Line #13 PlayingWith/CrisisOfFaith


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character struggles with their religious belief. They're usually [[StatusQuoIsGod back to normal]] at the end of the story.
2	* '''Straight''': After Agnes Dei's [[DeathOfAChild baby dies]], she can't reconcile the way she feels with the existence of a loving God. Once she learns to cope with her loss, she returns to the fold.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': FaithHeelTurn - Agnes [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy turns overnight into a militant atheist terrorist]].
4	* '''Downplayed''': Agnes expresses doubts about her religion, but it doesn't cause her any serious {{angst}}.
5	* '''Justified''': Rather than being one setback away from becoming a NayTheist, Agnes had been doubting her faith for some time, and her personal grief just pushes her over the edge into outright questioning it. From there she begins to PullTheThread on the question of whether there's a God at all.
6	* '''Inverted''':
7	** After witnessing a miracle, Bob becomes deeply religious. Once AgentScully explains the perfectly logical explanation, he loses all interest in religion.
8	** Bob briefly becomes a [[TheWarOnStraw Strawman]] Christian, but his atheist friends [[AuthorTract bombard him with the benefits of atheism]] and he [[EasyEvangelism switches straight back]].
9	* '''Subverted''': Agnes has a brief RageAgainstTheHeavens, but never questions her belief itself.
10	* '''Double Subverted''': ...but when her religious friends are more interested in telling her off for her blasphemy than helping her through her personal tragedy, she starts to wonder if the church is any use to her at all.
11	* '''Parodied''': Agnes finds herself questioning whether ProfessionalWrestling is [[{{Kayfabe}} actually staged]]. Her believing friends do their best to help her through this crisis, while [[SmartMark the non-believers]] look on in bemusement.
12	* '''Zig Zagged''': Agnes' struggle with her faith is an ongoing character trait, and she flip-flops one way or the other depending on the plot.
13	* '''Averted''': Whatever the religious background of the characters, everyone stays where they started without question.
14	* '''Enforced''':
15	** The writers want to set up an atheist strawman for an AuthorTract, but [[LongLostUncleAesop introducing a brand new character]] just to convert him wouldn't be as effective.
16	** It's a VerySpecialEpisode on an issue many religious people deal with at some point in their lives.
17	** The writers want to give Agnes some CharacterDevelopment, and making her question her religion sounds like a good idea.
18	* '''Lampshaded''': ???
19	* '''Invoked''': [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]] was right: {{Satan}} really does go around manipulating people into questioning their faith.
20	* '''Exploited''': ...Or at least, he pounces on those who are already questioning it, and convinces them to give it up altogether.
21	* '''Defied''': TheFundamentalist sees any such doubts as the influence of the Devil, and they just make him ever more zealous.
22	* '''Discussed''': "Man, for someone as devout as Alice to go through something like that... if I were her, I'd be having serious doubts about my faith."
23	* '''Conversed''': "Somehow, I can't see a lighthearted family sitcom [[CerebusSyndrome dealing with]] a character [[StatusQuoIsGod permanently]] losing their religion. And I kinda hope [[CluelessAesop they don't try to.]]"
24	* '''Implied''': Agnes has a long dark night of the soul after hearing the news. The next morning, we see her walking towards her regular church, as people sing joyfully inside... and she scowls, and keeps on walking.
25	* '''Played For Laughs''': Finally free from judgement, Agnes [[ADarkerMe goes on a bender]], with a checklist of the SevenDeadlySins that she ticks off as she goes.
26	--> '''Agnes''': "Still in bed at two in the afternoon, wearing nothing but my new diamond necklace while my sister's boyfriend feeds me strawberries and cream and tells me I'm beautiful? That's a six-pointer! [[HypocriticalHumour Now God DAMN it, how the hell am I supposed to fit wrath in?]]"
27	* '''Played For Drama''': The beginning of a long and traumatic [[AnArc arc]] of CharacterDevelopment as Agnes drifts away from the religion that's helped her through life, and that is tied up with her whole circle of family and friends.
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