God-Emperor
God-Emperor (and God-Empress for women) is a title used to describe a person in the unusual position of being both a god and an Emperor (or at least who thinks he is both). These individuals are usually tremendously powerful (politically and sometimes physically and/or magically) and answerable to nobody, with the possible exception of other gods, which means that they are generally not nice people. In the real world, this title has been applied to the rulers of China, Japan, and Egypt, among others.
Battletech[edit]
The Chancellors of the Capellan Confederation are sometimes considered deities by their people. The current Chancellor as of 3151, Daoshen Liao, also believes this and considers himself a living avatar of his nation.
Dune[edit]
Arguably the most famous God-Emperors in fiction are Paul and Leto II Atreides.
Warhammer Fantasy[edit]
Technically, the God-Emperor of The Empire is Sigmar, the deific personification of the founding Emperor. While he was a mortal man, at some point he simply just up and left his empire, vanishing into myth. During The End Times, he returns in the body of Karl Franz and tries to defeat Chaos in the last battle for The Warhammer.
Following the end of the Old World, Sigmar would eventually rebuild himself and instead take on the moniker of God-King, seeing as he was now the guardian deity of the entire grand alliance of order as well as the king of the free peoples… who aren't already pledged to other gods. At least this time around his divinity was confirmed without question.
Warhammer 40,000[edit]
The most famous God-Emperor among /tg/-related pursuits is the God-Emperor of Mankind, from Warhammer 40,000, ruler of the Imperium of Man and the most powerful psyker in the galaxy. He wasn't exactly happy about the "God-" part (even though he was certainly powerful enough to live up to the appellation), to the point that worshiping him as such was forbidden with extreme prejudice (just ask Lorgar), but after he mostly-died in the Horus Heresy, he was no longer in any position to object.
