Tropescilloscope: Sinister Minister

A morally bankrupt clergyman. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Celebrity Paradox Off-into-the-Distance Ending Pretty Little Headshots Dark Reprise Car Fu Police Brutality Moment Killer Fanservice Extra Death by Sex Expy Our Vampires Are Different Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dropped a Bridge on Him Bolivian Army Ending Mexican Standoff Kick the Son of a Bitch The Alcoholic Ambiguously Gay Lampshade Hanging Offscreen Teleportation Gratuitous English Reality Is Unrealistic The Power of Love Evil Brit The Load Have a Gay Old Time Bullying a Dragon Plucky Comic Relief Refuge in Audacity Blood Knight Break the Haughty Bring My Brown Pants Grievous Bottley Harm Training Montage It Can Think Thriller Abusive Parents Beta Couple Sadistic Choice Card-Carrying Villain Death by Irony The Ghost Dutch Angle Nothing Is Scarier Sinister Minister Advertised Extra Silent Movie Take That! An Arm and a Leg Creative Closing Credits Only Known by Their Nickname Hollywood Darkness Big Applesauce The Mafia Say My Name Death by Adaptation I'm a Humanitarian Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Action Survivor Redshirt Army Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Hero Dies Badass Normal Deal with the Devil Irony The X of Y Empathic Environment Reckless Gun Usage Book-Ends Bound and Gagged Room Full of Crazy Rewatch Bonus Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Determinator Really Gets Around Police are Useless Our Zombies Are Different timeperiod Poor Communication Kills Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Crazy-Prepared Deus ex Machina Fate Worse than Death Slasher Movie Bloodless Carnage Ungrateful Bastard It's Personal Wounded Gazelle Gambit Zombie Stories Soundtrack Dissonance Badass Boast Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Belligerent Sexual Tension The '70s Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big Fancy House Badass in a Nice Suit Groin Attack Hair-Trigger Temper German Films Made of Iron Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? folderlabel He Knows Too Much Babies Ever After Whole Plot Reference Crapsack World Beware the Nice Ones Male Gaze Big Damn Heroes From Bad to Worse Martial Arts Movie Historical Villain Upgrade Romantic False Lead Christmas Movies Index The Hero What You Are in the Dark Betty and Veronica Shoot the Shaggy Dog Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Black and Gray Morality Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Artistic License – Geography Fourth Date Marriage Fingore Cool Old Lady Mundane Made Awesome Double-Meaning Title Author Avatar Monumental Damage Yandere Gone Horribly Right Darker and Edgier Amoral Attorney All Girls Want Bad Boys Stealth Pun Mystery and Detective Films Index of Film Westerns Rasputinian Death The Lancer Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Television Movie Index Costume Porn Kick the Dog Wretched Hive Shout-Out Freeze-Frame Bonus Made of Explodium Happily Married Twist Ending I Want My Beloved to Be Happy He Who Fights Monsters Parental Substitute Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Attempted Rape Adult Fear Age Lift Unspoken Plan Guarantee Rule of Symbolism Slap-Slap-Kiss The Chessmaster Real Life Suddenly SHOUTING! Femme Fatale Redemption Equals Death Exact Words Comically Missing the Point Coming-of-Age Story Dark Is Not Evil Bond Villain Stupidity Evil vs. Evil Animated Credits Opening Ship Tease Jitter Cam Getting Crap Past the Radar Bare Your Midriff Closed Circle Not So Stoic Bloody Hilarious The Vamp Posthumous Character Ambiguous Ending Only in It for the Money Loophole Abuse Frame-Up Guns Akimbo Narrator 20 Minutes into the Future Logo Joke The '80s Mind Screw Early Installment Weirdness My God, What Have I Done? Oh, Crap! Final Girl Animal Title Index Beauty Is Never Tarnished Knife Nut Alliterative Name Boom, Headshot! Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Cool Shades Daddy's Girl Adorkable Abhorrent Admirer Cool Car Up to Eleven She Cleans Up Nicely Heroic Sacrifice Drugs Are Bad Russian Films Five-Man Band Documentary Body Horror No Celebrities Were Harmed British Films "Awesome McCool" Name Would Hit a Girl Rousing Speech The Remake Dissonant Serenity Unreliable Narrator Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Naïve Newcomer Calling the Old Man Out True Companions Shipper on Deck Ass Shove Author Appeal Corpsing Pragmatic Adaptation Insult Backfire Bland-Name Product Death of a Child Heroes Want Redheads My Greatest Failure No Antagonist Exactly What It Says on the Tin Danny Peary Cult Movies List MacGuffin Fun with Acronyms Toplessness from the Back Shut Up, Hannibal! Flashback Fantastic Racism For the Evulz A Father to His Men Only One Name Famous Last Words Deconstruction Mad Scientist Artistic License – Gun Safety Mama Bear Pimped-Out Dress Paper-Thin Disguise B-Movie Eureka Moment Ironic Echo Defiant to the End Antagonist Title Bowdlerise Manchild Anachronism Stew Face–Heel Turn Call-Forward Leave the Camera Running French Films Token Minority Anti-Hero Lock and Load Montage Improbable Aiming Skills Same Language Dub NO INDOOR VOICE Laser-Guided Karma Taking the Bullet Sports Stories Artistic License – Physics Chiaroscuro Adaptational Heroism Drill Sergeant Nasty Shower Scene Affably Evil Bond One-Liner Evil Counterpart Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Gainax Ending Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Market-Based Title Together in Death Bad Boss Race Lift Asshole Victim Instant Death Bullet Motor Mouth Handicapped Badass Papa Wolf Wham Line Mighty Whitey Foil Your Cheating Heart A God Am I All There in the Manual Hell Is That Noise Scenery Porn Retcon Cluster F-Bomb Aside Glance Friend to All Children Leitmotif Morality Pet Extremely Short Timespan For Want of a Nail Fake Shemp Black Best Friend As You Know Hooker with a Heart of Gold Character Development Canon Foreigner No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Put on a Bus All Just a Dream Would Hurt a Child Random Events Plot Only a Flesh Wound Major Injury Underreaction Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Smurfette Principle Ms. Fanservice Foregone Conclusion Not So Different The Faceless In Medias Res Bar Brawl Demoted to Extra Adults Are Useless Suspiciously Similar Substitute Guile Hero Bottomless Magazines Storming the Castle Fire-Forged Friends Curse Cut Short This Is Gonna Suck Berserk Button Brainless Beauty Insane Troll Logic Never My Fault The Mole One Steve Limit Plot Hole Kill 'em All Captain Obvious Heterosexual Life-Partners Vomit Discretion Shot Not Quite Dead Central Theme Fatal Flaw Distracted by the Sexy Covers Always Lie Neck Lift Very Loosely Based on a True Story Important Haircut Big-Bad Ensemble Disney Villain Death Immune to Bullets Rule of Cool Pragmatic Villainy '80s Hair Pre-Mortem One-Liner Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Politically Incorrect Villain Setting Update Soft Glass Dirty Old Man Corrupt Corporate Executive Not Even Bothering with the Accent Improbable Weapon User The Musical The Bad Guy Wins Italian Films The Sociopath The '60s Jerk Jock Cain and Abel Hope Spot Contrived Coincidence Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Horror Comedy Novelization Mood Whiplash Historical Hero Upgrade Adaptation Name Change Curb-Stomp Battle Product Placement Green-Eyed Monster Public Domain Feature Films Almost Kiss The Bully Those Two Bad Guys "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Time Skip Adaptational Badass Red Shirt Hypocrite Karmic Death Title Drop Hero Antagonist Determinator aka: The Determinator Honor Before Reason Hero of Another Story Scare Chord Dying Moment of Awesome Disappeared Dad Parental Abandonment Early-Bird Cameo Affectionate Parody Meet Cute Air-Vent Passageway Kubrick Stare Department of Redundancy Department Small Name, Big Ego Arranged Marriage Developing Doomed Characters Bald of Evil Camera Abuse Offscreen Moment of Awesome Meaningful Echo Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hollywood Law Damsel in Distress I Did What I Had to Do Dies Wide Open Evil Is Petty Spell My Name with an "S" The Big Guy Gold Digger Even Evil Has Standards Action Girl Evil-Detecting Dog Intrepid Reporter Silence Is Golden Genre Savvy The Atoner Agony of the Feet Grey and Gray Morality Accidental Murder One-Word Title Meaningful Name Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dark Action Girl Laughing Mad Black Comedy Rape BFG Sanity Slippage Red Herring Outrun the Fireball Foreshadowing Blatant Lies Playing Gertrude Rated M for Manly Taking You with Me Eiffel Tower Effect Shell-Shocked Veteran Dark and Troubled Past Men Are the Expendable Gender Slasher Smile Genre Shift Left the Background Music On Artistic License – Military Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Does Not Like Shoes Manipulative Bastard Epic Fail The Un-Reveal Here We Go Again! Stepford Smiler Dramedy Alpha Bitch The '50s No-Sell Film Noir Index Pretty in Mink Hidden Depths Sexy Discretion Shot Mercy Kill Children Are Innocent Batman Gambit Properly Paranoid Cool Guns Big Bad Death Glare Smoking Is Cool Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Drives Like Crazy Deliberately Monochrome Military and Warfare Films Henpecked Husband Combat Pragmatist Funny Background Event Those Two Guys Expository Hairstyle Change Fat Bastard Neck Snap Death Seeker The Cavalry An Aesop War Is Hell Action Prologue Recycled IN SPACE! No Name Given Flipping the Bird Obstructive Bureaucrat Humans Are Bastards Wham Shot May–December Romance Driven to Suicide Victoria's Secret Compartment Insistent Terminology Dramatic Irony Light Is Not Good Kill It with Fire Self-Deprecation Overly Long Gag Serious Business Adapted Out Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Defrosting Ice Queen Science Fiction Films Anti-Villain Animal Motifs Get Out! Protagonist Title Man on Fire Disney Death Epic Movie Word of God Apocalypse How Woman in White No OSHA Compliance Maybe Ever After Evil Plan Worthy Opponent The Alleged Car Parental Incest Sole Survivor No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Punch-Clock Villain Music Stories The Starscream All for Nothing Make It Look Like an Accident Superhero Broken Aesop Bait-and-Switch Heel–Face Turn Mistaken for Gay Easily Forgiven Star-Crossed Lovers Villain Song Continuity Nod There Is No Kill Like Overkill Heel Realization Auto Erotica My Beloved Smother Cassandra Truth Meaningful Background Event Everyone Has Standards Biopic Annoying Younger Sibling And Starring As the Good Book Says... The Voiceless Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Noodle Incident Badass Longcoat You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Catapult Nightmare Ambiguous Disorder Black Dude Dies First Blonde, Brunette, Redhead What Happened to the Mouse? Fish out of Water And the Adventure Continues Facial Horror Never Found the Body Arc Words Knight Templar The Brute Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Scenery Gorn Did Not Get the Girl Villain with Good Publicity Works Set in World War II Double Entendre Amusing Injuries Jerkass The Casanova "Shaggy Dog" Story Kids Are Cruel Madness Mantra Tap on the Head Suspiciously Specific Denial N-Word Privileges Historical In-Joke Jump Scare Chewing the Scenery Cruel and Unusual Death Bury Your Gays Pyrrhic Victory One-Man Army Running Gag Woman Scorned The Reveal Greater-Scope Villain The End... Or Is It? A Minor Kidroduction Mr. Exposition Vampire Fiction "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Ditz Malevolent Masked Men Romantic Comedy Cat Fight Not Using the "Z" Word Lighter and Softer Adaptational Attractiveness Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Diabolus ex Machina Obviously Evil Downer Ending Broken Bird The Smart Guy Ominous Latin Chanting Eldritch Abomination Fantasy Films Spiritual Successor Enemy Mine Dogged Nice Guy Sequel Hook Obfuscating Stupidity What the Hell, Hero? Camp Gay All Men Are Perverts Historical-Domain Character Villain Ball Serial Killer The Oner From Nobody to Nightmare Psycho for Hire Sequel Escalation Film Noir Bittersweet Ending Tranquil Fury Brick Joke Disproportionate Retribution Chekhov's Gun The Stoic Casting Gag Dirty Cop Good Is Not Nice Large Ham Ghost Fiction Cowboy Cop Faux Affably Evil Japanese Films Heroic BSoD Dressing as the Enemy Bad "Bad Acting" Visual Pun Spiteful Spit Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Sir Swears-a-Lot Decoy Protagonist Break the Cutie Improvised Weapon The Dog Bites Back Brother–Sister Incest Due to the Dead Failed a Spot Check Eagleland Darkest Hour Skewed Priorities Gilligan Cut Eyepatch of Power It Will Never Catch On Every Car Is a Pinto Deliberate Values Dissonance Pet the Dog The Quiet One Red Oni, Blue Oni O.O.C. Is Serious Business Chekhov's Gunman Mugging the Monster Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Tagline Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Despair Event Horizon Hong Kong Films Bavarian Fire Drill Spared by the Adaptation The Chick Adaptational Villainy Badass Bookworm The Stoner Bunny-Ears Lawyer Big Brother Instinct Names to Run Away from Really Fast Creepy Child Film Series Becoming the Mask Artistic License – History And I Must Scream Married to the Job Horror Films Let's Get Dangerous! Mr. Fanservice Stalker with a Crush Rule of Funny Shown Their Work Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Anyone Can Die Big Bad Duumvirate Red Right Hand The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Killed Mid-Sentence Chase Scene Accidental Misnaming Does This Remind You of Anything? The Dreaded Cat Scare The Place Intergenerational Friendship Screw the Money, I Have Rules! It's All About Me Cold-Blooded Torture Hoist by His Own Petard Stuff Blowing Up Non-Indicative Name No Ending Love at First Sight Bi the Way Trailers Always Spoil Fanservice Creator Cameo The Stinger Blood from the Mouth Unresolved Sexual Tension Gender Flip As Long as It Sounds Foreign More Dakka Roaring Rampage of Revenge Disguised in Drag Didn't Think This Through Rich Bitch Super Strength Pay Evil unto Evil Manic Pixie Dream Girl Idiot Ball Informed Ability Based on a True Story Revenge Imagine Spot Vitriolic Best Buds Artistic License – Law Reality Has No Subtitles Awesome, but Impractical Action Genre Dull Surprise Wicked Cultured Only Sane Man Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Depraved Bisexual Dual Wielding World of Ham Four-Temperament Ensemble Adaptation Dye-Job Brutal Honesty Composite Character Actor Allusion Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Overprotective Dad Daylight Horror Butt-Monkey Not So Above It All I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Big "NO!" Sci-Fi Horror Sacrificial Lion Crazy Jealous Guy Smug Snake Eye Scream Race Against the Clock Catch-Phrase Big Eater The Great Depression Gorn Alas, Poor Villain Well-Intentioned Extremist Hate Sink Manly Tears Re-Cut Jerk with a Heart of Gold La Résistance Psychological Thriller Vomit Indiscretion Shot Last-Name Basis Match Cut Funny Foreigner Face Death with Dignity Rape as Drama Translation Convention Retired Badass Sealed Evil in a Can Beard of Evil The Lost Lenore Ascended Extra Adaptation Expansion Evil Sounds Deep Hypocritical Humor Freudian Excuse How We Got Here A.I. Is a Crapshoot Artistic License – Biology Conspicuous CG Drowning My Sorrows Implacable Man Be Careful What You Wish For Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Half the Man He Used to Be Your Head A-Splode Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Award-Bait Song Love Triangle Karma Houdini Mooks Unwitting Instigator of Doom Once More, with Clarity! Naked People Are Funny Credits Gag Evil Is Hammy The '90s Faking the Dead Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Red Eyes, Take Warning Gory Discretion Shot Captain Ersatz Stealth Hi/Bye Canadian Movies Call-Back Humiliation Conga Stock Footage She's Got Legs Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor You Have Failed Me I Need a Freaking Drink Totally Radical Chekhov's Skill Framing Device Earn Your Happy Ending In the Back As Himself Armor-Piercing Question Vacation Films You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! In Name Only Breaking the Fourth Wall Actually Pretty Funny Fatal Family Photo Dirty Coward Crucified Hero Shot Bilingual Bonus Older Than They Look Dramatic Gun Cock After the End Not What It Looks Like "Well Done, Son!" Guy Nice Guy Truth in Television Retirony Spanner in the Works Broken Pedestal Ripped from the Headlines The Cameo Aluminum Christmas Trees Male Frontal Nudity I Have Your Wife Riddle for the Ages Unusually Uninteresting Sight Mythology Gag Missing Mom Precision F-Strike Punny Name Jerkass Has a Point Dwindling Party Cool Old Guy Better to Die than Be Killed Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Evil Laugh You Killed My Father Australian Movies Take a Third Option Took a Level in Jerkass Parental Neglect Arch-Enemy Rule of Three Black Comedy Tempting Fate Video Credits Loads and Loads of Characters Shirtless Scene Reality Ensues Blackmail Authority Equals Asskicking Destination Defenestration Genre Throwback Stylistic Suck Interrupted Suicide Line-of-Sight Name Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Back from the Dead A Date with Rosie Palms The Ace Deadpan Snarker Undying Loyalty Extreme Doormat Anachronic Order Unusual Euphemism Scary Black Man Fiery Redhead Nice Hat