The Gods Must Be Lazy/Playing With

Basic Trope: The higher power(s) who created the universe are conspicuously absent, sometimes even in situations where His/Her/Their intervention would seem to be most urgently needed.
 * Straight: The Divine Ones are too lazy to help with anything, even when they're needed.
 * Exaggerated: The Divine Ones sleep through The End of the World as We Know It
 * Downplayed: The Divine Ones only fight if the Big Bad is a Omnicidal Maniac.
 * Justified: The Divine Ones live by self-imposed rules against meddling in the mortal realm any more than what is absolutely necessary.
 * Inverted: The Divine Ones are so effective at battling evil that the mortal heroes sit back and watch
 * Subverted: They might seem lazy at first, but do something helpful later on.
 * Double Subverted: This something is delivering a Holy Hand Grenade. Its still up to the mortals to actually use it.
 * Parodied: The Divine Ones are sitting on couches and watch the Puny Humans fight from the sidelines, with popcorn
 * Zig Zagged: In one battle the Divine Ones help, but the next they don't, the following one they're more advisors then actually helpers but in the fourth they do everything.....
 * Averted: The gods get off their divine butts and actually do something helpful.
 * Enforced: How to Stop the Deus Ex Machina
 * Lampshaded: "Why don't the gods ever help us when we need their help!?"
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: The Genre Savvy Big Bad launches his plan on the presumption that the Divine Ones will not interfere.
 * Defied: He's wrong.
 * Discussed: "Are you sure we won't get in trouble for us?" "Of course not, the Divine Ones are lazy."
 * Conversed: "Here comes the handwave."

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