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== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Psycho for Hire]] Akabane of ''[[
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** 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.
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== Films ==
* In ''[[Bram
* Salieri in ''[[Amadeus]]'' does this after continually being upstaged by the boorish, spoiled, conceited, but vastly more talented Mozart, ultimately deciding to steal his work and drive him to his death, because he couldn't stand that God had made Mozart more gifted than he. Inverted in that even beforehand he was really a [[Jerkass]] whose faith in God was basically an extension of his personal vanity.
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* ''[[The Sparrow]]'': Emilio Sandoz seems to have at the beginning of ''[[The Sparrow]]''. Much of the book is finding out what exactly happened.
* An inversion, but not a heelFaithTurn, occurs in ''[[Elantris]]'' with {{spoiler|Hrathen}}, whose growing doubts over his religious faith cause him to turn ''against'' the [[Big Bad]]. From the villain's perspective, this would be a straight example.
* {{spoiler|Hollyleaf}} from ''[[
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** 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.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' has a bit more gradual version: Kai Winn was always jealous of Sisko for being the one the Prophets chose as their Emissary, and the fact that they didn't communicate with her wore on her more and more. Then the Prophets' rivals, the Pah Wraiths, ''do'' show her some attention, and by this point, that's enough to drive her over the edge into true villainy as their servant, working alongside Gul Dukat.
** 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.
*** [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|...which happened in large part because they did that...]]
*** 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.
* Ryan Hunter from ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]'' apparently suffered one of these (of the [[Smite Me Oh Mighty Smiter]] variety) prior to his first appearance, leading to his becoming a church vandalizing, puppy-kicking anti-theist. Had the show survived for a third season, Ryan would've been Joan's [[Evil Counterpart]].
* 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.
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== Mythology ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: [[The Bible
** It gets more jarring when you realize that the "new" wife, kids, etc. are working as a [[Replacement Goldfish]] for SEVERAL PEOPLE. Unless Job didn't care about which wife and kids he had just as long as he had them, in which case, what a [[Jerkass]]!
** His wife actually ''didn't'' die. Many pastors have joked that her punishment was having ten more kids.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* ''[[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-Percent Completion]] on the game's hidden plot-relevant treasures and such.}}
* In the ''[[
* [[The Chessmaster|Krelian]] and [[Body Surf|Grahf]] in ''[[
* Related to the Dracula example above, ''[[Castlevania]]'''s Dracula also renounces God after his wife died while he was busy fighting the crusades.
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* In the two-part ''[[Drawn Together]]'' episode "Lost in Parking Space", the devoutly religious Princess Clara is led to believe that the Rapture has come and taken her friends but left her behind on Earth. After she signs her soul away to a man she believes is Satan, she decides that she enjoys being evil and promptly goes on a rampage. When she discovers that the Rapture didn't actually come (her friends just ditched her to go to the mall), she changes back.
** Bob the Cucumber in "Clum Babies" goes on a murderous rampage and kills the entire cast when he is told that the Bible is open to interpretation.
* Played with on ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote| '''Ned''': No, I'm not kidding. I'm going to sit right here and miss church. You just watch. [[[Smash Cut]] to Ned driving his car and looking Heavenward] Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry!}}
** Lampshaded in "Lemon of Troy" when Bart is handing out roles to the members of his team. He designates Todd Flanders "the quiet religious guy who ends up going crazy".
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