I'm a great fan of anime. One of my all time fav is Gensomaden Saiyuki, it's a pseudo-Journey to the West anime. It has the monk and his 3 disciples which, thankfully, replaced the original characters with cool looking dudes with special powers.

Anyway, I remembered watching this series with a particular storyline...where a war god went rogue. He whacked alot of people including the monk and his disciples to steal the holy scripture in a desperate attempt to recreate the world.

Why would a war god do (Homura) that? He fell in love but according to the laws of heaven he is prohibited from doing such humanly act. And Homura almost succeeded until a convenient genetic flaw (he is half human btw) in his body threatened his life, which gave the monk the opportunity to wound him. Until the very end, I realized that Homura actually allowed himself to be defeated and killed. The truth was that Homura knew his ideals would never be accepted in the real world in the first place. He went rogue because he was dying and he wanted to see his ideals, dreams and passion come to life. A got a revelation before he died...the monk hated the world too!
I read somewhere that every each one of us are a microcosm. We are our own world. We can create our own...so then are we...Gods? Yes?