Tropescilloscope: Sinister Minister

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

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Is Serious Business Creator Cameo Good Is Not Nice It's All About Me Badass Longcoat Babies Ever After Dying Moment of Awesome Vomit Indiscretion Shot Easily Forgiven Line-of-Sight Name No-Sell Curb-Stomp Battle Villain Opening Scene Slashed Throat Covers Always Lie Broken Pedestal Depraved Bisexual Didn't Think This Through Loads and Loads of Characters Calling the Old Man Out Mexican Standoff Artistic License – Biology Those Two Bad Guys Black Comedy Shout-Out Plot Hole Dressing as the Enemy Your Cheating Heart Hooker with a Heart of Gold More Dakka Real Life Writes the Plot Hidden Depths Actor Allusion Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Butt-Monkey Death by Adaptation Break the Haughty Attempted Rape Room Full of Crazy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Film of the Book Artistic License – Geography Anyone Can Die Despair Event Horizon Casting Gag Heel–Face Turn Red Right Hand Villain with Good Publicity Dull Surprise Hoist by His Own Petard Major Injury Underreaction Deconstruction Jerk with a Heart of Gold BFG Cassandra Truth Insane Troll Logic Aww, Look! 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Authority Equals Asskicking Death by Sex Really Gets Around Villain Protagonist The Vamp All Men Are Perverts Bar Brawl The Smurfette Principle Green-Eyed Monster Early Installment Weirdness Hero Antagonist Yandere Flipping the Bird Spanner in the Works Adults Are Useless Sole Survivor Artistic License – Military Abusive Parents Spared by the Adaptation Public Domain Feature Films In Medias Res Adaptational Villainy Took a Level in Badass Smug Snake How We Got Here Batman Gambit Vitriolic Best Buds Badass Boast Animal Motifs Get Out! Gilligan Cut Animated Credits Opening A.I. Is a Crapshoot Epic Fail Meet Cute Face–Heel Turn The Chick Serious Business Real Life Pretty Little Headshots Mystery and Detective Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Badass in a Nice Suit Double Entendre Toplessness from the Back Improvised Weapon Becoming the Mask Evil Is Hammy The Power of Love Big Bad Duumvirate No Ending Truth in Television Ambiguously Gay Older Than They Look The Stoic Alas, Poor Villain Love Triangle Chekhov's Gun Cowboy Cop Stealth Hi/Bye Dramedy Chiaroscuro Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Big Guy MacGuffin Author Avatar Sinister Minister Biopic Chekhov's Skill You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Killed Mid-Sentence Romantic Comedy Horror Comedy A Father to His Men Bad Boss Double-Meaning Title Sequel Escalation Foreshadowing Papa Wolf The Musical Put on a Bus The Bully Cloudcuckoolander May–December Romance Jerk Jock One Steve Limit The Bad Guy Wins Happily Married Improbable Aiming Skills Music Stories Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Downer Ending Chekhov's Gunman Too Dumb to Live Fire-Forged Friends Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Call-Back Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Expository Hairstyle Change Berserk Button Suspiciously Specific Denial Arch-Enemy Affectionate Parody Russian Films Bare Your Midriff Exactly What It Says on the Tin Brother–Sister Incest Frame-Up Eye Scream Twist Ending Red Shirt The Alleged Car Costume Porn The '60s Only One Name Bland-Name Product Rich Bitch Dark Is Not Evil Cold-Blooded Torture Missing Mom Punny Name Straight Gay Curse Cut Short Badass Grandpa Scary Black Man Blood from the Mouth Italian Films Jerkass Has a Point Framing Device Celebrity Paradox Cruel and Unusual Death Fish out of Water Evil Sounds Deep After the End The Cavalry Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Expy Adaptational Heroism Brick Joke Stealth Pun Rule of Three An Aesop Bullying a Dragon Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Action Prologue Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Wounded Gazelle Gambit Evil vs. Evil Taking the Bullet Token Minority Not What It Looks Like Arranged Marriage I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Character Development Famous Last Words "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Dirty Cop Beauty Is Never Tarnished Pretty in Mink Auto Erotica Accidental Murder