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{{trope}}
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Let's say that you are right and everyone else is wrong, but everyone outside your little group of like-minded righteous people is simply too dumb to understand that you are superior. Surely, you would be tempted to try to reach their hearts by methods that might seem a little [[Played for Laughs|silly]] and counterproductive?
A character doing [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]] is likely to shout all the wrong slogans at all the wrong places: religious gatherings, family holiday dinners, even funerals. They might make botched attempts at [[Easy Evangelism]] or [[Epiphany Therapy]], coming across as a general [[Jerkass]]. They are likely to step on all toes, including their own, and trip over their own feet in all sorts of ways. One hallmark of this mentality is the desire to forbid other people from living their lives — not because they involve the character in the violation of [[Your Normal Is Our Taboo|some taboo]] and not because they disobey [[Moral Guardians|some "universal" morality derived from the faith]], but simply because they exist and isn't a part of the character's [[Small Secluded World]]. Some psychologists have argued that the reason why some cultists are behaving like this is that they are desperately trying to convince ''themselves'' of the righteousness of their cause.
When [[The Fundamentalist]] (or any other [[The Only Righteous Index of Fanatics|fanatic]]) is played this way, they can still be scary. There might be a real risk that they'll go off the deep end and bring out the [[Torches and Pitchforks]] or resort to [[Honor
Extra bonus points if two or more groups are doing this at the same time ''against each other''. This might lead to spineless authorities giving in to ''both'' sides, resulting in particularly surreal and hilarious cases of [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]].
Silly, scary, or both, while the person doing
Note that a character doesn't have to be an organized activist to be this trope, taking an activist attitude is enough.
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Compare [[Straw Loser]] and [[Black and White Insanity]]. Contrast [[Against My Religion]], where the character personally refuses to do things that he considers to be against his religion, rather than trying to bully everyone else into behaving the same way. Also contrast [[The Soulsaver]] and [[Soulsaving Crusader]], which can contain behavior that would be this trope if it weren't justified within the narrative. A particularly over-the-top [[Soapbox Sadie]] might act this way for every new cause that pops into her head.
{{noreallife|being on this list is not a usually taken as a compliment. Besides, do you really want to give them any publicity?}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
** Interestingly, Marianne and her [[The Lancer|lancer]], Nina, are shown to be really loving and caring people. This strongly indicates that the reason they are such [[Jerkass|jerks]] with their antics is that they believe they don't have a choice - that it's somehow their holy duty to act as if they were psychopaths.
* Inverted in ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'': no matter how horrible things get, no one ever show any outrage against the system. Two of the three protagonists have emotional outbursts of dissaproval and almost hate, but always [[Internalized Categorism|aimed at themselves]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Deryni
== [[Live
* One ''[[Boston Legal]]'' episode had two religious groups suing each other for blasphemy-related charges.
* On ''[[True Blood]]'', we have the Fellowship of the Sun, a cult running on a quite scary flavor of silliness.
** Except that {{spoiler|Rev. Steve Newlin, the leader of said cult, is now a vampire - the very creature he campaigns against.}}
* Virgilia in the ''North And South'' miniseries is a particularly scary example. At first, she was merely ruining family dinners and such, but she eventually goes off the deep end and even calls down a [[Torches and Pitchforks|lynch mob]] on [[Moral Event Horizon|her own home]]. The saddest part is that her family actually agreed all along with the core of her political agenda, what they can't stand is her extreme [[Black and White Morality]].
* ''[[Penn
** Or rather, they are ''very'' fond of making sure to get the footage of the groups acting this way, rather than a more "rational" response stated at another date. As per Penn's own description, "Fair, and
* In ''[[
** What makes that second example even funnier was that another group also denounced the Twilight books for the ''opposite'' reason: they found the books ''too'' Christian (presumably because they were written by a Brigham Young University graduate).
* In one ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' episode, a guy has tried for eight years to get his kidnapped brother back. The police and everyone else stopped caring many years ago, so he resorted to kidnapping and raping a woman just to get the police's attention. {{spoiler|Oh, and the woman is, of course, in on it, pulling off a little [[Romanticized Abuse]] show to the audience as her "rape" gets broadcasted on the web.}}
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