Tropescilloscope: Sinister Minister

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

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Meaningful Background Event Heroic BSoD Fingore Worthy Opponent Laser-Guided Karma Russian Films Disappeared Dad Really Gets Around Shoot the Shaggy Dog Anti-Hero Department of Redundancy Department Determinator aka: The Determinator A God Am I Does This Remind You of Anything? A Date with Rosie Palms All Men Are Perverts The Mafia Insult Backfire Yandere Alliterative Name Retirony Obviously Evil Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" All for Nothing Interrupted Suicide Villain with Good Publicity All There in the Script La Résistance Hollywood Law Crapsack World Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dirty Old Man Noodle Incident Flipping the Bird Obfuscating Stupidity Intrepid Reporter Punny Name Suddenly SHOUTING! Creepy Child Horror Comedy Antagonist Title No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Pragmatic Villainy After the End Apocalypse How Intergenerational Friendship A.I. Is a Crapshoot Ship Tease Black Comedy Rape Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dogged Nice Guy Smug Snake Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Great Depression Silence Is Golden Rule of Cool Video Credits Here We Go Again! Lampshade Hanging Chekhov's Skill Plucky Comic Relief Artistic License – Law Double Entendre A Minor Kidroduction Slap-Slap-Kiss Blood from the Mouth The Alleged Car Sequel Hook The '90s Beard of Evil Arch-Enemy Fainting No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bowdlerise An Axe to Grind Rewatch Bonus Bunny-Ears Lawyer Ascended Extra Advertised Extra Adults Are Useless Say My Name Brutal Honesty Meet Cute Big Applesauce It Will Never Catch On The Reveal Earn Your Happy Ending Alpha Bitch Adaptation Expansion Broken Pedestal Rule of Three Serial Killer Badass Grandpa Half the Man He Used to Be Darkest Hour Karmic Death Retcon Never My Fault Setting Update Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dramatic Irony Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dutch Angle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Big Damn Heroes Funny Foreigner Death of a Child Novelization The Hero Dies Spared by the Adaptation timeperiod Creative Closing Credits Evil Is Hammy Spiritual Successor Becoming the Mask Bilingual Bonus The Quiet One Romantic Comedy Self-Deprecation Mexican Standoff Handicapped Badass Fat Bastard Big Fancy House Coming-of-Age Story Sexy Discretion Shot Bad "Bad Acting" Catch-Phrase Crazy Jealous Guy Male Frontal Nudity No Name Given Greater-Scope Villain Call-Forward Breaking the Fourth Wall Important Haircut Action Prologue Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Imagine Spot You Have Failed Me Amoral Attorney Corpsing The Smurfette Principle Whole Plot Reference Daylight Horror As the Good Book Says... 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Soundtrack Dissonance Ambiguously Gay Easily Forgiven Get Out! 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Hoist by His Own Petard Neck Snap 20 Minutes into the Future Properly Paranoid Friend to All Children Narrator Freeze-Frame Bonus Karma Houdini Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bound and Gagged Faux Affably Evil Moment Killer One-Man Army Freudian Excuse Gilligan Cut Loads and Loads of Characters Nothing Is Scarier Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Wicked Cultured Redshirt Army This Is Gonna Suck Cool Guns Adult Fear Bloody Hilarious And Starring Mighty Whitey Taking You with Me Paper-Thin Disguise Running Gag Mind Screw Animated Credits Opening Refuge in Audacity Adaptation Dye-Job Ironic Echo Once More, with Clarity! Spanner in the Works Psycho for Hire The Alcoholic Off-into-the-Distance Ending Parental Abandonment Guile Hero Instant Death Bullet Small Name, Big Ego Happily Married Camera Abuse Tempting Fate The Dragon Silent Movie Black Dude Dies First Hero Antagonist Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ripped from the Headlines Foregone Conclusion The X of Y Annoying Younger Sibling Only Sane Man Eldritch Abomination One Steve Limit Suspiciously Similar Substitute Public Domain Feature Films Gender Flip Aside Glance Dwindling Party Made of Explodium Empathic Environment Bloodier and Gorier Bond Villain Stupidity The Lancer He Knows Too Much Casting Gag Manchild Car Fu Bittersweet Ending Animal Title Index Pre-Mortem One-Liner Loophole Abuse Ungrateful Bastard Stealth Pun Never Found the Body Mundane Made Awesome Truth in Television Cain and Abel Award-Bait Song As Long as It Sounds Foreign Kick the Son of a Bitch Improvised Weapon Rule of Symbolism And I Must Scream Woman Scorned Artistic License – Geography Adaptation Distillation Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hollywood Darkness Television Movie Index Armor-Piercing Question In Medias Res O.O.C. Is Serious Business N-Word Privileges Almost Kiss Horror Films Back from the Dead Cool Shades Only Known by Their Nickname Deliberately Monochrome Scenery Gorn Sports Stories Not So Different Rich Bitch Light Is Not Good Comically Missing the Point Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Epilogue Amusing Injuries Death by Sex Evil-Detecting Dog Did Not Get the Girl Fatal Flaw Black Comedy Ominous Latin Chanting Adorkable Spiteful Spit Stylistic Suck Reality Has No Subtitles Drugs Are Bad Stock Footage The Load It's All About Me Blatant Lies Heel Realization Ms. Fanservice Biopic Frame-Up The Hero Madness Mantra Ambiguous Ending Room Full of Crazy Took a Level in Badass Mythology Gag Disney Death Rated M for Manly Ass Shove Cool Car Knife Nut Darker and Edgier Break the Haughty My Beloved Smother Captain Ersatz Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Large Ham Victoria's Secret Compartment Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Rule of Funny Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Arranged Marriage Fourth Date Marriage The Sociopath My Greatest Failure folderlabel Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Casanova British Films Random Events Plot Canadian Movies Scare Chord Brainless Beauty Not So Stoic Sacrificial Lion Babies Ever After Parental Neglect Drowning My Sorrows Roaring Rampage of Revenge Tranquil Fury Red Eyes, Take Warning Mood Whiplash The Cavalry Big Brother Instinct She's Got Legs Villain Protagonist