hubris theme
Pride is so excessive that a character deigns to put themself on par, or even above, the gods.
Examples
Riker was riding on his high horse after having been granted Q powers in tng1x10 "Hide and Q".
21 total · 1 choice · 12 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| voy4x09 | choice | Annorax acquired the God-like power of manipulating timelines and thought he could use this to defeat his Empire’s enemies. Instead he ended up destroying his own people and embarked on a life-long quest to make amends. |
| aesop001pi | major | The eagle thought itself safe from the fox as it was high up in a tree, but the fox was cunning and burned down the tree. |
| ent1x01/02 | major | The Vulcans felt that humans were not ready to venture out into interstellar space on their own, and they warned the Star Fleet brass that they would fall on their faces, if they did so. |
| movie: Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998) | major | The Vorlon had created the artifact out of a belief that they were equal in power to the gods. But the creation of the said artifact they came to regret on account that it opened up a gate to a parallel universe that was populated by a genocidal race of beings even more godlike than the Vorlon. |
| movie: Frankenstein (1931) | major | The film's presenter describes Frankenstein as “a man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God.” Frankenstein was convinced he had found a way to create a normal human being, but in his arrogance he instead created a monster |
| movie: Frankenstein (2025) | major | Victor Frankenstein was determined to conquer death itself by reviving the dead using electricity. He shockingly asserted that "Perhaps God is inept!" when told by establishment figures that the giving and taking of life was the sole province of God. He followed through on his allegedly blasphemous plan by bringing life to a patchwork man assembled from miscellaneous body parts, but the result was a monstrosity. In short, Victor put himself above God with catastrophic results. |
| movie: Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) | major | The message of the film was spelled out in no uncertain terms: Godzilla's coming to Japan was a punishment for humans having "crossed the line between mortals and gods" in the making of first nuclear weapons, and later the bio-mechanical behemoth Mechagodzilla. |
| movie: Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996) | major | Jobe came to think of him self as a god and tried to take over the world. |
| movie: The Lawnmower Man (1992) | major | Jobe got pretty full of himself after acquiring superhuman intelligence. He at one point asserted "I am God here" in reference to his virtual reality domain. |
| movie: The Noah (1975) | major | Noah came to see himself as a god-like figure who presided over his community of imaginary people. |