History Main / GodIsDispleased

* ''Fanfic/TheLastFirebenderSinisterCinnamon'': Agni, the Great Spirit who is the patron of the Fire Nation, has been growing steadily more displeased over the Hundred Years War. In fact, the only reason he hasn't intervened is because Great Spirits don't perceive time in the same way as humans; waiting a few hundred years to see if they sort things out on their own seems like a good idea. That is, until the Fire Lord (who is supposed to be Agni's voice) brutally scars his own son in a ritual duel sacred to Agni while the crowd cheers, all to punish him for suggesting they not murder their own troops. Agni responds by instantly removing ''[[TheMagicGoesAway all firebending]]'' -- except for Zuko's. [[NeverMyFault Ozai blames Zuko for all of this]], and Iroh barely manages to get him out of the Fire Nation before he is killed.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "King George and the Ducky," Melvin the conveniently-appearing wise man [[MemeticMutation has this to say]] to the king:

* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': During the attack on the town by Dracula's forces, [[spoiler:the bishop comes to find out that in response to his abuse of power and the burning of Dracula's wife, God withdrew His protection -- the demons can go straight into the town's chapel]]. Seconds later, the demons tear into and devour him. Trevor ''is'' able to find a priest in the town who is still able to create holy water. God is displeased, but only against those who are actually corrupt -- unlike Dracula, who is willing to kill everyone over the actions of a few.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In ''If I'm Dyin' I'm Lyin' '', a series of lies leads to Peter being [[ItMakesSenseInContext worshipped as a God]]. The real God is ''not'' happy and sends the Biblical Plagues upon the Griffin family. Naturally, Peter doesn't get it until Brian knocks some sense into him.
-->'''Peter''': "There's gotta be an explanation for all this!"
-->'''Brian''': "You want an explanation?! [Grabs Peter and smacks him repeatedly] [[PunctuatedPounding GOD... IS...PISSED!]]"[[note]]This was back in season 2, before Brian's atheism was made part of his {{Flanderization}}.[[/note]]

* ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'': Arceus once cared for humans and even gave humans some of their own power in the form of the Jewel of Life but after being betrayed, attacked and having the person they gave it to refuse to give them back the Jewel of Life, they become displeased with humans and want to exact judgment on them.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Zeus tends to get displeased with humanity for their technological advancements, not worshiping him and giving him the power he lusts after, and their violence as he is a major hypocrite and sees it as a relection of Ares and Ares alone. His reactions tend to be genocidal with him slaughtering huge swaths of people in his bid to subjugate them in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'' and being stopped from doing so in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' and ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' at great cost to the Amazons.

* ''Fanfic/TheLastFirebenderSinisterCinnamon'': Agni, the Great Spirit who is the patron of the Fire Nation, has been growing steadily more displeased over the Hundred Years War. In fact, the only reason he hasn't intervened is because Great Spirits don't perceive time in the same way as humans; waiting a few hundred years to see if they sort things out on their own seems like a good idea. That is, until the Fire Lord (who is supposed to be Agni's voice) brutally scars his own son in a ritual duel sacred to Agni while the crowd cheers, all to punish him for suggesting they not murder their own troops. Agni responds by instantly removing ''[[TheMagicGoesAway all firebending]]''--except for Zuko's. [[NeverMyFault Ozai blames Zuko for all of this]], and Iroh barely manages to get him out of the Fire Nation before he is killed.

* ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'': The Holy Empire of Istar was a beacon of Good in the world, enjoying the {{patron|God}}age of the Gods of Light, until its crusade against evil took it further and further into KnightTemplar territory. The last Kingpriest's actions became so egregious that the Gods sent thirteen warnings, including [[DePower revoking their own priests' holy magic]]; when they were ignored, the Gods followed them up with a meteorite that destroyed the Empire.

** In ''Literature/GravePeril'', Michael Carpenter lends his Sword ''Amoracchius'', the Sword of Love, to Harry Dresden. However, in a moment of weakness, [[spoiler:Harry tries to use the Sword to stop his Fairy Godmother from claiming him after years of evading him because of their pact. As she has fully honored her side of the deal and never coerced Harry into making the pact, God refuses to help with the consequences of Harry's own choices. This in turn causes the protections on the Sword to be weakened and allows Lea to grab hold of the Holy Blade and then give it to people who would try to unmake it all together]].

** This is His stance against [[spoiler:the Knights of the Blackened Denarius, persons who have in their heads thirty of the most dangerous Fallen who either served Lucifer or played both sides. When one of these people who have the Fallen in their head enters holy ground like a church, God doesn't smite them, but simply passively lets them be. Harry realizes that this is the point, like a father simply looking at a wayward child hoping he will change his path; God lets them feel Him and it causes them to remember the worth they had serving Him. This also makes them question their million plus years of certainty and pride in their choice to rebel. And maybe, just maybe, the Fallen will repent.]]

*** The story of Jonah involves this almost happening to the wicked city of Ninevah, and God sends Jonah as a prophet to warn the city's inhabitants that they need to stop their evil ways or else fire and brimstone will be coming. After the incident with the giant fish, Jonah delivers God's warning... and for once the Ninevites actually listen and start turning things around. As a result, God decides not to destroy Ninevah.

** [[ThePaladin Paladins]] also have to deal with this. While the gods may forgive bad things done while under compulsion, duress or lack of choice, and allow for an ''atonement'' spell to be cast in order to have one's paladin status restored under such circumstances, the same cannot be said of deliberate and willful acts of evil, which will cost you your paladinhood permanently.

** At some point prior to the events of main game, the Daedric Prince Nocturnal cursed the Thieves Guild with a long string of bad luck, [[spoiler:having withdrawn her protection and influence as its unknown (to all non-Nightingale members of the Guild) patron deity, because of Mercer Frey's theft of the Skeleton Key and murder of Gallus, the previous Guildmaster.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': During the attack on the town by Dracula's forces, [[spoiler:the bishop comes to find out that in response to his abuse of power and the burning of Dracula's wife, God withdrew His protection -- the demons can go straight into the town's chapel.]] Seconds later, the demons tear into and devour him. Trevor ''is'' able to find a priest in the town who is still able to create holy water. God is displeased, but only against those who are actually corrupt -- unlike Dracula, who is willing to kill everyone over the actions of a few.

-->'''Brian''': "You want an explanation?! [Grabs Peter and smacks him repeatedly] [[PunctuatedPounding GOD... IS...PISSED!]]"[[note]]This was back in season 2, before Brian's atheism was made part of his {{Flanderization}}.

** [[DraconicHumanoid The Dragonborn]] (no not {{VideoGames/TheElderScrollsSkyrim that one}} ) children of Bahamut in 3e are given their abilities in part due to serving him, but they are forbidden to do evil in his service. The Platinum Dragon is forgiving toward his adopted children, but if they repeatedly use immoral methods against the servants of Tiamat, they can expect warnings from the Aspects of their father. If they still fail to atone, Bahamut will strip them of all his powers and blessings, causing their scales to slough off, reverting them to their original race.