God (DreamWorks)

God is the unseen overarching protagonist of DreamWorks' 2nd full-length animated feature The Prince of Egypt, and its spin-off Joseph: King of Dreams, both based in stories from the Bible. He is based on the Catholic God. He is an all-powerful being responsible for the world's creation, that, in the films where he features in, usually chooses humans to act as his messengers and enact his plans, namely Moses and Joseph.

He was voiced by Val Kilmer.

His Good Ranking[]

What Makes Him Admirable?[]

The Prince of Egypt[]

He likely did all of the good things he does in the Bible prior to the events of the films, such as creating the world, banishing Satan from Heaven, etc.
It's implied that He protected a baby Moses while he was going down the river in a basket.
He choose Moses to free his people after he defended an old slave against an Egyptian guard, accidentally killing him in the process.
After Moses denied his call to free his people, God furiously demanded it, remembering him that he is the Lord and created all thing, but proceeding to comfort and calm down Moses, ensuring He'd be with him in every step of his journey.
Used his powers to transform Moses's stick in a snake in front of the Egyptians, in an attempt to make them acknowledge his power and free the slaves.
Once Ramses proved he couldn't be reasoned with, God unleashed Seven Plagues upon the land of Egypt, and while this was very extremistic of him, it should be noted that a great part of Egypt's suffering belongs to Ramses, as he refused to let the slaves go even after seeing the plagues and its consequences.
When the Hebrews were leaving Egypt, He opened the Red Sea so they could cross it safely, and when the Egyptian armies tried to get them by crossing it too, he closed the sea again, killing them.
He gave Moses the Ten Commandments to help guide people in the good way.

Joseph: King of Dreams[]

Blessed a boy named Joseph with the ability to correctly interpret dreams he gave him himself.
He gave Joseph a dream about how Egypt would have seven incredibly good years, with lots of fortune and food, but those would be followed by seven miserable years of sorrow. This allowed Joseph, who turned in the Pharaoh's adicer, later the Pharaoh himself, to prepare the land to it with his plan of saving lots of food during the good years, so the population wouldn't starve during the sorrow, and He did it to save Egypt, the same land that once enslaved his own people.

What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]

He is an extremist who takes very questionable methods while doing his heroic deeds, most notably the ten plagues unleashed upon all of Egypt, with the last one being literal mass infanticide, which is extremely morally dubious. Although one could argue it's for good motives, that just amounts to "the ends justify the means".
He lacks sufficent characterisation.

Trivia[]

He is one of the two DreamWorks Inconsistently Admirable, alongside Shrek and the only one to come from a 2D animated feature.
- He is also DreamWorks's first Inconsistently Admirable by order of release.
He, DreamWorks' first Inconsistently Admirable, comes from the same film that featured DreamWorks's first Inconsistently Heinous, Rameses.