ULTRAKILL THEORY (again but more likely):
ULTRAKILL’s God is a Gnostic Demiurge.
In Gnostic faith there exists a being known as the Demiurge. The Gnostics described the Demiurge as an inferior, ignorant and malevolent deity who created the physical world. The Demiurge strived to entrap aspects of the divine within materiality. The physical world is also beholden to flaw as the Demiurge aimed to recreate the pleroma (albeit poorly) but also due to the fact that the Demiurge isn’t omniscient, omnipresent, nor all-powerful.
In ULTRAKILL, God is VERY much shown to be a flawed individual. He makes a ton of mistakes and feels both powerless to fix it as well as immense guilt over his creation of Hell. In Fraud we are shown a statue depicting God. I feel like this is symbolically calling God a fraudulent creator. Plus God’s statue depicts Him with the world in one hand and a hammer and chisel in the other harkening back to the meaning of Demiurge. God directly states that he cannot unmake Hell, showing that God isn’t all-powerful either. The world that God created was inherently flawed and everything in it was flawed; humanity was flawed with free will, war, and the eternal punishment of Hell, Angels were beset by apathy, vanity and pride, and Hell was never even in God’s control to begin with.
Eventually, God is gone. We’re still not sure if it was death or abandonment, though this makes me feel more the latter. Perhaps the Final war was the last straw and he left back to wherever he was from before Creation. Hell even pokes at God with this with stuff like the “The Fire is Gone”. I believe this is the whole reason we get the interplanetary part of 8-3. Dante’s Paradiso describes the different celestial bodies as the different planes of Heaven. It would then track if Hell is either
A.) Aware of God’s identity as a Demiurge and is calling ALL of His creation fraudulent, or
B.) essentially Hell is teasing God. God created everything but if Hell can create an imitation of God’s realm inside itself, then how important and/or necessary actually was God?
C.) Hell is directly calling out God for abandoning all of Creation. Putting God’s kingdom in Hell may be Hell’s way of essentially showing God’s fraud. He created ALL this and made people who needed Him and His light. Then He left, abandoning everything and everyone that needed Him.
















