God (Dogma)

God was a celestial superbeing whose freedom from imprisonment was the focus of the 1999 comedy movie Dogma.

Description
As the creator of all of existence, God could appear to be anything that He wished to be. However, as was revealed through the course of the film, despite being referred to as "He," God was actually genderless, but preferred to assume the form of a playful young woman. The Metatron stated that God was both fun and lonely. The mere sound of His voice was sufficient to make the heads of lesser beings explode, and thus, He had the Metatron speak for Him.

Despite being the supreme being and ruler of all of creation, God had a certain fondness for one of his last projects: Mankind. Whilst He was initially a merciless and wrathful creator, as time went by, He became a more benevolent deity.

History
In the beginning, God's word was the law, and any who broke it was subject to his divine vengeance. He struck down those who defied him, using the Angel of Death Loki as the instrument of his will. As the centuries passed, however, He became a more gentle being, more willing to let the transgressions of his Human children pass.

By the time of the film, God had taken to walking amongst mortals, inhabiting the body of a human every so often in order to play His favourite pastime: Skee-ball. Unfortunately for God, one of the fallen angels, a Muse named Azrael, had been watching His activities, and had his minions attack and disable the body which God had taken, placing it into a coma. This action locked God into a physical body from which He could not escape until death, and allowed Azrael to enact his own plan to destroy all of creation.

Realising that Humanity (and all of existence) was at risk, but unable to act directly, the Metatron gathered what resources he had, and put together a small group of supernatural beings and mortals to find God and restore Him to His power.

Eventually working out what had happened to God, the group managed to track the human form in which God was imprisoned, and freed him, but not before renegade angel Bartleby had laid waste to most of the town of Red Bank, New Jersey, and killed the sterile Bethany Sloane.

Upon regaining His celestial power, God reverted the world to the way it was before Bartleby's attack, and revived Bethany, in the process giving her the child which she had craved for so long.