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* Subverted by Roronoa Zoro in ''[[One Piece]]'' who was revealed to be an atheist during the Skipeia arc, but not due to his tragic past, and has no problem at all with faith in general. Furthermore, he also stated that if god did exist, he would like to meet him because he or she would be a [[Worthy Opponent]]. He's just that [[Badass]].

* Foh from B't X is a ''brutal'' subversion of this. Having given up on the ideals that gods exist due to witnessing war from a very early childhood, he eventually came to realize that does not mean he can be a jerk. {{spoiler|The fact he's responsible for one character getting a [[Dead Little Sister]], an issue he's willing to let himself get killed over in spite of the fate of the world hanging in the balance possibly is a driving factor.}} He strongly believes in mercy and compassion, vehemently hates fighting because it brings only tragedy to people, and runs an orphanage and raises kids ''right''. He even wears a religious memento from {{spoiler|his friend's [[Dead Little Sister]].}} It helps that Masami Kurumada, the series's author, is himself an atheist.

** A somewhat more reasonable atheist appears later, as a former Communist aiding a fundamentalist Muslim organization, despite not believing in a god, because he misses having a cause to fight for.

* Baran the Emperor of Light, a villain from the final chapters of the ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' manga, whose disbelief in God comes from the fact that his [[Dead Little Sister]] died from a curable disease because she refused to take the medicine he stole for her. His non-belief later drove him to start his own evil cult.

* ''[[Black Butler]]'' gives us Ciel Phantomhive. He used to be such a sweet, happy boy, before his tenth birthday, in which people came into his home, [[Dead Little Sister|murdered his parents and most of the staff, including attempting to kill the house steward in front of him]], set his home on fire, presumably to dispose of any evidence Scotland Yard might find; kidnapped ''him'', where he was kept literally in a cage with other children his age, implied to have been gang-raped on a near-nightly basis, and then ultimately denounced his faith during a ceremony in which he was to be the sacrifice. This is how he came to get Sebastian... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|who is one hell of a butler]]. Ciel, three years later, still has an avid disbelief in God, and in fact, if he is not a Hollywood Atheist, might just be a borderline Satanist thanks to his complete trust in Sebastian.

* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' gives us a rather...odd example, in the form of Duo Maxwell. Duo wears a clerical collar and [[Creepy Cool Crosses]], but he states in Episode Zero that he doesn't actually believe in God because he "has never seen a miracle, but has sure seen lots of dead people!" He later appears to become a preacher, but {{spoiler|It's more of a front for his [[Bounty Hunter]] work than anything else.}}

 

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