History Main / PiousMonster

* Nightcrawler from ''Franchise/XMen'' is a blue-skinned mutant who resembles a demon... and happens to be a Roman Catholic.
** Wolfsbane, another mutant, is a devout Scottish Presbyterian despite her mutation giving her a werewolf-like transformation.

* ''Literature/{{Baudolino}}'': Not only are all the various monsters in Deacon John's kingdom all Christians, each species has its own interpretation of the nature of the Holy Trinity and refuses to consider the others as anything but heretics (parodying the many, many schisms the religion has experienced over time), [[DividedWeFall which screws them over during the final battle]].

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': [[spoiler:The Goblin Paladin is part of the AlwaysChaoticEvil goblin race, yet he worships one of the setting's non-evil deities. Because of this he lacks the innate [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] of his kind, being an EvilGenius with the [[VillainousValour bravery]] and charisma to serve as the DarkMessiah for the race. This all makes him one of the most dangerous goblins out there.]]

-->--'''The Abomination''', ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon''

* An old joke has man being chased and cornered by a bear. About to be devoured, he gets in a last prayer asking God to make the bear a Christian (either like him or, in a variant where the man is an atheist, as a compromise after God asks why, exactly, He would be required to intervene in favor of someone who denied His existence all his life). The bear suddenly sits up, puts its hands together, and says "Lord, I thank you for this meal you have provided."

* This trope pretty much describes the whole shtick of German PowerMetal band Music/{{Powerwolf}}, whose songs riff on Catholic imagery and vampire and werewolf legends in equal measure. The monsters are routinely described as praising God while doing what monsters stereotypically do, and the album art generally depicts werewolves dressed as monks or priests.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-166 SCP-166 ("Teenage Gaea")]]. SCP-166 is the daughter of a nature goddess and Dr Clef, a man who possibly is the devil. She was given to a Catholic convent as a baby and was raised as (and is currently) a Catholic. In the original version of the article, she had the abilities of a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]], but with no control of her abilities. The rewritten version of the article instead has her take after her mother instead, having the abilities of a pagan goddess.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-166 SCP-166 ("Teenage Gaea")]]. SCP-166 is the daughter of a nature goddess and Dr Clef, a man who possibly is the devil. She was given to a Catholic convent as a baby and was raised as (and is currently) a Catholic. In the original version of the article, she had the abilities of a [[HornyDevils succubus]], but with no control of her abilities. The rewritten version of the article instead has her take after her mother instead, having the abilities of a pagan goddess.

* Confessor from ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' is a vampire who was a Catholic priest and now acts a superhero. The cross he wears on the front of his costume constantly burns him, [[DeliberatelyPainfulClothing which he regards as form of penance]].
* In the ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'' {{anthology}} comic ''Tales of the Vampires'', one story deals with a priest who was turned into a vampire. He seems really conflicted about faith; on the one hand he does things like carve the cross into his body despite the constant pain that brings, on the other hand he also specifically target priests and men of faith whenever possible. However, when he believes that he's just had a close encounter with God in the body of man, the vampire willingly commits SuicideBySunlight because God told him to do it.

* On of the ''Literature/AnitaBlake'' novel features a vampire who is a devout Christian. [[spoiler:He also is a pyrokinetic and is resistant to the normal weaknesses against sunlight and crosses. He ends up committing MurderSuicide with his fire powers in the book's climax [[IHateYouVampireDad against the vampire who originally turned and enslaved him]] when he realized that she could no longer control him, as he had actually become stronger than her a long time ago but she had been suppressing his power, which came back when she had loosened her hold on him.]]
* ''Creator/AnneRice'' has her vampires doing things like going into churches and cathedrals and praying - trying to work out their inner conflicts as to whether they are genuinely evil, or if any good remains, or if they have advanced beyond human dichotomies such as the good-evil thing. In the Rice universe, her vampires can handle crucifixes and holy water without ill-effects and can even encounter Angels and not be adversely affected.

* ''Literature/BloodBooks'', by Creator/TanyaHuff, prominently features a vampire named Henry Fitzroy who happens to be a practicing Catholic, and was actually alive during the Protestant Reformation. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Naturally crucifixes have no effect on him or other vampires.]]
* In the first chapter of the first Literature/KittyNorville novel, ''Kitty and the Midnight Hour'', Kitty is talking to a vampire who was (and still is, or would be if he could go to church) Catholic, and feels that his soul is lost. She finds a very strong, simple way to convince him otherwise.

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' has the Lancea et Sanctum, a group of Abrahamic vampires, some of whom only come into the faith after having died. You'd think their faith might make them kinder, but nope. They see themselves as playing the black hats in God's plan, punishing humanity and basically being the "stick" to keep people good. Basically every negative organized religion trope applies, except for the organist ones. ''Those'' are taken up by the Circle of the Crone, the bloody cult following vampires. Among their few redeeming traits is they do at least try to encourage piety and faith in mortals, but they tend to get too dogmatic or cruel over the decades.

** The Elf god Khaine is worshiped as a WarGod by the High Elves as a paragon of martial honor and valor. The Dark Elves worship Khaine as well... as a vicious god of murder and cruelty.

Super-trope of ReligiousVampire, as well as of ReligiousRobot, when a product of science is a person of faith, and HeavensDevils, for literally demonic beings who serve God's cause in some way. Not to be confused with SinisterMinister and ChurchgoingVillain, for more figurative monsters who venerate God. Compare FantasticReligiousWeirdness. Sub-trope of ReligionTropes (in general), and OthernessTropes.

Super-trope of ReligiousVampire. Compare ReligiousRobot, when a product of science is a person of faith, and HeavensDevils, for literally demonic beings who serve God's cause in some way. Not to be confused with SinisterMinister and ChurchgoingVillain, for more figurative monsters who venerate God. Compare FantasticReligiousWeirdness. Sub-trope of ReligionTropes (in general), and OthernessTropes. Super-trope of ReligiousRobot.

* In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'', the Tarka apparently have a psychological need to beleive in a higher power, and once they met Mankind, they converted to Catholicism.

* ''Literature/KnownSpace'' has the Kzinti, a mainly antagonistic alien CatFolk who chiefly worship their own Fanged God; one Kzinti religious sect, the Kdaptists, however believes that God made ''man'' (i.e. humans) in His own image ([[GoodFortuneFromGod and that that's why]] [[HumansAreSpecial humans regularly win every war the Kzinti wage against them]]).

* In the ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'' {{anthology}} comic ''Tales of the Vampires'', one story deals with a priest who was turned into a vampire. He seems really conflicted about faith; on the one hand he does things like carve the cross into his body despite the constant pain that brings, on the other hand he also specifically target priests and men of faith whenever possible. However, when he believes that he's just had a close encounter with God, the vampire willingly commits SuicideBySunlight.

** Donovan Blaine doesn't look like a monster at first, but he is actually a half-vampire who holds back a terrible dark side. This is why he became a Buddhist monk to control himself.

Super-trope of ReligiousVampire. Compare ReligiousRobot, when a product of science is a person of faith, and HeavensDevils, for literally demonic beings who serve God's cause in some way. Not to be confused with SinisterMinister and ChurchgoingVillain, for more figurative monsters who venerate God. Compare FantasticReligiousWeirdness. Sub-trope of ReligionTropes (in general), and OthernessTropes.

** The Unfleshed are grotesque, skinless mutants that are the rejects of a project to manufacture Chaos Space marines more quickly though a very disgusting process. Despite being a product of Chaos, they are aligned with the Emperor or Mankind instead.