you don't have to create to be a god, it's not like the geniune shinigami in his world do anything special the only difference is that they're immortal and depending on how you define a god you don't necessarily have to never be able to die, even the shinigami could die if they put themselves at risk.
The only thing worse are the people that try to defend those stories if you criticize it. They'll try to say crap like "BuT He'Ll dRaW atTenTioN to HiMSElf aNd his FRIENDS will be in DanGER!" and it's like bro, the MC hiding his power for no reason is precisely the reason why all the villains are messing with him in the first place.
stupid or not, those stories are very enjoyable. it's like watching a brawl: you know who will win but the process is entertaining.
To pull of a good "MC hiding his power" trope you'd normally need stakes high enough that MC flaunting his MCness would just make things worse for everyone involved instead of the typical "Oh noes, this random angwy person says mean things to me! Let's act like a punching bag, so they leave me alone! ME smarts! Me genus!!!" and then punching them 20 chapters of bullying later going "suprise MOTHAFAKKA! I could have punched you to oblivion 20 chapters ago, but I somehow needed to collect damsel points for reasons unknown to both readers and characters!"
Especially if the harem comes out of nowhere after there's already a solid and interesting relationship established.
I lost a lot of interest and eventually dropped death commando partially because of the latter. It marked the turning point where the story began feeling like a power fantasy. No hate to the author, and they still seemed to be doing decently with the story beyond that, just not my thing
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Lol k.
So nearly every Japanese harem protag ever? Yep. I hate it too. Even worse are the stories where MC seems deathly allergic of pretty women and erections, and nearly has a heart attack when a woman shows any interest. And these are teenage guys? Bullshit. Any teen guy with even a modicum of interest in women would already be stripping and leaping at any half pretty woman with breasts if she showed the interest and acceptance. I call bullshit on anyone saying otherwise. Hormones and all that.
That's a very narrow and poor definition of a God. Plenty of old belief systems featured Gods who never created and only destroyed. Hell, low hanging fruit example, Ares.
Agreed, but not for that reason.
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