God is the forger and master of Creation; encompassing Heaven, Earth, and Hell, as well as all the beings therein. His angels describe him as the Alpha and the Omega; the Truth, the Resurrection, and the Way - the bright Morning Star. He abandoned Heaven for reasons unknown.
After the Apocalypse was averted and Jesse Custer rejected him, God returned to Heaven where he found the Saint of Killers waiting for him. After failing to convince the Saint of Killers to stand down, the Saint shot God dead.
Biography
Creation of life
During the beginning of time, God created the dinosaurs. However, after witnessing a dinosaur eat its own droppings, he deemed dinosaurs to be a failure and extinguished them from the planet.
Death of the Saint of Killers' family
God facilitated a meeting with Satan that ultimately decided on killing the Saint of Killers' family.[1]
Abandoning Heaven
It is unknown why, but God had left Heaven.[2]
At one point, God reportedly frequented She She's strip club to listen to jazz music.[3]
He eventually made his way to New Orleans, where he dressed as a dalmatian and got into sex acts.[4]
Just as Tulip was resurrected, God told her he has chosen her for a mission to "Get those sonsabitches".[5]
When The Grail appeared in Angelville with Jessie's soul fragment to complete the deal for Jessie to become the Grails new messiah, Tulip attacked them in retaliation for her death believing they were the "sonsabitches" God was referring to. Tulip accidentally began her assault before Jessie could receive the 1% of his soul and thus prevented him from accessing Genesis.
God pulled Tulip over as she was driving along a road in Angelville, appearing in his Dalmatian suit riding a motorcycle with a beautiful blonde riding with him. He thanked Tulip for her service and revealed that Tulip screwing up and preventing this exchange thereby stranding Jessie in Angelville was his intent all along. When Tulip asked why he was on Earth, God said he was preparing a test for humanity. Tulip immediately called "bullsh*t" and chastised God for simply being on Earth to indulge his vices. God became enraged and told Tulip that though he was a loving god to "NOT PUSH IT" he then launched Tulip against her car and sped off on his motorcycle.
After a shootout with neo-Nazis, God froze time just before Tulip, the Angel of Death, and Eugene were about to be blasted by a tank shell. God reminded Tulip that he is a loving God. He promised Tulip he'd bless the O'Hare name if she convinces Jesse to call off his search for God but is dismissed. God warns Tulip that Cassidy is in danger but Tulip doesn't believe him.[1]
Powers & Abilities
God is typically believed to be both omniscient and omnipotent. However, in the lore of Preacher, God's influence seems to be more limited. While he is certainly powerful and the creator of the cosmos, he is far less majestic or absolute than what is usually ascribed to the deity.
- Creation: God created all that is and ever was. He stated that before his creation he was alone in an endless void and so created Heaven and angels to love him but after a time grew bored and so created the cosmos and all life as we know it.
- Destruction: God himself says that if he wanted, he could have blown up everything, but he didn't do it for his own entertainment. However, from what has been seen, this destruction is limited, as he could not destroy the Saint of Killers or Jesse Custer when he possessed Genesis.
- Space-Time Separation: God can create places that are outside of space-time, as well as having created the concept of space-time itself and is therefore above them.
- Immortality: God existed in the void before creation itself and would have continued living indefinitely if not for being killed by the Saint of Killers.
- Electrokinesis: God can summon powerful rays of lightning with his fingertips, as he did against the Saint of Killers before being shot and killed by him.
- Illusionism: God has the ability to create illusions in a person's mind, he mostly uses this power to manipulate a person, demonstrated when he used this power to manipulate Cassidy, creating a false world of his family's house, or when he used the teddy bear from the daughter of the Saint of Killers, creating a calm false landscape of vegetation.
- Transformation: When God threatened Tulip, he grew several feet within seconds, towering over most humans. His dog suit was also instantly transformed into a robe, making his appearance closer to how he is usually depicted in Judeo-Christian imagery. It is possible that this is his original form as he has stated many times that man was made in his image.
- Fate Manipulation: God has stated he has the ability to manipulate the destiny of an individual, being able to decide their fates down to even the smallest details. The limit of this power is not known.
- Telekinesis: God was able to knock Tulip back several feet with a telekinetic blast. At Jesse's command (using the power of Genesis) God violently threw himself around a landscape repeatedly slamming into the ground. God has the power to fly using telekinesis, demonstrated when he was floating in the sky when receiving the news that Genesis had escaped, after which he flew into space.
- Invisibility: In an event from the past, we saw that in the past God was watching Jesse Custer's childhood and could not be seen or noticed by anyone.
- Chronokinesis: God prevented Tulip from being blown up by a tank by stopping time, everything there stopped except Tulip, demonstrating that God can choose what is paralyzed by time and what is not, moreover, when Jesse gave the order to God to make the day turn into night and vice versa, God reversed time for this to happen. But apparently the rest of the world is unaffected, so God can also choose who or something will experience temporal regression.
- Spatiokinesis: In the middle of heaven there is a door that apparently leads nowhere. However, when opened, it leads directly to a corridor that takes you to the throne of God.
- Teleportation: Despite often traveling on a motorcycle, God is able to teleport anywhere at will being able to even teleport to places outside the physical realm such as heaven or hell
- Almost Omniscience: God claims to be all-knowing, though this is not entirely true and may be a statement based on him being the architect of creation and simply being present for all of creation’s history. God was totally unaware of the Saint of Killers actions in Heaven which allowed the Saint to surprise and kill him.
- Near Omnipresence: God also presented knowledge of events in locations far from his presence. However, he has certain limitations when outside his throne, not knowing absolutely everything that is happening, but capable of gathering information from around the world. Intervening in situations involving Tulip, Jesse and Herr Starr on multiple occasions despite being nowhere near them and learning Humperdoo's location and telling Herr Starr.
- Divine Banishment: God can banish someone or even an entity to hell, as he did with the Saint of Killers, banishing him to hell since he had no place in heaven.
- Organic Manipulation: God altered Herr Star's physiology so that he was more physically beautiful.
- Atmokinesis: God has the ability to control the weather and is capable of creating thunderstorms powerful enough to bring down a commercial airliner.
- Meteor Generation: When God became disappointed with his last creation, Dinosaurs, he created a shower of meteors and wiped them out, and it is said that he would also launch a rain of fireballs in the apocalypse.
- Zoolingualism: God seems to be able to communicate with and control animals telepathically, as he apparently controlled sharks to devour Steve's corpse to annoy Jesse, and later a dingo to bite off Herr Starr's penis.
- Near Invulnerability: God is extremely durable and existed in the void before creation. He was able to withstand the force of a nuclear blast and the asteroid shower he summoned to wipe out the dinosaurs. The only weapons in creation capable of harming and killing him were the Saint of Killer's guns.
- Almost intangibility: God, when he provoked Tulip made her shoot him countless times, but apparently the bullets didn't hit him, even though she aimed directly at his head, they had no effect, but this intangibility is apparently limited to ordinary attacks, as he could not avoid attacks from the Saint of Killers and Jesse Custer.
- Resurrection: As the creator of all life, God is able to bring any person back from the dead, as he did Jesse Custer.
- Superhuman Strength: God was able to casually overpower Jesse Custer with one arm.
Appearances
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
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Behind the scenes
- God is portrayed by Mark Harelik.
Trivia
- Dog is backwards for God.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (August 26, 2018). Preacher Season 3: "The Light Above". Episode 33
- ↑ Catlin, Sam (writer), Catlin, Sam (director) (July 31, 2016). Preacher Season 1: "Call and Response". Episode 10. (1x09).
- ↑ Catlin, Sam (writer), Goldberg, Evan & Rogen, Seth (directors) (June 25, 2017). Preacher Season 2: "On The Road". Episode 11. (2x01).
- ↑ Laws, Mary (writer), Green, Steph (director) (August 21, 2017). Preacher Season 2: "Dirty Little Secret". Episode 20. (2x10).
- ↑ Catlin, Sam (writer), Slovis, Michael (director) (June 24, 2018). Preacher Season 3: "Angelville". Episode 24