History Main / ActivistFundamentalistAntics

* ''TheOnion' reports on [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/christ-converts-to-islam,754/ "Christ Converts to Islam"]]: ''Millions more, however, have decried the recalcitrant Christ's apostasy, breaking ties with Him and calling His conversion "a heathen act" of "utmost blasphemy before Himself".''

* Virgilia in the North And South miniseries is a particularly scary example. At first she was merely ruining family dinners and such, but she eventually goes off the deep end and even call down a [[TorchesAndPitchforks lynch mob]] on [[MoralEventHorizon her own home]]. The saddest part is that her family actually agreed all along with the core of her political agenda, what they can't stand is her extreme BlackAndWhiteMorality.

* ''TheOnion' reports on [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/christ-converts-to-islam,754/ Christ Converts to Islam]]: ''Millions more, however, have decried the recalcitrant Christ's apostasy, breaking ties with Him and calling His conversion "a heathen act" of "utmost blasphemy before Himself".''

* On ''DrawnTogether'', Princess Clara is prone to this. At one point, she wishes Xandir and his new boyfriend live happily ever after...until God throws them both in the fiery pits of Hell, of course.

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* ''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.

[[caption-width-right:335:Even God thinks this guy is going a little overboard.]]

* 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...

* Inverted in NeverLetMeGo: no matter how horrible things get, no one ever show any outrage against the system. Two of the three protagonists have emotional outbursts of dissaproval and almost hate, but always [[InternalizedCategorism aiming at themselves]].

* In one LawAndOrderSVU 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 now 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 AbusivelySexy show to the audience as her "rape" gets broadcasted on the web.]]

* In WorldOfWarcraft, the OmnicidalManiac cult Twilight's Hammer took on this role as they did their recruitment drive just before the release of Cataclysm. Oh, and [insert your own character's name here] got to run around shouting silly slogans as s/he infiltrated the cult.

* Seymour of {{Sinfest}} often fall into this territory. See the trope illustration, where even God dismisses him as a "loony fanboy".

* TheOnion reports on [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/christ-converts-to-islam,754/ Christ Converts to Islam]]: ''Millions more, however, have decried the recalcitrant Christ's apostasy, breaking ties with Him and calling His conversion "a heathen act" of "utmost blasphemy before Himself".''

* 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.

* 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 rinning back to their masters.

* Seymour of {{Sinfest}} often fall into this territory. See the trope illustration, where even a heavenly sign (literally) and "[[strike:Word]] sock-puppet of God" dismiss him as a "loony fanboy".

[[quoteright:300:[[{{Sinfest}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Seymour_1_8427.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Even God thinks this guy is going a little overboard.]]

* One ''SouthPark'' episode ended with a ban on secular Christmas as well as religious Christmas, all thanks to Kyle's mother. The only song left for the kids to sing for Christmas was "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch" (in D minor, no less).

* Seymour of {{Sinfest}} often fall into this territory. See the trope illustration, where even a heavenly sign (literally] and [[strike:Word]] sock-puppet of God dismiss him as a "loony fanboy".

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[[caption-width-right:300:ZinniaJones joining a Westboro Baptist Church picket for lulz.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:ZinniaJones joining a Westboro Babtist Church picket for lulz.]]

* EasyA: Marianne's group is shown doing this. First against the basketball team, then against Olive. Picketing ''fellow students'' with hateful slogans, Westboro Babtist Church Style, yay...

* ''ZinniaJones'' has at least two episodes on this. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOQGhhrIpE one about MassResistance]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwlT5KzeRE one about Westboro Babtist Church]].

Silly, scary or both: While the person doing ActivistFundamentalistAntics is often genuinely unsympathetic, it is not always so. He can [[NobleBigot have other redeeming qualities]], he can [[WellIntentionedExtremist be on the right track but take it too far]], or he might be [[TroubledSympatheticBigot wrestling with his conscience and world-view]].

** 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 [[JerkAss 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 was psychopaths.

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* One ''SouthPark'' episode ended with a ban on secular Christmas as well as religious Christmas, all thanks to Kyle's mother. The only song left for the kids to sing for Christmas was "Kyle's mom is a stupid bitch" (in D minor, no less).
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* On ''TrueBlood'', we have the Fellowship of the Sun, a cult runnoing on a quite scary flavor of silliness.

Lets say that you are right and everyone else is wrong, but everyone outside your little group of like-minded righteous people are simply to dumb to understand that you are superior. Surely you would be tempted to try to reach their hearts by methods that might seem a little [[PlayedForLaughs silly]] and counterproductive?

A character doing ActivistFundamentalistAntics is likely to shout all the wrong slogans at all the wrong places: Religious gatherings, family holiday dinners, even funerals. She might make botched attempts at EasyEvangelism or EpiphanyTherapy, coming across as a general {{Jerkass}}. She is likely to step on all toes, including her own, and trip over her own feet in all sorts of ways. One hallmark of this mentality is the desire to forbid other people from living their lives - not because they involve the character in the break of [[YourNormalIsOurTaboo some certain taboo]] and not because they disobey [[MoralGuardians some "universal" morality derived from the faith]], but simply because they exist and isn't a part of the character's own SmallSecludedWorld. Some psychologists have argued that the reason why some cultists are behaving like that is that they are desperately trying to convince ''themselves'' of the righteousness of their cause.

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 to the deep end and bring out the TorchesAndPitchforks or resort to HonorRelatedAbuse. Then again, it might also turn out that whatever {{windmill}} they was fighting was NoMereWindmill after all.

Compare StrawLoser and BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Contrast AgainstMyReligion, where the character personally refuse to do things that he consider to be against his religion, rather then trying to bully everyone else into behaving the same way. Also contrast TheSoulsaver and SoulsavingCrusader, which can contain behavior that would be this trope if it wasn't justified within the narrative.

* One BostonLegal episode had two religious groups suing each other for blasphemy-related charges.
* On TrueBlood we have the Fellowship of the Sun, a cult runnoing on a quite scary flavor of silliness.

* PennAndTellerBullshit portray various groups this way, for example PETA.

* TheOnion reports on [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/christ-converts-to-islam,754/ Christ Converts To Islam]]: ''Millions more, however, have decried the recalcitrant Christ's apostasy, breaking ties with Him and calling His conversion "a heathen act" of "utmost blasphemy before Himself."''
* {{FSTDT}} lives on this trope.
* ZinniaJones has at least two episodes on this. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOQGhhrIpE One about MassResistance]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwlT5KzeRE one about Westbro Babtist Church]].

* One SouthPark episode ended with a ban on secular Christmas as well as religious Christmas, all thanks to Kyle's mother. The only song left for the kids to sing for Christmas was "Kyle's mom is a stupid bitch" (in d minor, no less).

A character doing ActivistFundamentalistAntics is likely to shout all the wrong slogans at all the wrong places: Religious gatherings, family holiday dinners, even funerals. She might make botched attempts at EasyEvangelism or EpiphanyTherapy, coming across as a general {{Jerkass}}. She is likely to step on all toes, including her own, and trip over her own feet in all sorts of ways. One hallmark of this mentality is the desire to forbid other people from living their lives - not because they involve the character in the break of [[YourNormalIsOurTaboo some certain taboo]] and not because they disobey [[MoralGuardians some "universal" morality derived from the faith]], but simply because they exist and isn't a part of the character's own SmallSecludedWorld.

* In TheVerse of ChickTracts, a [[TheFundamentalist real christian]] would never resort to this kind of behavior. (They sometimes do stuff that ''would'' be this trope if it wasn't for the convenient power of EasyEvangelism - such as using people's personal tragedies as a good time to tell them that they are going to hell unless they join the one true religion. But never mind that.) However, preachers of ''other'' faiths easily fall into this trope, [[StrawLoser thus proving the christians to be superior]].

* One SouthPark episode ended with a ban on secular christmas as well as religious christmas, all thanks to Kyle's mother. The only song left for the kids to sing for christmas was "Kyle's mom is a stupid bitch" (in d minor, no less).