Trope Pantheons/Shape

Like the deities that inhabit it, the House of Shape is always constantly changing. One second, it could be a massive, gothic cathedral and in the space of an eyeblink, will transform into giant space station. Sometimes the changes are that quick, sometimes it sticks to one shape for a while. Visitors often find this particular House disorienting and frightening, and its terrifyingly easy to get lost in the constantly morphing hallways. The House of Defense is constantly being called to help look for deities foolish enough to believe that they can map out the House's ever changing depths. One of the few constants is that there are always buckets and pools of cold and hot water lying around.

There is a sliiight (okay, forty-two percent) chance that at some point a visitor will be subjected to a transformation upon entry. Commonly into the body of an attractive member of the opposite sex. So far, it's always worn off within a couple of days.

== Luna, God/dess of Chaos, Change, and Voluntary Shapeshifting  (The Silver Goddess, the Argent Madonna, the Fickle Lady, the White Navigator, the Two-Faced Bride, the Bloody Huntress, the Silver-Horned Watcher, the Walker at the Crossroads, and many, many others) == Once, there was a maiden... ...who danced across the heavens in a thousand shining forms. ''She fell in love with a shepherd in a high meadow. He loved her back, but feared her. Who could feel otherwise before her beautiful horror?'' But when he slept, she came to him in his cave. ''She lay with him and embraced him. This bound her to him, but she didn't mind.'' "The world is a dream, and I am not a maiden," she said.
 * Greater Deity
 * Symbol: Five silver sigils representing the full, waxing, half, waning, and new moon
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: The Moon, Dreams and Madness, The Wyld, Chaos and Change, Transformation
 * Domains: Chaos, Charm, Dream, Good, Illusion, Madness, Moon, Night, Transformation
 * Allies: The Unconquered Sun, The Five Maidens
 * Followers: The Lunar Exalted
 * The Scripture of the Changing Maiden:

Getter Robo, God of Escalating Evolution (Getter Dragon, Shin Getter, Shin Dragon, Getter Emperor)

 * Greater Deity
 * Symbol: A Tomahawk crossed with a Drill
 * Alignment: True Neutral, supposedly, but usually only cooperates with those of Neutral to Good alignments
 * Portfolio: Ludicrously Evolving Technology, Seeming Creation Of Matter Out Of Nothingness, The Complete And Utter Destruction Of The Laws Of Physics, Transforming Mecha, Combining Mecha
 * Domain: Transformation, Destruction, Evolution
 * Allies: Ryoma Nagare, Musashi Tomoe, Guy Shishioh and Kamina, Noriko Takaya
 * Followers: The Gurren Lagann, Gunbuster, countless robots and mecha pilots
 * While there are multiple Getter Robos, they are actually manifestations of the same Getter Energy, a conscious force that represents evolution at the cosmic level. As such, it is not so much being controlled by its pilots as they direct the energy it provides. This energy is in a state of constant evolution, developing more and more power to counter ever escalating opposition.

Tohru Honda, Goddess of Transformation (Maiden of the Sohma Clan)

 * Lesser Goddess
 * Symbol: A riceball
 * Alignment: depends on the Zodiac Sign, but mostly Lawful Good
 * Portfolio: Romance Genre Heroines, Pollyannas, Collision Damage, Involuntary Shapeshifters, Secret Keepers, Messiahs, Orphans
 * Domain: Animal, Hope, Pact

Frieza, God of the Bishonen Line (The Terror of Namek, FRIEEEEEEEZAAAAAAAAA!!!)

 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: An egg with a purple shell
 * Alignment: Lawful Evil
 * Portfolio: Evil Overlords, Galactic Conquerors, Power Limiters, Painful Transformations, One Winged Angels, Bishonen Line Transformations
 * Domain: Destruction, Tyranny, Order, Evil
 * Followers: All Arrancars
 * Often confuses the other gods by appearing in his myriad other forms. No one has seen Final Frieza and lived...except for Jack Bauer. And Goku.

== Orochimaru, God and Goddess of Body Theft ==
 * Lesser Deity
 * Symbol: A snake
 * Alignment: Neutral Evil
 * Portfolio: Disguise, Grand Theft Me, Staying Alive, Body Surfing, Manipulative Bastards, Snakes, Squicky use of Japanese Pronouns.
 * Domain: Chaos, Corruption, Destruction, Evil, Planning, Tyranny
 * Enemies: Naruto, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Sasuke
 * Due to his/her unparalleled mastery of disguise on account of his/her Possession Jutsu, anyone at any time could potentially be Orochimaru. Note, also, that Orochimaru and Voldemort have never been seen in the same place at the same time.

Ranma Saotome, God and Goddess of Gender Bending (Aquatranssexual, Ranko)

 * Male/Female Quasideity
 * Symbol: A bucket and kettle
 * Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
 * Portfolio: Wholesome Crossdressers, The Three Laws of Gender Bending, Curses of Awesomeness, Involuntary Shapeshifting, Dropping Bridgets, Chick Magnets, Dude Magnets
 * Domains: Water, Transformation, Chaos, Magic, Madness
 * Followers: Everyone from the webcomics The Wotch and El Goonish Shive, but especially Anne and Tedd (although Elliot gets a bit annoyed at him when people dump buckets of water over his head).
 * Ranma is not happy about his/her position, but all attempts to give it to one of his/her imitators have met with failure.
 * Ranma is on pretty good terms with Naruto and Nanoha simply because he believes in Making Friends like they do and gets very angry when the one he loves is in serious danger. Of course, being a bit of a jerk, it tends to be good terms with a side of friendly rivalry.

Veralidaine Sarrasri, Goddess of Animals (Daine)

 * Intermediate Goddess
 * Symbol: A silver Badger's Claw
 * Alignment: Neutral Good
 * Portfolio: Animals, Archery, Heroic Bastards, Voluntary Shapeshifting, Talking to Animals, Kickass Women
 * Domain: Animal, Nature, Magic, Animorphism
 * Unlike the majority of the other gods, started as a Demigoddess. Says that both of her parents are also gods, but unaffiliated with the Pantheon. Of the two Houses that she frequents, she vastly prefers Nature, since there are many more animals and the constant shifting makes her a little queasy.
 * In the form of a giant bird, once killed an opponent by voiding her bowels into his face. He inhaled, the silly clunch. Don't chase her when she's out for vengeance.
 * The God of Transformation Trauma was once counted among her enemies, but now that he's not leaving the House and so pitiable... She still gets into arguments with him, but she's softening. Of late she has been in the House of Knowledge, looking up ways to keep a mind intact.

Angua von Uberwald, Goddess of Werecreatures (Sergeant Angua)

 * Lesser Deity
 * Symbol: A badge of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, on a dog-collar
 * Alignment: Lawful Good
 * Portfolio: Wolf Men (and Women), Voluntary Shapeshifting, Minds Shaped By Bodies, Animorphism, Talking To Animals
 * Followers: Rahne Sinclair, John Talbain, Keine Kamishirasawa, George Sands
 * Domains: Shape, Moon, Animal
 * Captain Carrot is her boyfriend; they enjoy patrolling together. Angua, having a sense of modesty, at one point kept clothing cached all across the Pantheon. She was very pleased when Reed Richards gave her and her followers clothing made of Unstable Molecules that wouldn't be ruined by shifting. True, they cling really well here and here, and now there is no chance of her being mistaken for a normal dog, but it's quite a nice gesture.
 * Has formed a support group for some video game gods recently afflicted with this sort of shifting, such as Link and Sonic.

Cobra Commander, God of Transformation Trauma, Former God of Terrorists Without a Cause

 * Demigod. He wassss once an Intermediate Deity!
 * Symbol: The Cobra insignia
 * Alignment: Was once Neutral Evil, but has been swinging more and more neutral of late.
 * Portfolio: Loudly Proclaiming His Evilness Before The World, Evil Aristocracy, Dog Kickery, Sssssnaketalk A Deliberately Obscured Face, Body Horror
 * Domains: Scalykind, Evil, Anarchy
 * Followers: Lampwick, who also qualified for this position but managed to be so piteous that Angua converted him into a weredonkey; Flint Marko, who was almost qualified, but managed to reclaim something like his human form; Blackarachnia.
 * Used to belong solely to the House of War, until he managed to enrage Voldemort, who cast Baleful Polymorph. Cobra Commander almost immediately fled to this House, and has not left since. The fact that Orochimaru sets out dead rats for Cobra Commander to eat whenever he's in his "mindless snake" form is often touted as evidence that Voldemort and Orochimaru are not the same person, but they haven't seen that gloating expression he wears while watching.
 * Cycles from scarred human to giant snake and back. Outside of this house he's stuck as a snake. He's become rather less evil and more sympathetic, seeming genuinely repentant and much more willing to rely on those he'd previously loathed, Daine in particular.
 * Has the same screechy, grating voice as Starscream, but regrettably for him, less fangirls.

Tobias, God of Shapeshifter Mode Lock

 * Demigod
 * Symbol: silhouette of a hawk
 * Alignment: Neutral Good (human laws no longer affect him)
 * Portfolio: La Résistance, Animorphism, Voluntary Shapeshifting
 * Domains: Flight, Animals
 * His Godship is a little contested as he isn't exactly mode-locked anymore, but it is known that if he stays as a human or any other non-hawk animal for more than two hours, he will lose ALL his power, divine and not, other than that carried by that form.
 * Has been claimed to Wangst a great deal over his condition, though reports have varied.
 * Not to be confused with Tobias Funke.

Euclid, God of Basic Geometric Forms

 * Demigod (was once a greater god)
 * Symbol: A proof by construction that, given a line segment, an equilateral triangle exists that includes the segment as one of its sides.
 * Alignment: True Neutral
 * Portfolio: Geometry, Elementary Number Theory, Logic
 * Reduced to Demigod-hood by Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky and JÃ¡nos Bolyai. He got his revenge on Lobachevsky by alleging that he stole his ideas from another mathematician in a hilarious song he wrote for Tom Lehrer. He got his revenge on JÃ¡nos by giving him the nickname "Ball-Eye".
 * Geometry without his supervision often has... unpleasant results.

Tedd Verres, God of Transformation Rays

 * Lesser God
 * Symbol: The TF Gun
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: Transformation Rays, Gender Bending (as well as many of it's sub tropes), Furries.
 * Domains: Magic, Gender, Shape, Form
 * Used to be a member of the Technology House until he revealed that his Transformation Ray was actually powered by magic, at which point he was relocated to the Magic House. Was subsequently frog-marched here when he pissed off Sakura by turning her into a Catgirl (which, he maintains, she enjoyed). Likes it a lot better here.
 * Often zaps people for the hell of it.

Alucard, God of Regeneration and hell hounds

 * Greater God
 * Symbol: Demonic grin, tongue hanging out
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good in the anime and Lawful Evil in the manga and OVAS
 * Portfolio: Hand Cannon, Healing Factor, Super Strength.
 * Domains: Magic, Shape, Form, Darkness
 * Friends: The Joker, Dracula, Dracula, Dracula, and Vlad Tepes
 * Enemies: the Magpyrs
 * No one is quite sure whether Alucard and Dracula (or any of the other incarnations of Dracula) are seperate individuals or just different aspects of the same being, though it's probably irrelevant as he would most likely kill them regardless if given the order.
 * Has a rather ambiguous relationship with his namesake, for obvious reasons, to say nothing of the confusion that often arises when referring to one of them in converstion.
 * Absolutely loathes Edward Cullen and the rest of his ilk, and would probably slaughter them if given the oppurtunity, order or no order. Then again, there are many who would encourage this course of action.
 * Has recently taken an interest in Shiki Tohno since the latter's killing of Nrvnqsr Chaos might mean that he is capable of defeating him. Blood Knight that Alucard is, this is an extremely enticing prospect.

Shang Tsung, God of Shapeshifting and Soul Absorptions

 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: A green orb of soul
 * Alignment: Neutral Evil
 * Portfolio: Shape Shifter, Betrayal, Soul-Sucking.
 * Domains: Shape, Soul, Magic, Evil
 * Allies: Starscream
 * Followers Those whose souls he absorbed: The Skrulls (Marvel Universe)
 * Shang Tsung was formerly just a Lesser God, and was actually competing the place of the God of Shapeshifting with the Skrull, especially their Queen Veranke. Fortunately, after Veranke's blunder of her perfect disguise for years and ended up not doing anything significant with it, Shang Tsung took advantage of it and absorbed her soul, followed with her whole race, giving Tsung tremendous power and lifts him to the power of Intermediate God.
 * However, by a strike of bad luck, Shang Tsung was ambushed by Wilhelm von Juergen and although he escaped, he lost grip to Veranke's soul, which now resides within Juergen's ODE as a result. Shang Tsung swore revenge, claiming that Juergen should know his place better than to mess with him.
 * Together with Starscream, Shang Tsung now plots to backstab every Gods in the Pantheons and then absorb them, giving him the power to Shapeshift to anyone with ease.

Sephiroth, God of Villainous Shapeshifting (The Man in the Black Cape, The One-Winged Angel, "Sephy")

 * Theme Song: "One-Winged Angel"
 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: A meteor with a single black wing extending from it.
 * Alignment: Neutral Evil
 * Portfolio: Badasses who wear coats and have long hair, White-Haired Males, Giant Katanas, Power-Induced Wing Growth, disproportionally loved villains, disturbing obsessions with one's enemies
 * Domains: Katanas, Shapeshifting, Hair, Wings
 * Allies: Prefers to work alone, but will work with any Evil-aligned deity if it suits his needs.
 * Enemies: Cloud, Aerith
 * Followers: An army of fangirls who will do anything he commands.
 * Since ascending he's made regular visits to Cloud in the House of Weapons, taunting that Cloud's ascension to his position was something he had planned to happen. Some have mentioned to Sephiroth his rivalry with Cloud seems a bit too obsessive, but he pays no attention.
 * Since being conscripted by Lord Chaos in the House of Time And Space to serve him, he's been forced to work with some unsavory characters, most prominently Kefka. Their followers have been seen coming to blows over which of the two is superior as a villain. Kefka just enjoys the show while Sephiroth finds the very premise of the argument ridiculous.

Queen Chrysalis, Goddess of Impersonation (Changeling Queen, )

 * Intermediate Goddess
 * Symbol: a twisted black unicorn horn surrounded with Sickly Green Glow
 * Alignment: Neutral Evil
 * Portfolio: Taking another person's appearance, ponyshifting, illusion, feeding off The Power of Love, brainwashing, plans, darkness, queens of insect-people, singing, evilness
 * Domains: Impersonation, Brainwashing, Shapeshifting, Magic, Evil
 * Ascended to the Pantheon fraudulously, under the guise of another mortal who was due for ascension to divinity. Was soon unmasked, but eventually it was decided by the gods to avoid the trouble of banishing her and letting her fill this position.
 * Often attempts kidnapping of various people and poses as them to feed off the love of their love interests. Is not very good at replicating emotions though, and usually gets unmasked by others.
 * Her clever mind and shapeshifting powers can grant her entrance to certain secret reunions she was not supposed to be part of. Sometimes foiled by having to say a password she doesn't know, though other times she manages to remedy it with a brainwashing blast to the face.
 * Is strictly prohibited from entering the Pantheon of Love.
 * Not because she would consider it an all-you-can-eat buffet lying in wait, but because the sheer amount of unstoppable love energy would cause rather messy consequences.
 * At the same time, however, it has been known that she tends to underestimate the very energy she feeds on and, prior to her ascension, it has been used against her.

Bruce Banner, God of Strong Transformations Caused By Anger (The Incredible Hulk)

 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: A purple pants.
 * Alignment: Neutral Good when in Bruce form, Chaotic Neutral when in Savage Hulk form, Lawful Good in Merged Hulk form
 * Portfolio: Genius Bruiser, Science Hero, Warnings Of You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry (which will cause transformation into 'monster'), Hulk Speak, Raw Power, Big Green Guy, Hot-Blooded, "Smashing Puny Humans"
 * Domain: Shape, Emotion, Combat
 * Allies: Steve Rogers, Thor, Asura
 * Pissed Off With: Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Stephen Strange (he's still mad about being shot into space)
 * Is said to rival Asura in strength when he's angry. Bullies beware.
 * Hulk has a very strong dislike towards bad and abusive parents like Kazuya Mishima, Ghetsis Harmonia and Relius Clover. The reason was because Hulk used to have an utterly abusive father that put him through anger so many times.
 * Has recently rose in prominence when he shuts up a boasting on a certain God by slamming him to the ground so many times and ending with the now-oft-phrased words "Puny God"

The God of Reinvention dwells in the House of Music, but frequently visits here.