History Main / GodIsDispleased

** [[DraconicHumanoid The Dragonborn]] (no not {{[[VideoGames/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim 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.

** [[DraconicHumanoid The Dragonborn]] (no not [[VideoGames/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim 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.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Priests with [[ReligionIsMagic divine magic]] can lose access to it if they seriously violate their god's tenets. One heretical sect [[TautologicalTemplar rationalizes this]] as a test of faith instead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', [[BoomerangBigot Uncle Ruckus]] is preaching the idea of "white heaven" to a group of black people after having a near-death experience where he saw himself becoming white while approaching the pearly gates. After a particularly nasty (even for him) racist tirade about how just existing while being black is a sin, he ends his sermon with "may God strike me down". God does, [[BoltOfDivineRetribution decisively]], which makes all the people listening to him bail after seeing an honest-to-God act of divine retribution at using His name to promote such awful ideals.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': Kida muses that the titular city was sunk because of the gods’ jealousy towards the Atlanteans. [[spoiler:In truth, the Heart of Atlantis didn’t appreciate being used as a weapon, and sealed both itself and a comparative handful of the city's population away while the rest perished under the flood.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Be careful who you scam.]][[note]]''[[Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife Don't stand there gawking like you've never seen the hand of God before!]]]]''[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Be careful who you scam]].]]
[[caption-width-right:300: [[Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife Don't stand there gawking like you've never seen the hand of God before]]!]]

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Priests with [[ReligionIsMagic divine magic]] can lose access to it if they frequently or seriously violate their patron god's tenets. At least one heretical sect struggles with this, but rationalizes it as a test of faith from their god.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Be careful who you scam]].]]

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Can sometimes result in DisproportionateRetribution. They may go out of their way to personally punish the offenders with a BoltOfDivineRetribution, or send a servant on a MissionFromGod to do it in their place. In extreme circumstances, the gods may punish the people with TheGreatFlood or some other kind of WorldWreckingWave, and could even remake the world InTheirOwnImage.

* ''Franchise/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.

* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'': [[spoiler:Gabriel]] believed that in order for humanity to be worthy of God's love, it had to suffer first. So they [[spoiler:conspired with Mammon]] to unleash Hell on Earth. They try to destroy [[spoiler:Satan]] when he intervenes, only for [[spoiler:Satan]] to stop the blow from landing, revealing that [[spoiler:Gabriel]] no longer has God's favor.

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* ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'': Arceus once cared for humans and even [[BequeathedPower 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.

* ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'': Arceus once cared for humans and even [[BequeathedPower gave humans some of his own power in the form of the Jewel of Life]] but after being betrayed, attacked and having the person he gave it to refuse to give him back the Jewel of Life, he becomes displeased with humans and wants to exact judgment on them.

* ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'': Arceus once cared for humans and even [[BequeathedPower gave humans some of his own power in the form of the Jewel of Life'' but after being betrayed, attacked and having the person he gave it to refuse to give him back the Jewel of Life, he becomes displeased with humans and wants to exact judgment on them.

** In Islam, the religious texts (mainly the Quran) document cases of towns getting demolished by God because of the citizens' debauchery and/or they refuse to follow the prophet designated to them.

*** This is why God sent the Flood, humanity having become too corrupted. So He told Noah to prepare the ark and basically just rebooted humanity.

*** In Judges, there's a recurring cycle: the people stop following God, He withdraws his protection and some enemy conquers them, they call out to God for help and He raises up a leader ("judge") to defeat the enemy and to bring the people back to Him, only for the people to stop following Him again as soon as the leader dies.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' has Arkantos believing that Poseidon was displeased with Atlantis, given his lack of protection from and even support towards their enemies. [[spoiler:Subverted, as Poseidon has allied with Kronos and his minions in a bid for power, his absent protection having nothing to do with specific displeasure against Atlantis itself.]]

* ''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. Notably, 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.

Something evil has appeared to destroy the Earth, and in the hopes that it can be stopped, some people turn to the local priesthood to pray to their gods for continued protection. But their prayers go unanswered. Their gods have grown angry.

Can sometimes result in DisproportionateRetribution. May also overlap with GoodIsNotNice and GoodIsNotSoft, if the gods in question are usually benevolent. JerkassGods may frequently invoke this, especially over lesser offenses. If the evil in question was sent by the gods as punishment, then the evil could be considered the scourge of the gods. HaveYouSeenMyGod may also come into play, if this trope has been invoked over a prolonged period of time in-universe.

* ''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 for suggesting they not murder their own troops while the crowd cheers. 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.

-->'''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]]

On occasion, the gods may also decide that withdrawing their favor and protection isn't enough, [[BoltOfDivineRetribution and may go out of their way to personally punish the offenders]], or [[MissionFromGod send another powerful servant]] to do it in their place.

* Implied in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. It's never stated exactly how Ganondorf came into possession of the Triforce of Power, but the sages suggest that it was a "divine prank" suggesting that the goddess Din was responsible. In the end of the game, he loses the Triforce piece after Link stabs him through the chest (again, the exact reason why isn't stated). Stripped of it's divine protection, he succumbs to his wounds and [[DiedStandingUp Dies Standing Up]].

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27715157/chapters/67833158 The Last Firebender]]'' (by sinistercinnamon): 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 for suggesting they not murder their own troops while the crowd cheers. 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.