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* ''VideoGame/SlaveMaker'': As a result of their constant AbuseMistake, the would-be rescuers end up "freeing" slaves against their will, resulting in slaves escaping from "freedom" and running back to their master or mistress.

* In one ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode, a guy has tried for eight years to get his kidnapped brother back. The police and everyone else stopped caring many years ago, so he resorted to kidnapping and raping a woman just to get the police's attention. [[spoiler:Oh, and the woman is, of course, in on it, pulling off a little RomanticizedAbuse show to the audience as her "rape" gets broadcast on the web.]]

* Inverted in ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'': No matter how horrible things get, no one ever shows any outrage against the system. Two of the three protagonists have emotional outbursts of disapproval and almost hate, but always [[InternalizedCategorism aimed at themselves]]. [[spoiler: It's because they were genetically engineered in that way]].

* ''Literature/{{Christian Nation}}'' sees a radical, Dominionist Christian sect seize control of the United States and stone gays, closely censor TV and radio and kill heretics.

-->''The name of Lady Hypatia Smythe-Brown (now Lady Hypatia Hagg) will never be forgotten in the East End, where she did such splendid social work. Her constant cry of'' '''"Save the children!"''' ''referred to the cruel neglect of children's eyesight involved in allowing them to play with crudely painted toys. She quoted unanswerable statistics to prove that children allowed to look at violet and vermilion often suffered from failing eyesight in their extreme old age; and it was owing to her ceaseless crusade that the pestilence of the Monkey-on-the-Stick was almost swept from Hoxton.''
-->''The devoted worker would tramp the streets untiringly, taking away the toys from all the poor children, who were often moved to tears by her kindness. Her good work was interrupted, partly by a new interest in the creed of Zoroaster, and partly by a savage blow from an umbrella. It was inflicted by a dissolute Irish apple-woman, who, on returning from some orgy to her ill-kept apartment, found Lady Hypatia in the bedroom taking down some oleograph, which, to say the least of it, could not really elevate the mind. ''

--->'''Stackpole''': Om is not mocked! That is to say that our concept of the true being of Om is not mocked!

* Literature/TheBible: In [[Literature/TheFourGospels the gospel of Matthew]], Jesus condemns the scribes and Pharisees for going far and wide to win a convert to their religion, and when they do, they make that convert "twice more the son of Hell" than themselves.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/HellFire1956": Joseph Vincenzo insists on the view that nuclear weapons are MadeOfEvil, and that people should be afraid of HellFire, but they ignore THE TRUTH. Our viewpoint character is disturbed by Vincenzo and changes seats to avoid the apparently [[TheFundamentalist religious fundamentalist]].

* On ''Series/TrueBlood'', we have the Fellowship of the Sun, a cult running on a quite scary flavor of silliness.

* ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'' has the Répurgateur, the batshit inquisitor / papal envoy, who declares nearly everything (magic, mistresses, mental defects...) heretical and sends people to the stake at the drop of a hat. Absolutely no one takes him seriously, which isn't hard when even the local AmbiguousDisorder guy can beat him in a swordfight. In the pilot, ''he'' ends up on the stake after Arthur points out that his sword Excalibur is magic, so technically Arthur is a magic user and thus should be sent to the stake. Oh, and his name is the French translation of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'''s Witch Hunter.

* Mary, the one character in ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge'' more fundie than Joyce (at least before Joyce's CharacterDevelopment, which left Mary as the ''only'' fundie, actively antagonizes her roommate Roz over Roz's liberalism, blackmails Ruth into trying to start a prayer circle, and reserved the common room to put up a Hell House for Halloween ''five minutes'' after the semester began, and spent said Halloween trying to scare Becky and Dina straight.

* Seymour of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' often falls into this territory. See the trope illustration, where even God dismisses him as a "loony fanboy". ''Sinfest'' is actually an interesting example, because it is a series where the main characters can often see God make signs in the sky, where the Devil runs a MegaCorp, where Jesus and Buddha occasionally drop by for chilling, and where one main character is in a relationship with a [[HornyDevils reformed demon girl]]. Seymour's problem is not that he is trying to push the existence of his god onto characters because everyone ''knows'' that various deities exist... but that he refuses to see that there are gray areas between blind and obsessive worshiping and (for example) being genuine friends with a cute girl from hell.

* One ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode ended with a ban on secular Christmas as well as religious Christmas, all thanks to Kyle's mother. They ended up staging a production by New York minimalist composer Music/PhilipGlass, which included all the children in black leotards and doing interpretive dance.

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', after Kira becomes a ShadowDictator, a program called Kira's Kingdom runs on many television networks. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything It's similar to]] the evangelical Christian programs on Creator/{{TBN}} and similar networks [[note]] As well as a few local broadcast channels that aren't ''strictly'' Christian, usually in FlyoverCountry or the DeepSouth, especially the "Bible Belt" parts of it. [[/note]] except it's about Kira. Even news programs get in on this: Kiyomi Takada, Kira's official spokesperson, runs an editorial segment where she talks about how Kira loves the people who accept him, the world is a better place under Kira, parents should train their children to love and worship Kira, etc. etc.

* In ''ComicBook/XMen'', Reverend William Stryker's entire deal is basically one big example of this. He started as a TV [[EasyEvangelism Evangelist]] that blamed mutants for the world's problems, and claimed they were the children of the devil. He started off as a protester, before becoming leader of a para-military hate-cult known as 'The Purifiers' who did this to the extreme: outright hunting and killing mutants, and trying to 'do god's work' via mass-genocide. He was stopped before he could make an example by shooting Kitty Pryde on TV.

* ''Film/EasyA'': Marianne's group is shown doing this. First against the basketball team, then against Olive. Picketing ''fellow students'' with hateful slogans, Westboro Baptist Church Style, yay... Interestingly, Marianne and her [[TheLancer lancer]], Nina, are shown to be really loving and caring people. This strongly indicates that the reason they are such jerks with their antics is that they believe they don't have a choice -- that it's somehow their holy duty to act as if they were psychopaths. It's shown Marianne's father is also a pastor, and a real {{Jerkass}} one who treats his faith as fact and refuses to let Olive agree to disagree (and a hypocrite, who likes to watch teenage girls strip live via webcam). So, its likely her behavior isn't her fault, its largely the result of her strict religious upbringing that she is trying to protect.

** Estrella Partleigh and the ''Campaign For Equal Heights'' are another good Discworld example: where human beings take it upon themselves to agitate for the civil rights of Dwarfs, despite the fact that Dwarfs are incredibly successful in their own right and do not need humans to advocate for them. In ''Feet of Clay'' there's a gag that a human arms merchant took on a Dwarf-sounding name (but not actually claiming to be one) for marketing reasons and the Campaign has ''no idea'' how to deal with it.

** As of Season 5: The Sanguinistas. A religious movement of fundamentalist vampires opposed to mainstreaming who have [[spoiler: slaughtered the Authority]], converting its remaining members, and have [[spoiler: blown up at least one True Blood factory]]. They are also convinced they are [[spoiler: the 'chosen ones' of Lilith]].

* ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'' has the Répurgateur, the batshit inquisitor / papal envoy, who declares nearly everything (magic, mistresses, mental defects...) heretical and sends people to the stake at the drop of a hat. Absolutely no-one takes him seriously, which isn't hard when even the local AmbiguousDisorder guy can beat him in a swordfight. In the pilot, ''he'' ends up on the stake after Arthur points out that his sword Excalibur is magic, so technically Arthur is a magic-user and thus should be sent to the stake. Oh, and his name is the French translation of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'''s Witch Hunter.
* ''Series/{{Vida}}'': Los Vigilantes, the activist group Marisol gets involved with, are to oppose the gentrification of their neighborhood, with noisy protests (sometimes violent), graffiti and harassing or insulting Latinos in the area who don't go along with their goals, whom they call "[[OutsideInsideSlur coconuts]]". The group's aggressive and alienating tactics do them no favors, even with people who might have otherwise been on their side.

* The Age Of The Fall in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Full Impact Pro and others. The American Healthcare system is ''wrong'' and you're going to hear about it, even though you came to watch a wrestling show. When they actually got around to talking about everything they (or rather, Wrestling/JimmyJacobs) thought was corroding society, fans actually agreed with them. That still didn't stop Age Of The Fall from being [[ProducePelting pelted with garbage]] when they won matches though.

** The Redemptionists are sect declared ''too extreme'' for the Imperium. While Imperial authorities are fine as long as they only burn mutants, heretics, and social outcasts, problems starts happening when they start burning people for not being faithful enough, i.e. not being a Redemptionist.

** Likewise averted by Chaos worshipers in non-Imperial space: the four Chaos gods are opposed in pairs, so any cultists trying to proselytize on another's turf gets chainaxed/raped/burned from inside/decomposed in seconds very quickly.

* Seymour of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' often fall into this territory. See the trope illustration, where even God dismisses him as a "loony fanboy". ''Sinfest'' is actually an interesting example, because it is a series where the main characters can often see God make signs in the sky, where the Devil runs a MegaCorp, where Jesus and Buddha occasionally drop by for chilling, and where one main character is in a relationship with with a [[HornyDevils reformed demon girl]]. Seymour's problem is not that he is trying to push the existence of his god onto characters because everyone ''knows'' that various deities exist... but that he refuses to see that there are gray areas between blind and obsessive worshiping and (for example) being genuine friends with a cute girl from hell.

** Pharisee has some elements of this. Basically, he believes that he has a divine right to impart justice on people he considers morally wrong, and makes sure that those "wrongdoers" understand.

** How ridiculous can their protesting get? In a flashback they're shown protesting a wedding reception. One of the protesters was ''the bride herself''. If that's not convincing, Ms. Cendordoll found a reason to protest ''Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold'',which, we remind you, is a movie ''about Jesus Christ''. (Her excuse is that it's too long and dull, and therefore moviegoers will be tempted into whoring out of boredom.)

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/HellFire": Joseph Vincenzo insists on the view that nuclear weapons are MadeOfEvil, and that people should be afraid of HellFire, but they ignore THE TRUTH. Our viewpoint character is disturbed by Vincenzo and changes seats to avoid the apparently [[TheFundamentalist religious fundamentalist]].

When TheFundamentalist (or any other [[TheOnlyRighteousIndexOfFanatics fanatic]]) is played this way, they can still be scary. There might be a real risk that they'll go off the deep end and bring out the TorchesAndPitchforks or resort to HonorRelatedAbuse. Then again, it might also turn out that whatever {{windmill}} he was fighting was NoMereWindmill after all.

Extra bonus points if two or more groups are doing this at the same time ''against each other''. This might lead to spineless authorities giving in to ''both'' sides, resulting in particularly surreal and hilarious cases of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.

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** Similarly, the Inquisition is divided over which methods are best suited to fight Chaos. The Puritans would declare Exterminatus on the planet just because someone looked at an Ecclesiarch funny, and the Radicals who actually use daemonic-possessed weapons and magics against daemons [[WhatAnIdiot being certain they can control it]]. This being 40K, they tend to prove their points to the other side by assassination and declaring them heretics.

* ''Film/EasyA'': Marianne's group is shown doing this. First against the basketball team, then against Olive. Picketing ''fellow students'' with hateful slogans, Westboro Baptist Church Style, yay... Interestingly, Marianne and her [[TheLancer lancer]], Nina, are shown to be really loving and caring people. This strongly indicates that the reason they are such jerks with their antics is that they believe they don't have a choice -- that it's somehow their holy duty to act as if they were psychopaths. It's shown Marianne's father is also a pastor, and a real {{Jerkass}} one who treats his faith as fact and refuses to let Olive agree to disagree (and a hypocrite, who likes to watch teenage girls strip live via webcam). So, its likely her behavior isn't her fault, its largely he result of her strict religious upbringing that she is trying to protect.

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'': the Christian Marines claim to not be a religious organization, despite the name, merely to fight for traditional values. Yet we see by the end the society they build banishes non-believers and burns heretics at the stake.

* ''Literature/TheBible'': In [[Literature/TheFourGospels the gospel of Matthew]], Jesus condemns the scribes and Pharisees for going far and wide to win a convert to their religion, and when they do, they make that convert "twice more the son of Hell" than themselves.

* In Creator/GregRucka's ''Comicbook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]] run, Diana's book of philosophy leads to moral crusaders (encouraged by BigBad Veronica Cale) panicking about paganism, to the point where Wonder Girl is driven out of her school, and there are pickets at Diana's book signings chanting "Hey, ho! Hey, ho! The Amazon has got to go!" (And counter-pickets chanting "Two! Four! Six! Eight! Amazons preach love not hate!")

* In Creator/GregRucka's ''Comicbook/WonderWoman'' run, Diana's book of philosophy leads to moral crusaders (encouraged by BigBad Veronica Cale) panicking about paganism, to the point where Wonder Girl is driven out of her school, and there are pickets at Diana's book signings chanting "Hey, ho! Hey, ho! The Amazon has got to go!" (And counter-pickets chanting "Two! Four! Six! Eight! Amazons preach love not hate!")

** Reg Shoe (before he was a zombie) in Discworld/NightWatch is the classic useful idiot: he shouts lots of slogans, insists that the revolution happen according to his great plans, and is otherwise an insufferable RuleAbidingRebel. When Vimes shows up and lays out just how little anyone (including the real revolutionaries) cares about what he has to say, Reg's brain "rejected the information as contrary to whatever total fantasy was going on inside". After zombification, his antics are slightly more subdued, in that he's always going on about unfair treatment of the undead, while the other undead wish he'd shut up about it.

** The antagonist of ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld IV'' is the Reverend Mr Stackpole of the Church of Latter-Day Omnians, who not only insists the Disc is spherical (something most Omnians have accepted is not the case), but that [[InsaneTrollLogic somehow]] this means the Omnian church should have custody of Roundworld (the universe containing actually spherical planets which the wizards created by accident, and is kept on a shelf in Unseen University). The fact the Great God Om actually descends in order to personally tell him to stop talking nonsense only drives him to further heights of incoherent ranting.

** There's actually very little activism in the Imperium. Rather than trying to convert anyone people who doesn't worship the Emperor they just kill them.

* The Age Of The Fall in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Full Impact Pro and others. The American Healthcare system is ''wrong'' and you're going to hear about it, even though you came to watch a wrestling show. When they actually got around to talking about everything they(or rather, Wrestling/JimmyJacobs) thought was corroding society, fans actually agreed with them. That still didn't stop Age Of The Fall from being [[ProducePelting pelted with garbage]] when they won matches though.