods, you can also kill the Incarnae, who are the big bosses of the gods. And ultimately you can kill the Primordials , who are the gods of the gods.

In fact, that last one was the very reason why the Exalted were created. But only because God is Dead. In Magic: The Gathering , It is possible to deal with the indestructible gods of Theros by exiling them in one way or another.

In a more flavorful example, Deicide whose art is the current trope image is a card in Journey into Nyx that exiles an enchantment, where if you choose to exile an opponent's god, all other copies of that god in your opponent's hand, deck, and graveyard also get exiled.

Storywise, this is exactly what Elspeth does to the recently ascended Xenagos. A fun fact: While this works on Therosian gods, it doesn't on Amonkhetu gods, since those gods are simply indestructible creatures, not enchantment creatures like their counterparts on Theros.

It's still very possible to kill them via other means, however. This is how the gods of Amonkhet meet their end once Nicol Bolas' endgame for the plane is set in motion.

He corrupted one of the brother gods by brainwashing him and replacing his head with a giant scorpion and then unleashed him against them. Even the gods are not immune to The Scorpion God's venom. Nicol Bolas also kills Bontu directly by blasting her with a necrotic spell. He also planned on doing this with the Chaos Gods themselves, but their power and circumstance foiled Nagash's plans Warhammer 40, : When Slaanesh was born, he made straight for the Eldar pantheon and easily slaughtered all of them save for three.

Isha, the goddess of healing, was saved by Nurgle although given he's a Chaos god of disease who is physically repulsive in the worst possible way, madly in love with her and shows his affection by infecting her with disease, her current situation is arguably worse than death , Cegorach got away , and Khaine tried to fight him, either got his ass kicked or held his own until Chaos God Khorne arrived and knocked him out of the way so he could get a shot at Slaanesh, literally getting shattered into pieces , and now survives as a fragment in the heart of every one of the Eldar's craftworlds.

Yes, Nurgle does the whole 'infection' thing with Isha The C'Tan, the "gods" of the Necrons, were almost wiped out by their former followers and several of their own, resulting in the last surviving C'Tan being broken into "shards". In the previous edition when the Necrons were still slaves to the C'tan, this was their ultimate goal: killing all life in the galaxy means no more emotion, meaning no more Warp, and therefore no more Chaos gods.

Although the exact details are hard to pin down , perhaps deliberately , this was the unstated goals of the Emperor at the beginning of his secular Imperium with his doctrine of his secular "Imperial Truth". Ironically, it was a lie, albeit well-intentioned, but still a lie. The Emperor had at least a middling knowledge of Chaos and the Chaos Gods, and hoped to quench them out by using this doctrine to ruthlessly suppress religious worship, particularly of the Chaos Gods and possibly to prevent new gods bring born from the faith of believers.

What he didn't count on was that the Chaos Gods could thrive on actions and feelings as well, nor would they be powerful enough and willing to meddle in material affairs to split his Imperium and bring him to death's door. Nearly ten millennia of cruising on the momentum of his initial crusade through the galaxy, without the Emperor's guidance, his Imperium has become a theocratic, dark parody of his vision.

And the greatest irony of all is that the downfall was all started by his son Lorgar, who worshiped the Emperor as a god and inspired countless others to do the same, but Lorgar's rebuke by the Emperor made him turn to his people's old gods, the Chaos Gods, letting Chaos get its foot in the door and bring about the current state of affairs.

Mythender is about people who have somehow gotten the power to kill gods and godlike monsters and are on a quest to rid the world of the whole lot of them. Video Games. Arc Rise Fantasia has the main characters kill the god of their world.

Unlike the other examples however, God is most definitely NOT evil , but saving the world means that either they kill her, or she just disappears. Asura's Wrath has this as well. The Seven Deities started out as Magitek Cyborg members of a race known as "Demigods" — a Human Subspecies that is descended from humans who underwent Bio-Augmentation to manipulate Mantra , an ambient Power Source for the setting's Functional Magic , Ki Attacks , and Magitek — who decided to elevate themselves to full-on godhood by assassinating the emperor and pinning the murder on Asura, then kidnapping his daughter because of her unique ability at controlling Mantra.

Asura is betrayed, his wife is murdered, and he is killed. He comes back , and he is pissed. Elevated to really ridiculous levels with Asura killing Chakravartin, a being that's not only the source of Mantra, and the embodiment of the Wheel of life and Samsara, but also is stated to have been the creator of the universe itself.

In the Bayonetta series, the titular angel-slaying witch manages this feat, with some assistance. Twice, in fact. Each is the Final Boss ; Jubileus of the first game, Aesir of the second. BlazBlue : Ragna finally gets to kill Terumi who turns out to have been none other than Takehaya Susanoo during the climactic fight of Central Fiction. After being free of its influence, Shu Shirakawa in Dark Prison has one thing in mind: kill the god who bound him in the first place.

Surprisingly enough, killing said god was only a Disc-One Final Boss. In Dark Souls , you end up killing all of the deities save for the Furtive Pygmy mentioned in the opening cutscene. Granted, most of them are in pretty bad shape by the time you actually meet them. A few of the other bosses are minor gods as well, but they can be killed like any other enemy in the game. It helps that you're toting a chunk of the Dark Soul around, being a descendant of the Pygmy. That title isn't just for show either — he's eaten at least one god namely Gwyndolin.

The Ashen One also becomes a god-slayer over the course of the game. The Nameless King is one of the last deities left in the world being the firstborn son of Gwyn whose identity was stricken from history as punishment for his betrayal , and he's a Bonus Boss that can be fought and killed like any other enemy.

The final boss is the Soul of Cinder: the embodiment of all those who Linked the Fire, including Gwyn himself. It is essentially the First Flame incarnate. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider has this as the premise in its title.

It features a quest for Billie Lurk, reteamed with Daud, to find the artifacts that could kill the God of the Void. Being Dishonored , there's also an option to simply remove the Outsider as a god and make him a mortal once more. This is the purpose of the strategy games Dominions , currently in its fifth incarnation.

You control a nation with a lesser physical god, be it a Titan, a Vampire Queen, or a Stone Monolith, as a playable unit. The goal is to eliminate all other gods and enforce monotheism, your theism.

However, killing the physical form of the god is not permanent, belief will bring them back. Instead, the only way to truly kill a god is to get rid of its followers, whether through conquest or starvation. This is not a new problem. It stretches all the way back to Adam and Eve. Even in His holiness, God is compassionate. He does not want us to meet our deserved fate. He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross to pay the penalty for that sin.

Jesus experienced death and separation from God, on our behalf, even though He was perfect. So even in the sorrow you feel right now, you can look forward with hope to the fulfillment of this plan. This involves agreeing that you disobey God and that you need Christ to die in your place to save you from experiencing the full penalty of your sin eternal punishment and separation from God.

Right about now, you may feel a bit beat up or perhaps offended that God views you as a sinner. We get that. Think about it:. Your eternal destiny is at stake. If you have never confessed your need for a savior, you can do it now by praying something like this:. I am grieving, and I need Your help. I know that I am a sinner and that my sin has separated me from You. But I believe that You experienced the punishment that should have been mine by dying on the cross for my sins.

I believe You rose from the dead so I could have the hope of living forever with You instead of spending eternity separated from You. Thank you for enduring the grief and the pain to show Your love for me.

I place my trust in You to help me heal. If you invited Christ into your life, many things have changed. Look at some of the remarkable and comforting things that have occurred:. Your suffering only makes sense in the context of that story. You have a relationship with the God of all comfort: Believing in Christ for the forgiveness of sins and the promise of eternal life in Him is essential to your healing.

It allows you to have a personal relationship with the God of all comfort. God loved you enough to go through the death of His Son for you. For killing the god already. You were still expecting the recipe? Can Mamata go national? Successful coalitions at the Centre have been usually headed by leaders with weak power bases. Is a green Diwali possible? Ultra right and wrong: Women in India face a new threat to their freedom of choice. Nehru, Iqbal, cricket and the question of Muslim identity.

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