Archetype:Anti-God

"I howl through many mouths. I break with many hands. They are themselves, but they are also me. I have all the power you give me and my weapon is hate."

― The One-Below-All (Marvel Comics)

"In my dream, the world had suffered a terrible disaster. A black haze shut out the sun, and the darkness was alive with the moans and screams of wounded people. Suddenly, a small light glowed. A candle flickered into life, symbol of hope for millions. A single tiny candle, shining in the ugly dark. I laughed and blew it out."

― Joker (DC Comics)

"Violent passion, for a fraudulent god who gave a vicious curse."

― The Enigma TNG - God Complex

"He's like the devil, isn't he?"
"No, he's worse."

― Jake Chambers and Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

"You cannot save yourself from me. I am as inevitable as destiny."

― Unicron (Transformers)

The archetype for the characters that possess or have traits of the Anti-God. Variation of Transcendent Physiology. Form/Expression of Omnipotence. Ultimate version of Destroyer, Evil and Malevolent Deity. Opposite of Monotheistic Deity.

Also Called[]

The Anti-God
Dark/Anti-Supreme Being
The Dark Side of God (Varies)
The Evil of God (Varies)
Primordial Deity/God/Goddess of Evil, Chaos, Death, Destruction, Terror, Horrors, Darkness, The Abyss, The Void and The Apocalypse (Varies, not always)
Primordial Evil/Void (Varies)
Primordial/Original/True Anti-God
The Opposite/Counter to God
The Shadow of God/Yahweh (Varies)
The Supreme/Primordial/Great Darkness
Supreme Chaos/Dark/Evil God (Varies)
Ultimate/Supreme Annihilator/Degenerator/Destroyer/Evil/Malevolence (Varies)

Properties[]

As an archetype, the Anti-God represents the counterpart and/or sometimes the dark aspects of The Supreme Being. They are considered the essence of all evil, darkness, and chaos in all of existence though not always. As the ultimate destroyer, they are ranked among the most powerful beings.

Anti-gods are beings of unlimited power giving them the ability to destroy entire universes; in some cases, even compared to the supreme creator, a clash between them could cause the multiverse to be destroyed and recreated. Anti-Gods represent and are the prime originators of all that counters creation, giving it absolute domain over dark powers.

Universal Differences[]

Anti-gods are vital to the balance of the cosmos as they represent the other side of the coin in the perpetual conflict between good and evil.
As there is only one Supreme God, there can only be one Anti-God.
- Although due to inconsistency of fiction and the fact there isn't a clear hierarchy of the most powerful beings, there can be multiple candidates for Anti-God and this status would move between them in every specific story and case.
Some are not villains but destructive aspects or forces vital that are charged to bring the universe to an end.
The Anti-God is not to be confused for a demon but is the originator of all dark forces and everything related to it.
Though they existed before the universe itself their origin can be originated from 3 sources:
- They may be split or purged aspects of God's dark attributes (ex. Tathamet from Diablo).
- Twin or counter aspects of God (ex. Angra Mainyu from Zoroastrianism).
- Primordial form of existence which existed before creation (ex. The Great Darkness from DC Comics).
Whereas God plays the role of "Creator", the Anti-God plays the role of "Destroyer".

Applications (General)[]

Applications (Detail)[]

All Absolute Powers
All Almighty Powers
All Apocalyptic Powers
All Chaotic Powers
All Dark Powers
All Death Powers
All Demonic Powers
All Destructive Powers
All Divine Powers
All Evil Powers
All Horror Powers
All Infinite Powers
All Meta Powers
All Omnipotence Derivatives
All Omni powers
All Primordial Powers
All Spiritual Powers
All Supernatural Powers
All Transcendent Powers
All Void Powers
0th Dimension/Pan-Dimensional: Easily able to find occupancy from the infinite dimensional planes.
Absolute Death Manipulation: Anti-gods can make any death they choose permanent with no chance of resurrection or reincarnation.
Absolute Destruction: Can destroy anything and everything without a thought.
Absolute Erasure: Anti-gods can deplete anything and everything they focus upon, even without actually concentrating on it.
Absolute Invincibility: As the dark counterpart to the Supreme Being, they are completely and utterly impossible to defeat.
Absolute Spirituality: The user has an omnipotent spiritual nature just like the Supreme Being.
Absolute Transcendence: The user is far beyond any and all limitations that apply to them and is fully independent of them
Autopotence: The user can control their own existence, as well as everyone and everything's existence, without any limit.
- Causa Sui: As the dark counterpart to the Supreme Being, the user can self-create one's own being.
- Gender Transcendence: As the dark counterpart to the Supreme Being of Creation they transcend the notion of genders.
- Non-Created Physiology: As the dark counterpart to the Supreme Being, users didn't just merely create themselves into existence because they were always there.
- Relative Appearance Alteration: As the dark counterpart to the Supreme Being, user can alter their form to conform to another's perception of what one would look like according to their personal ideology.
Calamity Embodiment: User of this power can embody calamity, the concept of the damaging disastrous event. The user can even cause damage on a cataclysmic level which may be considered an act of misfortune.
- Chaos Embodiment: User is chaos itself in a physical form. They are thus unpredictable and uncontrollable and can cause others to become disorderly and disorganized.
- Conclusion Embodiment: User becomes the physical manifestation or personification of conclusions/endings. This means that they can decide how and when anything/everything ends, since all things have an ending whether its games, stories, people, gods, worlds and even universes.
- Destruction Embodiment: The user is a physical manifestation or personification of destruction.
  - Destructive Source: To simply put, the user is the ultimate source of destruction.
- Inevitability Embodiment: user is the embodiment of inevitability - things that are constant and/or unchangeable.
- Oblivion Embodiment (Varies): Users embody oblivion and ignorance, the lack of knowledge or awareness. At the most fundamental level, users would possess key physical characteristics and/or personality traits related to the concept they're personifying.
- Void Embodiment: Users embody void, nothingness and nonexistence.
Complete Arsenal: The user possesses every type of Power & Ability there is.
Conceptual Self-Removal: Able to erase and reformulate itself on a whim.
Cosmic Destroyer: be a being that can cause the destruction of all on a cosmic scale.
Existential Distinction: Anti-gods are completely distinct and foreign from everything as they are not part of the supreme being's design.
- Omnilock: The Anti-God, like the Supreme being, are outside of everything.
Dark/Demonic/Supreme Divinity: Anti-gods possess divine powers of dark and demonic nature and origin on an absolute level and tends to be the source of them.
Darkness Derivation: Whereas the Supreme Being is the source of all light, The Anti-God is the source of the all darkness.
Demonic Force Manipulation
Divine Tyrant
- Absolute Domination
Duality Embodiment (Varies): As the twin to its light self, the Anti-God can embody both the myriad diversity proponents of the broadband spectrum.
Eldritch Abomination: Being incredibly primeval beings their true forms can and often are incomprehensible to understand.
Flawless Indestructibility: An Anti-God has no weaknesses. (Varies)
Form Transcendence: Being a shapeless entity, they have no true face so to speak and therefore can act through most any proxy they wish.
- Formlessness: The Anti-God lacks a semblance of their own and can be anything, anywhere or anyone desired.
Khaos: They are sometimes the primordial void or and chaotic force that existed before all that there was, even sometimes existing before the The Almighty God did. (Varies)
Life and Death Transcendence: The user is beyond concepts of life and death.
- Absolute Immortality: The user has total, absolute immortality.
Master of All
Nonexistent Realm Creation: Anti-divine beings tend to occupy realms of pure void outside all creation.
Negative Forces Manipulation: Representing all forms of negativity in all of existence.
Omni Corruption Inducement: They're very existence breeds ultimate taint and befoulment.
Omni-Cycle Manipulation: Able to deliberate the endless/infinite series of ongoings and finalities.
Omnislayer: Being the ultimate destroyer who can eviscerate anything.
Omni-Manipulation: The user can control everything on the inside and outside the omniverse.
- Absolute Force Manipulation: Users can create, manipulate and shape force in all its forms, whether physical, transcendent, natural, spiritual, supernatural, mental, cosmic, etc. i.e. all the absolute forces that make up the flow and nature of existence.
  - Apocalyptic Force Manipulation: The Anti-God is the true source of the final force that cause all of existence to end. By killing the Supreme Being. If the Anti-God dies so does the Supreme Being, making it all things come to an end.
Opposites Embodiment: Depending on the nature of its counterpart, the Anti-God can be either malevolent or benevolent possibly even neutral.
- Morality Transcendence: Being as powerful as the supreme being, the Anti-God is beyond good and evil.
- Omnimalevolence (Varies): Often being depicted as the supreme deity of all evil.
Origin Manipulation: As an all-powerful entity older than conceptual meaning, the Anti-God sits at the beginning of all.
- Eternal Existence: The Anti-God has no real beginning nor end much less a creator. They came to be on their own accord.
- Primordial Entity: Stands to be a dark primordial entity that has existed before the beginning of time.
- Self Origin Manipulation: Able to write and re-write its own dawning into being by nothing but its own doctrine.
Primordial Chaos Manipulation: Representing the oldest form of anachronic discontent since before eternities beginning.
Primordial Darkness Manipulation: Personifying the primal darkness that preceded the light.
Primordial Nothingness Manipulation: Anti-gods took up the primal void which long predated existence.
Qliphoth Empowerment (Varies)
Singularity: The Anti-God is entirely and utterly unique in its entirety, there are no others like he/she/it in totality.
- Singular Reality Existence: While everywhere and nowhere at the same time the Supreme Void has no doppelgängers of it.

Tetralogy: Can corrupt and manipulate various parts of existence.
Transcendent Physiology: As one of the strongest kinds of deities, the user’s physiology is well into the transcendent levels, possessing an absolute level condition and possibly even a state of absolute flawless.
- Primordial Demon/Transcendent Demon Physiology (Varies): Many Anti-gods stand to be an ancient demonic entity older than the concept of hell and inferno itself.
- Primordial Deity: The user may be a deity that is far older than, even to the most ancient deities.
  - Demon Deity (Varies): Some Anti-gods tend to be both divine and demonic entities.
- Transcendent Cosmic Entity Physiology: A powerful cosmic based being via transcending all dimensions
  - Beyond-Dimensional Physiology: They are beyond everything and anything both in and out of creation.
  - Cosmic Deity: An ancient cosmic being of divine status.
  - Higher-Dimensional Abomination: They are beyond all spatial dimensions.
  - Transcendent Deity: The user is or possesses the properties of a transcendent god, an entity whose power totally surpasses the capabilities of all other deities.
    - Supreme Deity: The user is a god greater than any other and is unrivaled by any other except the user’s light counterpart.
      - Old God: The user is an ancient deity from before time.
  - Unity (Varies): As the dark counterpart to the Supreme Being, the Anti-God is one-with-all that is sustaining in the omniverse.
    - Totality Embodiment (Varies): As the dark counterpart to the Supreme Being, the Anti-God embodies all that is sustaining in the omniverse.
      - Eternity Embodiment: The user represents the concepts of endlessness and beginninglessness, having no beginning nor end, allowing them to control what is regarded as without end/endless (infinite) and without beginning.
      - Infinity Embodiment: The user becomes a physical manifestation or personification of infinity, granting them absolute control over all kinds of boundless aspects/infinitude.
Universal Principle Manipulation: Void beings can govern or portray cosmological precept changing the nature of metaphysical space and time.
- Omega Reality: Often sitting at the ultimate end of all there is at the end of reality

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Example Characters[]

See Also: The Anti-God.

Cartoons/Comics

Decreator (DC Comics)
The Great Darkness/Great Evil Beast (DC Comics)
Oblivion (Marvel Comics)
Anti-Fish (Earthworm Jim)
The One Below All (Marvel Comics)
The Black Mass (Samurai Jack)
Darkar/Shadow Phoenix (Winx Club)

Anime/Manga

Loki (Gokukoku No Brynhildr)
Trihexa 666 (Highschool DXD)

Literature

Crayak (Animorphs)
Lord Foul (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant)
Hel (The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage)
Chaos (Dragonlance)
Azrael (Discworld)
Shai'tan/Dark One (The Wheel of Time)

Live Television/Movies

King Ghidorah (Godzilla: King of the Monsters)
Dahak (Hercules/Xena)
Anti-God (Prince of Darkness)
The Darkness (Supernatural)
Unicron (Transformers)
The Mother Of Abominations (Twin Peaks)

Folklore/Mythology

Rex Mundi (Catharism)
Guayota (Guanches Mythology)
Prince of Darkness (Manichaeism)
Angra Mainyu/Ahriman (Zoroastrianism)
Amatsu Mikaboshi (Shinto Mythology)
Apep/Apophis (Egyptian Mythology)
Soranus it is the antithesis of jove (Etruscan Mythology)

Video Games

Dracula (Castlevania series)
The Darkness (Destiny)
Tathamet (Diablo)
Padomay (The Elder Scrolls)
Henir (Elsword)
Giygas (Earthbound)
Virage Embryo (The Legend of Dragoon)
Urgash (Might and Magic)
Vigoor (Ninja Gaiden series)
The End (Sonic Frontiers)
Nereid (Tales of Eternia)
Angra Mainyu (Valkyrie Crusade)
Omni-Exist (Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer)

Other

Ebon Dragon, the Shadow of All Things (Exalted)
Anti-God (Prince of Darkness/John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness)
The Adversary (World of Darkness)
James Talloran’s Torturer/SCP-3999 - I Am At The Center Of Everything That Happens To Me (SCP Foundation)
Zalgo (Creepypasta)