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== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Psycho for Hire]] Akabane of ''[[GetBackers]]'' (AKA [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|"Doctor]] Jackal") used to be an actual doctor who saved people, but failed to save the son of a good friend. That is the origin of his current personality.
* In ''[[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, {{spoiler|Justin Law}} pulls an ultimate Faith Heel Turn {{spoiler|and kills BJ}} because of imposed insanity from The Clown.
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'''s Yukyuzan Anji is a particularly heartbreaking example, though he's not an awful person by any means. He turns from an extremely kind, devout, and physically unimposing [[Good Shepherd|Buddhist priest]] to the hulking [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|fallen priest]] that he is in the Kyoto arc when the children under his care are trapped inside his temple and burned alive, due to his landlord being a dirty [[Jerkass]].
** 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 Stoker's Dracula|Bram Stokers Dracula]]'', Dracula is originally a very pious nobleman, until one day, while he is busy fighting off the enemies of the Church, his wife kills herself. The priest tells him that, sorry, suicides are damned for all eternity, nothing to be done about it. Dracula does not take this news at all well.
* 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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== Live Action TV ==
* Brother Justin in ''[[Carnivale]]'' starts out as a well-meaning preacher. However, some bad luck, combined with the [[Poisonous Friend|influence]] of his [[Brother-Sister Incest|loving sister]] ensures he ends up [[The Antichrist|rather different]].
** 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.
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*** 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]].
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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 (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' when [[Pals with Jesus|Ned Flanders]] loses faith after his wife dies, turning the picture of God away from him and scaring his kids with his decision not to go to church.
{{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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[[Category:Religion Tropes]]
[[Category:Heel Face Index]]▼
[[Category:Morality Tropes]]
[[Category:Just for Pun]]
[[Category:Faith Heel Turn]]
[[Category:Esoteric Trope Names]]
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