Tropescilloscope: Sinister Minister

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

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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Fate Worse than Death Humans Are Bastards Only in It for the Money Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Rousing Speech Those Two Bad Guys Broken Aesop The Alcoholic Awesome, but Impractical Fat Bastard Cowboy Cop folderlabel Taking You with Me Real Life Fanservice Extra Those Two Guys Older Than They Look Insult Backfire Show Within a Show Cold-Blooded Torture In Medias Res Obstructive Bureaucrat Big Damn Heroes Darker and Edgier Evil Is Hammy Crazy Jealous Guy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Not So Stoic As the Good Book Says... Self-Deprecation The Film of the Book One-Word Title "Awesome McCool" Name Blackmail Action Girl Ship Tease Hypocrite Token Minority Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Nothing Is Scarier Expy Sole Survivor Too Dumb to Live Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dirty Coward Arranged Marriage Faux Affably Evil How We Got Here Domestic Abuse And I Must Scream What the Hell, Hero? Improbable Weapon User Aluminum Christmas Trees Insistent Terminology Knife Nut Your Head A-Splode Fun with Acronyms Agony of the Feet 20 Minutes into the Future Action Genre It's Personal Badass Boast Earn Your Happy Ending Rich Bitch Bilingual Bonus Red Oni, Blue Oni Disguised in Drag Red Shirt Determinator Artistic License – Military Villainous Breakdown He Knows Too Much Break the Haughty The Great Depression Genre Shift Morality Pet Taking the Bullet All for Nothing Antagonist Title Abusive Parents Meaningful Name Eureka Moment Killed Mid-Sentence Cain and Abel Last-Name Basis Broken Bird Sealed Evil in a Can Bad Boss Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Man on Fire NO INDOOR VOICE Very Loosely Based on a True Story Running Gag Bittersweet Ending Guile Hero "Shaggy Dog" Story Ominous Latin Chanting Big Brother Instinct Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Oner Nice Guy Serious Business Shell-Shocked Veteran Everyone Has Standards In Name Only My Greatest Failure Hypocritical Humor Translation Convention Gender Flip Catapult Nightmare Distracted by the Sexy It Will Never Catch On Based on a True Story Broken Pedestal Smoking Is Cool '80s Hair Hell Is That Noise Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Arc Words No OSHA Compliance Canon Foreigner Adorkable Reality Has No Subtitles Villain Song The Stinger Defiant to the End Slashed Throat Dull Surprise Jerk Jock Vomit Indiscretion Shot Instant Death Bullet Logo Joke Love Triangle Kill 'em All Product Placement One-Man Army Badass Longcoat Wounded Gazelle Gambit Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Black Comedy Rape Trailers Always Spoil Get Out! Danny Peary Cult Movies List Papa Wolf My God, What Have I Done? The Vamp Small Name, Big Ego Once More, with Clarity! Not So Above It All Unresolved Sexual Tension Anguished Declaration of Love Riddle for the Ages Rule of Symbolism Men Are the Expendable Gender Really Gets Around No-Sell I Have Your Wife Bloodless Carnage Soundtrack Dissonance Pretty in Mink Chekhov's Skill Easily Forgiven Anachronic Order Nice Hat Bottomless Magazines Curse Cut Short Blood Knight Book-Ends Romantic False Lead Card-Carrying Villain Jitter Cam Meaningful Echo Crazy-Prepared La Résistance Jump Scare Outrun the Fireball Take a Third Option Evil Counterpart Evil Laugh Training Montage Public Domain Feature Films The Stoner No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dual Wielding As You Know Retirony "Well Done, Son!" Guy Politically Incorrect Villain Worthy Opponent Big "NO!" Historical-Domain Character Femme Fatale Anti-Villain Sports Stories And the Adventure Continues Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Those Wacky Nazis Fainting Accidental Murder Lampshade Hanging Historical Hero Upgrade Mind Screw Immune to Bullets Amoral Attorney Mama Bear Shout-Out Death Glare Anyone Can Die Evil-Detecting Dog Shut Up, Hannibal! A.I. Is a Crapshoot Determinator aka: The Determinator Neck Snap Historical In-Joke Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Brute Our Vampires Are Different Back from the Dead Anachronism Stew Straight Gay Jerk with a Heart of Gold Downer Ending Title Drop Disney Villain Death Driven to Suicide Setting Update Blood from the Mouth I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Batman Gambit Stepford Smiler Arch-Enemy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Villain Opening Scene Retired Badass Karma Houdini Creator Cameo Big Applesauce German Films Break the Cutie Epic Movie Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Stoic Freudian Excuse Evil Sounds Deep You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Drowning My Sorrows Made of Iron Biopic Contrived Coincidence Scenery Porn Word of God Creepy Child No Ending Dramatic Irony Vampire Fiction Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sequel Escalation Bond Villain Stupidity Police are Useless Pragmatic Villainy Well-Intentioned Extremist Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Five-Man Band Fatal Family Photo Same Language Dub Daddy's Girl Handicapped Badass Deadpan Snarker Captain Ersatz Fantasy Films Mr. Exposition Overprotective Dad The Smart Guy Cool Car Video Credits Villain Ball Fourth Date Marriage Television Movie Index Continuity Nod Conspicuous CG Gorn Developing Doomed Characters Loophole Abuse Badass Grandpa Dutch Angle The '60s Butt-Monkey Demonic Possession Epic Fail Abhorrent Admirer Animated Credits Opening Totally Radical Sci-Fi Horror Genre Savvy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Shower Scene Fanservice Heterosexual Life-Partners An Aesop Honor Before Reason Composite Character The Ace Casting Gag British Films Crucified Hero Shot All Girls Want Bad Boys Sadistic Choice There Is No Kill Like Overkill Death by Sex An Axe to Grind Stock Footage Make It Look Like an Accident You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Bad "Bad Acting" Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Rasputinian Death Pyrrhic Victory Final Girl Death Seeker For the Evulz Motor Mouth Fiery Redhead Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Race Lift Posthumous Character Deus ex Machina Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Australian Movies Defrosting Ice Queen Say My Name Revenge Chiaroscuro I Did What I Had to Do The Remake Auto Erotica Extreme Doormat Line-of-Sight Name Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! MacGuffin Madness Mantra Off-into-the-Distance Ending timeperiod The Place Noodle Incident Covers Always Lie Christmas Movies Index Exactly What It Says on the Tin The '80s Credits Gag Horror Films Serial Killer Random Events Plot Annoying Younger Sibling Black Best Friend Laser-Guided Karma Evil vs. Evil What Happened to the Mouse? 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Cat Scare Hollywood Law Dark Action Girl Intrepid Reporter The Mole Tagline Ungrateful Bastard Groin Attack Deliberate Values Dissonance The Power of Love Boom, Headshot! Jerkass Has a Point Evil Brit Sir Swears-a-Lot Non-Indicative Name Action Survivor Failed a Spot Check Does This Remind You of Anything? Shirtless Scene Homage Sinister Minister World of Ham Good Is Not Nice Blatant Lies Oh, Crap! Together in Death Japanese Films Getting Crap Past the Radar Interrupted Suicide Spanner in the Works Reasonable Authority Figure Amusing Injuries Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Novelization Reality Ensues The End... Or Is It? B-Movie Drives Like Crazy The '90s Suspiciously Specific Denial As Himself Did Not Get the Girl Attempted Rape Combat Pragmatist Tempting Fate Friend to All Children Martial Arts Movie Hope Spot Here We Go Again! Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Ripped from the Headlines Skewed Priorities Market-Based Title Bald of Evil Famous Last Words Scary Black Man Even Evil Has Standards Wicked Cultured It Can Think Foreshadowing Manly Tears Only Sane Man Would Hit a Girl Only One Name Extremely Short Timespan Expository Hairstyle Change Closed Circle Alliterative Name The Sociopath Double Entendre Stealth Hi/Bye Dropped a Bridge on Him The Mafia Bunny-Ears Lawyer Despair Event Horizon Chekhov's Gun Military and Warfare Films Age Lift Catch-Phrase Hollywood Darkness Science Fiction Films Funny Foreigner Dissonant Serenity Decoy Protagonist Playing Gertrude Foregone Conclusion Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Every Car Is a Pinto Big Fancy House Psychological Thriller The Alleged Car Mistaken for Gay Plucky Comic Relief Evil Is Petty Cassandra Truth Put on a Bus Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Cool Shades Beta Couple Zombie Stories The Atoner Improbable Aiming Skills Mooks Disappeared Dad Would Hurt a Child Death by Irony Asshole Victim Plot Hole Beard of Evil Country Matters Fan Disservice Meaningful Background Event Dressing as the Enemy Police Brutality The X of Y Department of Redundancy Department Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Reveal Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Voiceless Freeze-Frame Bonus Suddenly SHOUTING! Hero of Another Story Sacrificial Lion Berserk Button Pay Evil unto Evil Punny Name Dogged Nice Guy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Psycho for Hire Film Noir Index Loads and Loads of Characters Red Eyes, Take Warning Rated M for Manly The '70s Knight Templar The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Chewing the Scenery Call-Back Hong Kong Films Pretty Little Headshots Spell My Name with an "S" Alpha Bitch Maybe Ever After Creative Closing Credits Armor-Piercing Question Author Avatar He Who Fights Monsters Betty and Veronica Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold May–December Romance Depraved Bisexual The Cavalry "The Reason You Suck" Speech Laughing Mad It's All About Me Throwing Your Sword Always Works I Want My Beloved to Be Happy What You Are in the Dark Eiffel Tower Effect Not So Different Black and Gray Morality Bare Your Midriff Dramatic Gun Cock Heroic BSoD A Minor Kidroduction Due to the Dead Damsel in Distress Dirty Old Man Alas, Poor Villain BFG Mugging the Monster Woman Scorned Kids Are Cruel The Bad Guy Wins Adult Fear Documentary Face–Heel Turn Dramedy Aside Glance All There in the Manual Kill It with Fire Offscreen Moment of Awesome Coming-of-Age Story Eldritch Abomination Humiliation Conga Paper-Thin Disguise Hair-Trigger Temper Dark Reprise Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Crapsack World The Musical Cluster F-Bomb Unusually Uninteresting Sight Peek-a-Boo Corpse Corrupt Corporate Executive Flipping the Bird Children Are Innocent Death by Adaptation In the Back All Just a Dream Obfuscating Stupidity Dwindling Party The Cameo Never My Fault Slasher Smile Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Your Cheating Heart Bavarian Fire Drill Protagonist Title Properly Paranoid Pimped-Out Dress From Nobody to Nightmare A Father to His Men Cool Guns The Hero Eyepatch of Power Big Eater Costume Porn Improvised Weapon Made of Explodium Leaning on the Fourth Wall Retcon Guns Akimbo Stealth Pun Fake Shemp Love at First Sight Vomit Discretion Shot Grievous Bottley Harm Canadian Movies The Ditz Punch-Clock Villain The Casanova Badass Normal Badass in a Nice Suit Scare Chord Victoria's Secret Compartment Reckless Gun Usage Not Using the "Z" Word Half the Man He Used to Be Not Quite Dead Unreliable Narrator Evil Plan Calling the Old Man Out Vacation Films Important Haircut Character Development Cat Fight Sassy Black Woman Mexican Standoff Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Major Injury Underreaction Hoist by His Own Petard Let's Get Dangerous! Green-Eyed Monster Bullying a Dragon Heroes Want Redheads Dumb Blonde Neck Lift Shipper on Deck French Films Take That! Deal with the Devil Whole Plot Reference I'm a Humanitarian After the End N-Word Privileges Mighty Whitey Manchild "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds O.O.C. Is Serious Business Foil Ax-Crazy Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dark Is Not Evil Actor Allusion The Chessmaster Psychopathic Manchild Fatal Flaw Red Herring Bond One-Liner Historical Villain Upgrade An Arm and a Leg Adaptation Dye-Job Central Theme Ascended Extra Bowdlerise Ass Shove Suspiciously Similar Substitute Undying Loyalty Obviously Evil True Companions Parental Substitute Film Noir Superhero Animal Title Index Pre-Asskicking One-Liner No Name Given Naïve Newcomer Award-Bait Song Destination Defenestration Bound and Gagged Action Prologue Film Series Wham Shot Russian Films The Ghost Camp Gay Unspoken Plan Guarantee Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Frame-Up Real Life Writes the Plot As Long as It Sounds Foreign Body Horror I Need a Freaking Drink Almost Kiss Match Cut Camera Abuse Adaptational Villainy Does Not Like Shoes Anti-Hero Villain with Good Publicity Mystery and Detective Films Mythology Gag Star-Crossed Lovers Actually Pretty Funny Corpsing Light Is Not Good Moment Killer Recycled IN SPACE! Idiot Ball Bloodier and Gorier