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* An early episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' had a religious guy go crazy and take over another planet with intense UV radiation as its [[A God Am I|god]]. What's particularly ridiculous about this is that no less than two of his teammates joined him. The one that didn't showed up in later episodes a few times, while the rest all died. Someone really fucked up the selection process for that team.
* Used along with [[Heel Faith Turn]] in ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''. A [[Scary Black Man]] gangster who went by "Hash Brown" and eventually became a priest ends up being on Earl's list at least five times, with each new list item revealed making him angrier and angrier until he snaps and decides to return to his gangster life. Then Earl recognizes his car and reveals that he broke the taillight on it (another list item). The broken taillight caused Hash Brown to get pulled over and be late for a deal which ended up turning into a brutal shootout, meaning that Earl had indirectly saved his life. Since this event was what had caused him to take up religion in the first place (he originally attributed it to divine intervention), he thanks Earl and goes back to being a priest.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Grandia II (Video Game)|Grandia II]]'' has {{spoiler|Pope Zera}}, who discovers that {{spoiler|God is (literally) dead}} and sets a plan into motion to resurrect the world's equivalent of Satan so he can destroy the world.
* ''[[Vandal Hearts]] II'' has {{spoiler|Yuri}}, who was intensely religious throughout all of his childhood and most of his adulthood, until {{spoiler|learning about the deception behind the game's major religion}}. It wasn't enough to turn him into a coldly calculating supervillain from then on or anything, but {{spoiler|it did lead to a [[Heroic BSOD]] and eventually made him [[Ax Crazy]] just long enough to attack the party. Whether you kill him or successfully talk him down depends on whether you have [[Hundred
* In the ''[[Assassin's Creed (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]'' series, this is pretty much how the Templars fall after learning that {{spoiler|all miracles and works of God were actually the result of powerful ancient technology}}.
* [[The Chessmaster|Krelian]] and [[Body Surf|Grahf]] in ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]''. Oh so very much. While [[Rage Against the Heavens|Raging Against The Heavens]], Krelian claims that, if there is no God, he will ''make'' God with his own hands.
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