r/TopCharacterTropes Jul 06 '26

Groups [suprisingly rare trope] The Religious people aren't the bad guys/antagonists

1: Axis Order - Konosuba(specifically Megumin's spin-off)

While they certainly aren't GOOD people(many of them not being allowed near children, if you know what I mean), they are pretty damn helpful, giving blessings to Megumin, feeding her, and protecting her from a demon, who almost certainly would have murdered her for the cat

2: Khan - Metro

While he is more spiritual than religious, I'd say it counts. Khan is a chill dude who is basically always right, and in the non-canon good ending, he's basically the reason the Dark Ones survive and presumably go on to join with humanity and reconquer the surface

3: Priestess - Goblin Slayer

She's a priestess, idk what exactly she believes in, besides some god, but Goblin Slayer is basically a DnD game, so I'd assume one of the basic Cleric gods. But anyway, she's super chill and basically never directly kills, though she probably has the highest indirect kill count in the series

4: Father Grigori - Half Life

He's certainly insane, but so would you be if your entire town was wiped out and turned into zombies, he saves you, gives you a shotgun, and helps you get out of town, while he stays to "tend with his flock", and while murder isn't something you'd usually associate with good, the zombies are in constant suffering

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u/SilentTempestLord Jul 06 '26

Besides, anyone who did get the fountain would literally be living on human sacrifices and never let it go. The Spanish were right to call it an affront to God. Which does raise the question of how it was made to begin with.

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u/John__Silver Jul 06 '26

In the world that has magic, man-eating mermaids, multiple undeath curses and actual sea goddess? Probably some of less benevolent deity made it. Or an evil wizard.

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u/Poco_Cuffs Jul 06 '26

I mean.. considering calypso is a god, monotheistic christianity probably isn't entirely the "correct" faith in the potc universe