Tropescilloscope: Sinister Minister

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

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Destination Defenestration Logo Joke Kick the Son of a Bitch Manchild Not Using the "Z" Word Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Guns Akimbo Twist Ending Dramedy Adaptation Dye-Job Rated M for Manly Fake Shemp You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Laughing Mad Alliterative Name Chiaroscuro Awesome, but Impractical Dual Wielding Death Glare Adaptational Villainy Horror Comedy Take a Third Option Stealth Hi/Bye Spell My Name with an "S" Adorkable One-Man Army As the Good Book Says... Oh, Crap! Affectionate Parody Curb-Stomp Battle Suspiciously Specific Denial Decoy Protagonist Hollywood Law Suspiciously Similar Substitute Drowning My Sorrows Parental Abandonment Establishing Character Moment The Chessmaster Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Crazy-Prepared Market-Based Title Half the Man He Used to Be Index of Film Westerns Pre-Mortem One-Liner Loophole Abuse Plot Hole Car Fu The Hero Dies Instant Death Bullet Homage Bowdlerise Authority Equals Asskicking Scary Black Man Running Gag Love Triangle Freudian Excuse Dirty Old Man Blackmail Bunny-Ears Lawyer Becoming the Mask Missing Mom Evil Plan Disney Death Made of Iron Getting Crap Past the Radar Fan Disservice Chekhov's Skill Evil-Detecting Dog The Chick The Un-Reveal Playing Gertrude Black Dude Dies First Death Seeker Humans Are Bastards Sequel Hook Pragmatic Villainy Arc Words Riddle for the Ages Antagonist Title Didn't Think This Through There Is No Kill Like Overkill Freeze-Frame Bonus Madness Mantra In Medias Res Once More, with Clarity! Meet Cute The Bad Guy Wins Documentary Dwindling Party Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mercy Kill Undying Loyalty Dark Reprise Say My Name Bad "Bad Acting" The Stoic Motor Mouth Foreshadowing It's All About Me Animal Motifs Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Unwitting Instigator of Doom Face Death with Dignity And the Adventure Continues Bound and Gagged Psychopathic Manchild The Ghost Manic Pixie Dream Girl Credits Gag The End... Or Is It? Mood Whiplash Even Evil Has Standards Deconstruction Jerk with a Heart of Gold Agony of the Feet Product Placement The Remake Fat Bastard Slashed Throat More Dakka Gender Flip Cain and Abel Off with His Head! Our Zombies Are Different Pet the Dog Big Bad Duumvirate Determinator aka: The Determinator Mr. Exposition Age Lift Unusually Uninteresting Sight Captain Obvious Skewed Priorities Hero Antagonist Big Damn Heroes Animated Credits Opening The '50s Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Happily Married A Father to His Men Pyrrhic Victory The '70s Psycho for Hire Sequel Escalation Mad Scientist Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Sports Stories The Dog Bites Back Badass in a Nice Suit Corpsing Stalker with a Crush Sacrificial Lion Big Applesauce Monumental Damage Wham Shot Soundtrack Dissonance Department of Redundancy Department Face–Heel Turn Hooker with a Heart of Gold Eiffel Tower Effect Superhero Action Prologue Anyone Can Die Amoral Attorney Hypocritical Humor Big Fancy House Double Entendre Unusual Euphemism Only a Flesh Wound The Reveal Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Bury Your Gays German Films Foregone Conclusion Broken Pedestal Villain Protagonist Line-of-Sight Name Evil Is Hammy Based on a True Story Woman in White Rasputinian Death Dark Is Not Evil Pretty in Mink Dull Surprise Deliberate Values Dissonance Five-Man Band Bittersweet Ending Morality Pet Alas, Poor Villain Eagleland Deus ex Machina Breaking the Fourth Wall Adaptational Badass Loads and Loads of Characters Re-Cut Parental Neglect Artistic License – Law Drugs Are Bad Jerkass Has a Point Video Credits Left the Background Music On Peek-a-Boo Corpse Overprotective Dad Cool Guns Crapsack World Taking the Bullet The Sociopath Does Not Like Shoes Put on a Bus Rule of Symbolism Hoist by His Own Petard Fire-Forged Friends Nothing Is Scarier The Bully Silent Movie Not So Above It All Not So Different Psychological Thriller Offscreen Teleportation Evil Laugh Lampshade Hanging Downer Ending Title Drop Air-Vent Passageway Fiery Redhead Grievous Bottley Harm Drill Sergeant Nasty Biopic May–December Romance Mooks Police Brutality NO INDOOR VOICE Black Comedy Rape Girl-on-Girl Is Hot What You Are in the Dark Never Trust a Trailer Defiant to the End Shout-Out Leitmotif Groin Attack Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dirty Coward As Long as It Sounds Foreign Music Stories Driven to Suicide The Ditz Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Same Language Dub BFG Spiteful Spit Names to Run Away from Really Fast Green-Eyed Monster Reality Ensues Redemption Equals Death Race Lift Costume Porn Blood Knight Mr. Fanservice It's Personal Continuity Nod Death by Sex Adaptational Heroism Beard of Evil Bland-Name Product Exact Words Abhorrent Admirer Closed Circle Gratuitous English Big Eater Not What It Looks Like Adults Are Useless Here We Go Again! Friend to All Children Star-Crossed Lovers Ambiguous Ending Whole Plot Reference What Happened to the Mouse? Facial Horror The Faceless Up to Eleven The Casanova A God Am I Took a Level in Jerkass What the Hell, Hero? 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Time Skip Intergenerational Friendship Aww, Look! 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Is a Crapshoot Bond Villain Stupidity Leaning on the Fourth Wall Gorn Men Are the Expendable Gender Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Would Hit a Girl Creepy Child Cat Fight Intrepid Reporter Romantic Comedy Bloodier and Gorier Heel Realization Took a Level in Badass La Résistance Red Eyes, Take Warning Italian Films Parental Substitute Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique An Axe to Grind Four-Temperament Ensemble Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Wrong Genre Savvy She Cleans Up Nicely Take That! Calling the Old Man Out Silence Is Golden Comically Missing the Point Distracted by the Sexy Non-Indicative Name Bar Brawl Major Injury Underreaction Evil Sounds Deep Funny Background Event Gone Horribly Right It Will Never Catch On One Steve Limit Self-Deprecation Composite Character Tagline Bilingual Bonus Author Avatar Made of Explodium The Mole Death of a Child Outrun the Fireball Reality Has No Subtitles Dramatic Gun Cock Implacable Man Wham Line Demoted to Extra Fanservice Extra Broken Bird Worthy Opponent Fingore Refuge in Audacity Action Survivor Final Girl Sinister Minister Unspoken Plan Guarantee After the End Back from the Dead Bald of Evil Extreme Doormat Early-Bird Cameo Handicapped Badass Broken Aesop Ascended Extra Actor Allusion Dressing as the Enemy Fatal Flaw The Brute Crucified Hero Shot Babies Ever After Eye Scream Greater-Scope Villain Big-Bad Ensemble Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Unreliable Narrator Adult Fear It Can Think "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Reality Is Unrealistic Brick Joke Heroes Want Redheads The Hero Moment Killer Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Red Oni, Blue Oni Fanservice The Oner Kids Are Cruel Recycled IN SPACE! Fun with Acronyms Russian Films Film Series Properly Paranoid Ax-Crazy The Lancer Adaptational Attractiveness Adaptation Name Change Famous Last Words Mythology Gag Red Herring Storming the Castle Informed Ability Faking the Dead Only Known by Their Nickname Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Black and Gray Morality Papa Wolf Vomit Discretion Shot Word of God Film Noir Index Bad Boss Curse Cut Short The Film of the Book Off-into-the-Distance Ending Nice Hat Does This Remind You of Anything? Married to the Job Genre Throwback Badass Boast Villainous Breakdown Stepford Smiler Camp Gay Foil Insane Troll Logic He Who Fights Monsters Hollywood Darkness Posthumous Character Genre Shift Fainting Ironic Echo Cowboy Cop Our Vampires Are Different Auto Erotica Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Cameo Arranged Marriage Dies Wide Open Armor-Piercing Question The '60s Rousing Speech Daddy's Girl Only Sane Man True Companions The Place Kill It with Fire Depraved Bisexual I'm a Humanitarian Catapult Nightmare Romantic False Lead No Ending Pragmatic Adaptation Disproportionate Retribution Humiliation Conga Maybe Ever After No Name Given Dutch Angle Christmas Movies Index Boom, Headshot! Brother–Sister Incest Country Matters Historical In-Joke Advertised Extra The Dragon Framing Device Insistent Terminology Have a Gay Old Time Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Creator Cameo Meaningful Name Historical Villain Upgrade Interrupted Suicide Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Bullying a Dragon Obstructive Bureaucrat Honor Before Reason Alpha Bitch In the Back Badass Longcoat Action Genre Shoot the Shaggy Dog Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Cold-Blooded Torture Covers Always Lie Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Token Minority Darkest Hour Spiritual Successor Punch-Clock Villain Disguised in Drag Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Reckless Gun Usage Protagonist Title I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Love at First Sight The Smart Guy Light Is Not Good Faux Affably Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bavarian Fire Drill Badass Bookworm Fish out of Water Celebrity Paradox Abusive Parents Sanity Slippage Real Life Writes the Plot Tranquil Fury Show Within a Show Soft Glass The Cavalry Man on Fire Cool Car Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Karmic Death Disappeared Dad Hate Sink Mighty Whitey Bloodless Carnage Danny Peary Cult Movies List Artistic License – History Heel–Face Turn Black Comedy Beauty Is Never Tarnished Be Careful What You Wish For Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rule of Funny Jerk Jock Last-Name Basis Funny Foreigner Brutal Honesty Hope Spot Horror Films Determinator Dropped a Bridge on Him Pay Evil unto Evil Your Head A-Splode Mexican Standoff Adaptation Expansion Everyone Has Standards Totally Radical Wicked Cultured Retired Badass Ungrateful Bastard Well-Intentioned Extremist Sadistic Choice Irony Overly Long Gag Works Set in World War II Villain Opening Scene Not So Stoic Badass Normal Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Naïve Newcomer Central Theme Neck Lift Cool Shades Police are Useless Rule of Cool Eureka Moment Fantasy Films MacGuffin Hong Kong Films Red Right Hand Mugging the Monster Fourth Date Marriage Martial Arts Movie Big Brother Instinct Extremely Short Timespan All Girls Want Bad Boys Mystery and Detective Films No Good Deed Goes Unpunished And I Must Scream Domestic Abuse Ominous Latin Chanting Dark and Troubled Past Femme Fatale Naked People Are Funny Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Slasher Movie Mind Screw The Alleged Car He Knows Too Much The Load Fantastic Racism Berserk Button The Smurfette Principle Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Demonic Possession Hidden Depths Villain Ball My Greatest Failure Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Historical-Domain Character Plucky Comic Relief Flashback British Films Hypocrite Small Name, Big Ego Serial Killer Arch-Enemy Important Haircut Immune to Bullets Crazy Jealous Guy Stylistic Suck Revenge Slap-Slap-Kiss Gold Digger No-Sell The Quiet One This Is Gonna Suck Gory Discretion Shot From Nobody to Nightmare Amusing Injuries Darker and Edgier Chewing the Scenery Mama Bear My God, What Have I Done? Evil Counterpart Not Quite Dead The Mafia Early Installment Weirdness Better to Die than Be Killed Evil Is Petty Reasonable Authority Figure timeperiod Actually Pretty Funny Historical Hero Upgrade Grey and Gray Morality All for Nothing