divine retribution theme
It is suggested that a misfortune befalling someone, a group, or a society, is in fact a punishment from God for something that was done.
16 total · 5 major · 11 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp7x19 | major | Pedro was struck down with paralysis by the Virgin Mary for his having committed insurance fraud. |
| bbf2x18 | major | The Markab thought the disease was a punishment for immorality |
| nightgallery2x17a | major | Charlie Rogan was struck down with blindness by the Lord for his having committed insurance fraud. |
| play: Richard III (1597) | major | Critics argue that, in the play, Richard III is the final evil visited upon England as retribution for the murder of king Richard II, which was a crime against the heavens |
| tz1985e1x11a | major | The people in an isolated, coastal town lived in abject fear of their demanding and merciless lighthouse god. In particular, whoever the lighthouse light would shine on at night would soon die, if not from an illness, then by accident. |
| ds96x21 | minor | Winn Adami said that failed harvests, earthquakes, and spacequakes (on space station) on Bajor were a divine punishment |
| movie: Alien 3 (1992) | minor | The monk-like prisoners initially wondered whether they were being haunted by the Alien creature as part of some sort of religious punishment for their misdemeanors. |
| movie: Doomwatch (1972) | minor | Some of the villagers though that God had brought their plight upon them as a punishment. |
| movie: Escape from LA (1996) | minor | It was stated in the introductory narration about how a presidential candidate predicted that God would destroy a morally corrupt Los Angeles with a massive earthquake. |
| movie: Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018) | minor | One of Haruo's men asserted that Yuko's coma-like fate was a divine punishment. |