Faith Heel Turn: Difference between revisions

 

Not to be confused with [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Faith's]] heel turn, [[Just for Pun|becoming kill happy has little to do with atheism]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Weiss Kreuz (Anime)|Weiss Kreuz]]'', [[The Psycho Rangers|Schwarz]]'s resident [[Ax Crazy]] [[Knife Nut]] Farfarello started out as a devout Catholic child, but when he learned that he was adopted and that the nun who was his teacher was his biological mother, he had a psychotic episode and murdered his entire adopted family. As an adult he claims that his desire is to kill God, and spends his spare time torturing priests to death.

* In the ''[[Soul Eater (Manga)|Soul Eater]]'' manga, {{spoiler|Justin Law}} pulls an ultimate Faith Heel Turn {{spoiler|and kills BJ}} because of imposed insanity from The Clown.

** Actually, it's worse: that wasn't 'his landlord'; it was the village head, hoping to curry favor with the new government and its emperor-centered Shinto. [[Kick the Dog|So he had the village burn down a Buddhist temple full of orphans.]] Based on actual history, after the Meiji cut off government sponsorship of temples to promote their new standardized form of the 'native religion.' The orphans are kinda a stretch, though.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

** In his case it was an unfortunate case of [[In the Blood]], though.

* Averted (or perhaps inverted) with Father Dougal of ''[[Father Ted]]''. While Dougal often makes comments which would perfectly fit this kind of character (e.g. something like "Todd, we're not really supposed to believe in that Jesus stuff, are we?"), he is [[The Ditz]] and presented as a [[Dumb Is Good|better person]] than the more faithful Ted.

** Just so you non-Trekkies are clear here, the Prophets of this religion are very active figures, and it seems relatively easy to get a chance to contact one of them and receive knowledge. The highest member of the religion should certainly get this blessing from the Prophets, but Kai Winn never did. Ever. Probably because they see the future and know what she'll become.

*** Unless you count Orb Experiences, (which outside the wormhole seemed more vision and less communication), I'm not sure how active the prophets actually were.

*** Winn was an ass ''before'' the Pah Wraiths got involved; she got the job as Kai not because she was particularly devout, but because she had the political know-how to eliminate better candidates from the election. The Prophets probably ignored her because they realized she wasn't really in her position for the right reasons; to the Pah Wraiths, however, she (along with {{spoiler|Dukat}}) made an ideal [[Anti Christ]].

* An example where the person doesn't turn evil, but still gives up on life, occurs in the ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "Mortal Coil", where Neelix dies and is brought back to life. He has no memory of experiencing the Talaxian idea of the afterlife (where you go to a forest in which you're reunited with dead loved ones). Because he lost his whole family in a war, that belief was the only thing keeping him going, and it takes Chakotay to talk him out of suicide.