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They're godlike, they're (usually) all related, and they're stuck together. Since they're so powerful that none of them can significantly hurt the others (most of the time), the plot is mostly about their sibling squabbles and Big Screwed-Up Family moments.

Examples of Pantheon Sitcom include:


Comic Books[]

Literature[]

  • The Amberites from the Book of Amber.
  • The main characters of Diana Wynne Jones' The Game. Then again, they're all characters from Greek mythology, so...
  • The House of the Gods, Dunmanifestin, in Discworld, to the point where priests relay "revelations" that sound a hell of a lot like the plot of a soap opera.
  • Percy Jackson has hints of this going on in the background, whenever Percy deals with the Gods.
  • The Greek gods in Everworld spend most of their time lounging around Mt. Olympus either partying or getting into sudden, violent arguments with each other so strong storms and whirlwinds suddenly appear from their anger. They keep this up even as the armies of a god-eating abomination are massing outside their house.
  • Several of Tom Holt's novels.
  • Michael Moorcock's Dreamers at the End of Time trilogy involves immortal, terribly jaded superhumans dealt with in this way.

Live-Action TV[]

Mythology[]

  • Any number of old-school pantheons.
    • Quite a lot of stories about the lesser gods in Hindu mythology come down to "Asuras do something the Devas don't like. Wacky hijinks ensue. Sometimes the higher gods get involved. At the end, Indra learns An Aesop."

Video Games[]

Web Comics[]

  • Homestuck falls into this during hivebent... and gets deconstructed.

Western Animation[]

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