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Blasphemous Praise
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A character praises someone(s) or something(s) else by comparing them favorably to a given deity. How to react can sometimes be a dilemma, especially to devoutly religious characters who believe in the deity in question. If the recipient is a Humble Hero, they will probably consider this Unwanted False Faith, and may respond "Stop Worshipping Me" or "A God I Am Not!" If they're more of a Narcissist, on the other hand, they may agree. It can also lead to Tempting Fate. Beware of saying Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter, though, or a Bolt of Divine Retribution may ensue. A Super-Trope to Like a God to Me and Love Is Like Religion. A Sister Trope to Blasphemous Boast (comparing oneself favorably to a deity), Like a God to Me (which can be blasphemous, depending on the particular context), Bigger Than Jesus (the Stock Phrase shout-out to The Beatles), and Answers to the Name of God (when someone says "Oh God" and a character replies "Yes?"). |
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Seth Rollins earned the nickname "Crossfit Jesus" among internet wrestling fans during his 2015 championship run. | |
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Kevin Owens called himself the Antichrist of pro wrestling. When he was kicked out of SCUM, Steve Corino called his replacement, Matt Hardy, the Jesus Christ of pro wrestling. Owens wasn't the first to be known as "the Antichrist of pro wrestling". Matt's brother Jeff beat Owens to that by a few years (specifically, in the early 2010s in TNA). |
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That '70s Show: In one episode a visiting pastor asks Eric and Hyde to draw what they associate with God. They both draw Eric Clapton. | |
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Elvis Presley was uncomfortable with the nickname "The King" for this reason ("Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.") | |
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An episode of The Simpsons reveals the deeply religious Ned Flanders to have a substantial collection of Beatles memorabilia because they were Bigger Than Jesus. Then there was his horrified expression when Homer started praising him for revealing the secret to defeating his new boss at work: "All hail Flanders. Mightier than Jesus. Praise Flanders!" |
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Owens wasn't the first to be known as "the Antichrist of pro wrestling". Matt's brother Jeff beat Owens to that by a few years (specifically, in the early 2010s in TNA). | |
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Titanic: Cal says of the ship "God Himself couldn't sink her". Sure enough, it turns out God loves a good challenge. | |
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inFAMOUS 2: While Laroche doesn't think very highly of Cole at first, he does indirectly compare him to Jesus Christ when admitting that his men admire him greatly. | |
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Airheads had the following exchange: Who would win in a fight? Lemmy or God? Trick question! Lemmy is God. | |
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In The Divine Comedy, Statius admits he would put off meeting God in paradise another year if it met getting to meet Virgil while he was alive. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Mei considers her mistress Hahari, who rescued her from a snowstorm several years before the story began, to be above even Buddha. During a training regimen where participants must chant praises for Buddha, she instead chants praises for Hahari, and when ordered to chant praises to Buddha, she considers him "infinitesimally close the greatest". Later, when Uto claims that Buddha's first words after birth were "Only I reign supreme!", Mei imagines this to be Hahari's first words as a baby. | |
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Fats Waller was playing in a jazz club when he noticed Art Tatum entering. Waller welcomed Tatum to the stage with the memorable introduction, "I only play the piano, but tonight, God is in the house!" | |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian has a man who's about to be stoned because during dinner he said "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!". After some weird arguments like only Monty Python can do, the stoning organizer is killed instead. | |
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In The Usual Suspects, there's this line from Verbal Kint, whether you consider it "praise" or not: "Keaton always said, 'I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.' Well, I do believe in God... and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze." Of course, Verbal Kint is Keyser Söze himself... | |
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WWE billing Triple H as "King of Kings," seeing as how it is a title normally given to Jesus. | |
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In Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis's retelling of the tale of Cupid And Psyche, the narrator's younger sister Princess Istra gets in big trouble by allowing people to proclaim her a goddess. | |
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The Kingdom: William believes that Superman is a divine being, even to the point where he builds a church and offers up prayers to him. | |
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Acts of the Apostles: After Paul and Barnabas perform a miracle in a Greek city, the people mistake them for Zeus and Hermes and begin preparing sacrifices to them. The disciples are horrified when they realize what's going on. | |
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Slayer. A reactionary graffiti defacing a billboard◊ reflecting a message different from their music portrays. | |
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In The Bible: One of the Herods is struck dead for accepting such praise. Acts of the Apostles: After Paul and Barnabas perform a miracle in a Greek city, the people mistake them for Zeus and Hermes and begin preparing sacrifices to them. The disciples are horrified when they realize what's going on. Jesus Himself used this trope in John 14 when He proclaimed that some believer would do even greater works than His own. |
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In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, in a meta-humor sense, Miller deduced that the name of a new friend, Cecile Cossima Caminades, is in fact a hidden message when translated to Japanese into "Kojima Kami Nan Desu", which translates to "Kojima Is God". Even moreso in the Japanese version where Miller started chanting the message in utmost devout fervor and dragged Cecile into doing so. | |
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Lampshaded in El Goonish Shive here. | |
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Clash of the Titans: Queen Cassiopeia of the city of Joppa says that her daughter Princess Andromeda is more lovely than the goddess Thetis. Thetis is not pleased by this and orders that Andromeda be sacrificed to the Kraken. If they don't, the Kraken will destroy Joppa. | |
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Some people started bringing signs saying "Foley is God." He expressed his preference for them not to do that so the signs changed to "Foley is Good," which became the title of his second memoir. | |
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The Distressed Watcher once said "I'm an atheist, but if I was going to worship a god, it would be Pixar." | |
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