Tropescilloscope: Sinister Minister

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

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