Members of the Board. I am a woman of science. I believe in hard evidence, and study, and facts. But even I know now, the power of Him.
Bad Faith is a Body Horror webcomic that revolves around a mother taking her son to a weight loss clinic in an attempt to get him to lose weight. While the mother and her son are residing there, she continues to pray to a God to make her son "handsome" and it eventually starts working... not in the way you'd expect.— The Doctor
A gameplay version
was produced shortly after the comic's release.
You can download the comic to read for free here.
Not to be confused with Bad Faith.
Tropes that apply to Bad Faith include:
- Abusive Parents: Even without mentioning her unhealthy obsession with religion, the mother refuses to believe her overweight son is handsome enough even when he’s no longer overweight It’s also implied that the boy’s mother verbally abused her son in an attempt to get him to lose weight (which is stated to have failed as a tactic). The gameplay version ventures further into detail, with the mother stating that she's embarrassed to take her son out in public.
- Adaptation Expansion: The gameplay version includes a scene of the board meeting after the boy's death. The doctor describes the events of the comic during the meeting.
- Ambiguously Christian: It's never stated if the mother was Christian or another version of it, but based on the terms she uses to refer to "God", it's very likely.
- Broken Smile: The mother has an unsettling smile on her face for most of the comic and game. It gets even creepier when she's holding her emaciated son in her arms with tears streaming down her face while she maintains the same exact smile.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The boy's weight loss due to his mother's prayers resulted in his fat compressing into his body (similar to a Capri-Sun as stated in the comic), by the 3rd week, it's painfully obvious that he's struggling to take air in and it's unknown how long he had to suffer before he imploded during a medical scan.
- Gone Horribly Right: Let's just say that the boy technically did lose weight...
- My Beloved Smother: The doctor claims that she finds the boy's mother to be overbearing in the gameplay version.
- No Name Given: The mother and son are never given names in either version of the comic. The doctor is also never given a name.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: By the 3rd week of the boy's treatment, he became severely emaciated. His body became so compressed that it ends up collapsing in on itself shortly after this scene.
- Precision F-Strike: In the gameplay version, one of the board members uses this when asking what happened to the boy the week before.
- "Pop!" Goes the Human: The ultimate fate of the son due to how compressed his body became, although he didn't actually explode, he imploded, causing his internal organs to shoot out everywhere.
- Social Services Does Not Exist: CPS is apparently never notified about the mother's unsettling behavior, along with the horrifically fast weight loss of her son.
- The Scream: At the end of the gameplay version, the doctor and other medical staff members scream in horror at the boy’s compressed body imploding.
- The Voiceless: The boy never speaks throughout the comic, and the only thing we hear from him in the gameplay version is his weak, labored breathing as his body becomes more and more compressed.
- Wham Shot:
- The illustration of the mother holding her son, who is now so horribly emaciated that he’s barely able to breathe. The doctor is naturally disturbed and concerned by this.
- The final shot depicts the boy’s final scan that was done right when he imploded.
- Weight Woe: Not from the boy himself, but his mother is extremely embarrassed by her son's weight issues. At one point, she gets upset that he loses 2.5 pounds one week instead of the 5 that he lost the week before. Her issues with this eventually resulted in her son's weight loss to the point where it killed him.
