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Bob thinks he has someone really special helping him. A guardian angel, a fairy godmother, the president of the united states, a wise alien, something like that. This benefactor gives Bob something that make him feel special and chosen. He is also likely to consider his own actions justified based on having the benefactor's blessing (or acting as per her advice or direct order).
However, Bob is totally wrong. And the results are likely to be disastrous as Bob builds his life on a lie and maybe drag others into the mess. Exactly how things develop depends on many things, including the true nature of the false benefactor: It could be a scam, a misunderstanding, or madness.
* If it is a scam, then it can be either either malicious or well meant. If it's the malicious work of a ManipulativeBastard who tries to start a [[WindmillCrusader Windmill Crusade]] or ScamReligion by creating false miracles, he simply needs to be exposed. But the well-meaning kind can be even more devastating. Lets say Bob is a kid who has done something really bad but never told his parents. That Christmas they give him a lot of presents "from Santa". Believing that the presents are really from a Santa Claus who knows everything he has done, he draws the logical conclusion that Santa [[ItGetsWorse approves of his actions]].
* If it is a misunderstanding, it simply needs to be resolved somehow. Lets say Bob thinks he got a vision from an angel who wanted him to do a certain thing. Maybe it was a real angel but he misinterpreted her, or maybe it was merely a dream that he mistook for a divine morality license. In either case, maybe a priest or psychologist can help him with a dose of EpiphanyTherapy?
* If it is madness, then at least one character probably needs professional help. Either Bob is insane, or he has met an insane person and mistaken her delusions for facts as she told him the "wise" words that her alien mentor supposedly had communicated to her telepathically.
ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta is a situation that has two sides. We have Bob, who we can call a FauxEmpoweredPerson. And we have the FauxEmpoweringEntity whom Bob believes to give him power/validation/purpose. Depending on context, "Faux Empowering Entity" can be read either as a "Faux Entity" who is "Empowering" or as an "Entity" who gives "Faux Empowering". The FEP and the FEE are two sides of the same coin, and are thus lumped together as a mutual trope: They are separate {{Internal Subtrope}}s, but one cannot exist without the other.
For this trope to be played straight, it has to be revealed (to the audience, not necessarily anyone else) that Bob's benefactor is not real, and that it's all just some kind of lie, misunderstanding or madness. When the trope is debated or invoked, a character ''believes'' (rightly or otherwise) that Bobs benefactor is a matter of lies, misunderstandings or madness.
Compare ''and'' Contrast WindmillPolitical: While a {{windmill}} is a threat that isn't really a threat, this trope features a kind of help that ultimately isn't helpful. When it comes to TheLadyOfTheLake and similar, contrast EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity for the real thing. Note however that EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity is a much more narrow trope then the FauxEmpoweringEntity side of this trope. A FauxEmpoweringEntity does not have to be of the Enigmatic kind, it can be pretty much anything.
However, Bob is totally wrong. And the results are likely to be disastrous as Bob builds his life on a lie and maybe drag others into the mess. Exactly how things develop depends on many things, including the true nature of the false benefactor: It could be a scam, a misunderstanding, or madness.
* If it is a scam, then it can be either either malicious or well meant. If it's the malicious work of a ManipulativeBastard who tries to start a [[WindmillCrusader Windmill Crusade]] or ScamReligion by creating false miracles, he simply needs to be exposed. But the well-meaning kind can be even more devastating. Lets say Bob is a kid who has done something really bad but never told his parents. That Christmas they give him a lot of presents "from Santa". Believing that the presents are really from a Santa Claus who knows everything he has done, he draws the logical conclusion that Santa [[ItGetsWorse approves of his actions]].
* If it is a misunderstanding, it simply needs to be resolved somehow. Lets say Bob thinks he got a vision from an angel who wanted him to do a certain thing. Maybe it was a real angel but he misinterpreted her, or maybe it was merely a dream that he mistook for a divine morality license. In either case, maybe a priest or psychologist can help him with a dose of EpiphanyTherapy?
* If it is madness, then at least one character probably needs professional help. Either Bob is insane, or he has met an insane person and mistaken her delusions for facts as she told him the "wise" words that her alien mentor supposedly had communicated to her telepathically.
ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta is a situation that has two sides. We have Bob, who we can call a FauxEmpoweredPerson. And we have the FauxEmpoweringEntity whom Bob believes to give him power/validation/purpose. Depending on context, "Faux Empowering Entity" can be read either as a "Faux Entity" who is "Empowering" or as an "Entity" who gives "Faux Empowering". The FEP and the FEE are two sides of the same coin, and are thus lumped together as a mutual trope: They are separate {{Internal Subtrope}}s, but one cannot exist without the other.
For this trope to be played straight, it has to be revealed (to the audience, not necessarily anyone else) that Bob's benefactor is not real, and that it's all just some kind of lie, misunderstanding or madness. When the trope is debated or invoked, a character ''believes'' (rightly or otherwise) that Bobs benefactor is a matter of lies, misunderstandings or madness.
Compare ''and'' Contrast WindmillPolitical: While a {{windmill}} is a threat that isn't really a threat, this trope features a kind of help that ultimately isn't helpful. When it comes to TheLadyOfTheLake and similar, contrast EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity for the real thing. Note however that EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity is a much more narrow trope then the FauxEmpoweringEntity side of this trope. A FauxEmpoweringEntity does not have to be of the Enigmatic kind, it can be pretty much anything.
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Bob thinks he has someone really special helping him. A guardian angel, a fairy godmother, the president of the united states, a wise alien, something like that. This benefactor (FauxEmpoweringEntity) gives Bob (FauxEmpoweredPerson) something that
Consequentially Bob may his own actions justified based on having the benefactor's blessing (or acting as per her advice or direct
For this trope to be played straight, it has to be revealed (to the
Compare ''and'' Contrast WindmillPolitical: While a {{windmill}} is a threat that isn't really a threat, this trope features a kind of help that ultimately isn't helpful. When it comes to TheLadyOfTheLake and similar, contrast EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity for the real thing. Note however that EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity is a
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* YouTube user [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWUn_bj5rM Shockofgod]] likes to claim that this is indirectly the reason people become atheists: When they realized Santa isn't real, they decided that [[InsaneTrollLogic if Santa isn't real, neither is God.]] Actual atheists beg to differ.
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* YouTube user [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWUn_bj5rM Shockofgod]] likes to claim that this is the reason people become atheists, deciding that [[InsaneTrollLogic if Santa isn't real, neither is God.]] Actual atheists beg to differ.
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* Kyoko of SkipBeat! still believes she got her purple worry stone from a fairy prince named Corn, which is very important to her. The pretty blond boy in question was ten at the time, and she was six; he presumably thought it was harmless to play along with such a ridiculously cute little girl. [[spoiler: Now that Hizuri Kuon has grown up and [[BecomingTheMask become]] Tsuruga Ren, the ethical issues involved in his convoluted lies have become really ridiculous.]] Incredibly, none of it has actually bitten yet.
** She has an emotional attachment to him under ''three different identities'' (and, like, six different names, but the whole Cain Heele thing doesn't matter) without knowing it and this has not come back to do any serious biting. Only because this is a pretty optimistic universe.
*** Actually, Kyoko is a pretty forgiving person. He hasn't used it to manipulate her...much...and she looks up to him enough...it'll work out. Except she'll be really sad that her fairy prince wasn't a real fairy.
*** For the record: Shoutaro being a self-involved jerk and her mother being an abusive and neglectful harpie, the most meaningful emotional connection Kyoko had in her ''whole early life'' was in those couple of weeks with Corn. Probably a large part of why she has never hesitated to keep believing in fairies. (Of course, given her Hate Demons have actual psychic and possibly sometimes physical effects and the ESP guy seems to be the real deal, she may be correct to believe in fairies. She also hallucinates them sometimes. ([[OrIsIt Or not.]])
** Kyoko, in a mini version of this, has become Ren's [[TheObiWan gag Obi Wan]] in costume as a rooster named Bou. His relationship with the rooster has evolved oddly and with no apparent introspection on his part over the course of the series, although he seems to think it's a guy older than himself. Since his reaction when this comes out will be primarily embarrassment (and amazement at how oblivious she can be, given Bou's been giving him advice about seducing the teenage girl he's in love with without Kyoko ever suspecting it's her), it's much easier to look forward to than the collapse of Ren's web of lies. It should be ''hilarious''.
*** She would never have become so close to him without the Bou thing, since he was a jerk to Kyoko and the situation where Bou met Ren allowed a unique perspective, which allowed her to hate him less, although it got worse before it got better.
*** The first Bou scene also revolved around three or four [[ChekhovsGun Chokhov's Guns]] about Ren's past that Kyoko will never in a million years put together.
** She has an emotional attachment to him under ''three different identities'' (and, like, six different names, but the whole Cain Heele thing doesn't matter) without knowing it and this has not come back to do any serious biting. Only because this is a pretty optimistic universe.
*** Actually, Kyoko is a pretty forgiving person. He hasn't used it to manipulate her...much...and she looks up to him enough...it'll work out. Except she'll be really sad that her fairy prince wasn't a real fairy.
*** For the record: Shoutaro being a self-involved jerk and her mother being an abusive and neglectful harpie, the most meaningful emotional connection Kyoko had in her ''whole early life'' was in those couple of weeks with Corn. Probably a large part of why she has never hesitated to keep believing in fairies. (Of course, given her Hate Demons have actual psychic and possibly sometimes physical effects and the ESP guy seems to be the real deal, she may be correct to believe in fairies. She also hallucinates them sometimes. ([[OrIsIt Or not.]])
** Kyoko, in a mini version of this, has become Ren's [[TheObiWan gag Obi Wan]] in costume as a rooster named Bou. His relationship with the rooster has evolved oddly and with no apparent introspection on his part over the course of the series, although he seems to think it's a guy older than himself. Since his reaction when this comes out will be primarily embarrassment (and amazement at how oblivious she can be, given Bou's been giving him advice about seducing the teenage girl he's in love with without Kyoko ever suspecting it's her), it's much easier to look forward to than the collapse of Ren's web of lies. It should be ''hilarious''.
*** She would never have become so close to him without the Bou thing, since he was a jerk to Kyoko and the situation where Bou met Ren allowed a unique perspective, which allowed her to hate him less, although it got worse before it got better.
*** The first Bou scene also revolved around three or four [[ChekhovsGun Chokhov's Guns]] about Ren's past that Kyoko will never in a million years put together.
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* In the ''{{Nightside}}'' series, the Removal Man believes his power was granted to him by God, and that he is using it to do God's work. He is DrivenToSuicide when John Taylor reveals who has actually been backing his power, and for what reason.
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** Lampshaded in CityOfHeroes, where all villain characters are apparantly one of many potential "Chosen Ones". And in a [[Deconstruction]], the epic archetypes have an alternate introduction, where they ''hack into Arachnid's systems and mark themselves as one of the Chosen Ones''.
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** Lampshaded in CityOfHeroes, where all villain characters are apparantly one of many potential "Chosen Ones". Ones" in some kind of prophesy based around the main villain. And in a notable [[Deconstruction]], the epic archetypes have an alternate introduction, where they ''hack into Arachnid's systems and mark themselves as one of the Chosen Ones''.
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** Lampshaded in CityOfHeroes, where all villain characters are apparantly one of many potential "Chosen Ones". And in a [[Deconstruction]], the epic archetypes have an alternate introduction, where they ''hack into Arachnid's systems and mark themselves as one of the Chosen Ones''.
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[[caption-width-right:226:Even in a less {{anvilicious}} [[TheVerse universe]], blind trust can still be a bad idea.]]
[[caption-width-right:226:Even in a less {{anvilicious}} [[TheVerse universe]], blind trust can still be a bad idea.]]
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[[caption-width-right:226:Even in a less {{anvilicious}} [[TheVerse universe]], blind trust can still be a bad idea.]]
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* In ''{{Fables}}'', Cinderella is quite disillusioned with the fairy godmother, who did set him up with that jerk "Prince Charming" in spite of already knowing about his trail of failed marriages.
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* In ''{{Fables}}'', Cinderella is quite disillusioned with the fairy godmother, who did set him her up with that jerk "Prince Charming" in spite of already knowing about his trail of failed marriages.
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* In ''KungFuHustle'', a street bum sells Sing an overpriced kung-fu manual in a flashback, which sees our protagonist down the road of misery and failure. The bum appears at the end of the film, after Sing has defeated the Axe Gang and the Beast, trying to sell an array of kung-fu manuals to another unsuspecting kid.
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* In ''KungFuHustle'', a street bum sells Sing an overpriced kung-fu manual in a flashback, which sees our protagonist down the road of misery and failure. The bum appears at the end of the film, after Sing has defeated the Axe Gang and the Beast, trying to sell an array of kung-fu manuals to another unsuspecting kid. [[spoiler:Possibly subverted since the manual did contain a legendary martial arts technique.]]
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Bob thinks he has someone really special helping him. A guardian angel, a fairy godmother, the president of the united states, a wise alien, something like that. This benefactor give Bob something that make him feel special and chosen. He is also likely to consider his own actions justified based on having the benefactor's blessing (or acting as per her advice or direct order).
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Bob thinks he has someone really special helping him. A guardian angel, a fairy godmother, the president of the united states, a wise alien, something like that. This benefactor give gives Bob something that make him feel special and chosen. He is also likely to consider his own actions justified based on having the benefactor's blessing (or acting as per her advice or direct order).
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* If it is a scam, then either it can be either malicious or well meant. If it's the malicious work of a ManipulativeBastard who tries to start a [[WindmillCrusader Windmill Crusade]] or ScamReligion by creating false miracles, he simply need to be exposed. But the well-meaning kind can be even more devastating. Lets say Bob is a kid who have done something really bad but never told his parents. That Christmas they give him a lot of presents "from Santa". Believing that the presents are really from a Santa Claus who knows everything he have done, he draws the logical conclusion that Santa [[ItGetsWorse approves of his actions]].
* If it is a misunderstanding, it simply need to be resolved somehow. Lets say Bob thinks he got a vision from an angel who wanted him to do a certain thing. Maybe it was a real angel but he misinterpreted her, or maybe it was merely a dream that he mistook for a divine morality license. In either case, maybe a priest or psychologist can help him with a dose of EpiphanyTherapy?
* If it is madness, then at least one character probably needs professional help. Either Bob is insane, or he have met an insane person and mistaken her delusions for facts as she told him the "wise" words that her alien mentor supposedly had communicated to her telepathically.
ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta is a situation that has two sides. We have Bob, who we can call a FauxEmpoweredPerson. And we have the FauxEmpoweringEntity who Bob believe gives him power/validation/purpose. Depending on context, "Faux Empowering Entity" can be read either as a "Faux Entity" who is "Empowering" or as an "Entity" who gives "Faux Empowering". The FEP and the FEE are two sides of the same coin, and are thus lumped together as a mutual trope: They are separate {{Internal Subtrope}}s, but one cannot exist without the other.
For this trope to be played straight, it has to be revealed (to the audience, not necessarily anyone else) that Bobs benefactor is not real. That it's all just some kind of lie, misunderstanding or madness. When the trope is debated or invoked, a character ''believes'' (rightly or otherwise) that Bobs benefactor is a matter of lies, misunderstandings or madness.
* If it is a misunderstanding, it simply need to be resolved somehow. Lets say Bob thinks he got a vision from an angel who wanted him to do a certain thing. Maybe it was a real angel but he misinterpreted her, or maybe it was merely a dream that he mistook for a divine morality license. In either case, maybe a priest or psychologist can help him with a dose of EpiphanyTherapy?
* If it is madness, then at least one character probably needs professional help. Either Bob is insane, or he have met an insane person and mistaken her delusions for facts as she told him the "wise" words that her alien mentor supposedly had communicated to her telepathically.
ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta is a situation that has two sides. We have Bob, who we can call a FauxEmpoweredPerson. And we have the FauxEmpoweringEntity who Bob believe gives him power/validation/purpose. Depending on context, "Faux Empowering Entity" can be read either as a "Faux Entity" who is "Empowering" or as an "Entity" who gives "Faux Empowering". The FEP and the FEE are two sides of the same coin, and are thus lumped together as a mutual trope: They are separate {{Internal Subtrope}}s, but one cannot exist without the other.
For this trope to be played straight, it has to be revealed (to the audience, not necessarily anyone else) that Bobs benefactor is not real. That it's all just some kind of lie, misunderstanding or madness. When the trope is debated or invoked, a character ''believes'' (rightly or otherwise) that Bobs benefactor is a matter of lies, misunderstandings or madness.
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* If it is a scam, then either it can be either either malicious or well meant. If it's the malicious work of a ManipulativeBastard who tries to start a [[WindmillCrusader Windmill Crusade]] or ScamReligion by creating false miracles, he simply need needs to be exposed. But the well-meaning kind can be even more devastating. Lets say Bob is a kid who have has done something really bad but never told his parents. That Christmas they give him a lot of presents "from Santa". Believing that the presents are really from a Santa Claus who knows everything he have has done, he draws the logical conclusion that Santa [[ItGetsWorse approves of his actions]].
* If it is a misunderstanding, it simplyneed needs to be resolved somehow. Lets say Bob thinks he got a vision from an angel who wanted him to do a certain thing. Maybe it was a real angel but he misinterpreted her, or maybe it was merely a dream that he mistook for a divine morality license. In either case, maybe a priest or psychologist can help him with a dose of EpiphanyTherapy?
* If it is madness, then at least one character probably needs professional help. Either Bob is insane, or hehave has met an insane person and mistaken her delusions for facts as she told him the "wise" words that her alien mentor supposedly had communicated to her telepathically.
ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta is a situation that has two sides. We have Bob, who we can call a FauxEmpoweredPerson. And we have the FauxEmpoweringEntitywho whom Bob believe gives believes to give him power/validation/purpose. Depending on context, "Faux Empowering Entity" can be read either as a "Faux Entity" who is "Empowering" or as an "Entity" who gives "Faux Empowering". The FEP and the FEE are two sides of the same coin, and are thus lumped together as a mutual trope: They are separate {{Internal Subtrope}}s, but one cannot exist without the other.
For this trope to be played straight, it has to be revealed (to the audience, not necessarily anyone else) thatBobs Bob's benefactor is not real. That real, and that it's all just some kind of lie, misunderstanding or madness. When the trope is debated or invoked, a character ''believes'' (rightly or otherwise) that Bobs benefactor is a matter of lies, misunderstandings or madness.
* If it is a misunderstanding, it simply
* If it is madness, then at least one character probably needs professional help. Either Bob is insane, or he
ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta is a situation that has two sides. We have Bob, who we can call a FauxEmpoweredPerson. And we have the FauxEmpoweringEntity
For this trope to be played straight, it has to be revealed (to the audience, not necessarily anyone else) that
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* Pip from GreatExpectations believes his sudden endowment to be from Mrs. Havisham to groom him into a proper husband for her ward, Estella. He's quite shocked to find otherwise.
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** Arguably, "The Guardians of the Universe" that formed the Green Lantern Corps have a hint of this as well. Consider for a moment that they gave ''themselves'' that title. While they mean well, they generally refuse to show any hint of humility or [[TheSpock emotion]]. They also have a tendency to cover up things they feel ManWasNotMeantToKnow (Parallax, the massacre of sector 666, Agent Orange, the Blackest Night prophecy, the White Entity), and those coverups have an equal tendency to come back and bite them in the rear.
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** Arguably, "The Guardians of the Universe" that formed the Green Lantern Corps have a hint of this as well. Consider well, acting as an Empowering Entity to the Corps but with their qualifications sometimes called into question. Unlike most, it's not out of manipulation, misunderstanding, or madness, but arrogance; consider for a moment that they gave ''themselves'' that their title. While they mean well, they generally refuse to show any hint of humility or [[TheSpock emotion]]. They also have a tendency to cover up things they feel ManWasNotMeantToKnow (Parallax, the massacre of sector 666, Agent Orange, the Blackest Night prophecy, the White Entity), and those coverups have an equal tendency to come back and bite them in the rear.
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* In ''KungFuHustle'', a street bum sells Sing an overpriced kung-fu manual in a flashback, which sees our protagonist down the road of misery and failure. The bum appears at the end of the film, after Sing has defeated the Axe Gang and the Beast (with no help from his sham manual), trying to sell an array of kung-fu manuals to another unsuspecting kid.
** Subverted since [[spoiler: the technique he used to defeat the Beast came from the manual. Sing just needed his chi flow corrected to use it properly.]]
** Subverted since [[spoiler: the technique he used to defeat the Beast came from the manual. Sing just needed his chi flow corrected to use it properly.]]
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** Subverted since [[spoiler: the technique he used to defeat the Beast came from the manual. Sing just needed his chi flow corrected to use it properly.]]kid.
** Subverted since [[spoiler: the technique he used to defeat the Beast came from the manual. Sing just needed his chi flow corrected to use it properly.]]
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* In TheWizardOfOz, the Wizard is ultimately proven to be a fraud, giving out {{Magic Feather}}s as if they was real gift. (However, the gifts are symbolic. Thus they can be considered valid in the film version, which was AllJustADream.)
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* In TheWizardOfOz, the Wizard is ultimately proven to be a fraud, giving out {{Magic Feather}}s as if they was real gift. (However, the gifts are symbolic. Thus they can be considered valid in the film version, which was AllJustADream.)) In the novels, the Wizard later learns real magic that nonetheless never has as big an effect on characters or the story as those three symbolic gifts he gave in the first book.
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* If it is madness, then at least one character probably need professional help. Either Bob is insane, or he have men an insane person and mistaken her delusions for facts as she told him the "wise" words that her alien mentor supposedly had communicated to her telepathically.
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* If it is madness, then at least one character probably need needs professional help. Either Bob is insane, or he have men met an insane person and mistaken her delusions for facts as she told him the "wise" words that her alien mentor supposedly had communicated to her telepathically.
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* If it is a scam, then either it can be either malicious or well meant. If it's the malicious work of a ManipulativeBastard who tries to start a [[WindmillCrusader Windmill Crusade]] or ScamReligion by creating false miracles, he simply need to be exposed. But the well-meaning kind can be even more devastating. Lets say Bob is a kid who have done something really bad but never told his parents. That christmas they give him a lot of presents "from Santa". Believing that the presents are really from a Santa Clause who knows everything he have done, he draws the logical conclusion that Santa [[ItGetsWorse approves of his actions]].
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* If it is a scam, then either it can be either malicious or well meant. If it's the malicious work of a ManipulativeBastard who tries to start a [[WindmillCrusader Windmill Crusade]] or ScamReligion by creating false miracles, he simply need to be exposed. But the well-meaning kind can be even more devastating. Lets say Bob is a kid who have done something really bad but never told his parents. That christmas Christmas they give him a lot of presents "from Santa". Believing that the presents are really from a Santa Clause Claus who knows everything he have done, he draws the logical conclusion that Santa [[ItGetsWorse approves of his actions]].
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* ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'' features two different kind of Strange Pond Women. Both are of the scam artist kind, but different kinds of scams.
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* ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'' features two different kind of Strange Pond Women.FauxEmpoweringEntity. Both are of the scam artist kind, but different kinds of scams.
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** The evil trio who tempts V takes on the role of EmpoweringLakeLady, but subverts the role to snare the wizard. V is manipulated into accepting a price S/he doesn't understand (rather than admit that his/her own power had failed yet again) and is tricked to believe that s/he has an excuse to let hir more destructive tendencies run wild without accepting true responsibility for the havoc. Also, the power they give is tainted and fatally flawed in itself, not at all what V had imagined "Ultimate Arcane Power" to be, as revealed when [[spoiler:s/he tries to take down Xykon and gets schooled by the vastly more powerful lich]].
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** The evil trio who tempts V takes on the role of EmpoweringLakeLady, but subverts the role to snare the wizard. V is manipulated into accepting a price S/he they doesn't understand (rather than admit that his/her their own power had failed yet again) and is tricked to believe that s/he they has an excuse to let hir more destructive tendencies run wild without accepting true responsibility for the havoc. Also, the power they the trio give is tainted and fatally flawed in itself, not at all what V had imagined "Ultimate Arcane Power" to be, as revealed when [[spoiler:s/he tries to take down Xykon and gets schooled by the vastly more powerful lich]].
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* YouTube user [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWUn_bj5rM Shockofgod]] likes to claim that this is the reason people become atheists, deciding that [[InsaneTrollLogic if Santa isn't real, neither is God.]] Actual atheists beg to differ.
* YouTube user [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWUn_bj5rM Shockofgod]] likes to claim that this is the reason people become atheists, deciding that [[InsaneTrollLogic if Santa isn't real, neither is God.]] Actual atheists beg to differ.
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ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta is a situation that has two sides. We have Bob, who we can call a FauxEmpowereredPerson. And we have the FauxEmpoweringEntity who Bob believe gives him power/validation/purpose. Depending on context, "Faux Empowering Entity" can be read either as a "Faux Entity" who is "Empowering" or as an "Entity" who gives "Faux Empowering". The FEP and the FEE are two sides of the same coin, and are thus lumped together as a mutual trope: They are separate {{Internal Subtrope}}s, but one cannot exist without the other.
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ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta is a situation that has two sides. We have Bob, who we can call a FauxEmpowereredPerson.FauxEmpoweredPerson. And we have the FauxEmpoweringEntity who Bob believe gives him power/validation/purpose. Depending on context, "Faux Empowering Entity" can be read either as a "Faux Entity" who is "Empowering" or as an "Entity" who gives "Faux Empowering". The FEP and the FEE are two sides of the same coin, and are thus lumped together as a mutual trope: They are separate {{Internal Subtrope}}s, but one cannot exist without the other.
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Compare ''and'' Contrast WindmillPolitical: While a {{windmill}} is a threat that isn't really a threat, this trope features a kind of help that ultimately isn't helpful. When it comes to TheLadyOfTheLake and similar, contrast EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity for the real thing. Note however that EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity is a much more narrow trope then the FauxEmpoweringEntity side of this trope. A FauxEmpoweringEntity does not have to be of the Enigmatic kind, it can be pretty much anything.
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Compare ''and'' Contrast WindmillPolitical: While a {{windmill}} is a threat that isn't really a threat, this trope features a kind of help that ultimately isn't helpful. When it comes to TheLadyOfTheLake and similar, contrast EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity for the real thing. Note however that EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity is a much more narrow trope then the FauxEmpoweringEntity side of this trope. A FauxEmpoweringEntity does not have to be of the Enigmatic kind, it can be pretty much anything.anything.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''KeroroGunsou'': In one story Tamama pretends to be a god (angel in the Funimation English dub) after being caught by a boy practising soccer. While he did help the boy become more confident he gave some rather strange advice, especially in the manga and English dub, not to mention teaching the boy a soccer kick fueled by resentment.
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[[folder:Comics]]
* In ''GreenLantern'' the False Guardians who empowered G'nort and others to intentionally discredit the Green Lantern Corps fill this role.
** Arguably, "The Guardians of the Universe" that formed the Green Lantern Corps have a hint of this as well. Consider for a moment that they gave ''themselves'' that title. While they mean well, they generally refuse to show any hint of humility or [[TheSpock emotion]]. They also have a tendency to cover up things they feel ManWasNotMeantToKnow (Parallax, the massacre of sector 666, Agent Orange, the Blackest Night prophecy, the White Entity), and those coverups have an equal tendency to come back and bite them in the rear.
* In ChickTracts, false gods and other devils often fill the [[FauxEmpoweringEntity FEE role]], offering people what the victims already have or what the devils can't provide. Especially God-as-worshipped-by-catholics-and-muslims gets portrayed this way a lot. However, humans are fully capable of being [[FauxEmpoweredPerson FEP]] without any help from demons. The page illustration is from a tract where belief in the easter bunny and SantaClaus lead a kid to JumpOffTheSlipperySlope and become a serial killer.
* In ''{{Fables}}'', Cinderella is quite disillusioned with the fairy godmother, who did set him up with that jerk "Prince Charming" in spite of already knowing about his trail of failed marriages.
* In ''Cinderella's Sister'', the "fairy godmoter" is all about hurting young women's selfesteem so that they will desirer more expensive clothes, cosmetic surgery etc. And she's not a real person either, merely an advertisement mascot.
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[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* Discussed in ''{{Monty Python and the Holy Grail}}'': The peasant Dennis didn't vote for King Arthur, so why should he accept King Arthur's rule? Because some strange woman lying in a pond distributed a sword? Or is it truly because Arthur will have him silenced if he don't pretend to go along with that logic? Come see the violence inherent in the system! ("Help, help, I'm being repressed!") (And yes, several sections of the trope description were lifted from this movie).
* In ''ABeautifulMind'', John Nash is getting increasingly erratic orders from the government agent who made him a KnightInShiningArmor against the evil communist conspiracy. [[spoiler: The questgiver is actually a delusion, caused by John's schizophrenia.]]
* In ''TheExorcismOfEmilyRose'', an angel gives the titular character blessings and tactical updates in her war against the devil. While psychiatry (in the movie as well as in RealLife) is convinced that Emily was insane and that it was wrong of her priest to advice her to stop taking her medication, the movie makes it [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] whether the battle was all a matter of insanity (making the angel a FauxEmpoweringEntity who helped Emily destroy herself) or a real battle between spiritual forces (making the angel a EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity who helped Emily defeat the devil and [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth move on to a better place]]).
** Even if she was insane, the movie indicates that maybe her faith was more important anyway. Emily herself was positioned to play this role for people looking for some confirmation of spirituality in the modern world; the movie suggests that if her faith had this positive effect on the world, maybe that was more important and the sacrifice she made would still mean something even she was actually crazy.
* In ''KungFuHustle'', a street bum sells Sing an overpriced kung-fu manual in a flashback, which sees our protagonist down the road of misery and failure. The bum appears at the end of the film, after Sing has defeated the Axe Gang and the Beast (with no help from his sham manual), trying to sell an array of kung-fu manuals to another unsuspecting kid.
** Subverted since [[spoiler: the technique he used to defeat the Beast came from the manual. Sing just needed his chi flow corrected to use it properly.]]
* In FiddlerOnTheRoof, a prophetic dream make Golde accept that her daughter will marry a poor tailor instead of a rich butcher. Good for the daughter, and also for the husband (who lied about the supernatural vision in order to dodge the wrath of his wife) - but clearly against Golde's true wishes.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In TheWizardOfOz, the Wizard is ultimately proven to be a fraud, giving out {{Magic Feather}}s as if they was real gift. (However, the gifts are symbolic. Thus they can be considered valid in the film version, which was AllJustADream.)
* In TheBible, Satan arguably fills this role as he's tempting Jesus with empty/meaningless promises in the desert.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Played for maximum tragedy & angst in the StarTrekVoyager episode [[spoiler:''Course Oblivion'']]. The crew put their trust in a shapeshifting alien who they believe to be the Star Fleet Captain Katheryn Janeway. This creature do believe itself to be Janeway, and it's trying to keep her crew safe and get them home, just like the real Janeway would. Too bad for the crew that she's not a real Star Fleet officer, and have a really flawed understanding of what is "safe" and what is "home".
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* In Clawfinger's song "God is dead," a unspecified audience is accused of killing each other on behalf of a deity they dreamed up in their own nightmares, the legitimacy of their holy wars against each other reduced to self-absorbed lunacy. Mistaking one's own fantasies for the voice of God might explain how some people who believe in the same God also believe that he want them to kill each other in his name.
* In {{Blutengel}}s song "No God"... ''"There's a god in your life, / But he is not what you need. / He can't hear you when you call. / He can't help you when you cry. / [...] / Wake up and face reality, realize there is no god. / Wake up open your eyes, / No paradise on the other side!"''
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* Madame Trashheap started out as a FEE in the early episodes of ''FraggleRock'', doling out simple adages that the Fraggles interpreted as wisdom and giving away useless items claiming they were magical but were really {{magic feather}}s. Early on, she began to develop true oracular powers, often bordering on the omniscient, and could even do real magic (like the time she made all the radishes disappear).
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Some fraudulent online institutions fit this trope.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ScarredLands: One of the lesser ChaoticEvil gods is fake. The Chaotic Evil overgod killed but then pretended to make him a God so that his followers would pray to the overgod who slayed him while believing that it is him they serve. Why? ForTheEvulz, of course. And all the poor minions get for their faithful service is the horrors of Hell. Note that this isn't a ScamReligion: It is a real ReligionOfEvil that really worship an evil God - it's just that they have been decieved regarding ''which'' evil God hears their prayers!
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In computer [=RPGs=] and [=MMORPGs=], badly written questgivers act as [[StrangePondWoman Strange Pond Women]]: Their excuses for giving magical items to the heroes are flimsy at best, and the items gets replaced soon enough anyway. When the character gets a medal or a title, it's almost always cheapened by the fact that every single character can be "the one and only" who did that particular feat of heroism.
** A noteworthy WorldOfWarcraft example is the wise old ogre who crowns the character king or Queen of Ogri'La. Since the quest is a group quest and was quite popular back in its days, it rarely took long until a new batch of five new kings & queens was publicly announced by the same old ogre.
* Uncle Rupee in ''Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland''.
* Lady Yunalesca in FinalFantasyX filled a role similar to this. For a thousand years she assisted summoners with the pen-ultimate step of their pilgrimage to obtain the Final Summon by [[spoiler: turning one of their guardians into it]]. Turns out, this is all a vicious, endless cycle of death destruction (and she knew it) and that her authority comes from her dad being the BigBad that controls and recreates the monstrous Sin these summoners sought to destroy once and for all. Fortunately, the heroes reject her offer to "help" them, destroy her to end the cycle of pointless sacrifice, and TakeAThirdOption instead.
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* The first episode of the web animation ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/doraleous-and-associates Doraleus And Associates]]'' deals with a strange (emphasis on ''"[[CloudCuckooLander strange]]"'') pond lady (actually called "Lady of the Lake") who guarded the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Zephyr]] [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Blade]] in waiting for TheChosenOne to wield. She handed out increasingly random things like a tiny dagger, a biscuit and a branch, and asked Doraleus to use [[strike:it]] them to fight an incredibly deadly beast hidden in the darkness, until Doraleus got fed up and left. Later on, it [[SubvertedTrope turns out]] that while she's clearly insane, the [[spoiler:branch really was the Zephyr Blade]]!
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'' features two different kind of Strange Pond Women. Both are of the scam artist kind, but different kinds of scams.
** An Angel "of pure Good and Law" clears the heroes' names, making them innocent of a very serious crime in the eyes of an order of Paladins. However, the trial is just a ShamCeremony, and the "angel" is just a manipulative ghost disguised as an angel.
** The evil trio who tempts V takes on the role of EmpoweringLakeLady, but subverts the role to snare the wizard. V is manipulated into accepting a price S/he doesn't understand (rather than admit that his/her own power had failed yet again) and is tricked to believe that s/he has an excuse to let hir more destructive tendencies run wild without accepting true responsibility for the havoc. Also, the power they give is tainted and fatally flawed in itself, not at all what V had imagined "Ultimate Arcane Power" to be, as revealed when [[spoiler:s/he tries to take down Xykon and gets schooled by the vastly more powerful lich]].
** Well, V. had lost control of the strongest part of the empowerment by the time he/she took on Xykon.
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[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''KeroroGunsou'': In one story Tamama pretends to be a god (angel in the Funimation English dub) after being caught by a boy practising soccer. While he did help the boy become more confident he gave some rather strange advice, especially in the manga and English dub, not to mention teaching the boy a soccer kick fueled by resentment.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comics]]
* In ''GreenLantern'' the False Guardians who empowered G'nort and others to intentionally discredit the Green Lantern Corps fill this role.
** Arguably, "The Guardians of the Universe" that formed the Green Lantern Corps have a hint of this as well. Consider for a moment that they gave ''themselves'' that title. While they mean well, they generally refuse to show any hint of humility or [[TheSpock emotion]]. They also have a tendency to cover up things they feel ManWasNotMeantToKnow (Parallax, the massacre of sector 666, Agent Orange, the Blackest Night prophecy, the White Entity), and those coverups have an equal tendency to come back and bite them in the rear.
* In ChickTracts, false gods and other devils often fill the [[FauxEmpoweringEntity FEE role]], offering people what the victims already have or what the devils can't provide. Especially God-as-worshipped-by-catholics-and-muslims gets portrayed this way a lot. However, humans are fully capable of being [[FauxEmpoweredPerson FEP]] without any help from demons. The page illustration is from a tract where belief in the easter bunny and SantaClaus lead a kid to JumpOffTheSlipperySlope and become a serial killer.
* In ''{{Fables}}'', Cinderella is quite disillusioned with the fairy godmother, who did set him up with that jerk "Prince Charming" in spite of already knowing about his trail of failed marriages.
* In ''Cinderella's Sister'', the "fairy godmoter" is all about hurting young women's selfesteem so that they will desirer more expensive clothes, cosmetic surgery etc. And she's not a real person either, merely an advertisement mascot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* Discussed in ''{{Monty Python and the Holy Grail}}'': The peasant Dennis didn't vote for King Arthur, so why should he accept King Arthur's rule? Because some strange woman lying in a pond distributed a sword? Or is it truly because Arthur will have him silenced if he don't pretend to go along with that logic? Come see the violence inherent in the system! ("Help, help, I'm being repressed!") (And yes, several sections of the trope description were lifted from this movie).
* In ''ABeautifulMind'', John Nash is getting increasingly erratic orders from the government agent who made him a KnightInShiningArmor against the evil communist conspiracy. [[spoiler: The questgiver is actually a delusion, caused by John's schizophrenia.]]
* In ''TheExorcismOfEmilyRose'', an angel gives the titular character blessings and tactical updates in her war against the devil. While psychiatry (in the movie as well as in RealLife) is convinced that Emily was insane and that it was wrong of her priest to advice her to stop taking her medication, the movie makes it [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] whether the battle was all a matter of insanity (making the angel a FauxEmpoweringEntity who helped Emily destroy herself) or a real battle between spiritual forces (making the angel a EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity who helped Emily defeat the devil and [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth move on to a better place]]).
** Even if she was insane, the movie indicates that maybe her faith was more important anyway. Emily herself was positioned to play this role for people looking for some confirmation of spirituality in the modern world; the movie suggests that if her faith had this positive effect on the world, maybe that was more important and the sacrifice she made would still mean something even she was actually crazy.
* In ''KungFuHustle'', a street bum sells Sing an overpriced kung-fu manual in a flashback, which sees our protagonist down the road of misery and failure. The bum appears at the end of the film, after Sing has defeated the Axe Gang and the Beast (with no help from his sham manual), trying to sell an array of kung-fu manuals to another unsuspecting kid.
** Subverted since [[spoiler: the technique he used to defeat the Beast came from the manual. Sing just needed his chi flow corrected to use it properly.]]
* In FiddlerOnTheRoof, a prophetic dream make Golde accept that her daughter will marry a poor tailor instead of a rich butcher. Good for the daughter, and also for the husband (who lied about the supernatural vision in order to dodge the wrath of his wife) - but clearly against Golde's true wishes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* In TheWizardOfOz, the Wizard is ultimately proven to be a fraud, giving out {{Magic Feather}}s as if they was real gift. (However, the gifts are symbolic. Thus they can be considered valid in the film version, which was AllJustADream.)
* In TheBible, Satan arguably fills this role as he's tempting Jesus with empty/meaningless promises in the desert.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Played for maximum tragedy & angst in the StarTrekVoyager episode [[spoiler:''Course Oblivion'']]. The crew put their trust in a shapeshifting alien who they believe to be the Star Fleet Captain Katheryn Janeway. This creature do believe itself to be Janeway, and it's trying to keep her crew safe and get them home, just like the real Janeway would. Too bad for the crew that she's not a real Star Fleet officer, and have a really flawed understanding of what is "safe" and what is "home".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* In Clawfinger's song "God is dead," a unspecified audience is accused of killing each other on behalf of a deity they dreamed up in their own nightmares, the legitimacy of their holy wars against each other reduced to self-absorbed lunacy. Mistaking one's own fantasies for the voice of God might explain how some people who believe in the same God also believe that he want them to kill each other in his name.
* In {{Blutengel}}s song "No God"... ''"There's a god in your life, / But he is not what you need. / He can't hear you when you call. / He can't help you when you cry. / [...] / Wake up and face reality, realize there is no god. / Wake up open your eyes, / No paradise on the other side!"''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* Madame Trashheap started out as a FEE in the early episodes of ''FraggleRock'', doling out simple adages that the Fraggles interpreted as wisdom and giving away useless items claiming they were magical but were really {{magic feather}}s. Early on, she began to develop true oracular powers, often bordering on the omniscient, and could even do real magic (like the time she made all the radishes disappear).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* Some fraudulent online institutions fit this trope.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ScarredLands: One of the lesser ChaoticEvil gods is fake. The Chaotic Evil overgod killed but then pretended to make him a God so that his followers would pray to the overgod who slayed him while believing that it is him they serve. Why? ForTheEvulz, of course. And all the poor minions get for their faithful service is the horrors of Hell. Note that this isn't a ScamReligion: It is a real ReligionOfEvil that really worship an evil God - it's just that they have been decieved regarding ''which'' evil God hears their prayers!
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In computer [=RPGs=] and [=MMORPGs=], badly written questgivers act as [[StrangePondWoman Strange Pond Women]]: Their excuses for giving magical items to the heroes are flimsy at best, and the items gets replaced soon enough anyway. When the character gets a medal or a title, it's almost always cheapened by the fact that every single character can be "the one and only" who did that particular feat of heroism.
** A noteworthy WorldOfWarcraft example is the wise old ogre who crowns the character king or Queen of Ogri'La. Since the quest is a group quest and was quite popular back in its days, it rarely took long until a new batch of five new kings & queens was publicly announced by the same old ogre.
* Uncle Rupee in ''Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland''.
* Lady Yunalesca in FinalFantasyX filled a role similar to this. For a thousand years she assisted summoners with the pen-ultimate step of their pilgrimage to obtain the Final Summon by [[spoiler: turning one of their guardians into it]]. Turns out, this is all a vicious, endless cycle of death destruction (and she knew it) and that her authority comes from her dad being the BigBad that controls and recreates the monstrous Sin these summoners sought to destroy once and for all. Fortunately, the heroes reject her offer to "help" them, destroy her to end the cycle of pointless sacrifice, and TakeAThirdOption instead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Animation]]
* The first episode of the web animation ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/doraleous-and-associates Doraleus And Associates]]'' deals with a strange (emphasis on ''"[[CloudCuckooLander strange]]"'') pond lady (actually called "Lady of the Lake") who guarded the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Zephyr]] [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Blade]] in waiting for TheChosenOne to wield. She handed out increasingly random things like a tiny dagger, a biscuit and a branch, and asked Doraleus to use [[strike:it]] them to fight an incredibly deadly beast hidden in the darkness, until Doraleus got fed up and left. Later on, it [[SubvertedTrope turns out]] that while she's clearly insane, the [[spoiler:branch really was the Zephyr Blade]]!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'' features two different kind of Strange Pond Women. Both are of the scam artist kind, but different kinds of scams.
** An Angel "of pure Good and Law" clears the heroes' names, making them innocent of a very serious crime in the eyes of an order of Paladins. However, the trial is just a ShamCeremony, and the "angel" is just a manipulative ghost disguised as an angel.
** The evil trio who tempts V takes on the role of EmpoweringLakeLady, but subverts the role to snare the wizard. V is manipulated into accepting a price S/he doesn't understand (rather than admit that his/her own power had failed yet again) and is tricked to believe that s/he has an excuse to let hir more destructive tendencies run wild without accepting true responsibility for the havoc. Also, the power they give is tainted and fatally flawed in itself, not at all what V had imagined "Ultimate Arcane Power" to be, as revealed when [[spoiler:s/he tries to take down Xykon and gets schooled by the vastly more powerful lich]].
** Well, V. had lost control of the strongest part of the empowerment by the time he/she took on Xykon.
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Bob thinks he has someone really special helping him. A guardian angel, a fairy godmother, the president of the united states, a wise alien, something like that. This benefactor give Bob something that make him feel special and chosen, and he is likely to consider his own actions based on having the benefactor's blessing or acting as per her advice or direct order.
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Bob thinks he has someone really special helping him. A guardian angel, a fairy godmother, the president of the united states, a wise alien, something like that. This benefactor give Bob something that make him feel special and chosen, and he chosen. He is also likely to consider his own actions justified based on having the benefactor's blessing or (or acting as per her advice or direct order.
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