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)

The archetype for the characters that possess or have traits of the Anti-God. Variation of Transcendent Physiology. Destructionist variation of Omnipotence. Opposite of Monotheistic Deity.

Also Called

Primordial Deity/God/Goddess of Evil, Chaos, Death, Destruction, Horrors, Darkness, The Abyss and The Apocalypse
Dark Supreme Being
Primordial Evil/Void
Supreme Chaos/Dark/Evil God
Supreme/Primordial/Great Darkness
The Anti-God
Ultimate/Supreme Annihilator/Degenerator/Destroyer/Evil/Malevolence

Properties

As an archetype, the Anti God/Primordial Void, representing the counterpart and sometimes the dark aspects of The Supreme Being. They are considered the essence of all evil, darkness, and chaos in all of existence. 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 demonic 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 Darkness from Supernatural).
Whereas God plays the role of "Creator", the Anti-God plays the role of "Destroyer".

Associated Powers

Omninescience - True Ignorance
Omnipotence/Nigh-Omnipotence - True Power/Nigh True Power
Omnipresence/Nigh-Omnipresence - True Presence/Nigh True Presence

Applications (Detail)

All Apocalyptic Powers
All Chaotic Powers
All Dark Powers
All Death Powers
All Destructive Powers
All Evil Powers
All Horror Powers
All Void Powers
0th Dimension Physiology/10th Dimension Physiology - 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-God's can deplete anything and everything they focus upon, even without actually concentrating on it.
Conceptual Self-Removal - Able to erase and reformulate itself on a whim.
Cosmic Otherness - Completely and utterly foreign in nature.
Dark/Demonic/Greater/Supreme Divinity - Supreme Dark Deities possess divine powers of dark and demonic nature and origin on a absolute level and tends to be the source of them.
Duality Embodiment - As the twin to it's light self, Anti-God's can embody both the myriad diversity proponents of the broadband spectrum.
Eldritch Physiology - Being incredibly primeval beings their true forms can and often are incomprehensible to understand.
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 Decreator lacks a semblance of their own and can be anything, anywhere or anyone desired.
Nonexistent Realm Creation - Anti-Divine beings tend to occupy realms of pure void outside all Creation.
Oblivion Embodiment - Being the canvas from which all destruction and nonexistence stems from, the primal void is where all things return to.
Omni Corruption Inducement - They're very existence breeds ultimate taint and befoulment.
Omni-Cycle Manipulation - Able to deliberate the endless/infinite series of ongoing's and finalities.
Omnislayer - Being the ultimate destroyer whom can eviscerate anything.
Opposites Embodiment - Depending on the nature of its counterpart, the De-Creator can be either malevolent or benevolent possibly even both.
- Omnimalevolence - 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 beginnings of all.
- Non Created Physiology - The Anti-God has no real beginning nor end much less a creator. They came to be on their own accord.
- Primordial Deity Physiology - Stands to be a Dark Primordial Deity 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 it's own doctrine.
Primordial Darkness Manipulation - Personifying the first darkness that preceded creation.
Primordial Demon Physiology - Many Supreme Negative Deities Stands to be an ancient demonic entity older than the idea of hell & inferno itself.
- Primordial Chaos Manipulation - Representing the oldest form of anachronic discontent since before eternities beginning.
Primordial Nothingness Manipulation - Anti-God's took up the primal anti-force which long predated existence.
Singularity - The Anti-God is entirely and utterly unique in it's 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 doppelgangers of it.
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 penultimate end of all there is at the end of reality

Techniques

Associations/Relationships

Flaws/Weaknesses

The Anti-God may be less powerful than the Supreme Being.
- If Omninescient, the Anti-God may be unable to comprehend the Supreme Being's creation.
  - Alternatively, the Anti-God may be stronger than the Supreme Being, meaning entropy will always prevails in the end.

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)

Anime/Manga

Loki (Gokukoku No Brynhildr)

Literature

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

Live Television/Movies

Dahak (Hercules/Xena)
Anti-God (Prince of Darkness)
The Darkness (Supernatural)
Unicron (Transformers)

Folklore/Mythology

Satan/Rex Mundi (Catharism)
Guayota (Guanches Mythology)
Prince of Darkness (Manichaeism)
Angra Mainyu/Ahriman (Zoroastrianism)

Video Games

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

Other

Ebon Dragon, the Shadow of All Things (Exalted)