Top 10 Comic Book Gods Worth Worshipping By Eric Diaz  [10 more lists]

Of all the super heroes based on mythological gods, it is the Mighty Thor who is the longest running and most popular.

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY THOR!

Created by Stan Lee in 1962, Thor was created simply because Lee was running out of ideas for giving normal humans super powers. There are only so many radioactive spiders and gamma bombs after all. So why not just make his new hero an actual God?

Instead of going for the more well known Greco/Roman myths, Stan and artist Jack Kirby opted for the lesser known Norse Viking mythology, and the whole thing worked like gangbusters. For some reason, Stan gave the Norse Gods the affectation of speaking in Shakespearean dialect, which made zero logical sense, and yet everybody rolled with it.

Although a contemporary of Spider-Man, The Hulk, and the X-Men, Thor never really achieved their mainstream success, although that is due to a change next year when Marvel Studios releases their Thor movie.

Hopefully by this time next year, little kids across America will be yielding plastic versions of Mjolnir, Thor's enchanted hammer, and speaking in 'thees" and "thous". We can only hope that our favorite God has the kind of success he deserves.

While the king of Mount Olympus exists in Marvel Comics, usually tangling with Thor or his own son Hercules, it is DC’s Zeus who gets this slot.

Why?

Because this version of Zeus is a bit more in line with Greek myths, and is therefore a complete and utter pig. He even wears flowing white bedding, like the Greeks did.

When his son Ares almost destroyed the world, as well as Olympus, but was thwarted by Wonder Woman, Zeus decided to reward Diana…with his man-piece. That's right, THAT man piece.

When Diana told him that God or no God, her nether regions were her own and she got to decide who gets near them, Zeus cast her down to the pits of Tartarus where she had to face all kinds of trails and monsters. Which of course she beat, making Zeus look even more like the douchey p***k he is.

But hey, at least he had confidence.

Fanboys may eternally rage back and forth on who is better, Marvel or DC, but in terms of who has the Ultimate Villain, DC wins hands down.

Why?

Because they have Darkseid, the God of Evil. I mean, how do you beat "God of Evil" for villainy?

Created by Jack Kirby in 1970 for DC after a falling out with Marvel, Kirby not only created Darkseid, but his entire own mythology with the New Gods series. While the actual series did not last that long, DC realized the potential in Darkseid and quickly upgraded him to #1 Villain Status.

Although he has had several media incarnations going back to the old animated Super Friends show, it is his portrayal by voice actor Michael Ironside on the Superman and Justice League animated series that remains the most iconic.

Used as the ultimate bad guy in most major DC epics (he was the main villain in The Legion of Super Heroes' Great Darkness Saga, The Teen Titans/X-Men crossover, and most recently Final Crisis) Darkseid remains comic's most awesome evil deity.

Even though she has origins in Greek mythology, Wonder Woman spent most of her career as merely a God powered Amazon, not an actual deity.

However, DC Comics killed Princess Diana off in August of 1997 (the same month and year as the real life Princess Diana... creepy!) and was promptly resurrected as the “Goddess of Truth” by the Olympian Gods.

Eventually, of course, Diana renounced her godhood and returned to the mortal world, where tons of gay men continue to worship her as a Goddess anyway (*ahem*).

I refer now to Marvel’s more super heroic version of Ares, not DC’s Wonder Woman arch villain (although isn’t war seen traditionally as a bad, villianous thing pretty much all the time?)

Actually, Marvel’s Ares also started out as a villain, primarily for Thor and Hercules, before going the Venom and Punisher route and becoming more of an anti-hero.

Most recently he was starring in the Mighty Avengers comic, although with Thor back in the Marvel Universe he was once again deemed useless and killed off, torn in half by The Sentry.

Some bad ass he turned out to be, when you are killed off by possibly Marvel's most hated character of all time (possibly because he's arguably one of the strongest).