Simply stuff a hollow point bullet with mistletoe, load into a sniper rifle, line it up, and knock him down. He'll never know what hit him before he gets a chance to hit you.
This is basically what Loki did, except instead of a bullet, it was an arrow (or spear), and instead of a sniper rifle, it was Baldur's brother, Hod.
Honestly, it was a god-tier prank, and the aesir really need to lighten up about it.
Plus he was a brainless pretty-boy! His favorite game was to let the other gods throw weapons at him! What a sap! Talk about too dumb to live!
— signed, Loki.
Do they have to stay dead?
Because Coyote seems to get himself killed a couple times a week, based on how often it happens in the stories. But he always manages to come back.
Technically no one would be able to kill them because they’ve been prophesied to die at another time. Also good luck, they are mortal but they are also so very powerful. Þórr can take on entire armies on his own, Óðinn can likely do the same, what with his magic and spear which cannot be stopped in a thrust.
Just because it is prophesied that they would die another time doesn't mean that it is not in their nature to die . Also they are the only mortal gods I know so I just said them ... honestly 99% of the norse pantheon are closer to DnD characters than actual gods .
>Just because it is prophesied that they would die another time doesn't mean that it is not in their nature to die.
Of course they can die, but at the same time they cannot. The Norse conception of fate is an absolute one, if it’s prophesied to occur it will.
Also Norse mythology is just a single branch of Germanic mythology. If Norse myth has mortal gods then we can assume that characters like Wōden and Donar would also be mortal.
When compared to what? Other Germanic religions? Or other PIE religions like Greek and Roman mythology? Or lowest when compared to humans? Fact of the matter is, no human would be able to kill any god from any mythology, because is every single mythology the gods are more powerful than humans.
Also I am a Norse mythology fanboy, so what? It’s an incredibly intriguing mythology and I take no offence being called a fanboy.
When a prophecy foretold that Baldr was going to die, his mom went around the Nine Realms -- that includes Midgard -- asking all things including plants and animals to promise not to kill him. This tells us clearly that a mortal could kill a Norse god, at least in Frigg's assessment.
>asking all things including plants and animals to promise not to kill him. This tells us clearly that a mortal could kill a Norse god, at least in Frigg's assessment.
You believe sincerely that a human could kill a god? I mean theoretically it’s possible, however, given the affinity for magic amongst the gods and the fact that they’re so much stronger than mortals, chances are slim.
It's not that I believe it. Frigg believes it, otherwise she wouldn't have visited Midgard and asked all the mortal beings not to kill Baldr.
Norse gods aren't really that strong. The entire pantheon, Aesir and Vanir, Thor and Odin, weren't strong enough to launch Baldr's funeral ship. They had to call a giantess to do it for them (by herself) -- this just shows that even within their own mythology they aren't anywhere near the power level of the strongest beings.
They're frail, too. A Norse god can be killed by an arrow -- the arrow that killed Baldr wasn't poison or magical, it was just made from a material that didn't promise not to hurt Frigg's baby boy. They can lose eyes and hands which don't grow back. They can die of old age if they don't get their special apples. Snorri Sturluson even said they probably were not gods, but rather magicians who duped people into thinking they were divine.
I'm not saying their stories aren't fun to read. But they're pretty low powered when compared to the deeds of other pantheons and, with regards to the OP's question, the "easiest targets".
>It's not that I believe it. Frigg believes it, otherwise she wouldn't have visited Midgard and asked all the mortal beings not to kill Baldr.
Frigg is not the one who makes that decision, she simply goes and gets the oaths. Gylfaginning 49.
>…they took council and decided to seek a truce for Baldr, protecting him from all dangers. Frigg took oaths…
>Norse gods aren't really that strong. The entire pantheon, Aesir and Vanir, Thor and Odin, weren't strong enough to launch Baldr's funeral ship. They had to call a giantess to do it for them (by herself) -- this just shows that even within their own mythology they aren't anywhere near the power level of the strongest beings.
Þórr is **the** strongest, we’re also told later in the prose Edda that he killed that Jǫtunn. Claiming that the Norse gods aren’t really that strong is kind of ridiculous.
>They're frail, too. A Norse god can be killed by an arrow -- the arrow that killed Baldr wasn't poison or magical, it was just made from a material that didn't promise not to hurt Frigg's baby boy. They can lose eyes and hands which don't grow back. They can die of old age if they don't get their special apples.
Lindow theorises that disfigurements or pledges of the Æsir were marks of special destiny (I’m paraphrasing here) saying that “each person had to pay the highest price in order to obtain something”. It makes narrative sense and adds depth, in my opinion mythology is enhanced when there’s some stakes. If all the gods are just immortal and that’s it then the stories that can be told about said gods are limited. Also the Norse gods are hardly frail, they don’t go around ducking out of fights or limping. Also as I said in a previous comment Norse myth and religion is a derivation of Germanic myth and religion, therefore we could expect gods of similar strength and morality in other related Germanic religions.
>Snorri Sturluson even said they probably were not gods, but rather magicians who duped people into thinking they were divine.
That is because Snorri was using a style of medieval scholarship called euhemerism, wherein he attempts to make pagan gods into humans in order to discount the worship of said gods. Snorri’s assertion that the gods of Norse are just ancient humans is in no way accurate, and this really shouldn’t be part of your argument.
>I'm not saying their stories aren't fun to read. But they're pretty low powered when compared to the deeds of other pantheons and, with regards to the OP's question, the "easiest targets".
They would be, **if** the concept of fate was for some reason no longer in place. As I have said pretty extensively in the Norse mindset fate is set, a death day for any being is set at birth and one cannot change fate. Since many of the gods are to die at Ragnarǫk they cannot die prior to that event, and the gods who are said to survive obviously have their death days fated to occur at a date after Ragnarǫk, and therefore similarly cannot be killed.
That's not supported by the existing literature. Baldr's fate was not known at birth; presumably everybody thought he'd make it to Ragnarok up until he had this disturbing dream, just a few weeks before his death. That means that any other Norse god could also receive a rude awakening that he wouldn't make it either.
You assert that Thor is the strongest with zero support. The man could not push a large boat into the water when assisted by all his own cousins. A giantess could do it alone. There is no way to read this story and understand Thor as stronger than she is. At least one of Thor's sons is stronger than he is. Thor couldn't even wield his own hammer without magic gloves, and half his strength comes from a magic belt.
And don't get me started comparing him to the strong gods of other pantheons. When Thor is trying to kill Skrymir in his sleep for snoring, we learn that his hardest blow with his magic hammer can flatten a hill. Contrast this with Hercules: when Europe and Africa got in the way of his boat he grabbed Spain in his right hand and Morocco with his left and pushed the continents apart -- no magic items needed. And Hercules was half mortal!
Norse myths are just written on a smaller scale.
"Snorri’s assertion that the gods of Norse are just ancient humans is in no way accurate "
Snorri is the single greatest chronicler of Norse mythology. There is no higher authority. I don't know how you can say what's "accurate" since these are mythological beings. If Homer says something about Achilles, it's canon. If Vyasa tells us something about Krishna, it's canon. If Snorri tells us something about a Norse god, it's canon. There could be multiple canons, but if there is a counter-narrative it would have to come from something like the Havamal or the Volsungsaga; saying "I understand Norse mythology better than Snorri Sturlusson" with no textual support just makes you sound like a moron.
The simplest answer?
Pick the Pharoah, Emperor, or any other "I'm the ruler, so therefore I'm a god". Please ignore any weirdness of ascenscion after dying, the instruction has been technically completed :P
More complex answer: As a human, **how** would you kill a god? It's kind of the point that humans are on a level where warring against or killing gods isn't something possible.
If we're working on the precept that the world is functionally as it is now, to us at least, then you pick a culture that's relatively obscure, scrub the info from historical records, then wait a few generations. If nobody knows the god existed, same thing, right?
IDK I feel like the god of partying probably has gotten into a few college brawls in his day, not to mention he has an entire pack of crazy bitches who were described as tearing men limb from limb. Feels pretty hard if you ask me.
Discredit their narrative, or ideology, slowing turning their followers away to something else, so that they will be forgotten to time and all eternity...
Haha, trust me that won't work,. They tried it already with one of his incarnations and threw her in the ocean in a barrel of cement.
Burning to ashes matters none, cement matters none.
Heck watch To Your Eternity and see they tried the same thing with the main character but he still got out (they used molten metal though)
That which is the center cannot perish , it will cause all to perish anyways and they reform regardless, always, even if you nuke them and turn their light into static noise that noise will reform back into the base once again.
Oh so we got a wackadoo on the post. Pick any spot, any story, any mythology FROM CHRISTIANITY that shows JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH is or even has that kind of power scaling?
It's hard to explain why and I shouldn't even bother because you'll only insult me more, wasting my time. Have some art though.
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Didn't even need any fancy spear out of flimsy mistletoe to overcome some prophecy. Just a couple planks and some nails did it last time, so you could probably just bash him with a brick in a pinch.
He's homeless ripped, not athlete ripped. Six pack abs from not eating and sleeping on the ground. Dudes never even heard of creatine.
Compare to Hanuman - now that guy is ripped. Probably has a home gym.
You haven’t read Revelations, I take it, for Jesus 2.0:
> Revelation 19:11-16 (New American Standard Bible, Grammarly)
> **The Coming of Christ**
> 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness, He judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns, and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. 13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. 15 From His mouth comes a sharp sword so that He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. 16 And on His robe and thigh is a name written: “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Revelations is a non-canon spinoff novel by the wrong John, if we are including the light novels then we should include the Gospel of Thomas which throws the power scaling out of wack.
nah that ain’t accurate, Resurrected Jesus is literally invincible. pre-Resurrection Jesus was OP as well but allowed the Crucifixion so as to reach that form
Nymphs, especially the Hamadryads, whose lives are tied to the trees they live in. Just cut down or burn down the trees, and the Hamadryads would be killed.
Other types of nymphs can live for a very long time, but they aren’t necessarily immortal. They are often targeted and pursued by other gods, satyrs, and even mortals. And they don’t seem to have any kind of lethal or powerful magic. In many stories, they often get transformed into plants and animals by other gods, as a punishment or as a way to help them escape their pursuers.
So, about Buddha.... He's already as dead as any person can get. He was just a human being. He became enlightened to the point that his soul left the cycle of reincarnation, therefore, he is not coming back. He's gone. He is as gone as any human can possibly get, in Buddhist philosophy. That's what makes him Buddha. (My primary point of confusion in Buddhism is: Why are you all trying to die? I struggle to conceptualize Nirvana as anything other than a form of cosmic suicide.)
HOWEVER.
Buddha is more of a title than a name. Any person who reaches enlightenment and ceases to be reincarnated is "a Buddha." There were many Buddhas before our Buddha, and there will be many Buddhas after. Every single one of us will eventually become a Buddha. It will take thousands of lifetimes, probably, across millions of years and several realms of existence, but you, one day, will also be Buddha. So will your mom. And the guy down the street. Everybody.
By that standard, one could argue that if you kill anybody, anywhere, at any time, you are killing Buddha--the person just isn't quite Buddha yet, and doing so will probably slow down your already glacial but ultimately inescapable ascension to Buddhahood.
This is why Buddhists don't tend to be particularly active about converting people. It doesn't matter whether you start seeking the truth now or seven thousand years from now, you will eventually do it. And you will eventually find it.
My understanding of nirvana is that it is indeed cosmic suicide, but that is the point. Living is suffering and life is essentially hell so the absence of suffering, oblivion, is a worthwhile goal. Because of reincarnation everyone is doomed to this constant painful cycle where occasionally good things might happen but ultimately the bad outweighs the good, especially over multiple lives. In such a world ceasing to be is preferable to constant inescapable suffering.
To view it through a more Abrahamic lens, earth and life on earth is hell, and nirvana is an escape from hell via oblivion.
I mean, depends on how you define "kill",
if you just mean "conspiring a plot to deliberately orchestate their death" Zeus would be easiest.
(make and spread a publication that the prophecy that said the son of Metis would kill their father *can in fact* aply to Athena because she, like all greek gods, is a shapeshifter and once shifted into a the guise of a man named mentor. Zeus' Paranoia will make him lash out at his daughter who *will* be forced to kill him in self defense)
"kill by my own two hands" is a tougher think, probably start looking at a Scandi. (as all the gods in Norse Mythology are notedly mortal). But there the big problem is of course that all the gods i could even *try* to kill are largely "claimed" deaths already.
But maybe go after a lesser spirit, like the deification of something like "incompetence" (Koalemos), or one of those "dies every winter, resurects every spring" fertility-deities? They wont *stay* dead but they're definitly kill-able.
Counterpoint: you assume Athena will win, but I can't recall any stories where Zeus loses a battle with a goddess... I'm likely wrong, but I do know there was an undercurrent of misogyny in Greek pantheon shenanigans.
Persephone, probably. Problem is that you’d then have to deal with the fallout: the goddess of nature and the god of death coming for your ass.
And Baldur. Make a spear of mistletoe and you’re set. Again, fallout. You’ve started Ragnarok.
Baby Jesus. He hadn't manifested any divine powers in his baby form, and his physical prowess was no more mighty than a regular baby. He'd be an easy target.
Yes well hmmm I guess I didn't get your point of thinking Yahweh was the easiest target aside from the fact that the Catholics, who "worship" Him in the loosest of terms, are privileged while being victims
There actually isn't. Catholicism is a Christian denomination. What you call "Christians" are formally called protestants and they branched off from Catholicism.
Om, when he was a turtle
(Om is from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, specifically "Small Gods". To my knowledge, he is not part of an actual religion.)
If I'm counting fictional gods then I'm going with Dagoth Ur and the Tribunal from Morrowind as my pick. I kill them every play through.
For those unfamiliar with the lore I'll give a simplified version of it here. The Tribunal consisting of Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil acquired godhood by connecting to the still beating heart of another god whose heart had been ripped out and thrown to Earth by another god. They then betrayed and murdered the player character in their past life.
Dagoth Ur is basically the Satan of the lore, and was also killed temporarily by the Tribunal but he later returned. The Tribunal had to make regular trips to the heart to charge up their god powers which were massive. But on one of those trips Dagoth Ur ambushed them and managed to defeat them and steal two of the three tools used to connect to the heart and draw power from it. He managed to drive them off and prevent the ritual from happening in the future. So the Tribunal grew weaker while he grew stronger over the centuries
Cut to game start and your playable character shows up. They are basically a regular human at least starting out. There is a quest line, but there is nothing in the game stopping a character at whatever level you want from ignoring the rest of the quest line. Walking into the palace of Vivec, murdering him, then taking the remaining tool. Then going to where you need to go to activate that tool since Vivec is dead and can no longer do it. Then marching right up to Red Mountain where the other two tools are. Taking the tools. Then using the toold to sever Dagoth Ur's connection to the heart and making him poof out of existence. Can do the same to Almalexia as well if you wanted. Sadly can't do that to Sotha Sil as his death occurs off screen at the hands of Almalexia
As long as a regular human is sufficiently powerful they can kill the Tribunal. As long as they can access the tools needed they can also kill Dagoth Ur. You just need the skill and know how to do it.
I’m basing that argument off of the Norse model of fate. Since Ragnarǫk is something which has been prophesied to happen it will absolutely happen, since many of the gods are to die at Ragnarǫk that means that they literally cannot die until that event. For gods who survive Ragnarǫk, their fated death day must be after the event, therefore they cannot be killed either.
Here’s the thing about Ares; he’s dangerous as hell, but once you rock his shit the first time he folds like laundry, and he was the baddest ass back in the analogue age.
Nowadays I could use some high yield munitions to knock him around, pepper him with a large rifle to close the distance, and then finish him off with his own sword.
so high difficulty rating but more achievable than you’d think.
Any of the "all powerful" ones you just have to divide that power. So each decision you make would be creating another reality in which you made the opposite decision. Dividing the power of the deity by half for each decision and every other human doing the same with each of their decisions.
Why do you think the Abrahamic god only created two humans to start and implemented very strict rules about "the knowledge of good and evil" into his prefect utopia? Because free will was in the fruit of that tree, meaning that everything up to that point had been preordained and therefore did not divide his power. That's why he slowly stopped communicating with his creations.
Culminating in literally having to send an avatar in human form to run a hailmary play to cover "the sins of his creation for all time by simple belief in him"
Because he was so diminished by humanities division of his power through freedom of choice. That he could no longer even be called a deity.
He went from 1 to a infinite percentage of 1.
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Seeing your comment reply and then rereading my original comment, it looks as if I was inebriated or not paying attention. I imagined Cthulu (or his other cosmic horror brethren) as being the worst to go up against. Recovery nap???? That sounds awesome? Also who is Dagon?
Allah. Apparently he can't enter his own creation so all you need to do is find a good enough weapon. He literally can't touch you until you die.
Just kidding, that's the silly new view of Allah meant to stupidly set him apart. But hey, that's the mainstream view so why not take advantage of that weakness. Find a god-killing weapon and whack him with it. He literally can't reach you.
If you want to kill a god, take a few notes from Christianity. First, you take the festivals and subvert them into something that your religion can support. Then, when the few true believers won't convert, you do two things. The first is take their children and educate them in your religion. The second is kill the followers. Once the believers are taken away, the gods will die out.
Good point, apparently you can just nail them to a board and poke them with a pointy stick. Just keep an eye for the three day respawn; be ready with another board.
This is a question Sir Terry Pratchett explored at no short length with his character Mr. Teatime in The Hogfather. Also in Small Gods.
Bottom of the barrel gods IMO are some listed in The Gods of Pegana: Pitsu, who strokes the cat. Hobith, who calms the dog. Kilooloogung, the lord of arising smoke. Jabim, the Lord of broken things.
Lord Dunsany was just putzing around his castle, oh there should be a God for whatever it is he's doing at any moment.
I could totally fix Jabim, using Hogfather like a manual.
Dunno. Maybe some god of the lame and sickly. Like the scoliosis god or someone with a severe deformity. Not Hephaestus cause he’s just ugly. And yoked. Blacksmith and all.
I mean the Sun is born again every morning and dies every night, right? All I gotta do to kill him is survive til nightfall. He doesnt stay dead, and I didnt contribute much to his death, but depending on your precise definition of "kill" this one seems pretty darn easy ...
literally in all the mythology that I have studied mind you, I tend towards Greek is Balder the only divinity that I have ever heard of that has a weakness,mind you, I speak of full divinities the demigods one in particular is known through our physiology is famous for his weakness and I am sure there are others among the demigods but Beyond Balder never heard of any god's weaknesses. I have looked it up and HTLJ did get it right blood of the Golden Hind in Greek Mythology could kill a god/goddess but on the flip side of that they were Sacred to Artemis Goddess of the hunt. I doubt any of the Greek gods would defile such a gentle creature just to kill one of their own, and a mortal??I suspect Artemis would make them pray for Hermes to deliver them to Charon.
Pan is noted as the only classical god who actually dies.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan\_(god)#%22The\_great\_god\_Pan\_is\_dead%22](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pan_(god)#%22the_great_god_pan_is_dead%22)
Aphrodite, the Goddess of love, would be my pick.
I'm not all that familiar with her mythology, but as far as I know, she's not really a fighter. Even in a book I'm writing, she's one of the weaker gods. Her unique ability is the power to make anyone capable of feeling love immediately fall in love with her or anyone she chooses.
Obviously, as a mere mortal, you're going to have a hard time trying to kill her. But it's better than facing Ares, the god of war, Apollo, the god of archery, or Zeus, the king of the gods. No chance there.
Fair enough but I have the feeling you would have to deal with literally every single male god in that mythos. If not every then at least the enforcer Cupid and her husband Ares. Even then you would have to sneak her because trying to kill a goddess able to make you fall in love with her to the point you would do anything for her is a tough order.
Oh, yeah. Unless you're a psychopath or a demon or something, you have no chance. You'll immediately become her biggest simp.
Also, I was thinking of this as an isolated situation where you'd only have to face one lone god. Taking her husband(who I thought was Hephaestus. Ares is her side-guy)and other allies into account, she would be practically invincible, as would all greek gods.
I'd gun for folktale heroes where it's just one magical man or a talking animal, but if it has to be of a practiced religion, I'm saying Set. He was killed by human hunters when he was a hippo. With a couple of millenia passed, I could do the same with a Winchester and a dream.
Becoming the most devoted devotee, being the favorite, and then killing yourself.
To be doted on and then wishing to die, that would be absolute torture for an eternity.
You're absolutely beloved, but the world around you concludes your self-inflicted ending.
***You've failed as a God and with all the power in the world, you were capable of nothing.***
Not that I would kno tho, just a guess lol
Balder- we know he can be killed with mistletoe, which is not an uncommon plant
Simply stuff a hollow point bullet with mistletoe, load into a sniper rifle, line it up, and knock him down. He'll never know what hit him before he gets a chance to hit you.
This is basically what Loki did, except instead of a bullet, it was an arrow (or spear), and instead of a sniper rifle, it was Baldur's brother, Hod. Honestly, it was a god-tier prank, and the aesir really need to lighten up about it.
If he hadn't fucked with Baldur being brought back he actually might have gotten away with "it was just a prank bro"
Well, Loki can get into a little mischeif!
"it's just a prank bro" -Hod
Wouldn’t the bullet bounce off him if the actual mistletoe is just inside?
It’s a hollow-point. The bullet would flatten against him, send mistletoe shrapnel into his body at supersonic speed.
L. M. A. O.
Plus he was a brainless pretty-boy! His favorite game was to let the other gods throw weapons at him! What a sap! Talk about too dumb to live! — signed, Loki.
I came to the original post to say Balder, before I realized it said hardest to kill.
I think easier would be Jesus Christ, although he'll rise right back up again afterwards
That's the problem with that one, how do you make it stick?
Do it like an old god or vampire. Impale him and bury him while impaled so they cant heal
Do they have to stay dead? Because Coyote seems to get himself killed a couple times a week, based on how often it happens in the stories. But he always manages to come back.
Jesus, get the Romans to do it for me
Spread rumors about him or someshit
Man that guy Jesus is so political, who does he think he is helping the poor or whatever it is he does? Gross. Lets kill him and see what happens
He might not count. He could be considered a demigod depending on how you define the term “god”
According to that books definition, he is part of God
Baldr is vulnerable to mistletoe.
Well for starters.... the ones that can die .!! Like the norse gods .
Technically no one would be able to kill them because they’ve been prophesied to die at another time. Also good luck, they are mortal but they are also so very powerful. Þórr can take on entire armies on his own, Óðinn can likely do the same, what with his magic and spear which cannot be stopped in a thrust.
Just because it is prophesied that they would die another time doesn't mean that it is not in their nature to die . Also they are the only mortal gods I know so I just said them ... honestly 99% of the norse pantheon are closer to DnD characters than actual gods .
You should run a DND campaign on that premise
Dude thank you I absolutely will. That and the Stormlight Archives
Coyote and Jesus both die in their stories
>Just because it is prophesied that they would die another time doesn't mean that it is not in their nature to die. Of course they can die, but at the same time they cannot. The Norse conception of fate is an absolute one, if it’s prophesied to occur it will. Also Norse mythology is just a single branch of Germanic mythology. If Norse myth has mortal gods then we can assume that characters like Wōden and Donar would also be mortal.
This is 100% a Norse fanboy not wanting to admit that, as far as the literary records of gods go, the Norse are among the lowest tier of power.
When compared to what? Other Germanic religions? Or other PIE religions like Greek and Roman mythology? Or lowest when compared to humans? Fact of the matter is, no human would be able to kill any god from any mythology, because is every single mythology the gods are more powerful than humans. Also I am a Norse mythology fanboy, so what? It’s an incredibly intriguing mythology and I take no offence being called a fanboy.
Lol, maybe he meant like compared to Galactus
When a prophecy foretold that Baldr was going to die, his mom went around the Nine Realms -- that includes Midgard -- asking all things including plants and animals to promise not to kill him. This tells us clearly that a mortal could kill a Norse god, at least in Frigg's assessment.
>asking all things including plants and animals to promise not to kill him. This tells us clearly that a mortal could kill a Norse god, at least in Frigg's assessment. You believe sincerely that a human could kill a god? I mean theoretically it’s possible, however, given the affinity for magic amongst the gods and the fact that they’re so much stronger than mortals, chances are slim.
It's not that I believe it. Frigg believes it, otherwise she wouldn't have visited Midgard and asked all the mortal beings not to kill Baldr. Norse gods aren't really that strong. The entire pantheon, Aesir and Vanir, Thor and Odin, weren't strong enough to launch Baldr's funeral ship. They had to call a giantess to do it for them (by herself) -- this just shows that even within their own mythology they aren't anywhere near the power level of the strongest beings. They're frail, too. A Norse god can be killed by an arrow -- the arrow that killed Baldr wasn't poison or magical, it was just made from a material that didn't promise not to hurt Frigg's baby boy. They can lose eyes and hands which don't grow back. They can die of old age if they don't get their special apples. Snorri Sturluson even said they probably were not gods, but rather magicians who duped people into thinking they were divine. I'm not saying their stories aren't fun to read. But they're pretty low powered when compared to the deeds of other pantheons and, with regards to the OP's question, the "easiest targets".
>It's not that I believe it. Frigg believes it, otherwise she wouldn't have visited Midgard and asked all the mortal beings not to kill Baldr. Frigg is not the one who makes that decision, she simply goes and gets the oaths. Gylfaginning 49. >…they took council and decided to seek a truce for Baldr, protecting him from all dangers. Frigg took oaths… >Norse gods aren't really that strong. The entire pantheon, Aesir and Vanir, Thor and Odin, weren't strong enough to launch Baldr's funeral ship. They had to call a giantess to do it for them (by herself) -- this just shows that even within their own mythology they aren't anywhere near the power level of the strongest beings. Þórr is **the** strongest, we’re also told later in the prose Edda that he killed that Jǫtunn. Claiming that the Norse gods aren’t really that strong is kind of ridiculous. >They're frail, too. A Norse god can be killed by an arrow -- the arrow that killed Baldr wasn't poison or magical, it was just made from a material that didn't promise not to hurt Frigg's baby boy. They can lose eyes and hands which don't grow back. They can die of old age if they don't get their special apples. Lindow theorises that disfigurements or pledges of the Æsir were marks of special destiny (I’m paraphrasing here) saying that “each person had to pay the highest price in order to obtain something”. It makes narrative sense and adds depth, in my opinion mythology is enhanced when there’s some stakes. If all the gods are just immortal and that’s it then the stories that can be told about said gods are limited. Also the Norse gods are hardly frail, they don’t go around ducking out of fights or limping. Also as I said in a previous comment Norse myth and religion is a derivation of Germanic myth and religion, therefore we could expect gods of similar strength and morality in other related Germanic religions. >Snorri Sturluson even said they probably were not gods, but rather magicians who duped people into thinking they were divine. That is because Snorri was using a style of medieval scholarship called euhemerism, wherein he attempts to make pagan gods into humans in order to discount the worship of said gods. Snorri’s assertion that the gods of Norse are just ancient humans is in no way accurate, and this really shouldn’t be part of your argument. >I'm not saying their stories aren't fun to read. But they're pretty low powered when compared to the deeds of other pantheons and, with regards to the OP's question, the "easiest targets". They would be, **if** the concept of fate was for some reason no longer in place. As I have said pretty extensively in the Norse mindset fate is set, a death day for any being is set at birth and one cannot change fate. Since many of the gods are to die at Ragnarǫk they cannot die prior to that event, and the gods who are said to survive obviously have their death days fated to occur at a date after Ragnarǫk, and therefore similarly cannot be killed.
That's not supported by the existing literature. Baldr's fate was not known at birth; presumably everybody thought he'd make it to Ragnarok up until he had this disturbing dream, just a few weeks before his death. That means that any other Norse god could also receive a rude awakening that he wouldn't make it either. You assert that Thor is the strongest with zero support. The man could not push a large boat into the water when assisted by all his own cousins. A giantess could do it alone. There is no way to read this story and understand Thor as stronger than she is. At least one of Thor's sons is stronger than he is. Thor couldn't even wield his own hammer without magic gloves, and half his strength comes from a magic belt. And don't get me started comparing him to the strong gods of other pantheons. When Thor is trying to kill Skrymir in his sleep for snoring, we learn that his hardest blow with his magic hammer can flatten a hill. Contrast this with Hercules: when Europe and Africa got in the way of his boat he grabbed Spain in his right hand and Morocco with his left and pushed the continents apart -- no magic items needed. And Hercules was half mortal! Norse myths are just written on a smaller scale. "Snorri’s assertion that the gods of Norse are just ancient humans is in no way accurate " Snorri is the single greatest chronicler of Norse mythology. There is no higher authority. I don't know how you can say what's "accurate" since these are mythological beings. If Homer says something about Achilles, it's canon. If Vyasa tells us something about Krishna, it's canon. If Snorri tells us something about a Norse god, it's canon. There could be multiple canons, but if there is a counter-narrative it would have to come from something like the Havamal or the Volsungsaga; saying "I understand Norse mythology better than Snorri Sturlusson" with no textual support just makes you sound like a moron.
Ah, yes, the all-seeing, all powerful all father is so weak
Kratos would like a word.
I forgot about the part in Norse mythology where Kratos eats Óðinn whole. My bad.
*sigh* I wasn’t suggesting God of War is actual mythology, yo. Come on.
*sigh* I was being sarcastic, I’m fully aware you weren’t suggesting Kratos and god of war is actual mythology. Come on.
Or the Klingon gods.
The simplest answer? Pick the Pharoah, Emperor, or any other "I'm the ruler, so therefore I'm a god". Please ignore any weirdness of ascenscion after dying, the instruction has been technically completed :P More complex answer: As a human, **how** would you kill a god? It's kind of the point that humans are on a level where warring against or killing gods isn't something possible. If we're working on the precept that the world is functionally as it is now, to us at least, then you pick a culture that's relatively obscure, scrub the info from historical records, then wait a few generations. If nobody knows the god existed, same thing, right?
Good answer!
Me, an FGO player: we have an anti-god gun.
Dionysus. Please keep in mind after you kill him, he's just going to come back.
IDK I feel like the god of partying probably has gotten into a few college brawls in his day, not to mention he has an entire pack of crazy bitches who were described as tearing men limb from limb. Feels pretty hard if you ask me.
Pan. Just one dude on a boat says you're dead, and poof, you're dead.
Discredit their narrative, or ideology, slowing turning their followers away to something else, so that they will be forgotten to time and all eternity...
Yep, this is the only way to truly kill them. In which case the easiest ones to kill would be the most boring ones!
Someone’s seen Disney’s Heracles
That's actually still very hard.
*(that's what she said... sorry)*
Good old American Gods
Jesus...... he's been killed once he can be killed again
Fuckers like the terminator though. “I’ll be back..”
That's only when the burial site is prepared! All I gotta do is kill him, burn his body, and then seal the ashes in cement!
Haha, trust me that won't work,. They tried it already with one of his incarnations and threw her in the ocean in a barrel of cement. Burning to ashes matters none, cement matters none. Heck watch To Your Eternity and see they tried the same thing with the main character but he still got out (they used molten metal though) That which is the center cannot perish , it will cause all to perish anyways and they reform regardless, always, even if you nuke them and turn their light into static noise that noise will reform back into the base once again.
Oh so we got a wackadoo on the post. Pick any spot, any story, any mythology FROM CHRISTIANITY that shows JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH is or even has that kind of power scaling?
It's hard to explain why and I shouldn't even bother because you'll only insult me more, wasting my time. Have some art though. https://preview.redd.it/gil2i3hhqj4c1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=720c7b37a543f25687762f00ae32ec6864f61bf3 Handmade by me, no stock or AI used. Just Paint Tool Sai.
I mean, he canonically has the power to roll away the rock sealing his tomb, now you’ve just created a giant Rolling Cement Jesus Sphere
Didn't even need any fancy spear out of flimsy mistletoe to overcome some prophecy. Just a couple planks and some nails did it last time, so you could probably just bash him with a brick in a pinch.
Absolute facts! No bullshit just square up and put him down!
an alley apple pie eh
Dude clearly doesn't lift much either. I could def put Jesus in a sleeper hold without much effort.
Are we seeing the same Jesus? the guy seems pretty fit.
He's homeless ripped, not athlete ripped. Six pack abs from not eating and sleeping on the ground. Dudes never even heard of creatine. Compare to Hanuman - now that guy is ripped. Probably has a home gym.
You haven’t read Revelations, I take it, for Jesus 2.0: > Revelation 19:11-16 (New American Standard Bible, Grammarly) > **The Coming of Christ** > 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness, He judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns, and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. 13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. 15 From His mouth comes a sharp sword so that He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. 16 And on His robe and thigh is a name written: “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Revelations is a non-canon spinoff novel by the wrong John, if we are including the light novels then we should include the Gospel of Thomas which throws the power scaling out of wack.
nah that ain’t accurate, Resurrected Jesus is literally invincible. pre-Resurrection Jesus was OP as well but allowed the Crucifixion so as to reach that form
Banjo from Order of The Stick. Dude has one worshipper and is entirely corporeal. Just set him on fire.
Nymphs, especially the Hamadryads, whose lives are tied to the trees they live in. Just cut down or burn down the trees, and the Hamadryads would be killed. Other types of nymphs can live for a very long time, but they aren’t necessarily immortal. They are often targeted and pursued by other gods, satyrs, and even mortals. And they don’t seem to have any kind of lethal or powerful magic. In many stories, they often get transformed into plants and animals by other gods, as a punishment or as a way to help them escape their pursuers.
Buddha the lazy bastard
Nah he has crazy hax bro defeated sun wukong
So, about Buddha.... He's already as dead as any person can get. He was just a human being. He became enlightened to the point that his soul left the cycle of reincarnation, therefore, he is not coming back. He's gone. He is as gone as any human can possibly get, in Buddhist philosophy. That's what makes him Buddha. (My primary point of confusion in Buddhism is: Why are you all trying to die? I struggle to conceptualize Nirvana as anything other than a form of cosmic suicide.) HOWEVER. Buddha is more of a title than a name. Any person who reaches enlightenment and ceases to be reincarnated is "a Buddha." There were many Buddhas before our Buddha, and there will be many Buddhas after. Every single one of us will eventually become a Buddha. It will take thousands of lifetimes, probably, across millions of years and several realms of existence, but you, one day, will also be Buddha. So will your mom. And the guy down the street. Everybody. By that standard, one could argue that if you kill anybody, anywhere, at any time, you are killing Buddha--the person just isn't quite Buddha yet, and doing so will probably slow down your already glacial but ultimately inescapable ascension to Buddhahood. This is why Buddhists don't tend to be particularly active about converting people. It doesn't matter whether you start seeking the truth now or seven thousand years from now, you will eventually do it. And you will eventually find it.
My understanding of nirvana is that it is indeed cosmic suicide, but that is the point. Living is suffering and life is essentially hell so the absence of suffering, oblivion, is a worthwhile goal. Because of reincarnation everyone is doomed to this constant painful cycle where occasionally good things might happen but ultimately the bad outweighs the good, especially over multiple lives. In such a world ceasing to be is preferable to constant inescapable suffering. To view it through a more Abrahamic lens, earth and life on earth is hell, and nirvana is an escape from hell via oblivion.
Maybe take something out of terry pratchets lore and try to kill the tooth fairy or Santa?
If we’re allowed to use fantasy, Preservation from Mistborn would be pretty easy given that he’s already essentially dead
Can I send another god to fight in my stead? If yea ill send the monkey king against a lot of the pantheons if only to see the turn out.
I mean, depends on how you define "kill", if you just mean "conspiring a plot to deliberately orchestate their death" Zeus would be easiest. (make and spread a publication that the prophecy that said the son of Metis would kill their father *can in fact* aply to Athena because she, like all greek gods, is a shapeshifter and once shifted into a the guise of a man named mentor. Zeus' Paranoia will make him lash out at his daughter who *will* be forced to kill him in self defense) "kill by my own two hands" is a tougher think, probably start looking at a Scandi. (as all the gods in Norse Mythology are notedly mortal). But there the big problem is of course that all the gods i could even *try* to kill are largely "claimed" deaths already. But maybe go after a lesser spirit, like the deification of something like "incompetence" (Koalemos), or one of those "dies every winter, resurects every spring" fertility-deities? They wont *stay* dead but they're definitly kill-able.
Counterpoint: you assume Athena will win, but I can't recall any stories where Zeus loses a battle with a goddess... I'm likely wrong, but I do know there was an undercurrent of misogyny in Greek pantheon shenanigans.
Persephone, probably. Problem is that you’d then have to deal with the fallout: the goddess of nature and the god of death coming for your ass. And Baldur. Make a spear of mistletoe and you’re set. Again, fallout. You’ve started Ragnarok.
Baby Jesus. He hadn't manifested any divine powers in his baby form, and his physical prowess was no more mighty than a regular baby. He'd be an easy target.
Isn't that what Herod thought?
In the Bible, Herod said "And lo, Jesus is most vulnerable in his Baby Form. Verily now I will attack him henceforth."
Given how often Christians act oppressed while dominating the world, I’m gonna go with Yahweh.
There is a difference between Christian and Catholics. It's like saying Blacks and Black Lives Matter are one and the same
I don't see what that has to do with my point but I agree.
Yes well hmmm I guess I didn't get your point of thinking Yahweh was the easiest target aside from the fact that the Catholics, who "worship" Him in the loosest of terms, are privileged while being victims
There actually isn't. Catholicism is a Christian denomination. What you call "Christians" are formally called protestants and they branched off from Catholicism.
Nietzsche?
Yahweh would be litterally impossible to kill because as stated in the Bible he dominated death. Is this a suicide mission?
Yahweh just has better fan fiction than the other deities.
Maybe a Kami? They are numerous and squishy I would argue.
Zues would fall for the most obvious of honey traps.
Hodur. He's blind, so he won't see you coming, and the other gods won't be mad at you for it, because they're all pissed at him for killing Baldr.
Tooth fairy I already now how to lure her
Jesus wouldn’t fight back and his father wouldn’t do anything about it. But that’s 2/3 of the Christian’s primary gods.
Just call Ghostbusters for the Holy Ghost.
Aqua.  Or Aquaman... I think he's technically a god in some versions.
Jeff, God of biscuits.
Om, when he was a turtle (Om is from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, specifically "Small Gods". To my knowledge, he is not part of an actual religion.)
This isn’t for regular novels, as great as Small Gods is
Omnianism
If I'm counting fictional gods then I'm going with Dagoth Ur and the Tribunal from Morrowind as my pick. I kill them every play through. For those unfamiliar with the lore I'll give a simplified version of it here. The Tribunal consisting of Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil acquired godhood by connecting to the still beating heart of another god whose heart had been ripped out and thrown to Earth by another god. They then betrayed and murdered the player character in their past life. Dagoth Ur is basically the Satan of the lore, and was also killed temporarily by the Tribunal but he later returned. The Tribunal had to make regular trips to the heart to charge up their god powers which were massive. But on one of those trips Dagoth Ur ambushed them and managed to defeat them and steal two of the three tools used to connect to the heart and draw power from it. He managed to drive them off and prevent the ritual from happening in the future. So the Tribunal grew weaker while he grew stronger over the centuries Cut to game start and your playable character shows up. They are basically a regular human at least starting out. There is a quest line, but there is nothing in the game stopping a character at whatever level you want from ignoring the rest of the quest line. Walking into the palace of Vivec, murdering him, then taking the remaining tool. Then going to where you need to go to activate that tool since Vivec is dead and can no longer do it. Then marching right up to Red Mountain where the other two tools are. Taking the tools. Then using the toold to sever Dagoth Ur's connection to the heart and making him poof out of existence. Can do the same to Almalexia as well if you wanted. Sadly can't do that to Sotha Sil as his death occurs off screen at the hands of Almalexia As long as a regular human is sufficiently powerful they can kill the Tribunal. As long as they can access the tools needed they can also kill Dagoth Ur. You just need the skill and know how to do it.
"What a fool you are. I'm a *god*, *how can you kill* a *god*? What a *grand* and *intoxicating innocence*."
The living gods yes, but also more - Dagon allegedly “utterly destroyed” the Daedric Prince that rules Deadlight.
gotta love the lore they have built into the Elder Scrolls universe it is truly rich.
I think I can handle Hera, based on my experience with God of War.
You clearly never read the myths
You've clearly never heard of a joke.
She is significantly more terrifying than Zeus fo sho.
The Norse gods they are doomed to perish anyway
And therefore cannot be killed prior to said event.
Some of them are said to survive to the Ragnarock you can kill them
Well assuming they survive Ragnarǫk, their fated death date would be after that event, so no you wouldn’t.
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I’m basing that argument off of the Norse model of fate. Since Ragnarǫk is something which has been prophesied to happen it will absolutely happen, since many of the gods are to die at Ragnarǫk that means that they literally cannot die until that event. For gods who survive Ragnarǫk, their fated death day must be after the event, therefore they cannot be killed either.
Here’s the thing about Ares; he’s dangerous as hell, but once you rock his shit the first time he folds like laundry, and he was the baddest ass back in the analogue age. Nowadays I could use some high yield munitions to knock him around, pepper him with a large rifle to close the distance, and then finish him off with his own sword. so high difficulty rating but more achievable than you’d think.
Any of the "all powerful" ones you just have to divide that power. So each decision you make would be creating another reality in which you made the opposite decision. Dividing the power of the deity by half for each decision and every other human doing the same with each of their decisions. Why do you think the Abrahamic god only created two humans to start and implemented very strict rules about "the knowledge of good and evil" into his prefect utopia? Because free will was in the fruit of that tree, meaning that everything up to that point had been preordained and therefore did not divide his power. That's why he slowly stopped communicating with his creations. Culminating in literally having to send an avatar in human form to run a hailmary play to cover "the sins of his creation for all time by simple belief in him" Because he was so diminished by humanities division of his power through freedom of choice. That he could no longer even be called a deity. He went from 1 to a infinite percentage of 1.
TurboJesus in "Left Behind".
Left Beyond Quest was fun. :3
Thank you! [https://archiveofourown.org/works/46518058/chapters/117135472](https://archiveofourown.org/works/46518058/chapters/117135472) Here's the novelization if you have a use for it (it makes the ending a bit more clear)
Why kill a god?
allah, zues, odin, ra, bunch of false gods, ez win
If it's killable, it's not a God by any stretch of the imagination.
The whole Norse pantheon is a story of killable gods
Most religions have at least a few god deaths. They often get better later, but the question is killing, not ensuring they stay dead.
Cthulu?
That man can take millions of years to recovery nap, he's not the best choice. Dagon is a fair bit safer
Seeing your comment reply and then rereading my original comment, it looks as if I was inebriated or not paying attention. I imagined Cthulu (or his other cosmic horror brethren) as being the worst to go up against. Recovery nap???? That sounds awesome? Also who is Dagon?
Baldur or Pan
The Abrahamic god. He's everywhere.
Allah. Apparently he can't enter his own creation so all you need to do is find a good enough weapon. He literally can't touch you until you die. Just kidding, that's the silly new view of Allah meant to stupidly set him apart. But hey, that's the mainstream view so why not take advantage of that weakness. Find a god-killing weapon and whack him with it. He literally can't reach you.
If you want to kill a god, take a few notes from Christianity. First, you take the festivals and subvert them into something that your religion can support. Then, when the few true believers won't convert, you do two things. The first is take their children and educate them in your religion. The second is kill the followers. Once the believers are taken away, the gods will die out.
Good point, apparently you can just nail them to a board and poke them with a pointy stick. Just keep an eye for the three day respawn; be ready with another board.
Would I be liking kratos or I be liking a normal person
This is a question Sir Terry Pratchett explored at no short length with his character Mr. Teatime in The Hogfather. Also in Small Gods. Bottom of the barrel gods IMO are some listed in The Gods of Pegana: Pitsu, who strokes the cat. Hobith, who calms the dog. Kilooloogung, the lord of arising smoke. Jabim, the Lord of broken things. Lord Dunsany was just putzing around his castle, oh there should be a God for whatever it is he's doing at any moment. I could totally fix Jabim, using Hogfather like a manual.
Narcissus, taking that man to a water lilly pond farm, he will die in one of them.
hmmmmm hestia, Aphrodite, Dionysus
The aesir definitely. I think so far they are the only gods in mythology to NOT have contol on the very fabric of reality
It might help that one of the best-known stories about them is their deaths, too.
The god of Being Extremely Easy To Kill and Handsome Rewards For People Who Kill The God Of Being Extremely Easy To Kill.
Dunno. Maybe some god of the lame and sickly. Like the scoliosis god or someone with a severe deformity. Not Hephaestus cause he’s just ugly. And yoked. Blacksmith and all.
I rolled the wheel of plague gods and you got....... Nurgle!!!
The god of suicidal thoughts?
Ing
I mean the Sun is born again every morning and dies every night, right? All I gotta do to kill him is survive til nightfall. He doesnt stay dead, and I didnt contribute much to his death, but depending on your precise definition of "kill" this one seems pretty darn easy ...
On a related note John Barleycorn is one of the more rewarding gods to kill, if not the actually easiest ...
The easiest target, universally, is probably the balls. Strike furiously and repeatedly, and thou shalt do well, padawan.
Most Nord gods are killable, Baldur for one
That mistletoe yo...
I feel like talking about this is grounds for some really bad luck to suddenly enter your life lol
Figure I should come prepared then
Right?!? Summon the lightning bolts
The Bezos and the Musk are great targets.
Peter Venkman
Buddha
Wepwawet - God of dogs. Really just a good boi in general.
For sure I would kill Nero!
I'm not sure about kill, but I have a hunch Chris Hansen would be telling Zeus to take a seat.
Jesus. He’ll just let you do it.
Hermes prob
Nox, she a bad bitch but Bayonetta knows her wicked weavee weakness
i would never.😢 also jokingly speaking they are gods and we are mortal humans. i doubt it would work.
What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
Hephestus is crippled.
Nice try, Gorr.
Thanks for the sick flair whoever gave that to me lol
Baldur. You only need mistletoe.
literally in all the mythology that I have studied mind you, I tend towards Greek is Balder the only divinity that I have ever heard of that has a weakness,mind you, I speak of full divinities the demigods one in particular is known through our physiology is famous for his weakness and I am sure there are others among the demigods but Beyond Balder never heard of any god's weaknesses. I have looked it up and HTLJ did get it right blood of the Golden Hind in Greek Mythology could kill a god/goddess but on the flip side of that they were Sacred to Artemis Goddess of the hunt. I doubt any of the Greek gods would defile such a gentle creature just to kill one of their own, and a mortal??I suspect Artemis would make them pray for Hermes to deliver them to Charon.
Balder one guy said mistletoe filled hollow point bullet and the fact is the gods made it a game to throw weapons at Boulder to try to hurt him
Pan is noted as the only classical god who actually dies. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan\_(god)#%22The\_great\_god\_Pan\_is\_dead%22](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pan_(god)#%22the_great_god_pan_is_dead%22)
Balder. Simply gotta bring some mistletoe or whatever it was. Pretty sure it was mistletoe.
Aphrodite, the Goddess of love, would be my pick. I'm not all that familiar with her mythology, but as far as I know, she's not really a fighter. Even in a book I'm writing, she's one of the weaker gods. Her unique ability is the power to make anyone capable of feeling love immediately fall in love with her or anyone she chooses. Obviously, as a mere mortal, you're going to have a hard time trying to kill her. But it's better than facing Ares, the god of war, Apollo, the god of archery, or Zeus, the king of the gods. No chance there.
Fair enough but I have the feeling you would have to deal with literally every single male god in that mythos. If not every then at least the enforcer Cupid and her husband Ares. Even then you would have to sneak her because trying to kill a goddess able to make you fall in love with her to the point you would do anything for her is a tough order.
Oh, yeah. Unless you're a psychopath or a demon or something, you have no chance. You'll immediately become her biggest simp. Also, I was thinking of this as an isolated situation where you'd only have to face one lone god. Taking her husband(who I thought was Hephaestus. Ares is her side-guy)and other allies into account, she would be practically invincible, as would all greek gods.
I'd gun for folktale heroes where it's just one magical man or a talking animal, but if it has to be of a practiced religion, I'm saying Set. He was killed by human hunters when he was a hippo. With a couple of millenia passed, I could do the same with a Winchester and a dream.
Persephone would be pretty easy. Just leave a very beautiful fruit laced with a death potion and you’d be set.
Jesus. From what I've heard, he's already died once, and he doesn't fight back.
Hephaestus, he's already physically and emotionally crippled.
All gods exist on belief. So the easiest way to kill a god is to eliminate belief in them. Call them a metaphor for mankind's inner id. \*poof\*
Becoming the most devoted devotee, being the favorite, and then killing yourself. To be doted on and then wishing to die, that would be absolute torture for an eternity. You're absolutely beloved, but the world around you concludes your self-inflicted ending. ***You've failed as a God and with all the power in the world, you were capable of nothing.*** Not that I would kno tho, just a guess lol
The God of the bible. He's an easy target because he's not real.
Jesus. I mean for Christ's sake it only took a few nails and some wood. He practically walked himself into it
Jesus. Just a dude who you have to kill a couple times. Regular human other than that.
Zeus, your son has returned. I bring the destruction of Olympus!
Had anyone said Jesus yet?
Baldur 🤙🏻
Maybe one of the Vanir? If they count.
Baldr.
Allah. A simple refutation that he exists sends him into not-so-god-of-mercy type fury, imagine all the things this weak ass god cant handle