'''Basic Trope''': A religious character will believe in anything supernatural, while an atheist, an agnostic, or a skeptic refuses to believe in anything supernatural.
* '''Straight''':
** Alice is religious, and generally believes in supernatural phenomena like aliens and [=UFOs=].
** Bob is non-religious, and refuses to believe in anything supernatural.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice believes in absolutely everything that she is told, even if it is obviously a lie.
** Bob is an über-skeptic and refuses to believe absolutely anything without a mountain of proof.
** Every character in the work is on one side or the other; there is no one in between.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice is religious, and is somewhat open to the possibility of supernatural phenomena.
** Bob is non-religious and believes various paranormal stories, but refuses to take a side on whether it's supernatural or mundane without more proof.
* '''Justified''': Both types boil down to, "If God exists (or doesn't exist), then what else must (or must not) exist?"
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice believes in a higher power, but steadfastly refuses to believe in supernatural phenomena.
** Bob is willing to believe in anything except the existence of a higher power.
** [[ArbitrarySkepticism Charles believes in magic and dragons but not unicorns.]]
* '''Subverted''':
** When someone approaches Alice with a ghost story, she brushes them off with "that's a bunch of bunk".
** When someone approaches Bob with a ghost story, he listens in and offers his own story.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** ...But she was in front of her church friends and was putting on airs. When she's approached in private, she actively listens and offers her own story.
** At the end of his ghost story, Bob laughs and says, "You didn't think I was being serious, did you?"
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': One character switches from first-type instance to second-type and back in different scenes.
* '''Averted''':
** Every character in the work believes in some supernatural or paranormal entities, but not others. For example, Alice is religious but doesn't believe in aliens or [=UFOs=].
** The characters' beliefs are never dealt with anywhere in the work.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "Look, Alice. Just because there's a God doesn't mean that every conceivable supernatural or paranormal phenomenon must exist out there. You have to stop believing in fairy tales."
** "There can't be aliens, because there's no God." "That's ridiculous, Bob. There is a God, and there are aliens."
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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "So Alice believes in Jesus and aliens, and Bob doesn't believe in either one? Maybe opposites really do attract!"
* '''Played For Laughs''': God appears and tells Alice and Bob, "Just so we're clear, there are no aliens. Earth is the only planet with life on it." Neither of the two believes Him: Alice believes that aliens must exist somewhere in the universe, and Bob believes that it could not really have been God.
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