History Main / AccuserOfTheBrethren

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode, "And I'm Joyce Kinney", the title character tries to ruin Lois' reputation by revealing that she was in a porno movie, as payback for when Lois humiliated her in High School. When Lois is forgiven, Joyce gets angry.

* The TropeNamer, {{Satan}}, is called this. It is said when a sinner seeks repentance, that Satan would fill their hearts with guilty feelings to make them feel separated from God and force them over the DespairEventHorizon. Not only that but one of the words Satan's ''very name'' translates to "Accuser" and Jesus had called the accusing Pharisees "Sons of the devil". Albeit those particular accusations where in a different context, but even so there's a reason why Jesus places NoSympathyForGrudgeHolders in his teachings on forgiveness.

Perhaps TheAtoner was once TheDragon, and his master wants him to feel that redemption is impossible. Perhaps it was someone who was hurt by TheAtoner and doesn't want them to be redeemed, because what [[MoralEventHorizon they did to them]] is something they [[ThisIsUnforgivable cannot forgive]]. The former often overlaps with EvilCannotComprehendGood and the latter case usually overlaps with HeWhoFightsMonsters. In some cases this is because the person who refuses to forgive TheAtoner believes that he is only [[FalselyReformedVillain faking]] his remorse. Sometimes, the accuser may [[NiceJobBreakingItHero become the sole reason]] why the Atoner [[ThenLetMeBeEvil decides to become evil again]]. The refusing, vindictive person [[WhatTheHellHero might be called out]] by the others, [[NoSympathyForGrudgeHolders for holding grudges]].

* Creator/DaveChappelle has a hilarious double-subversion in a skit in which he exacts revenge on several people who wronged him in the past. However, the last person seems to truly [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel bad for what he's done]] (banning him from his club) after things have gone downhill. At first, he seems to have forgiven him...before pushing him down a flight of stairs in his wheelchair, and still setting the whole club ablaze.

* In 1991, arch rivals Wrestling/{{CMLL}} and Lucha Libre Internacional put aside around twenty years of animosity and started co promoting shows at semi regular intervals. This lead to, among other things, perennial UWA World Heavyweight Champion El Canek becoming one half of CMLL's first World TagTeam\Pareja Champions with Dr. Wagner Junior and popular CMLL star Vampiro defeating Canek to win said UWA belt. Unfortunately LLI/UWA fans hated Vampiro as much as CMLL's love him, to the point giving him the belt permanently drove away large swaths of the LLI fan base. This caused El Canek to vacate the CMLL pareja belts in 1994 and go back to working for LLI full time in an attempt to salvage the company. He failed and returned to CMLL in 2004, graciously welcomed back by almost every luchador after his ten year absence, accept for Dr. Wagner Junior, who never forgave Canek for leaving when CMLL itself was facing some hardship in from the dual front of a recession and the emergence of Wrestling/{{AAA}}. Dr. Wagner Junior was even more upset still that Canek's departure forced him vacate a belt as well.
* In 1994, Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch tried her hand at wrestling alongside Wrestling/ChrisCandido in [[Wrestling/{{SMW}} Smokey Mountain Wrestling]]. Deciding it wasn't for her, she went back to being a full time valet in 1995, stating that women shouldn't be wrestlers, period, which just so happened to coincide with women wrestlers disappearing from the national pro wrestling scene almost entirely until 2002. By the late 2000s, Sytch had changed her mind and became more supportive of her peers who wanted to be wrestlers, which went over well enough in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, but got her chewed out by The Lovely Lacey in Wrestling/RingOfHonor for being [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame the reason]] women had such a hard time making it as wrestlers.

* [[BigBad Alistair Smythe]] is this to Curt Connors in ''VideoGame/TheAmazingSpiderMan''. Ever since the Lizard's rampage, Smythe was made the head of Oscorp's science experiments, and always blamed Connors for the continuation of the Cross Species experiments. When the virus breaks out and Connors develops a cure, [[spoiler:he kidnaps Connors, and later reveals the reason he did so was because he didn't want the city to be saved with the solution Connors created, rather than the nanobot cocktail Smythe created.]]

** The gypsies who gave Angel his soul, in retaliation for the murder of one of their own, in an effort to make him suffer eternal guilt. Generations later, the gypsies would ''still'' try to make sure Angel never finds happiness. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as him being happy will be enough to unleash his demonic split-personality Angelus.

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* The TropeNamer, {{Satan}}, is called this. It is said when a sinner seeks repentance, that Satan would fill their hearts with guilty feelings to make them feel separated from God and force them over the DespairEventHorizon. Not only that but one of the words Satan's ''very name'' translates to "Accuser" and Jesus had called the accusing Pharisees "Son's of the devil". Albeit those particular accusations where in a different context, but even so there's a reason why Jesus places NoSympathyForGrudgeHolders in his teachings on forgiveness.

Perhaps TheAtoner was once TheDragon, and his master wants him to feel that redemption is impossible. Perhaps it was someone who was hurt by TheAtoner and doesn't want them to be redeemed, because what [[MoralEventHorizon they did to them]] is something they [[ThisIsUnforgivable cannot forgive]]. The former often overlaps with EvilCannotComprehendGood and the latter case usually overlaps with HeWhoFightsMonsters. In some cases this is because the person who refuses to forgive TheAtoner believes that he is only faking his remorse. Sometimes, the accuser may [[NiceJobBreakingItHero become the sole reason]] why the Atoner [[ThenLetMeBeEvil decides to become evil again]]. The refusing, vindictive person [[WhatTheHellHero might be called out]] by the others, [[NoSympathyForGrudgeHolders for holding grudges]].

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* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness Act VI'': Talon Ryashen makes it clear that even if the members of Fairy Tale who ''actually'' experimented on him and turned him into a HalfHumanHybrid are long dead, he doesn't care; as far as he's concerned, everyone who was ''ever'' a member of Fairy Tale for ''any'' reason is [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity responsible and irredeemably evil]] in his eyes, and he won't stop until they're all dead. This includes Dark, Akua, and Kahlua, who voluntarily [[DefectorFromDecadence left the organization]] when they realized what Fairy Tale was really after, and were instrumental in saving the world from [[EldritchAbomination Alucard]].
* Asuka refuses to forgive Ritsuko for all the horrible things she did to Rei in ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'', even after Rei herself forgives her. However, she never makes her contempt known directly.

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has the gypsies who gave Angel his soul, in retaliation for the murder of one of their own, in an effort to make him suffer eternal guilt. Generations later, the gypsies would ''still'' try to make sure Angel never finds happiness. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as him being happy will be enough to unleash his demonic split personality Angelus.

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* The TropeNamer, {{Satan}}, is called this. It is said when a sinner seeks repentance, that Satan would fill their hearts with guilty feelings to make them feel separated from God and force them over the DespairEventHorizon.
** Not only that but one of the words Satan's ''very name'' translates to "Accuser" and Jesus had called the accusing Pharisees "Son's of the devil". Albeit those particular accusations where in a different context, but even so there's a reason why Jesus places NoSympathyForGrudgeHolders in his teachings on forgiveness.

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* Creator/DaveChappelle has a hilarious double-subversion in a skit in which he exacts revenge on several people who wronged him in the past. However, the last person seems to truly [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel bad for what he's done]] (banning him from his club) after things have gone downhill. At first, he seems to have forgiven him...before pushing him down a flight of stairs in his wheelchair, and still setting the whole club ablaze.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsForgottenFriendship'' has the villain [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase everyones memories]] of Sunset Shimmer's HeelFaceTurn due to Sunset's [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitivity]] making them think she hadn't truly reformed. And [[GreenEyedMonster they're jealous of Sunset]] being so popular everyone's seemingly forgotten about their past misdeeds [[spoiler:while she's just forgotten and ignored]].

* In ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' Cassandra Sandsmark / ComicBook/WonderGirl has a very antagonistic relationship with Rose Wilson/Ravager, and the two young women frequently arguing. Cassandra was the one to think the worst of Rose Wilson, believing that Rose didn't belong on the team. Even when it looks like she is making peace with Rose, she reveals that she still dislikes her and considers her a one-eyed sociopath, stating that she is a murderer who is homicidal and warped beyond words and that she both cannot be helped and does not want to be helped.

* [[Characters/WonderGirl Cassandra Sandsmark / Wonder Girl]] in ComicBook/TeenTitans has a very antagonistic relationship with Rose Wilson/Ravager. Cassandra was also the one to think the worst of Rose Wilson, believe that she does not belong on the team and at times fight with her. Even when it looks like she is making peace with Rose, she reveals that she still dislikes her and considers her a one-eyed sociopath, stating that she is a murderer who is homicidal and warped beyond words and that she both cannot be helped and does not want to be helped.

* The Greek Gods of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'' are more or less this, given that Athena tells Kratos that while they will forgive him for killing his family, they will never let him forget. However, Athena also notes [[EveryoneHasStandards even the Gods couldn't forget what he did]], so it's less intentional than others.

-->'''Asuka:''' I'm still not happy with her. I don't care how guilty she feels now. She's going to need a miracle to get on my good side again. She hurt you, Rei, and you know [[BerserkButton how I feel]] about people who hurt the ones I... [[LastSecondWordSwap care about]].

->I don't care how guilty she feels now. She's going to need a miracle to get on my good side again.

A sibling to RejectedApology, where one character refuses to accept an apology from another character. Compare to NeverAcceptedInHisHomeTown, InspectorJavert, ReformedButRejected, NoSympathyForGrudgeHolders, and HeWhoFightsMonsters. Contrast with KarmaHoudini and also EasilyForgiven. If the accuser is right along but no one believes him, it overlaps with CassandraTruth.

* Played around with in '[[Literature/TheRing Ringu 0]]''. The journalist Akiko Miyaji was determined to find out about and get revenge on Sadako, knowing that she was responsible for her fiancé's death. However, we see that Sadako isn't really evil and malicious as the former believes. But when Akiko reveals Sadako's past traumas to the entire theatre group and audience, it leads to an inevitable yet depressing DownerEnding.

* In one episode of KinosJourney, a man who was once a ruthless killer tries to atone by accompanying a woman whose husband he had murdered. However, not long after their expedition, the woman shoots him several times, unable to forgive what he had done.

* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBirghtestDarkness Act VI'': Talon Ryashen makes it clear that even if the members of Fairy Tale who ''actually'' experimented on him and turned him into a HalfHumanHybrid are long dead, he doesn't care; as far as he's concerned, everyone who was ''ever'' a member of Fairy Tale for ''any'' reason is [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity responsible and irredeemably evil]] in his eyes, and he won't stop until they're all dead. This includes Dark, Akua, and Kahlua, who voluntarily [[DefectorFromDecadence left the organization]] when they realized what Fairy Tale was really after, and were instrumental in saving the world from [[EldritchAbomination Alucard]].

Perhaps TheAtoner was once TheDragon, and his master wants him to feel that redemption is impossible. Perhaps it was someone who was hurt by TheAtoner and doesn't want them to be redeemed, because what they did to them is something they [[ThisIsUnforgivable cannot forgive]]. The former often overlaps with EvilCannotComprehendGood and the latter case usually overlaps with HeWhoFightsMonsters. In some cases this is because the person who refuses to forgive TheAtoner believes that he is only faking his remorse. Sometimes, the accuser may [[NiceJobBreakingItHero become the sole reason]] why the Atoner [[ThenLetMeBeEvil decides to become evil again]].

Compare to NeverAcceptedInHisHomeTown, InspectorJavert, ReformedButRejected, and HeWhoFightsMonsters. Contrast with KarmaHoudini and also EasilyForgiven. If the accuser is right along but no one believes him, it overlaps with CassandraTruth.

* In ''House Of Payne'', CJ becomes this when Blue, a drug dealer and BigBad of the story arc of Janine's crack addiction, seeks repentance in a church as he was dying of AIDS. When Janine and Ella work to help take care of him and pray for him, CJ doesn't support him and gets mad at Janine for helping him. At one point, he goes to the church and simply says "''I don't know what you're trying to prove -- that man is beyond your prayers''." and walks out. He gets better when [[spoiler:Ella gives him a WhatTheHellHero speech about being a true Christian, and at Blue's last moments, CJ goes to pray for Blue's repentance at Blue's bedside.]]