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Church Militant

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Church Militant	comment	The world often notes that certain groups take God and Guns with equal fervor. The Church Militant takes this observation to the natural conclusion, a Catholic (or Catholic-like) superpower that is very heavily armed. This can be played in any number of ways â€” Light isn't always good, and even when it is, Good is not always nice, and even when it is, Good isn't soft. Usually justified by the actual existence of witches, vampires or The Legions of Hell; nevertheless the Church Militant often struggles with going too far. Don't expect heavy consistency with real world religious teachings, writers will make it up as they go along (c.f. Not Using the "Z" Word). Japanese media will just substitute in that Nuns Are Mikos. The forces of a Church Militant vary widely depending on the nature of its foes and the type of world it exists in. The most commonly associated troops for the Church Militant are its heavily armored, sword-slinging, holy-equipped special forces usually known as Paladins. Nuns with guns usually come halfway between this and Amazon Brigade. If there is a Fanatic branch of the Church Militant, expect the Knight Templar, but also expect their zealotry to be tempered by the church hierarchy â€” orders with divine authority behind them are hard to ignore, and there is usually a larger war to win. In a modern industrialized setting most clergy will rely on Hand Cannons, but since many breeds of Undead and Eldritch Abomination are Immune to Bullets, expect at least a few priests and nuns of the Blessed Blade Sect to swing around a broadsword or two. Or three/six, which seems to be some kind of standard. Oftentimes, they might instead favor the mace, hammer, or a staff out of an alleged commitment to peace. This doctrine is espoused by the Order of the Blunt Instrument because theoretically bludgeoning weapons allow for "just" beating the hell out of an opponent, and they take a "strict" view of the commandments against "spilling blood" or "taking up the sword." Also blunt weapons are cheap, and there are vows of poverty to consider. In fantasy settings they'll probably also have divine magic, most often White Magic. When a Saintly Church is involved, you can also expect the Holy Hand Grenade, but when the Church militant is played as also being the Corrupt Church, Black Magic may be used alongside or even substituted. Even in settings featuring a purely good church militant, the light side's magical bag of tricks isn't limited to Healing Magic, stun spells, and summoning puppies and rainbows â€” concentrated blasts of goodness, cleansing light, and Bolts of Divine Retribution are standard issue for The Order of Smiting. In the more liberal chapters, such as the Brothers of the Clandestine Operations, one might even find instances of The Sacred Darkness being put to work on the side of the faithful. In more critical scenarios involving The Legions of Hell running rampant and hordes of undead terrorizing the countryside, Holy Hand Grenades are mass produced, as are weapons Made of Good or Silver. In case of Witch incursions and Heresy, expect Flamethrowers and Flaming Swords. Lots and lots of flame-based weapons to purify the sinful. And you can be sure that there are at least a few Fantastic Nukes among the church's relics because there's only one way to be sure that nothing will ever use that Hell Gate again. Individual members are usually Hunters of Monsters or Warrior Monks and can also be referred to as "church militants" (where "militant" is the noun). Note that this trope really only applies to Western theist/deist religions, as Eastern religions (Buddhism, Shinto, Tao, etc.) are almost always depicted as kung-fu-slinging warrior monks (sometimes Christian/Pseudo-Christian monks can be kung-fu-slinging as well). If a Church Militant exists as a State Sec subdivision of a larger, predominantly pacifist Church, expect it to be called "The Inquisition" regardless of the fact that the Real Life inquisition was more like a detective and judicial branch of the Catholic Church (see also The Spanish Inquisition) than its military arm. See also Church Police and Kung-Fu Jesus. Not to be confused with Corrupt Church, where the religious folks are clearly the bad guys. Badass clergymen who are minorities amongst a meeker lot would be Badass Preachers instead. Also not to be confused with the actual Christian concept of the Church Militant which comprises all believers still on Earth, as compared with the Church Triumphant, the believers in Heaven. Here, the "militant" refers not to actual violence but the spiritual combat that believers undergo to thwart the Devil and his temptations so as to become a member of the Church Triumphant. The moral questions surrounding the idea of religious authorities advocating violence have been around since the beginning of monotheism. Polytheistic religions generally don't result in dissonance, instead delegating war behavior to deities who are specifically devoted to kicking ass. Monotheistic religions, on the other hand, have always had the problem of reconciling a loving God (assuming He is loving to begin with) with the specifically unloving human behavior that is intrinsic to warfare. Sometimes it is based on the idea that wrongdoers and criminals, domestic or cosmic, lose variably some or all of the protection of God and society because of their bad actions and therefore should come quietly or be defeated. There is the philosophy that self-defense and the defense of others from bad guys â€” out of love for others â€” is acceptable and just in God's sight. It must also be understood that soldiers face death every day, and naturally have a vested interest in spiritual pursuits. Also, in general, non-Christian religions portrayed as Church Militants are usually frowned upon. Church Militants often make use of Smite Evil. The smitees may not appreciate this, and may strike back, e.g. through Religion Rant Songs or other means. Has some overlap with Naughty Nuns, often in the form of "Nunsploitation" films. One of the groups you may ask Who You Gonna Call? when the Forces of Darkness strike. A single character who's like this may be a Religious Bruiser, but Knight Templar and or The Fundamentalist can also fall into this category.
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Church Militant / int_101bfcd7	comment	In Sengoku Basara (Devil Kings to the western gamers) one of the characters is a missionary named Xavi (Q-Ball in Devil Kings), a Love Freak who dual-wields handcannons based on the foreign missionaries of Japan and whose goal seems to be the conversion of all of Japan (or whatever indeterminate country Devil Kings is supposedly in). He doesn't appear in Sengoku Basara 3, but his influence remains in the form of Sorin Otomo, a powerful regional lord and one of Xavi's most faithful disciples.
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Church Militant / int_11292d9c	comment	The Apostles in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey serve as elite enforcers of the theocratic Azadi Empire. According to one of them (who is also a playable character), they are "missionaries," "the last resort" to "bring the Word of the Goddess to unbelievers."
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Church Militant / int_124d3d40	comment	Hunter the Vigil: Skin and Bones, a fan supplement, adds three more. The Army of Light are a Baha'i conspiracy united by the arrival of a "conduit" that allows them to teleport and telepathically communicate with each other. The Aves Minerva are worshippers of the Roman goddess who hold it as their sacred duty to seek out and destroy magic, and claim that their powers are from Invocations of Minerva's strength. The Chosen of Kroll, apparently in service to "the dread lord Kroll", believe that it is their sacred mission to hunt down and destroy all reanimated creatures.
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Church Militant / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Kyouko was one in the backstory. And the witch Elsa Maria has a fair amount of Christian imagery, and secondary material suggests she views herself this way.
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Church Militant / int_133e5ceb	comment	Ultraviolet (1998). A vampire claims that the vampire-killing organisation is funded by the Vatican, specifically the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (AKA The Spanish Inquisition) but Pearse states that the British government considers the vampire threat to be an issue of public health and defense, granting it funding and support from both the Army and the British Centre for Disease Control. Pearse is a militant Catholic priest, but disdainfully remarks that "the Church doesn't like to talk about evil these days", implying that he's lost his standing because of his views.
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Church Militant / int_15a7dbac	comment	The Church in The Witch Watch are a Running Gag mainly seem to exist to kill things and burn evidence.
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Church Militant / int_169f043b	comment	The Protoss High Templars from StarCraft qualify for this trope, since they're highly trained priests capable of summoning deadly thunderstorms out of thin air. The Protoss army. Their footsoldiers are called zealots. As in religious fanatics.
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Church Militant / int_17def828	comment	Marie D'Artois in Anno 1404 is very enthusiastic about leading the armies of the crusade, and she's damn good at it. This somewhat ironically makes her somewhat easier to manipulate, as she will do almost anything if adequately convinced it is what God wishes her to do: including destroy the homes of innocent people she's been lead to think are heathens.
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Church Militant / int_1835ca75	comment	Cursed (2020): The Catholic Church in the series is portrayed as having an army called the Red Paladins who hunt down Fey, whom they have deemed demons. There is also another force called the Trinity Guards which is said to be even more fearsome. Pope Abel threatens Father Carden with the Trinity Guards now usurping the Red Paladins if he is unable to produce results in the hunt for Nimue.
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Church Militant / int_186f724a	comment	Rurouni Kenshin: The anime featured original villain Muto Shogo, an Christian samurai that believed to be the reincarnation of Amakusa Shiro (see real-life section below) and lead an army of devout followers to rebel against the Meiji administration. He was so badass that he managed to best Kenshin in their first duel.
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Church Militant / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: The Templar Order exists to carry out the Chantry's (church's) will using military might. They're trained to be skilled at fighting mages, in order to ensure that all mages in the chantry's territory (they intend to become the main religion of the world) are aligned with the chantry. By Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Chantry has completely lost control of the Templars, as they break away feeling that their efforts haven't been greatly appreciated and that the Chantry isn't being militant enough in the current Civil War against the mages. The Seekers of Truth, who answer solely to the Divine herself. They primary serve as a check and a balance to the Templar Order, working to investigate any signs of corruption or dissent within its ranks. Other Seekers work to protect the Chantry from threats, both external and internal. On a character level, Leliana. While not an ordained member of the Chantry (she never got around to her vows), she's very open about her faith. Her skills were also learned in her life prior to finding religion, but she's not above using them in what she believes is a divinely directed mission to aid the Warden. Following in a similar vein, Prince Sebastian Vael in Dragon Age II, an ordained brother in the Chantry who takes his faith very seriously. While he's mostly pacifistic, he's not above lending his bow to help curb the more criminal elements present in Kirkwall, as well as deal with rogue Mages. He slips towards the more militant side after Anders blows up the Chantry and kills the Grand Cleric. If Hawke does not execute Anders, Sebastian openly declares his intention to head to Starkaven and raise an army, then return and raze Kirkwall to the ground. The Qunari have no deities, but their philosophical leaders have an arm devoted to enforcing the Qun in their territory. This group is known as the Ben-Hassrath, and are considered priests rather than soldiers. Subverted with the Inquisition from the third game. They were initially meant to be this as Divine Justinia was looking to assemble them to bring the warring Templars and Mages back to heel. The Breach halted these plans since it killed everyone in the gathering and the Inquisition was reborn separated from the Chantry whose purpose is to seal the Breach, find the ones responsible for opening it and restoring order to the continent. They have some religious members (including the Inquisitor if they so much choose) but the order is very secular in nature, incorporating many anti-Chantry ideals. The Blades of Hessarian in Inquisition are an minor example. They were an Andrastian cult that follows the example of Hessarian, the Archon of Tevinter that converted to the Chant after regretting killing Andraste and regards themselves as instruments of her wrath against the corrupt. They are initially enemies found in the Storm Coast, but under the right circumstances, they can be recruited to the Inquisition and declare their complete loyalty to the Herald of Andraste.
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Church Militant / int_1ad9726b	comment	Hunter: The Vigil: The Malleus Maleficarum are a secret arm of the Vatican dedicated to hunting down monsters (and usually of the "suffer not a witch to live" ethos). The Long Night are a loose group of pre-millennialist American fundamentalists who believe that Judgement Day is on the horizon, but that Christ will not come into His Kingdom until humanity has rid itself of its sins — and what could be sinful that monsters? The Knights of St. George are an Anglican group that focuses mainly on demons and sorcerers... on the surface. In truth, their leadership believes that the only true gods are beings called the "Faceless Angels", which will destroy the world should they ever wake — and that magic is like a loud alarm clock right in their ears. One of the three factions of the Ascending Ones, the Knife of Paradise, consists of devout Muslims and Christians, with a strong Jewish minority, dedicated to the hunt against monsters. Hunter the Vigil: Skin and Bones, a fan supplement, adds three more. The Army of Light are a Baha'i conspiracy united by the arrival of a "conduit" that allows them to teleport and telepathically communicate with each other. The Aves Minerva are worshippers of the Roman goddess who hold it as their sacred duty to seek out and destroy magic, and claim that their powers are from Invocations of Minerva's strength. The Chosen of Kroll, apparently in service to "the dread lord Kroll", believe that it is their sacred mission to hunt down and destroy all reanimated creatures.
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Church Militant / int_1aec9ec4	comment	Septerra Core. The Holy Guard of the Seven Winds, an order of paladin-type fighters from Shell Three.
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Church Militant / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: William Stryker◊, an infamous villain, is a Christian fundamentalist televangelist who saw himself on a mission from God to save humanity from the mutants (by destroying the latter if necessary). While originally he was simply a (villainous) Badass Preacher himself, he and his church are somewhat Depending on the Writer, and at least some treat them more as a sort of Anime Catholicism like Iscariot in Hellsing. During the "Second Coming" storyline, Stryker was shown to have a literal army of members from his "Church of Humanity", who used high-tech lasers and "weaponised rituals" against the mutants. There is also a version of the character in X-Men 2: X-Men United which discarded this aspect, making him a shady military officer instead. In one storyline, Nightcrawler takes steps to become a priest.spoiler:— click to revealIt turns out he's been mentally controlled into thinking he's becoming a priest by an extremely militant vaguely Catholic organization that plans to make him pope, and then use some sort of explosive-laced communion wafer that disintegrates people. This will then be the sign that the rapture has come and Nightcrawler's image inducer will be short-circuited, revealing his demonic appearance and leading everyone to believe the anti-Christ has taken over the church. Catholics don't actually believe in the Rapture, but still... anyway, it features a very militant church attempting to effectively take over the world. Exodus, one of Magneto's Acolytes, used to be a Crusader knight before he awakened his X-gene.
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Church Militant / int_1cc8e29f	comment	The Scorn in Destiny are a Fallen faction made up of insane cultists and worshipers of the Darkness. While several alien species worship it to some extent like the Vex and the Hive or at least revere it for their strength like the Cabal, the Scorn are the ones who fit this particular trope the most to the point they resemble dark crusaders.
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Church Militant / int_1d6f193a	comment	The Exorcist's Abbey of the Church of Midgand, or more simply The Abbey, of Tales of Berseria is an organization formed by Big Bad Artorius Collbrande as a means of fighting off daemons across the world and as the name implies, is an extention of Midgand's existing church.
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Church Militant / int_1f19a9d5	comment	Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Church Militant / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index. Necessarius and most of the Church Organizations in Necessarius are a group of battle-priest/mages that protects England and the Puritan Church from any magical and scientific threat by using the one thing they tried to destroy in the past: Magic. They're also responsible for the compilation of Index-Librorium-Prohibitrum in Index's mind. There are three notorious Churches: The Anglican Church, with Necessarius. The Roman Catholic Church, with Agnese Forces and God's Right Seat. The Russian Orthodox Church, with Annihilatus. But even then, Touma still kicked/punched many of their asses.
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Church Militant / int_208eb516	comment	The Rifter: The Payshmura Church trains all of their priests in combat forms, and occasionally weaponizes them against the populace. Once sect, the Kahlirash'im, takes it to an even greater extreme, filing their teeth into points, living in a temple that doubles as a fortress, and worshipping the Rifter, the destroyer aspect of the god Parfir.
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Church Militant / int_2192aeb3	comment	The Fire Emblem series tends to have quite a few of these about. Many of the backstories of the games will feature a group of badass heroes saving the continent, and at least one of them (Archbishop Bragi, Saint Maira; Saint Elimine; Saint Latona) will count as this and as the founder of their own religion, which is then spread through the years and lands. Then, when the world's in danger, members of such churches will join the hero's armies to fill the trope and fight for it. For more generic examples, the War Monk (male) and War Cleric (female) classes introduced in Fire Emblem: Awakening come across as this, given how they wield staves and axes. (Libra, a devout worshiper of Naga, starts out as a War Monk, others can reclass into their respective class.)
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Church Militant / int_2372359	comment	In Eddings's Belgariad/Mallorean, Torak had the Grolim priesthood.
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Church Militant / int_23904eeb	comment	Cluedo: When his church is desecrated by a group of hippies, the Reverend Green borrows one of Mrs Peacock's shotguns, although it is not clear what he does with it.
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Church Militant / int_24089637	comment	The Order of Shadows from The Girl from the Miracles District used to be one, working as the hand of Catholic Church in the world of the supernatural, but eventually they went rogue and became Private Military Contractors.
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Church Militant / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington has the Masadans as the dark side of this trope.
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Church Militant / int_25369c5	comment	Freejack features a shotgun-toting, profanity-spewing nun who helps the protagonist.
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Church Militant / int_25989f70	comment	The Childe Cycle series has the Friendlies, on the planets Harmony and Association, exemplify this trope. The planets constantly have wars between the various sects. Oh, the Friendlies are also hired out as Cannon Fodder Mercs, their only major export.
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Church Militant / int_28569895	comment	The Ikko-Ikki in Total War: Shogun 2. A Buddhist militant monastic order of commoner men who oppose the decadency of clan rules. They even have their own form of Buddhism, Jodo-Shinzu, which is incompatible (in game-mechanic way) with Shinto-Buddhism practiced by most of Japan. And they are badass. Any faction can have Warrior Monk units, which are some of the most expensive, hardest hitting, and deadliest units in the game (outside of hero units). Their only draw back is that their monk robes aren't very good at stopping arrows.
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Church Militant / int_289fdcbe	comment	The Vatican church of Cry 'Havoc' employs teams of vampire and demon hunters. They're preferred weapons are automatic air burst grenade launchers, broadswords, helicopter gunships and strike bombers. The only competing religion, the Norse based Aesir church, is implied to be even more aggressive with its methods.
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Church Militant / int_295048d5	comment	In Bloodborne, the Healing Church has multiple armed organizations under its control, including the Church Hunters, the Executioners, and the Choir. The Church Hunters are a subset of the Hunters employed directly by the Church, the Executioners are an elite force of holy warriors employed to bring the most dangerous heretics to justice, and the Choir are an elite group of mystics who (while primarily scholars) have access to some of the most formidable magic spells in the game. Notably, numerous bosses in the game—including the Cleric Beast, Father Gascoigne, Vicar Amelia, and Martyr Logarius—are ordained members of the Healing Church, as implied by their names.
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Church Militant / int_2a04866b	comment	In Guild Wars: Prophecies the White Mantle is the theocratic government and military of Kryta after the failed Charr invasion. Unfortunately for the Krytans, their gods happen to be a race of amoral spellcasters.
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Church Militant / int_2a139e05	comment	In The Orville, the Krill are a hostile race of religious fanatics, who believe that their god Avis (yes, one character comments that it sounds like a car rental company) has given souls to them alone and that all other races are little more than animals. They use that justification to attack anyone they wish, claiming that the entire universe is theirs by divine right. As far as they're concerned, anyone who kills a Krill in self-defense is a soulless monster. It's stated to be unusual among the galactic races, as many races tend to abandon religion once they discover that they're not alone. Mercer suggests that the root of the Krill zealotry is fear, not that they would admit it.
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Church Militant / int_2a786b7f	comment	Party members in Darklands who have a clerical background would be this. The Knights Templar are also powerful enemies in this game. During a random encounter, the local bishop may demand a special tithe for the right to travel his lands. Should the party refuse and attack, he will fight them along his retinue.
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Church Militant / int_2a7c4a20	comment	Braindead and its famous kung fu priest.
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Church Militant / int_2ae406c1	comment	The Lord's Believers in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri are a faction of technophobic Church Militants. Their combat bonuses (from fanaticism!) keep them militarily competitive and, incidentally, make them scary fuckers if they manage to steal your weapons research. Which they will, because the same fanaticism makes them awesome spies (can't brainwash 'em, can't break 'em, and more than happy to die in the line of duty!). Or they just get Transcendence before anyone else and instantly win. Also the Cult of Planet, who worship the planetary hive mind, and whose goal is to return Planet to its natural state...by any means necessary. The Lord's Believers are shown in Michael Ely's novel Twilight of the Mind in their single-minded war against the University of Planet and, later, Morgan Industries. Despite being technologically backward, their fanatics make great infiltrators, and they use terrorist tactics with brutal efficiency. They're also great at quickly adapting captured enemy equipment against said enemies. Ultimately, their alliance with the Human Hive results in the complete obliteration of the Spartan Federation with a single Singularity Planet Buster, the retreat of all other leaders into a virtual world in an underground bunker, and a Planet-wide Gaia's Vengeance that, presumably, wipes out the rest of human civilization on Chiron.
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Church Militant / int_2b70efd4	comment	Old World of Darkness: The Society of Leopold, your basic secret Catholic monster hunters.
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Church Militant / int_2c7e2837	comment	Book of the Ancestor: The church of the Ancestor trains all novices in fighting. Among the nuns (it is probably similar for the monks, but they are out of focus) there are the vocations of a Red Sister (a highly trained fighter, to the point it needs a small army to win against one, also often supernaturally quick) and Grey Sister (trained in espionage, poisoning, deception and also fighting).
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Church Militant / int_2c920943	comment	Crimson: The Knights Templar have formed an monster-exterminating organization that broke away from the Catholic Church after their official banishment. They are an evil example, since they are portrayed as fanatics obsessed with destroying all monsters even if they are not evil. Their elite group, the Order of the Dragon, is even worse, since they target angels to re-purpose their bodies into battle-drugs. It's not until the end of the series that they form an uneasy alliance with their enemies to fight against the Big Bad who wants to cause the end of the world.
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Church Militant / int_2c9a932f	comment	Vampirella has the Sisterhood, a convent of nuns who battle demons and monsters. There is also the Cestus Dei, a covert operation wing of the Vatican that hunts monsters and demons.
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Church Militant / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series The Church of Martel in Tales of Symphonia has an army to its own. This isn't even mentioning the Cruxis — the Angels that said Church worships. Or their underlings. Or the Chosen One, Colette, who is quite strong compared to her cute, religious appearance, and quite the Game-Breaker if used right. Her Tethe'allan counterpart Zelos is equally as powerful. The Order of Lorelei in Tales of the Abyss, as one of the three major forces in the game, has the Oracle Knights. Several major characters such as the Big Bad and their Co-Dragons, are apart of this military. The Exorcist's Abbey of the Church of Midgand, or more simply The Abbey, of Tales of Berseria is an organization formed by Big Bad Artorius Collbrande as a means of fighting off daemons across the world and as the name implies, is an extention of Midgand's existing church.
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Church Militant / int_2e1a541c	comment	The Celestine and Nihilist priesthoods of Lusternia. Respectively an order of warrior-priests based in New Celest and a Church Of Evil based in Magnagora, they're both comprised of divinely empowered crusaders. They hate each other with a passion.
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Church Militant / int_2f9517bf	comment	The Black Order in D.Gray-Man. Willing to employ criminals, create homunculi and carry out human experimentation. And even that's not enough.
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Church Militant / int_3038d769	comment	In Diablo IV, the Cathedral of Light has become the dominant religion in the world. Their standing army is the Knights Penitent, trained in combat to fight beside the angel Inarius for the day he makes war with Hell.
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Church Militant / int_30876163	comment	Blue Exorcist have the True Cross Order, a Badass Army of Exorcists from multiple religions confronting demons and such. However, they also have Fantastic Racism, at least one major member is a full-blooded demon (and a Manipulative Bastard with millennia of experience who sees and treats everyone as pawns despite nominally being "good"), and they tend to be Knight Templars who started as Child Soldiers. The fact they see the titular character, the resident Anti Anti Christ, as a threat might even make him a threat if they don't kill him first!
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Church Militant / int_32c541e6	comment	The Ishvalans in Fullmetal Alchemist have warrior-priests, followers of Ishvala who are also martial arts experts. It was stated that during the Ishval rebellion an unarmed Ishvalan warrior-priest could take down 10 fully armed Amestrian soldiers. Scar was a particularly strong one.
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Church Militant / int_33acebd8	comment	Ky Kiske in Guilty Gear was a former member of the Sacred Order of Holy Knights and veteran of the Holy War against the Gears. Even though the order is disbanded and he goes on to join the police force and later become a king, he is still a character largely defined by his religious devotion.
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Church Militant / int_359ffc1	comment	In Endstone, The Nunjas.
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Church Militant / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron: All clerics are holy knights, most ordinary priests are just adepts or experts. The Church of the Silver Flame are particularly well known for their zealotry.
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Church Militant / int_399c86dd	comment	Subverted in Simoun, where the church itself doesn't like that the military is forcing them to use their priestesses as killers, even if their prayers happen to be the most effective weapon Simulacrum has.
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Church Militant / int_39fe00f1	comment	The Templar Order exists to carry out the Chantry's (church's) will using military might. They're trained to be skilled at fighting mages, in order to ensure that all mages in the chantry's territory (they intend to become the main religion of the world) are aligned with the chantry. By Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Chantry has completely lost control of the Templars, as they break away feeling that their efforts haven't been greatly appreciated and that the Chantry isn't being militant enough in the current Civil War against the mages.
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Church Militant / int_3b88d68c	comment	In The Divine Comedy, the planet Mars is an sphere of Paradise of soldiers who died for God and his Church, inhabited with a giant squadron of dead martyrs and crusaders who eternally sing God's praise in a perfect formation shaped like the cross. There, Dante meets his own ancestor Cacciaguida (who died in the Second Crusade) and other warriors of the faith like Charlemagne, Roland and Godfrey of Bouillon, as well as Judas Maccabeus and Joshua, who were Jewish examples of this trope.
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Church Militant / int_3bce4381	comment	Nicholas D. Wolfwood, and specifically the Eye of Michael group from Trigun. The latter are plant worshippers, which explains why they're willing to work for Knives. The representatives we see don't appear to worship anything except Gorn and More Dakka. And posibly For Science! in the case of Original Chapel. Makes you kind of relieved that Wolfwood is so laid-back about his faith. Wolfwood introduces himself as a priest, and is carrying a large cross. When someone else tries to lift it, they comment on its heaviness. Wolfwood's response is "That's 'cause it's so full of mercy" ... which we later find out is in the form of one large automatic weapon and many handguns. Though it's never truly clear (in the anime, at least) whether he's really a priest or not.
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Church Militant / int_3df46758	comment	Open Blue features the Order of Saint Lennox, which is more or less the Avelian Church's Inquisition. Suffice to say, even after the inquisition, they teach their preists (and maybe even nuns) to use a sword or two... or three... or six... This is likely because the Order sends many of its priests off as chaplains on Avelian warships, and in a time of pirates, you can never be too careful. The Order of Saint Clara trains nuns to fight against black magic and The Legions of Hell.
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Church Militant / int_3f918bcd	comment	In his novel Crusade in the Starfire series, an alien race believes that Earth is their heaven and that humans have poisoned it so they go out to take care of things.
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Church Militant / int_41b0198a	comment	Both played straight and subverted in The Dresden Files with the three Knights of the Cross aka Knights of the Sword. Michael, the most prominently featured Knight, is a devout Catholic who fights demons, fallen angels, ghosts, vampires, dragons and evil sorcerers with a divinely powered sword and improbable luck courtesy of divine intervention. However, the other two Knights are a) a self-proclaimed agnostic who fights evil purely for the sake of serving the common good, and b) a Japanese man who was only baptized by accident (but tries to be a good Christian anyway now that he is one). Averting the usual Knight Templar tendencies of Church Militants, all these Knights are practically Messianic Archetypes and try to save even the most twisted and corrupted of humans even if it means risking their lives for it. In fact, it's in the job description. And, as of Skin Game, Butters, a Jewish Knight of the Cross who fights evil with his faith... in the Force.
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Church Militant / int_41b75e36	comment	In Exitum Eternal, the Exitum itself is a strange case of this. All the church's zealotry is devoted towards fighting the forces of Hell rather than purging heretics or converting others to their cause.
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Church Militant / int_42800440	comment	The Warrior Monks from The Scorpion.
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Church Militant / int_43576f5	comment	One episode of Supernatural featured the Covenant Lutheran Militia who patrolled with a fire-truck filled with holy water.
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Church Militant / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion has Weynon Priory, home to a few ex-Blades who manage to arm and defend themselves with claymores when attacked by the Mythic Dawn. One of the monks explains further that the Order of Talos and the Blades (the emperor's personal network of spies and bodyguards) are two arms of the same organization, and many members of one wind up in the other at some point.
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Church Militant / int_4522fd1	comment	In the Whateley Universe, Petra and the entire Order of the Rose and Thorn, who end up fighting a host of necromancers who are trying to raise an Eldritch Abomination. Things escalate, and we find out just how well armed they really are.
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Church Militant / int_45799562	comment	Talislanta allows players to become (among other things) any one of several types of intolerant cleric. Although few have any spellcasting abilities, these classes are interesting in that they are the only characters that come with the "torture" skill.
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Church Militant / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: The Omnian theocracy in the novel Small Gods — combines the military-imperial aggression of medieval Islam with the paranoid doctrinal intolerance of medieval Catholicism. After the events of the book the religion mellows out somewhat, but is no less aggressively evangelical, so now Omnians travel door-to-door to distribute religious pamphlets and talk to people about Om. Most of their neighbors view this with equal dread, and end up hiding behind furniture when they see Omnian priests headed their way. This even extends to naming their children things like "Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets" and "Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments". In Carpe Jugulum, Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats lets the Magpyrs know that he has come to bring forgiveness ... and that "Forgiveness" happens to be the name of his large, double-bladed battle axe. In The Science of Discworld (Volume Four), it is revealed that the Omnian church has the uniformed and martial Sanitary Legion — a version of the Salvation Army, operating out of a Citadel in Ankh-Morpork.
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Church Militant / int_485c564	comment	Guilded Age: Our Lady of the Perpetual Bloodshot Eyeball. Their weapon of choice is a long ruler with a blade fixed to it. May also count as Religion of Evil.
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Church Militant / int_489150a8	comment	The Licanius Trilogy features the gil'shar, who are technically a Desrielite religious organization. They just spend most of their time murdering Gifted, as they believe wielding Essence is heresy, and they even engage Andarra in open conflict by the end of the series.
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Church Militant / int_48d31b1e	comment	In Infernal, EtherLight isn't technically the church (instead being a more direct means for Heaven to act on Earth), but it takes stylistic cues from the church often enough to have the appearance of this trope. It's most noticeable in the first level, which is basically a medieval-style monastery with high-tech touches and guards who look like monks. More elite EtherLight components go for a more conventionally military theme, however.
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Church Militant / int_49ad83ee	comment	Paladins in World of Warcraft are always members of a militant religious order that varies by race. Human and Dwarf Paladins are Knights of the Silver Hand (originally the only Paladins in the game, and the terms were almost synonymous); Draenei are Vindicators; Blood Elves are Blood Knights; and Tauren are Sunwalkers. Priests count as well, though their agendas vary. On an organizational level, there have been several Church Militants based around the Light. In order of their creation: The Order of the Silver Hand; the Scarlet Crusade; the Argent Dawn; and the Argent Crusade.
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Church Militant / int_4a9ecddc	comment	According to Robert Graves in his autobiography Goodbye to All That, during World War I British soldiers preferred Roman Catholic chaplains because not only did they actually visit the men in the trenches but when other officers were killed they would take off their chaplain's tabs and lead the men themselves.
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Church Militant / int_4c9647dd	comment	Savage Worlds: In Necropolis 2350, Salus (more commonly known as Necropolis) the only inhabitable planet remaining for humanity, is under attack from the undead alien Rahaim. To counter the Rahaim threat, there emerged the tyrannical Third Reformation Church and its militant branches the Sacri Ordines.
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Church Militant / int_4d57d26c	comment	Critical Role: Technically most clerics in the setting (which is played in D&D 5.0), but the straightest example would be Pike, cleric of Sarenrae as well as Kima, paladin of Bahamut from the first campaign. Both are official, pious members of their respective churches, and both are always eager to wade into battle against evil in heavy armor.
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Church Militant / int_4f115950	comment	Robin: Crucible uses his own twisted and cruel interpretation of religion to excuse his torture and murder of others, saying he's eradicating sin.
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Church Militant / int_4f4ca7c8	comment	Special Circumstances: While the Special Circumstances personnel do "kick ass for the Lord" (or whatever deity[ies] they worship), it's not done specifically in service to their religion. The one exception is the associated Roman Catholic Church group Opus Dei, which is treated as a SWAT team for the Church, and whose presence is noted to mean that there's some serious trouble ahead.
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Church Militant / int_50cfb3ae	comment	The Belmonts themselves are descended from Leon Belmont, a Crusades veteran.
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Church Militant / int_518b056d	comment	The Catholic organization Opus Dei as seen through the filter of The Da Vinci Code. Various Real Life conspiracy theories place Opus Dei as in league with the Mafia, usually as money-launderers.
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Church Militant / int_5690e2e	comment	The Saxon Stories: There is a certain Father Pyrlig, who relies on people assuming fat men can't fight. Usually by the time they realise that they can, they're dead. There is also a One-Scene Wonder Abbot, an ex-soldier who the main character notices is carry a BFA (Like BFS but with an axe), a heavily used one with notches. When the narrator enquires after it, he is cheerfully told, "It is sent many a pagan to Hell, Lord." Since the Abbot has a large scar on his face, you believe it.
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Church Militant / int_56fa0ea4	comment	Civilization series: In Civilization IV, certain AI personalities (Isabella of Spain, for example) are religious zealots. Civilization V: Gods and Kings has one religious belief called "holy warriors," which allows you to buy pre-industrial units with faith instead of gold or production. However, there is no gameplay of cosmetic differences between holy warriors or normal units. Civilization: Beyond Earth: High-level Affinity units sometimes approach this from the opposite direction — while their military pedigree is obvious, as they develop, Affinities tend to go from strictly practical philosophies of development to rigid and dogmatic ideologies, to the level of out-and-out religions. This is especially true of the Purity Affinity and its ultimate unit, the LEV Destroyer (a floating citadel/artillery unit that wouldn't look out of place on a Warhammer 40,000 battlefield). Individual Destroyers have "reliquaries" that hold items from Earth or the possessions of first-generation colonists, and bear names like "St. Germaine's Destroyer". Supremacy makes a decent stab at this via Machine Worship (specifically the idolization of post-human cybernetics). Of particular note is their affinity-specific victory, which involves sending military units back to Earth to "Emancipate" (read: conquer) the non-augmented humans.
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Church Militant / int_5908ee91	comment	The Vigilant of Stendarr in Skyrim, dedicated to the God of Mercy... and purging demons and various other abominations. The Thalmor also count as an evil example of the trope, as one of their primary goals is to stamp out "heresy" (read: Talos worship) through means like torture and ethnic cleansing.
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Church Militant / int_599b82d8	comment	Xenos: Order of the Maker's Hand, essentially the armed branch of the Arland Church. Individual members are respectfully addressed as paladins, colloquially as "handies". The clerics of Belgor, due to the city's unique status and the proximity of the Blight, are all proficient warriors. Saint Irdis' Order. Technically, this order is tasked with preaching and political issues, e.g. serving as clerics at royal courts. Joining this order requires to have completed some sort of military career, though. Saint Irdis' branches are, with rare exceptions, located on the Ritum continent and involved in the war against the elven empire of Ritum.
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Church Militant / int_59da62aa	comment	In Fallout: New Vegas: The Mormons (now known as the New Canaanites) are a benevolent example. While they are known for being incredibly proficient in firearms (specifically the M1911 and the Thompson SMG) they are also known for generosity and offering help to anyone they can. Joshua Graham, of the Honest Hearts DLC, is a specific example. He was a New Canaanite missionary before becoming one of the founders and The Brute of Caesar's Legion. Following his failure at the First Battle of the Hoover Dam, Caesar dismissed him... violently. Graham survived and became The Atoner, after which he made his way to Zion National Park, where he preaches to, and helps defend, the native tribes. He avoids being a Sinister Minister because he's a fundamentally good guy, but he's still scary as hell and not afraid to Leave No Survivors when it comes to his enemies.
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Church Militant / int_5a160237	comment	Civilization: Beyond Earth: High-level Affinity units sometimes approach this from the opposite direction — while their military pedigree is obvious, as they develop, Affinities tend to go from strictly practical philosophies of development to rigid and dogmatic ideologies, to the level of out-and-out religions. This is especially true of the Purity Affinity and its ultimate unit, the LEV Destroyer (a floating citadel/artillery unit that wouldn't look out of place on a Warhammer 40,000 battlefield). Individual Destroyers have "reliquaries" that hold items from Earth or the possessions of first-generation colonists, and bear names like "St. Germaine's Destroyer". Supremacy makes a decent stab at this via Machine Worship (specifically the idolization of post-human cybernetics). Of particular note is their affinity-specific victory, which involves sending military units back to Earth to "Emancipate" (read: conquer) the non-augmented humans.
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Church Militant / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Warframe features Harrow: a dark priest themed Warframe who emphasises gunplay and is just as dangerous as any other Warframe. Additionally, Harrow is used as a worship vessel by the Red Veil for Rell.
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Church Militant / int_5ccce5a8	comment	Tech Infantry has the Christian Federation, one of several rebel factions during the Third Civil War. There are also Crusader Teams who hunt Vampires in the Federation, and in the Middle Kingdom.
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Church Militant / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: The Immaculate Order are a domatic monastic order of Dragon-Blooded who hold most other supernatural entities — other Exalted, the Fair Folk, the dead, demons, rogue gods — to be abominations, and make their feelings on this subject known through use of Supernatural Martial Arts and Elemental Powers. Peleps Deled, a Water Aspected Dragon-Blood who would (and has) kill someone for disagreeing with him on the smallest and most trivial parts of the Immaculate Doctrine. The Zenith Caste of Solar Exalted are inherently priests of the Unconquered Sun intended to preach the word of Heaven and inspire the masses with their raw charisma and social strength, and, given that they are Celestial Exalts, spend most of their time fighting injustice and beating the snot out of creatures of darkness, Eldritch Abominations and other enemies of Creation.
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Church Militant / int_5e2fc4c9	comment	Eurico the Presbyter: The titular protagonist is a priest-turned-knight that fights for Christendom and his land under invasion by Umayyad troops. It's also an notable medieval example that precedes The Crusades, since the Arab conquest of the Iberian penisula took place before the Crusades themselves were declared by a few centuries.
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Church Militant / int_5e42de8e	comment	Stranger in a Strange Land features "Fosterism", a parody of American televangelism on one level but very much Church Militant in a political sense.
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Church Militant / int_5e59ce49	comment	The Derethi from Elantris are a deeply hierarchical and militant religion, with their priesthood resembling a military as much, if not more so, than a clergy. Hrathen was sent to convert a neighboring nation, but failing that the plan is just to storm in and conquer them anyways. Derethi priests wear heavy armor as their vestments and Hrathen, despite technically being a high priest, is perhaps the most personally dangerous person in the book.
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Church Militant / int_5e65e572	comment	In Izure Shinwa No Ragnarok, the church is one of the two most influential organizations in the world and the protagonist, Raika, works for them to investigate the other organization, though he has his own reasons for doing so. The militant part comes into play when Raika displays the combat techniques they taught him, which are enough to survive against humans possessed by gods.
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Church Militant / int_5f87b47c	comment	The Riyria Revelations: Seret knights are the Nyphron Church's (and eventually, New Empire's) enforcers-cum-inquisition, beholden only to the Patriarch and Sentinels.
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Church Militant / int_61028f2	comment	In Johnny Mnemonic, Dolph Lundgren plays a cybernetically-enhanced assassin who poses as a Warrior Monk and rants about religion while he beats on his marks.
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Church Militant / int_651980b7	comment	Savage Skies has the Cult Solar as one of the primary antagonists. Interestingly, the majority of the cult is not comprised of soldiers, it's just that Dawn Lightwing happens to be considered a demon and the ponies on top are willing to utilize lethal force.
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Church Militant / int_69a51847	comment	The Ghost Rider comics give us the Deacon, a monster of a man who is so devout in his belief that he is saving sinners the Penance Stare has no effect on him. He eventually fights a nun-turned-ally of Ghost Rider, with the Pre Ass Kicking One Liner of "Very well, woman. Let us pray."
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Church Militant / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Cleric is a playable class in basically every edition and paladins were added in 3rd edition. There are no restrictions on which deity you serve, so apparently every religion includes at least a subsection fighters, with some apparantly including training in heavy armor. While early editions mostly had the cleric as a support or healer, from third edition on Clerics have considerably more direct combat power as well. Paladin are even more combat-capable, having access to better armor and weapons by default, and have the signature move of Smite Evil (And its partner, Detect Evil), but are much more limited magically. While it's basically assumed that any Player Character is an atleast somewhat capable combatant, among NPCs there are those mean to represent something closer to your average non-combatant cleric, called the Acolyte in fifth edition. They're basically just a random commoner with a couple of spells. Higher level Clergy are generally still pretty dangerous, with a Priest having spellcasting equal to a level 5 player and archpriests being equivalent to 14th level players (in a game where the max level is 20, for reference). Basically D&D runs heavily on Rank Scales with Asskicking so it's safe to assume that the higher up someone is in an orginization's hirearchy (religious or otherwise) the more likely it is that they can kick your ass. And the Cloistered Cleric variant, who gets marginally more weapons and armor training than the average wizard. From the Greyhawk campaign setting: Heironeous, whose clerics are soldiers, making them a literal Church Militant, Saint Cuthbert, whose followers can be ... enthusiastic at times about evangelizing, and who opposed evil with a passion, and Pholtus, whose inquisitions you probably don't expect, particularly from a non-evil church. In 4th edition, the Avenger class are clerics mixed with rogues to become assassins of God. Last but not least Druids, who have strong ties with nature (nature deities or not), the big flexibility the Wildshape ability gives them, and spells. Eberron: All clerics are holy knights, most ordinary priests are just adepts or experts. The Church of the Silver Flame are particularly well known for their zealotry. It's worth of note that back in the AD&D times, in the Forgotten Realms setting the very least, things were more varied with available classes including besides the standard cleric and "specialty priests" — which had exclusive notes and requirements for them and could be quite different of the former class, with all deities having at least the latter one — monks, shamans, crusaders, mystics, paladins, and druids, each church having more or less of those (if any) and even others not listed here.
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Church Militant / int_6b0aafde	comment	Legionnaire has the Basiji and the Justicars, which are the religious police and the religious army respectively.
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Church Militant / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 introduces the Children of Atom, a kooky cult worshipping a dormant atom bomb. Fallout 4 turns them into one of the many hostile factions in the game, spreading their faith with radiation guns.
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Church Militant / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Black Lagoon has the "Church of Violence". While it's unclear whether its members are actually religious or are just using the Church as a front for weapons smuggling, it still doesn't stop its members from toting a ridiculously massive arsenal of weapons such as M60 machine guns and a gold plated Desert Eagle (wielded one-handed by a 70-something nun).
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Church Militant / int_6cd7a646	comment	Macho Women with Guns has only three character classes: Bimbos, Succubi, and Combat Nuns. I'm sorry, "Sisters of Our Lady of Harley Davidson".
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Church Militant / int_6d2aec8f	comment	Subverted in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. While Enrico Pucci is an evil fighter priest, it is not out of fanaticism. In fact, he is a heretic who worships an evil vampire and abuses his status as a priest. Church Militant still holds. As his twin brother Weather Report (yes, that's his name) said, Enrico Pucci is not aware that he is evil. Which makes him creepier because he believes he's doing all these beating up prisoners, pitting them against each other, siccing a gang on Weather Report to prevent his incestuous relationship with their little sister (both Weather and his sister were unaware of this incest), collecting Dio's sons, trying to revive the world without the Joestars... for the good of mankind.
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Church Militant / int_6f48e446	comment	Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars : Kane's Wrath introduces the post-Second Tiberium War Black Hand, a powerful Nod faction composed of highly trained religious zealots with an obsessive tendency to equip all their squads with flamethrower weaponry. Additionally, these guys have a tendency to resist incredible amounts of damage and fight harder than any other faction due to their fervent religious beliefs. To better understand the Black Hand, just have a look at the weaponry they tend to use: the Purifier, the Confessor Cabal, the Black Disciple and the Purifying Flame Upgrade.
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Church Militant / int_701f0ece	comment	Mozgus in Berserk fulfills this trope together with his followers. They take great pleasure in killing and torturing "heretics" at will. There's also the Holy Iron Chain Knights, a church-serving order of warriors who are mostly ornamental but nonetheless quite capable of kicking ass.
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Church Militant / int_70606a03	comment	Queen of Shadows has the Kamikiri tribe (Mantis Khan), who serve as the priests of the Shadowkhan, while still being as much Proud Warrior Race Guys as the other tribes.
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Church Militant / int_7244e221	comment	The Traitor Son Cycle has the Order of St. Thomas, a religious order of Magic Knights raised to fight against the Wild. They're extremely well-trained and so silent, even the Wild can't detect them.
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Church Militant / int_72e8fc7b	comment	Shattered Twilight: The Church of the Silver Crown has two orders of openly militant clergy (the Purgatai and the Justicai) as well as a standing army, the White Guard.
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Church Militant / int_74c659e6	comment	Rocket Age: The Order of the Sacred Hamaxe form war-bands made up of members from every Martian caste and roam around performing exorcisms as well as fighting dangerous animals and bandits. Unusually a band member of any caste can become a war-priest, although they are usually Kastari.
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Church Militant / int_755b343f	comment	Halo has the Covenant, a conglomerate of alien species that embark on crusades in the name of their gods, the Forerunners, all in the name walking the path to the Great Journey.
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Church Militant / int_76304dd1	comment	Mike Carey's Felix Castor novels has the Anathemata Curialis, a militant and officially excommunicated group fighting the return of the undead, partly by using the undead themselves, or any other means available.
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Church Militant / int_76e539c2	comment	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS has Sister Schach, a kindly nun and battle-ready knight of the Belkan Saint Church. And after the post-StrikerS Time Skip, Sein, Otto, and Deed of the Numbers Cyborgs have joined the Belkan Saint Church's ranks. There is also Vivio, literal Saint King of that church, though she hates being called by her rank... And she IS called so. On a regular basis.
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Church Militant / int_76e7de99	comment	It's worth of note that back in the AD&D times, in the Forgotten Realms setting the very least, things were more varied with available classes including besides the standard cleric and "specialty priests" — which had exclusive notes and requirements for them and could be quite different of the former class, with all deities having at least the latter one — monks, shamans, crusaders, mystics, paladins, and druids, each church having more or less of those (if any) and even others not listed here.
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Church Militant / int_794d9734	comment	Mutant Chronicles has the Brotherhood which is a militant religious order made by an Ancient Conspiracy to fight against the forces of the Dark Symmetry.
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Church Militant / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: Beka Cooper mentions "warrior [women] with sickles" from a temple who punish violations of the "Goddess's Law concerning women". Given that said priestesses are mentioned in reference to a man notorious for roving hands, it's not hard to imagine the gist of the Law. In the trilogy's second book, some of the Goddess' warrior priestesses assist in bringing down the criminals controlling Port Caynn. The priestesses, in fact, are first mentioned in the Song of the Lioness quartet.
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Church Militant / int_79e4edd2	comment	Crying Suns: The Church of Singularity, like all the galaxyâ€™s major factions, has its own fleet of battleships. Their ships can mount the most guns of any battleship class, and they will eagerly use them against sinners.
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Church Militant / int_7a59fbeb	comment	Azrael from The DCU, combined with Artistic License â€“ Religion, and even more so in the second series.
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Church Militant / int_7ae8ef1a	comment	The Grammaton Clerics of Equilibrium use the trappings of this trope, although they serve a secular state.
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Church Militant / int_7dcc80c6	comment	Chrono Crusade features a religious order whose role is to serve as the Church Militant. As one might expect, the main character is a member of said order. The Order tolerate Rosette's Deal with the Devil on the grounds that 1) he's a sweetheart, okay? 2) the girl has a mission and she can't get out of it now, anyway, and 3) look, demon kill demon, we happy, okay? Until Remington is forced to stage Chrono's death in the manga. Her immediate superiors don't object, but the higher-ups have gotten twitchy. Good times had by all as the good Father more or less pounds Chrono in the head with the situation after cool hints don't work.
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Church Militant / int_7ea4fd20	comment	All religious groups in Wasteland 2. Particular standouts are the Servants of the Mushroom Cloud, who have turned Mutually Assured Destruction into a religious tenet that inspires them to keep the peace, and God's Militia, a genocidal Christian sect that bases its beliefs on the tape-recorded sermons of a fire-and-brimstone televangelist.
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Church Militant / int_7efcefbb	comment	Star Realms: The Machine Cult. Being surrounded by a hostile alien species means the Cult has to have a well-armed star fleet just to survive. In addition, one of the Cult's Hero cards is the War Elder.
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Church Militant / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Subverted with Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's Duo Maxwell; though he wears a priest's collar and kicks a lot of ass, he doesn't actually practice any religion. In his backstory he was an orphan raised in a church, but one day tells the priest he doesn't believe in God but he does believe in the God of Death because "I've never seen a miracle, but I've seen lots of dead people!" (The good-natured priest admits that he can't fault the boy's logic.) He wears the collar as a tribute to the priest and nun who raised him.
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Church Militant / int_7fbd6753	comment	Thunder Cats 2011: Jaga's order of Clerics are Kung-Fu Wizard/Magic Knights who serve both as keepers of the Ancient Traditions of the Book of Omens and a highly trained Praetorian Guard to Thundera's King Claudus.
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Church Militant / int_83c5459c	comment	In Trinity Blood, the Vatican is one of the two major world military powers, the other being the vampire-led Empire. The latter, being based in Byzantium, bears a certain resemblance to the home base of the post-schism Eastern Orthodox church.
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Church Militant / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape: Priest robes (prayer bonus), best mace you can find (prayer bonus), hunt giants/dragons (their bones give more prayer xp). You can take a lot less damage (Protect from x prayers) while dealing a lot more damage (Fortify Strength/Attack/etc.) And, the Monks of Zamorak, too.
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Church Militant / int_8601c91f	comment	Doom (2016) and its sequel Doom Eternal has the Night Sentinels, an order of holy space knights in service to the celestial Maykrs. Their prowess in battle was second to none; they only lost their lengthy war against Hell itself due to treachery from within (as it turned out that the Maykrs themselves were allied with Hell), and at one point, the Doom Slayer himself led their armies. They even wear armor resembling those of medieval crusaders (which even comes with a few cross motifs).
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Church Militant / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: The cathedral in Mechanicsburg has a unit of paladin clanks in storage, and the abbess rides out to fight during the Battle of Mechanicsburg though the Jaegers knock her out quickly when it turns out she's allied with the Knights of Jove. The Corbettites are more interested in running Europa's railways than fighting, but they are quite well-equipped to defend their neutrality.
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Church Militant / int_86ff5a52	comment	In Lords of the Realm 2, the Bishop uses religion as an excuse to conquer lands.
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Church Militant / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: Part of Neuro's job description as a priest in the Brotherhood of Death involves battling hostile spirits and criminal necrocraft users. He wields a scythe and death magic.
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Church Militant / int_89ae538b	comment	Sister Mona Theist of Flaky Pastry, as a member of the Sisters of Holy Retribution, fits to a tee.
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Church Militant / int_8a39c411	comment	Hyperion Cantos: The two Endymion books feature a rabid Vatican that exploits the resurrecting power of alien cruciforms to grant believers immortality. The Pope heads an aggressive crusade against "heretics" with interstellar warships, manned by Swiss Guard special forces.
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Church Militant / int_8ad6e76f	comment	In Carpe Jugulum, Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats lets the Magpyrs know that he has come to bring forgiveness ... and that "Forgiveness" happens to be the name of his large, double-bladed battle axe.
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Church Militant / int_8c823555	comment	In the Devil Trilogy the religions of Vorg and Viguru reinstate their long-dormant military orders after an attack from the cult of Cataris. Many characters in the story worry that this might lead to another holy war.
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Church Militant / int_8e68cca9	comment	The Veiled in Digger, a military organization devoted to defending all gods. Murai puts it nicely:
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Church Militant / int_8f8233e	comment	The Penitent One in Blasphemous is a member of a religious congregation known as the Silent Sorrow who is dropped into an haunted city and starts slaying zombies, demons and monsters with a BFS, prayer beads and holy relics in combat. He also fights against the Anointed Legion, a pious brotherhood of elite knights and warriors created by decree of His Holiness Escribar to fight in his name and the Church.
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Church Militant / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: Clan Cloud Cobra are known for as "the clergy of the Clans". Being founded by a Chaplain, the Cloud Cobras all follow a ecumenical religious movement called "The Way', although they have subdivisions based on Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and other faiths. Comstar and its offshoot, the Word of Blake, who elevated the preservation of knowledge to a religion — then started nuking people. Comstar's own army, hilariously enough, were composed of people that were Mechwarriors first and lacked the fanaticism found in other Comstar branches, as well as seeing machines less as objects of reverence and more as tools they're quite fond of. When the zealots broke off and formed the Word, the Com Guards had the smallest losses of personnel. Of smaller scope is the Brotherhood of Randis, a small and exclusive order of philosophical and devout Christians. Originally little more than a mercenary unit with high ideals and really bad management, since the 3050s they've become known throughout the Periphery for performing works of charity, setting up missions and schools, and dispensing brutal asskickings to pirates.
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Church Militant / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Children of the Light/Whitecloaks in The Wheel of Time, a militant religious organization resembling the Knights Templar and Crusaders and mainly dedicated to calling people Darkfriends and executing them for looking at them funny, besides calling all the magic users (Aes Sedai) witches and assassinating or outright killing them whenever possible. Despite every other country but Amador (their base) hating their guts, they are for some reason given free passage into any country as long as they are only in small numbers (however they break this rule constantly), and don't cause any trouble (again, they break this rule constantly). It is mentioned that 50% of the common people supposedly like them, which may be the reason rulers tolerate them, but Jordan never bothered to show any common people doing anything but cowering in fear when they come by, so... At one point Thom Merrilin's reaction to a statement by Elayne suggests that the Lord Captain Commander of the Whitecloaks, then Pedron Niall, was close to or more powerful than the Queen of Andor, one of the more powerful of the nations, as there are apparently Whitecloaks in and from every land. The 'from' bit is as close as indicating they have large scale support as exists, one supposes.
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Church Militant / int_91209b29	comment	In Xenosaga the Ormus is a religion with its own fully-fledged military industrial complex, including weapons and advanced physics research. The most prominent of these groups is the U-TIC Organization, who are the main antagonists of the first game.
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Church Militant / int_9124e931	comment	Elsa la Conti and Clarice di Lanza of Arcana Heart, a pair of nuns who work for the Western Europe Spirit Sector. Elsa has a large cross used similar to a tonfa, as well as a gun, a whip, holy water, and other weapons for dealing with demons, spirits and the like. Clarice...doesn't need any of that stuff because she herself is a demon.
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Church Militant / int_920d318c	comment	Anima: Beyond Fantasy: The Church of Abel, complete with monks who use martial arts, countless knights orders, and an Inquisition whose members more often that not are very proficient in combat (and when not, they've magic and the like at their disposal). When your Crystal Dragon Jesus and his followers were kicking supernatural asses elsewhere, that's something to be expected.
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Church Militant / int_924b6d63	comment	The Ethos from Xenogears is the world's main religious body, and seems to have a rather large number of gun-wielding priests at their disposal. One of them even joins your party.
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Church Militant / int_924c78dc	comment	Hunter: The Reckoning had a priest. With a sword-slash-crucifix. And a crossbox-slash-crucifix. AND he could shoot light out of his hands. Proving that priests have secret magical powers that will be useful in the event of a secret zombie apocalypse. Not sure about the video game, but in the table game from which it's derived, powers are granted for mysterious reasons to seemingly incongruous and unrelated people. Many characters, left with no rational explanation for their new powers, are going to explain them the best they can based on their cultural background. In other words, if a 'typical' American suddenly was able to sprout a flaming sword and smite a vampire with it, all the while hearing voices or seeing hidden messages, what's less likely than that they would attribute it to God? And if a priest gained such powers, religious mania is a perfectly reasonable outcome.
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Church Militant / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Dishonored: The Overseers are the militant faction of the Abbey of the Everyman. Their primary objective is to stand against the Outsider and basically anything that is supernatural. They are most notable for the creepy masks they wear, which are actually bulletproof, and the "music boxes" some of them carry, which repress any magical ability and damage anything supernatural.
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Church Militant / int_9776174	comment	Father Zee in Ex Machina. During a riot, someone yells out "RAISE HELL". Father Zee sucker punches him right in the face and says "If you say so". He frequently spars with Mayor Mitchell Hundred.
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Church Militant / int_979d8a9d	comment	Requiem Vampire Knight: The Werewolves were originally religious fanatics that after their deaths were reincarnated as monsters in Hell. Among these include TomÃ¡s de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor of Spain. The Sisters of Blood are an order of vampire nuns that guards Dracula's brides. Not only they are competent Dark Action Girls and ruthlessly fierce in their mission, their Mother Superior pilots a giant mecha.
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Church Militant / int_9d34190a	comment	Several examples from the The Elder Scrolls series: In Daggerfall, there were knightly orders associated with eight of the Nine Divines (Talos being a god hadn't been introduced to the series yet), which the player had the option to join upon locating their chapter houses. In Morrowind, the Tribunal Temple is a powerful military force among the Dunmer. Special mention to the Buoyant Armigers, elite special forces hand-picked by Tribunal deity Vivec himself, often decked out in high quality Glass armor, who primarily operate inside the Ghostfence. Oblivion has Weynon Priory, home to a few ex-Blades who manage to arm and defend themselves with claymores when attacked by the Mythic Dawn. One of the monks explains further that the Order of Talos and the Blades (the emperor's personal network of spies and bodyguards) are two arms of the same organization, and many members of one wind up in the other at some point. The Vigilant of Stendarr in Skyrim, dedicated to the God of Mercy... and purging demons and various other abominations. The Thalmor also count as an evil example of the trope, as one of their primary goals is to stamp out "heresy" (read: Talos worship) through means like torture and ethnic cleansing.
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Church Militant / int_9d47a2a2	comment	The Faith Militant, or Swords and Stars, in A Song of Ice and Fire consists of two armed orders: the Warrior's Sons and the Poor Fellows. The former is made up of knights and nobles, while the latter's members are commoners. Both of these orders were banned for over two hundred years, but Cersei Lannister resurrects them as part of a political bargain with the Faith. The carnage of the ongoing wars creates a major revival in religious fervor, causing both orders to swell in rank and rapidly become uncontrollable. By the end of A Feast for Crows, the results of an implosion of machinations include Cersei being arrested by the Faith. There are also the Bearded Priests of Norvos, who are famously armed with double-headed axes. The Faith of R'hllor has its own example with the Fiery Hand, who are slave soldiers charged with protecting their red temples. They wield spears with fire shaped points and have flame slave brands on their faces. Other groups similarly affiliated with the Lord of Light include Queen Selyse Baratheon's knights who have converted to its faith and are regarded as very fundamentalists for wanting to burn disbelievers.
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Church Militant / int_9ecd1e02	comment	The Little Sisters of the Immaculate Chainsaw in Simon R. Green's Nightside books. Also the SAS (Salvation Army Sisterhood). Hard-core nuns of military persuasion, that have been banned and condemned by every branch of the Christian Church (though, they still hire SAS when all else has failed). SAS burns down satanist churches, performs exorcisms on politicians, and they once skinned and ate a werewolf. Save them all and let God sort them out, so to speak.
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Church Militant / int_a46e4b5b	comment	RosenkreuzStilette has a variant on this: the titular group was formed after the hero Rosenkreuz and his eight closest disciples won a holy war against the Holy Empire, and became a Magi-specific order of the Orthodox Church's army. Unfortunately, the Church and the RKS seem to have come to blows again recently...
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Church Militant / int_a54eef52	comment	Hetalia: Axis Powers: Prussia's origins as the Monastic State of The Teutonic Knights are acknowledged in his bio and some strips. Though God doesn't really seem to like him.
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Church Militant / int_a5549ed0	comment	A famous quote from The Bible says, "Upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." In other words, the Church is a Battering Ram, for besieging Hell.
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Church Militant / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project features two rival shrines of miko, both of whom carry out "youkai exterminations", and Sanae Kochiya actually does so under the direct behest of her live-in goddesses. It is mentioned in Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object that Byakuren Hijiri and her brother also performed this function, before the latter died and the former grew to favor youkai over humans. And now we have Toyosatomimi No Miko, another religion-inspired fighter (Taoism) who led a sort of crusade to make Buddhism the state religion in her country while secretly practicing Taoism. This backfired a lot, since when she tried to use Taoism to ressurect later on, Buddhist monks sealed her away. An often-overlooked bits is that even Yuyuko and Youmu are Church Militant of a Buddhist esoteric order. Their stages are heavily based on the concept Pure Land, and their spellcards based on teachings of Buddhism (notably the aforementioned Pure Land esotericism).
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Church Militant / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: The Cathars of the Church of Avacyn on Innistrad are a Cathloic-aeshtetic religious order consisting of knights charged with fighting off the numerous horrors that stalk their world's knight. The angels in Innistrad are also divided into several groups, and one of them, the Goldnight, serves as their militant arm. The Legion of Dusk from Ixalan are an monastic order of vampires driven to rid the world of vice and sin, and are driven to only feed on the blood of the guilty such enemies of war, rebels of the state and heretics. Unfortunately, because of their loose definition of whom they consider "guilty" that includes innocents as well.
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Church Militant / int_a877956	comment	The Witcher has the Order of the Flaming Rose which serves the Church of the Eternal Fire and their purpose is to defend humanity from monsters and magic users. They operate much like the Knights Templar and Teutonic in real-life history, as their leader is also titled "Grandmaster".
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Church Militant / int_a8cd5cdb	comment	The Church of Lumin in Stories of Nypre may not seem militant at first. Then you realize the priestesses who run the place also serve as commanders of Lumin's army and are quite quick to dispatch them in an attempt to control magic in the world.
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Church Militant / int_ab462a87	comment	In Impure Blood Dara's Back Story. Before Made a Slave.
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Church Militant / int_ad6b641b	comment	The Screwtape Letters: The demonic narrator describes the church as seen from the spiritual dimension (where things that seem mundane to humans, such as a simple prayer, take on very real and tangible consequences) as an army arrayed against demonkind.
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Church Militant / int_ae8d22f6	comment	Werewolf: The Forsaken: The Fire-Touched, one of the Pure Tribes that rejects service to Luna in favor of fighting the Forsaken, see their undertaking as a holy cause and their tribal totem as a near-divine prophet. They're about equally happy to convert or kill their foes.
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Church Militant / int_b0793848	comment	The Boondock Saints are a variant of this trope. They don't fight the legions of hell (or at least not in any demonic implication), but they do themselves state religion as their reasoning (the 'inspirational' speech from the priest at the beginning) and go so far as to say their family prayer over their victims. It's also strongly implied they that they believe they are administering God's justice to evildoers.
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Church Militant / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Much like its literary counterpart, it has the Faith Militant. However, the television version of the Faith Militant is even more frightening and fanatical than the literary version. Whereas the book version of the order is portrayed in a morally ambiguous light (they do good deeds such as protecting the common people from bandits, and mostly come across as Westeros' answer to real-world military monastic orders such as the Templars, Hospitallers etc), the television version of the Faith Militant are basically the Westeros version of the Taliban, raiding the streets and brothels to clamp down on sinful behavior. It was disbanded 200 years before the start of the series for causing problems for the monarchy at the time. And now thanks to Cersei they're causing problems for the entire noble class. Way to go, Queeny. However, at the end of Season 6, having caused those problems in the first place, Cersei then cleans up after herself by solving all of those problems for her and the rest of Kings Landing courtesy of some well-placed wildfire detonation.
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Church Militant / int_b43f69f	comment	Necromunda: The Cult of the Redemption are a highly violent offshoot of the Imperial Cult native to the planet that has since spread to the wider Imperium. The Cult aggressively persecute anyone who deviates from their strict beliefs of physical and spiritual purity and launch armed crusades against the deviant inhabitants of the underhive.
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Church Militant / int_b50aa03f	comment	The Reynard Cycle: The smith priests of Fenix the Firebird appear to engage in this. Besides the faith maintaining a monopoly on the production of the tools of war (weapons, armor, etc.), there are apparently "battle priests" present during the Battle of the Samara in The Baron of Maleperduys. Naturally, they wield war hammers.
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Church Militant / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, the Tribunal Temple is a powerful military force among the Dunmer. Special mention to the Buoyant Armigers, elite special forces hand-picked by Tribunal deity Vivec himself, often decked out in high quality Glass armor, who primarily operate inside the Ghostfence.
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Church Militant / int_b63df301	comment	Pay Me, Bug!: The Empire of the Radiant Throne is one part theocracy, two parts authoritarian dictatorship.
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Church Militant / int_b6e57c27	comment	The Inquisitors in Radiant mercilessly hunt down sorcerers at the slightest misbehaviour, and even though they're not sorcerers, their skills and strength are nothing to scoff at.
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Church Militant / int_b88b182f	comment	The Dark Eye: There are numerous churches that fit this trope. The churches of the two primary War Gods — Rondra, goddess of honorable battle, and her son Kor, god of war, bloodshed and mercanaries — are at the forefront, but most churches have an order or two that is more militant than the rest of the church.
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Church Militant / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	Sakura Wars: A variation; Erica Fontaine is both a nun and a member of the Paris Assault Force; the convent she belongs to is not a military organization in and of itself.
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Church Militant / int_b96af87b	comment	The Holy Therns in Pathfinder: Worldscape are equal parts clergymen for their Path of Inspiration, a Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards for the Queen of Shareen and a police force responsible for rounding up blasphemers so they can fight in the Gladiator Games.
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Church Militant / int_b99ea9be	comment	Agora: The Parabolani are a Christian death squad devoted to kill heretics under the direction of their bishop Cyril of Alexandria. Ironically, they don't start the movie out this way being merely a brotherhood that performs charitable work like feeding the poor.
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Church Militant / int_b9b796cf	comment	Executors such as Kotomine Kirei, are essentially the special forces, used for more precise operations.
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Church Militant / int_ba491f18	comment	Black Moon Chronicles: The two religious knightly orders of the empire, the Knights of the Light (patterned after The Knights Templar) and the Knights of Justice (patterned after The Knights Hospitallers). Eventually, the former is absorbed by the latter after they try to overthrow the emperor.
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Church Militant / int_ba769699	comment	Ulric, god of Survival, Wrath and Winter, is one of the Empire's War Gods, and his priests often lead armies into battle. Ulric's followers are forbidden from wearing helmets or skins from wolves they didn't personally kill with weapons of their own manufacture, since they are expected to show courage and self-reliance. Ulric-worshippers are common in every battle-line in The Empire. The cult also sponsors an order of knights, the Knights of the White Wolf.
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Church Militant / int_bbdcc0b2	comment	The Bright Hands from Lady Of Gems qualify as they literally give up their humanity so they can become magically equipped to hunt down Feasters.
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Church Militant / int_bcadd7cb	comment	High-level Affinity units sometimes approach this from the opposite direction — while their military pedigree is obvious, as they develop, Affinities tend to go from strictly practical philosophies of development to rigid and dogmatic ideologies, to the level of out-and-out religions. This is especially true of the Purity Affinity and its ultimate unit, the LEV Destroyer (a floating citadel/artillery unit that wouldn't look out of place on a Warhammer 40,000 battlefield). Individual Destroyers have "reliquaries" that hold items from Earth or the possessions of first-generation colonists, and bear names like "St. Germaine's Destroyer".
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Church Militant / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: In the Empire, all major religions (apart from the cult of Shallya, Goddess of Mercy and Compassion, and Ranald, God of Thieves) have their own military branches associated with them, both in the form of temple guards and the like, and in the form of militant orders. Naturally, the more warlike the god, the larger the militant following. Ulric, god of Survival, Wrath and Winter, is one of the Empire's War Gods, and his priests often lead armies into battle. Ulric's followers are forbidden from wearing helmets or skins from wolves they didn't personally kill with weapons of their own manufacture, since they are expected to show courage and self-reliance. Ulric-worshippers are common in every battle-line in The Empire. The cult also sponsors an order of knights, the Knights of the White Wolf. Sigmar, the first Emperor of the Empire, is venerated as its founder, uniter and protector, and, as such, his priests can be found in many capacities throughout The Empire. The War Priesthood are sent out to lead the Empire's armies and bolster morale when fighting Chaos, so that the men can feel Sigmar's will is with them. The iconic face of the Church Militant in the game is the War Priest of Sigmar, with shaved head, orange robes, plate armor and warhammer. The Witch Hunters are a less obvious example, but they are still an order of the priesthood of Sigmar, who will travel the Empire and root out Chaos, unsanctioned magic and other unwholesome practices with nothing more than a pistol and a prayer, and succeed more often than not. The third war god (yes, the Empire is the kind of place that needs three separate war gods), Myrmidia, is associated with strategy, disciplined soldiery, and martial honor. She is more worshipped in Tilea and Estalia, and her worship has only recently spread to the Empire, but she is popular among officers and Combat Aestheticists. Myrmidia's knightly order is the Knights of the Blazing Sun, who, while not large, steadily gain in popularity. Bretonnia has a borderline example in the Grail Knights. Grail Knigths are the pinnacle of Bretonnian chivalry, knights who have, through long years of questing and chivalrous acts proven themselves worthy to see the Lady of the Lake, Bretonnias patron Goddess, and drink from the Grail. Drinking from the Grail embues these knights with power beyond that of mortal men, their infirmities are cured and their eyes glow with green light. Some Grail Knights swear themselves to the service of the Bretonnian King (the King is the only lord in the realm who is required to be a Grail Knight, and no Grail Knight would ever put himself in a position where he might have to serve someone who wasn't one), but most either travel the countryside fighting bandits, orcs and beastmen (inevitably attracting an entourage of peasants who see the knight as the Lady's will made manifest) or settle in a small Grail chapel somewhere and tend it for the rest of their lives (subsisting on donations from pilgrims who see the knight as the Lady's will made manifest).
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Church Militant / int_c146048b	comment	Vlad Tepes in Count and Countess. Just as in real life.
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Church Militant / int_c1632d4d	comment	The Church of Elemia from Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia, as evidenced by Cardinal Radolf's really nice spear. This is because Bishop Falss formed them with the intent to invade Platina.
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Church Militant / int_c2463c55	comment	The Crusaders in Final Fantasy X, although they have the odd distinction of being officially excommunicated by the time the game starts for consorting with Al Bhed heretics and their machina. The Warrior Monks of Yevon and, to a lesser extent, the Summoner Guardians, since they're respectively the army and the bodyguards of the "saints" of Yevon.
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Church Militant / int_c403b4a3	comment	Ground Control has the Order of the New Dawn, a powerful religious order whose followers number in billions across the known worlds. For political and economic purposes, they're registered as a MegaCorp. The Pax Dei ("Peace of God" in Latin) is the Order's military arm. The Pax Dei soldiers use priesthood ranks (e.g. the second Player Character's rank is that of a Deacon and is the equivalent to a Major), and their military equipment is far ahead of the curve. All their ground vehicles are called "hoverdynes", and they utilize Energy Weapons. They're also taught to face their enemies directly; guerrilla tactics being an anathema to a warrior of God.
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Church Militant / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone": "Father Octavian, Sir. Bishop, 2nd class. Twenty clerics at my command. The troops are already in the Drop Ship and landing shortly." According to the Doctor, "It's the 51st Century. The Church has moved on." The year afterwards, we got a villainous example in "A Good Man Goes to War". The rank-and-file soldiers mostly seem like ordinary people (there's even a married gay couple), but the Headless Monks are â€” well, the name kind of sums it up. Oddly, they seem to be made up of different denominations â€” the married couple are Anglican, but their colonel refers to a "Papal Mainframe". (Granted, the same colonel mentions the Queen and it's three thousand years in the future, so it's not too unreasonable to suppose that the Catholic and Anglican churches have merged, along with the Army by then.) The army is explicitly a task force made out of a levy of allied political entities with the specific aim of taking down the Doctor. The "Gamma Girl" is from a world that is mentioned as being "Heaven Neutral", making her presence odd since they apparently aren't involved in this conflict. This could mean that most soldiers at this time in history are "clerics", or, possibly, that the conflict with the Doctor is a holy war that all the denominations have agreed upon. "The Time of the Doctor" featured the Papal Mainframe (first mentioned in "A Good Man Goes to War"; Colonel Manton's edict to lower the Headless Monks' hoods came "by the divine grant of the Papal Mainframe herself" and revealed that it is actually a massive space church built into a starship, and that it is commanded by an old friend of the Doctor's named Tasha Lem. The church functioned as an "intergalactic UN", and strove to maintain peace and security. Although at first benevolent (like the clerics seen in Series 5), they and the Doctor became entangled in a predicament which prompted Tasha to issue an "unscheduled faith change", dedicating the church to the purpose of keeping the Doctor from speaking his name on Trenzalore to release the Time Lords (which would incite another Time War), and declaring that only the Doctor's silence would fall on Trenzalore. It was also revealed that the memory-proof Silents that appeared in Series 6 are the church's genetically-engineered "confessional priests", and that the iteration of the church that was seen in "A Good Man Goes to War" was a Renegade Splinter Faction led by Madame Kovarian that resorted to extremism in order to maintain the Doctor's silence, by travelling back along his timeline and attempting to kill him (via blowing up his TARDIS in Series 5 and training River to assassinate him in Series 6) so that he could never go to Trenzalore in the first place (although, in reality, they just ended up creating the very situation that they were trying to prevent).
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Church Militant / int_c5f15de8	comment	Conqueror's Blade: The Order of the Sword, around which Season XVII: Knightfall is themed, is a religious knightly order (based on the real-life Teutonic Order) whose members are all awesome fighters. And just look at their in-game voice lines:
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Church Militant / int_c5fcbc28	comment	Robert Kirkman's Battle Pope is about a one-man version of this trope, though he does get help from others in the task.
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Church Militant / int_c6fd45	comment	The Elysium Order in Void Domain are a group of nuns dedicated to eradicating undeath and necromancers. They are fairly extreme in going about their duties.
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Church Militant / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Every major religion in Diablo has some kind of military force to protect people from the forces of the Burning Hells. The Church of Zakarum has the paladins, who were founded to protect the monks who were meant to spread the religion. For some reason, the kind, generous, armed knights were more inspiring to the populace than the monks. They faded from view once Zakarum fell under the influence of Mephisto and no longer put a lot of effort into converting people, only to make a comeback when the Prime Evils started attacking the mortal world, and Zakarum started converting again. This time, anyone inconvertible was deemed evil and killed. A small band, including any paladin player characters from Diablo II, chose to go rogue, and directly confront the Prime Evils. They later discovered that the church they served was corrupt, and had to face several enemies that were themselves examples of this trope. An earlier offshoot of the Church of Zakarum, the Crusaders, make their return in the expansion to Diablo III. This order was originally formed two hundred years before the events of III, when the corruption within the Church was noticed by a high-ranking church official. The Crusaders are tasked with finding and eradicating the corruption within the Churchnote Even though the cause of the Church's corruption — the Prime Evil Mephisto — was slain by the heroes of Diablo II, they do not consider the quest ended.. The Crusaders had disappeared into the far eastern parts of the world and were initially thought lost for good, but their crusade — passed on from mentor to novice through the generations — eventually led them back into the western world. In Diablo IV, the Cathedral of Light has become the dominant religion in the world. Their standing army is the Knights Penitent, trained in combat to fight beside the angel Inarius for the day he makes war with Hell.
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Church Militant / int_c81bb075	comment	The organization Van Helsing works for, comprised of the Vatican and representatives of other religions from around the world: one of their blacksmiths was noted saying "what in the name of Allah."
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Church Militant / int_c9c20a17	comment	Vol de Galle, eponymous character of The Marquis, is a former Catholic Inquisitor who fights demons that have infiltrated human society.
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Church Militant / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus: THE BISHOP! THE CHURCH POLICE! The Spanish Inquisition is an example of this, but they are very incompetent at it.
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Church Militant / int_cbe9419f	comment	Last Res0rt has a Church of Happyology version called the Star Org, a PMC associated with the Church of the Endless and the Reincarnated Soul Technology Corporation. Unfortunately for the vampiric protagonist, they have a policy of "shoot first, silence anyone asking questions later" concerning the Dead Inside, and they've been contracted to provide security for Last Res0rt station.
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Church Militant / int_cc20b4f1	comment	Something of an example occurs in two of the Trinity Spaghetti Western films. In the first movie, Trinity and his brother Bambino (both are criminals themselves) assist some Amish settlers in fighting off Mexican marauders who take advantage of their vow of peace. By the end of the movie, Bambino and Trinity have taught the religious people how to defend themselves. The movie ends with the Amish people making a stand for themselves and defeating the Mexicans. In the second movie, Trinity and Bambino wind up in a monastery where several criminals are hiding and pretending to be monks. When Bambino asks the true monks to raise their hands, everyone raises their hands. Trinity responds by saying, "Every monk who is a monk, hit a monk that ain't a monk."
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Church Militant / int_ccceba90	comment	Medieval II: Total War has this during Crusades called by the Pope. While you're on a Crusade, the Crusading army in question can recruit religious mercenaries that include fanatical pilgrims, spearmen, or cavalry. Outside of the Crusades you can recruit various knightly orders. There's also the Papal States, who sometimes will go into an expansionist phase and conquer various cities around Rome.
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Church Militant / int_cd95b8df	comment	In Dead Space, by the time of the third game, some Unitologists have taken up arms and are activating Markers everywhere they can.
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Church Militant / int_ce2cf80	comment	In The Arts of Dark and Light, The Church maintains both religious military orders and a more prosaic security force of church soldiers to protect its properties and interests, entirely separate from the Republic's secular chain of command. This becomes significant in the civil war, when the Republic's government (and civilian control of the military) starts to break down.
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Church Militant / int_ce60df4a	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy (2008): The Black Knights of the Universal Church of Truth, Elite Mooks powered by their undying faith in life itself, and assigned the task of cleansing unbelievers from existence. Apparently a handful of them are strong enough to level a typical planet in hours.
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Church Militant / int_cec99ed9	comment	In his Safehold series, the main villains are the corrupt heads of the Church of God Awaiting, who have deified the very person to have orbitally bombarded the planet and sent them back into medievalism centuries earlier. Specifically, the Temple Guard forms the backbone of their forces, as well as providing the role of the military equivalent for the lands directly administered by the Church.
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Church Militant / int_cfd860dd	comment	The Nasuverse setting (where Tsukihime and Fate/stay night take place) has a secret organization within the Roman Catholic Church called the "Holy Church" (or simply the "Church") that hunts down heretics, which includes undead and rogue sorcerers. The mainstream Vatican consider it heretical, due to it's use of things like magecraft.It's divided into the following sections: Executors such as Kotomine Kirei, are essentially the special forces, used for more precise operations. Burial Agents are exceptional Executors that have specialized abilities like Ciel's Healing Factor, Mr. Dawn's engineering and unparalleled exorcism, or Merem's Demonition. There are only eight positions within the Burial Agency, and only seven are filled.note although number six is technically two people Knights like Riesbyfe are an outright military that generally brute force their problems. They are exceptionally strong, having enough strength to casually crush human skulls. The Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament are tasked with the recovery, researching, and management of holy relics; one particularly notable job is to inspect any claims of the Holy Grail, since it's central to Christian doctrine. Despite this, the Assembly is the lowest of the Holy Church's agencies.
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Church Militant / int_d13d568f	comment	The Good Lord Bird: John Brown is a very proud Christian, and his path of faith is one laced with gunpowder against those who would support slavery. This also goes for his army, who share his views by and large (though with less fervor most times).
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Church Militant / int_d1b2f6e8	comment	There's also a Sister Twister who was in the latest incarnation of the Suicide Squad. A woman with distorted features and the power to painfully contort other peoples' bodies, she found God and became a nun. However, her supervillain sadism is still not fully dulled; when asked if the old axiom of "it's better to give than to receive" also applies to pain, she responds that while she hadn't thought of it that way she's very interested in applying it.
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Church Militant / int_d28fd780	comment	MalÃª Rising has the Papal Legion, a Catholic army created by the Pope during the Great War to fight on his behalf. His announcement led hundreds of thousands of Catholics from across the globe flocking to his banner, and the camaraderie and class erasure formed during the War led to the growth of a non-hierarchical, anti-nationalistic (though not anti-violent) branch of Catholicism among the ranks. Their respective homelands soon had to grapple with a new form of populism once they returned.
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Church Militant / int_d2d944b1	comment	Manfred and Eric in The Heirs of Alexandria are members of the Knights of the Holy Trinity ('Knots'), charged with fighting pagan sorceries and spirits.
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Church Militant / int_d30bc196	comment	Batalha dos Guararapes: The Brazilian rebels are devoutly Catholic and loyal to the Pope, fighting to drive out the Protestant Dutch whom they consider "heretics". Even the African freedmen and the native Potiguara tribesmen are united by faith, praying before battle and yelling their Battle Cry "For Jesus!".
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Church Militant / int_d328cd69	comment	The priest class of Dungeon Fighter Online is supposed to be a support class, albeit a support class that's NOT a frail caster that needs to run away when danger approaches. Those bulging muscles and that oversized weapon he carries on his back isn't just for show.
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Church Militant / int_d390d6f9	comment	The Marvel 2099 line of comics included the Sisters Of The Howling Commandments, an order of nuns who modeled themselves after (and possibly worshiped) Nick Fury and The Howling Commandos.
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Church Militant / int_d3b17858	comment	The Temple Knights in Final Fantasy Tactics.
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Church Militant / int_d434979d	comment	The nuns from "Blood Sister: One Tough Nun", the fictional movie in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
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Church Militant / int_d4e486c7	comment	Dota 2: Chen. "You can learn faith at the end of a sword."
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Church Militant / int_d4fe0152	comment	Timmy Kirk from Oz, who beats other inmates to force them to convert to Protestantism, and then works to ruin the lives of Reverend Cloutier and Father Mukada for having the gall to be disgusted by it.
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Church Militant / int_d5b84b32	comment	In Spore, during the Civilization Stage, if your nation has a religious inclination, you build tanks that utilize music instead of cannons, and laying seige to a city consists of getting your music tanks to play (while a holographic preacher shouts at the city walls). Also, the game's Space Stage features a number of archetypes; one of which being the Zealot. Zealots are fanatically dedicated to Spode, and believe it is their duty to convert others to his worship, and smite all who refuse. The power given to players using this archetype is called "Fanatical Frenzy," allows you to instantly convert all cities on a planet, transferring it to your empire's control. However, due to the forcible conversion, any neighboring empires will treat it as a weapon of mass destruction and therefore will not trust anyone who makes use of it.
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Church Militant / int_d5c2a7a3	comment	The Order of the Hammer, or Hammerites, from the Thief series. They often pray to their God to lend them strength to fight their version of evil (Pagans and anyone that doesn't think like them).
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Church Militant / int_d69b7276	comment	La Pucelle is about a squad of monster hunters belonging to a church whose (sorta secret) purpose is destroying demons.
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Church Militant / int_d6e2146d	comment	An earlier offshoot of the Church of Zakarum, the Crusaders, make their return in the expansion to Diablo III. This order was originally formed two hundred years before the events of III, when the corruption within the Church was noticed by a high-ranking church official. The Crusaders are tasked with finding and eradicating the corruption within the Churchnote Even though the cause of the Church's corruption — the Prime Evil Mephisto — was slain by the heroes of Diablo II, they do not consider the quest ended.. The Crusaders had disappeared into the far eastern parts of the world and were initially thought lost for good, but their crusade — passed on from mentor to novice through the generations — eventually led them back into the western world.
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Church Militant / int_d7bf4cb6	comment	Twin Blades has a gun-and-scythe-toting nun as a player character. Said gun can shoot all kinds of crazy supernatural ammunition, the better to halt the Zombie Apocalypse in its tracks.
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Church Militant / int_d88c6466	comment	In The Science of Discworld (Volume Four), it is revealed that the Omnian church has the uniformed and martial Sanitary Legion — a version of the Salvation Army, operating out of a Citadel in Ankh-Morpork.
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Church Militant / int_da72cf97	comment	Trails Series has the Gralsritternote lit. translated from German as "Grail's knight", an order within Congregation for the Sacraments of Septian Church. They are responsible for investigating and retrieving lost ancient artifacts across Zemuria. The order is divided into three ranks; a base class called Squire, a promoted squire called Knight who is assigned to support one of twelve special (and also strongest) knights called Dominion chosen by manifestation of power dubbed as "Stigma". While investigating artifacts sound like a harmless job for normal archeologists, people in the order are capable fighters. This is justified because there is also an arguably evil ancient order which has the same purpose filled by people with inhuman strength and fighting capabilities and both of them often cross paths with each other. So far, Gralsritter members encountered in the series are on the players' side; in fact, there's one instance where an existing playable character is revealed to have obtained a Stigma from a fallen Dominion mid-Time Skip, forcing the Gralsritter to hurriedly bring that character into their ranks. However, the church's intention hasn't been fully revealed.
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Church Militant / int_dc3d6b8d	comment	Absented Age: Squarebound: Spirits like Tarte and Hoop hunt down Gangers on behalf of the Elicio Church, since the Gangers are threatening the safety of the Driftworld. Unfortunately, the church also wants to suppress non-Ganger abnormalities, such as Karen, who is a pseudo-ghost.
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Church Militant / int_ddad77ae	comment	The Confessor and the Crossbreed from Astro City. The Crossbreed in particular come off as a bunch of annoying fanatics. Initially.
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Church Militant / int_df432991	comment	The Church of Christ Avenger from Ironwood.
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Church Militant / int_e144ba19	comment	Following in a similar vein, Prince Sebastian Vael in Dragon Age II, an ordained brother in the Chantry who takes his faith very seriously. While he's mostly pacifistic, he's not above lending his bow to help curb the more criminal elements present in Kirkwall, as well as deal with rogue Mages. He slips towards the more militant side after Anders blows up the Chantry and kills the Grand Cleric. If Hawke does not execute Anders, Sebastian openly declares his intention to head to Starkaven and raise an army, then return and raze Kirkwall to the ground.
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Church Militant / int_e1e175b1	comment	In White Sand, there's a new group of warrior-priests in Kerztia whose debut on political scene is the slaughter of powerful sorcerous order of Sand Masters.
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Church Militant / int_e5964cdb	comment	Chess — at least the standard version — has the Bishop. The French, however, call this piece the Fool instead, while the Russians (and Chinese in Xiangqi, where it is somewhat different}} call it the elephant, and the Germans call it the runner. The piece was originally the elephant in Chaturanga.
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Church Militant / int_e5d5be0d	comment	ELEX features the Clerics of Calaan; a religious police state that puts its faith in the god Calaan, plasma weapons, mechs and the power of industry. They are currently locked in a war with three other factions over control of the rare element Elex.
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Church Militant / int_e6405649	comment	The Dinosaur Lords: The Elite Army called the Companions is technically a militant order of the Church of the Creators, although they stray somewhat from the accepted doctrine and the Pope is looking for an excuse to disband them.
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Church Militant / int_e6444cd2	comment	The New Order Last Days Of Europe: The National Redemption Front is a radical Catholic group that emerges out of the Iberian Union and seeks to bring out the Kingdom of God on Earth. The Order of Saint George is a rare Eastern Orthodox version of this trope, aiming to drive out both the Nazis and Communists so they can reunite Russia under God's banner.
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Church Militant / int_e67a7d6c	comment	The nuns on the Mahora campus of Negima! Magister Negi Magi are all trained battlemages who make up school security in addition to more traditional duties.
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Church Militant / int_e83bc733	comment	Master of the Monster Lair: The valkyries, who are stated to serve an "evil goddess."
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Church Militant / int_e93fb295	comment	Bonekickers: An evil example are the antagonists in "Army Of God", the series' pilot, a far-right Christian group who based themselves on the historical Knights Templar. They wanted to wage a new crusade against Muslims and all other people whom they considered "ungodly" in the UK. Accordingly, the members arm themselves with Medieval swords and wear tabards like knights.
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Church Militant / int_ea4f62db	comment	In Family Guy, the fake movie The Passion Of The Christ 2: Crucify This.
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Church Militant / int_ea91a4bf	comment	In Daggerfall, there were knightly orders associated with eight of the Nine Divines (Talos being a god hadn't been introduced to the series yet), which the player had the option to join upon locating their chapter houses.
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Church Militant / int_eb6802b4	comment	The Sanctum (Japanese: seifu, or Holy Government) in Final Fantasy XIII, the theocracy controlling Cocoon under the leadership of Galenth Dysley who is the Big Bad.
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Church Militant / int_ec63f5fa	comment	The Last Witch Hunter has Axe and Cross, Catholic Church-aligned organization set up to keep tabs on Mage Species. They have specialist prison, employ Clock Punk tech and have their own patterns of weapons — not to mention employing world's only immortal witch hunter.
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Church Militant / int_ec9155b1	comment	The Omnian theocracy in the novel Small Gods — combines the military-imperial aggression of medieval Islam with the paranoid doctrinal intolerance of medieval Catholicism. After the events of the book the religion mellows out somewhat, but is no less aggressively evangelical, so now Omnians travel door-to-door to distribute religious pamphlets and talk to people about Om. Most of their neighbors view this with equal dread, and end up hiding behind furniture when they see Omnian priests headed their way. This even extends to naming their children things like "Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets" and "Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments".
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Church Militant / int_ecb51a9b	comment	Yet another example in The War Gods: Tomanak, the local war god, has the most notable ones in his Order, but other deities are mentioned to have their own, smaller fighting forces, such as the Axes of Isvaria to name but one.
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Church Militant / int_ed3f1e4f	comment	Dice Funk: Anne sees herself as this to the church of Avandra, although it is unclear if she is actually carrying out the will of the faith, or just overly eager and violent.
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Church Militant / int_ee819261	comment	The vampire hunting teams from John Carpenter's Vampires were sponsored by the Catholic Church.
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Church Militant / int_f00d733b	comment	New World of Darkness: Hunter: The Vigil: The Malleus Maleficarum are a secret arm of the Vatican dedicated to hunting down monsters (and usually of the "suffer not a witch to live" ethos). The Long Night are a loose group of pre-millennialist American fundamentalists who believe that Judgement Day is on the horizon, but that Christ will not come into His Kingdom until humanity has rid itself of its sins — and what could be sinful that monsters? The Knights of St. George are an Anglican group that focuses mainly on demons and sorcerers... on the surface. In truth, their leadership believes that the only true gods are beings called the "Faceless Angels", which will destroy the world should they ever wake — and that magic is like a loud alarm clock right in their ears. One of the three factions of the Ascending Ones, the Knife of Paradise, consists of devout Muslims and Christians, with a strong Jewish minority, dedicated to the hunt against monsters. Hunter the Vigil: Skin and Bones, a fan supplement, adds three more. The Army of Light are a Baha'i conspiracy united by the arrival of a "conduit" that allows them to teleport and telepathically communicate with each other. The Aves Minerva are worshippers of the Roman goddess who hold it as their sacred duty to seek out and destroy magic, and claim that their powers are from Invocations of Minerva's strength. The Chosen of Kroll, apparently in service to "the dread lord Kroll", believe that it is their sacred mission to hunt down and destroy all reanimated creatures. Werewolf: The Forsaken: The Fire-Touched, one of the Pure Tribes that rejects service to Luna in favor of fighting the Forsaken, see their undertaking as a holy cause and their tribal totem as a near-divine prophet. They're about equally happy to convert or kill their foes.
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Church Militant / int_f3897bcf	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f3897bcf	comment	The organization "Solomon" from Witch Hunter Robin.
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Witch Hunter Robin	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f3897bcf
Church Militant / int_f4020738	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f4020738	comment	Vigor Mortis The 'creatively' named Templars of the Church of the Mistwatcher act as general enforcers and special forces for the kingdom.
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Vigor Mortis	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f4020738
Church Militant / int_f4d9a9ae	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f4d9a9ae	comment	There are tons of examples in Dark Age of Camelot, most notably the Cleric, Paladin, and Friar of the vaguely medieval Catholic church in Albion, and perhaps the best example in Midgard, where even the 'wizard' classes use piety instead of intelligence to determine their spell strength, and each class has its own Norse patron deity (For example: Odin for Runemasters, Hel for Spiritmasters, Thor for Thanes, and Loki for Shadowblades).
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Dark Age of Camelot (Video Game)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f4d9a9ae
Church Militant / int_f53022c6	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f53022c6	comment	Feng Shui: The Sisters of Mercy from the supplement Glimpse of the Abyss are a convent of Nuns With Guns based in the Netherworld who hunt down and kill those whom their Mother Superior deems to be deserving of the respite of death from the suffering the Sisters believe life to be. Those whose names end up on the Rolls of Mercy and are targeted for "deliverance" often aren't so keen on dying.
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Feng Shui (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f53022c6
Church Militant / int_f5d369d7	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f5d369d7	comment	Priest (2011): the titular "Priests" are a team of specialised, superhuman Vampire Hunters who are so aligned with combat that they have trouble fitting in when they are not needed.
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Priest (2011)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f5d369d7
Church Militant / int_f74b5f80	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f74b5f80	comment	The Minbari Religious Caste in Babylon 5. They hold off the Shadows practically on their own while the warrior-caste stays home.
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Babylon 5	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f74b5f80
Church Militant / int_f7c8e36e	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f7c8e36e	comment	Octopath Traveler has the Knights Ardante, a chivalrous organization that serves the Church of the Flame. Ophilia can easily recruit them to aid her in her quest.
Church Militant / int_f7c8e36e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Church Militant / int_f7ee873b	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f7ee873b	comment	The 'Lethal Hounds' of the Garden Children from Luminous Arc.
Church Militant / int_f7ee873b	featureApplicability	1.0
Church Militant / int_f7ee873b	featureConfidence	1.0
Luminous Arc (Video Game)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f7ee873b
Church Militant / int_f8562423	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f8562423	comment	Warrior Nun Areala by Ben Dunn, an animesque comic focusing on a Catholic order of monster hunters. Before anime/manga (like Chrono Crusade) or western comics, this series was the first to focus on such a topic.
Church Militant / int_f8562423	featureApplicability	1.0
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Warrior Nun Areala (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f8562423
Church Militant / int_f8705c18	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_f8705c18	comment	Remember how it's mentioned in Hellsing above that Protestants and Catholics each do this when not fighting each other? And Shine Heaven Now adds Stephen Colbert to the Catholic side. (Most of the details are in the pseudo-sequel The Eagle of Hermes.)
Church Militant / int_f8705c18	featureApplicability	1.0
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Hellsing (Manga)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_f8705c18
Church Militant / int_fb0b20f2	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_fb0b20f2	comment	The Aeon Illuminate of Supreme Commander has its military wing, led by the Avatar of War. Aeon ranks are known to include Knight, Templar, and Crusader, which should tell the player plenty. If not, their enormous robotic army, navy, and air force includes the Exodus, Harbinger, Fervor, Radiance, and the dreaded Galactic Colossus, termed the Sacred Assault Bot. Oh, and their nuclear missile launcher is called the Apocalypse, and they have a rapid fire artillery shotgun called the Salvation.
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Church Militant / int_fb6d726d	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_fb6d726d	comment	Infinity gives this in spades. Most factions have either a Buddhist, Catholic/Christian, or Islamic militant sect, and Pan-Oceania goes so far as to have a special sectorial force focused on Knightly Orders resurrected by the Catholic Church.
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Church Militant / int_fbf85e64	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_fbf85e64	comment	The Badger had a recurring character named "Sister Twister", a reformed Nazi transexual nun.
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The Badger (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_fbf85e64
Church Militant / int_fc411d2f	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_fc411d2f	comment	Bloodline Champions has the Guardian and Inhibitor bloodlines, which both are this in job description.
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Bloodline Champions (Video Game)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_fc411d2f
Church Militant / int_fcfec4b6	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_fcfec4b6	comment	Altena's faction of les Soldats in Noir aka "The Nuns With Guns".
Church Militant / int_fcfec4b6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Noir	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_fcfec4b6
Church Militant / int_fe5fab2f	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_fe5fab2f	comment	Witch Hunter Izana: The church of the light, who sent the titular witch hunter. In game they mostly seem to fundamentalist against monster girls and obsessed with power for it's own sake. Much reference is made to two battalions of crusaders ready to invade the island if Izana fails. They serve as the game's final enemy type.
Church Militant / int_fe5fab2f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Church Militant / int_fe6dcd31	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_fe6dcd31	comment	And the Cloistered Cleric variant, who gets marginally more weapons and armor training than the average wizard. From the Greyhawk campaign setting: Heironeous, whose clerics are soldiers, making them a literal Church Militant, Saint Cuthbert, whose followers can be ... enthusiastic at times about evangelizing, and who opposed evil with a passion, and Pholtus, whose inquisitions you probably don't expect, particularly from a non-evil church.
Church Militant / int_fe6dcd31	featureApplicability	1.0
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Greyhawk (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_fe6dcd31
Church Militant / int_ff8dd2b2	type	Church Militant
Church Militant / int_ff8dd2b2	comment	The Wheel of Time (2021): The Children of the Light, colloquially known as Whitecloaks due to their uniforms, are an armed Crusader/Inquisition like group devoted to hunting down Aes Sedai, female magic users whom they believe to be evil, serving the Dark One.
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The Wheel of Time (2021)	hasFeature	Church Militant / int_ff8dd2b2

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Aquarion Evol / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Coyote Ragtime Show / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Gundam: Reconguista in G / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Mnemosyne / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Azrael (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Barbarella (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Black Moon Chronicles (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Infinity Outrage (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Ironwood (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Jonah Hex (2005) (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Les Mondes d'Aldébaran (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Luther Arkwright (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Marvel 2099 (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Magdalena (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Worlds of Aldebaran (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Top 10 (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Vampirella (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
X-Force (2008) (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
X-Men: Messiah Complex (Comic Book) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Azrael / Comicbook	seeAlso	Church Militant
Ghost Rider / Comicbook / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Dragon in Shining Armour / Fan Fic / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Battle Fantasia Project / Fan Fic / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Manchester Lost / Fan Fic / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Return / Fan Fic / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Tiberium Wars / Fan Fic / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Demon Among Devils (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Hunter's New Home (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
All For Luz (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Being Female (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Brave New World (Pokémon) (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Exitum Eternal (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fate of the Clans: Kaleidoscope (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Heroes of Thundera (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Legionnaire (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Let the Galaxy Burn (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Mass Effect: Human Revolution (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Pilgrimage of Heaven (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
RDNA-verse (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Ripples (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Shin Persona Evangelion (Fanfic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Few Good Men / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Agora / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Alexander Nevsky / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
BrainDead / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Brotherhood of the Wolf / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Exorcist: The Beginning / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Freejack / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Infinite / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
John Carpenter's Vampires / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Johnny Mnemonic / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Jumper / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Machine Gun Preacher / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Milady / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Plunkett & Macleane / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Red State / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Religulous / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Renfield (2023) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Agony and the Ecstasy / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Annunciation / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Holy Mountain / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Last Witch Hunter / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Magdalene Sisters / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Three Musketeers (2023) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
We Are What We Are / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Baldur's Gate (Franchise) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dragon Age (Franchise) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fire Emblem (Franchise) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Witcher (Franchise) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Scotsman in Egypt (Lets Play) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
High School D×D / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Modern Magic Made Simple / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Trinity Blood / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Canticle for Leibowitz / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Certain Magical Index / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Land Fit for Heroes / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Net of Dawn and Bones / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Practical Guide to Evil / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Baltimore / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Behind The Curtains / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Beka Cooper / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Book of Exodus / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Book of the Ancestor / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
City of No End / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
CoDominium / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Colony / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dark Future / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Deathstalker / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Deryni / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Discordia / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dr. Greta Helsing / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dragonlance / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Drenai / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dungeon Robotics / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Elantris / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Emberverse / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Empress of Forever / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Executive Orders / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Face the Storm / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fake Saint of the Year / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fate/strange Fake / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Felix Castor / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fifteen Hours / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Geist Series / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Gleams of Aeterna / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Grave Peril / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Green Antarctica / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Here Lies Arthur / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
High School DÃ—D / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Infinite Jest / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Izure Shinwa No Ragnarok / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Julian Comstock / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Lord of Light / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Lord of Mysteries / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Malê Rising / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Malleus Maleficarum / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Maoyu / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
May I Ask for One Final Thing? / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Metrozone Series / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Modern Magic Made Simple / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Needful Things / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Nightside / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Now Blooms the Tudor Rose / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Pact / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Pay Me, Bug! / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Prophet's House / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Proven Guilty	seeAlso	Church Militant
Reflections of Eterna / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Safehold / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Second Apocalypse / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Side Jobs / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Small Gods / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Solomon Kane / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Space Beasts / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
SporeWiki Fiction Universe / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Star Trek Novel Verse / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Star Trek: Prey / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Stories of Nypre / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Stray Cat Strut / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Swan Song / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Sword of Honour / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Acts of Caine / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
TheAdventuresOfBob	seeAlso	Church Militant
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Belgariad / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Chrysalids / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Deed of Paksenarrion / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Dinosaur Lords / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Divine Comedy / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Division Broken Dawn / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Elenium / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Fallen World / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Fort	seeAlso	Church Militant
The Generalist / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Girl from the Miracles District / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Gods Are Bastards / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Good Lord Bird / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Graystone Saga / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Heirs of Alexandria / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The House of Night / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Immortal Rules / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Inquisitor Cycle / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Key of Yliaster / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Licanius Trilogy / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Pilot's Love Song / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Prince / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Reynard Cycle / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Rifter / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Riyria Revelations / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Salvation War / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Shadow Campaigns / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Tome of Bill / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Traitor Son Cycle / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Windup Girl / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Witch Watch / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Threadbare: The Right to Arm Bears / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Trinity Blood / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Unwind / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Vigor Mortis / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Wicked / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Wolf Breed / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Xenos / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Azrael	seeAlso	Church Militant
Dammerung	seeAlso	Church Militant
Deboss	seeAlso	Church Militant
GroundControl	seeAlso	Church Militant
Japanese Christian	seeAlso	Church Militant
JewishRevolts	seeAlso	Church Militant
Koveras	seeAlso	Church Militant
Maccabean Revolt	seeAlso	Church Militant
Ptitlenhy07uuq	seeAlso	Church Militant
Starlit Heroics	seeAlso	Church Militant
TheAlmightyJohnsons	seeAlso	Church Militant
The Crusades	seeAlso	Church Militant
The Paladin / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Tohno-san	seeAlso	Church Militant
Tsarist Russia	seeAlso	Church Militant
Blue Exorcist (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Chrono Crusade (Manga)	seeAlso	Church Militant
Devils and Realist (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fire Force (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Hellsing (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Makai Ouji (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Nightschool (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Radiant (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
SeikonNoQwaser	seeAlso	Church Militant
Soul Eater (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Succubus & Hitman (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Tetragrammaton Labyrinth (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Case Study of Vanitas (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Witch and the Beast (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Trigun (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Ushio and Tora (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Priest (1998) (Manhwa) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dream Evil (Music)	seeAlso	Church Militant
Powerwolf (Music) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Sabaton (Music) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
RPPR Actual Play (Podcast) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Byron Chronicles (Podcast) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Thrilling Adventure Hour (Podcast) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Coalition Of Ponyist States (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fate/Nuovo Guerra (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fate Orbis Telos (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Gregoryisgodistan (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
High Fantasy World (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Mefhor Canon Bloc (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Red Shadows (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Starpath (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Glorious Restoration (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Twilit Overture (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Vapor: A Steampunk RP (Roleplay) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Altered Carbon / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Bonekickers / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Cluedo / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Cursed (2020) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Justified / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Moses the Lawgiver / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Murder Among The Mormons / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Orphan Black / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Almighty Johnsons / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Philanthropist / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Wheel of Time (2021) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Anima: Beyond Fantasy (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Banestorm (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
BattleTech (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	Church Militant
Car Wars (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Chronicles of Darkness (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dark Heresy (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dogs in the Vineyard (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dungeon Saga (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Eberron (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fading Suns (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Hunter: The Vigil (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Iron Kingdoms (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Ironclaw (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Legends of the Wulin (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Macho Women with Guns (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Mordheim (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Mutant Chronicles (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Necromunda (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Old World of Darkness (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Only War (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Racial Holy War (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Root (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Scarred Lands (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
SenZar (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Strike Legion (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Witcher: Game of Imagination (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
13th Age (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Warhammer (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Werewolf: The Forsaken (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
WitchCraft (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Xenos Rampant (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Zombie: The Coil (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata (Theatre) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Massacre at Paris (Theatre) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Afterimage (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Allods Online (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Alteil (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Anbennar (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica (Video Game)	seeAlso	Church Militant
Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Atlantica Online (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Baldur's Gate (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Baroque (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
BattleForge (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Berwick Saga (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Castlevania: Chronicles of Sorrow (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Chaos Legion (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Civilization (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Conqueror's Blade (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Conquest of Elysium (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Conquests of the Longbow (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Crisis in the Kremlin (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Crusader Kings II: Game of Thrones Mod (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Crusader Kings III (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dawn of War (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dead Rising (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dead Space 3 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Devil May Cry 4 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Diablo II (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Diablo IV (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Discworld MUD (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dishonored (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Drakensang (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Dungeon Maker II: The Hidden War (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Enderal (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Endless Space 2 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Epic Seven (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Europa Universalis (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Far Cry 5 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Grandia II (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Gratuitous Space Battles (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Grezzo 2 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Guild Wars (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Hexen (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Imperivm (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Kartia: The Word of Fate (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Kenshi (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
King's Raid (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
La Pucelle (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Last Origin (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Liberté (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Lords of the Realm 2 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Lost Souls (MUD) (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Medieval II: Total War (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Medieval: Total War (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Minoria (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Mortal Kombat 1 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Nexus War (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Octopath Traveler (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Old World Blues (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Path of Exile (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Phantasy Calradia (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Piratez (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Pokémon Azure (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Princess & Conquest (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Prism Ark (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Ragnarok Online (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Red World (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
REDLINE (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Redline: Gang Warfare 2066 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Roma Heta (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
RosenkreuzStilette (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Secret Files (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Sengoku Basara (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Septerra Core (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Shin Megami Tensei I (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Shin Megami Tensei II (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Shogun: Total War (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Sins of a Solar Empire (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Skul: The Hero Slayer (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Starsiege (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Supreme Commander (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Symphony Of War (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Terra Invicta (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Aethra Chronicles (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Bard's Tale Trilogy (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Burning Post II (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Chaos Engine (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Frontier (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Gates of Versailles (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Last Sovereign (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Lost Heir (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Reckoning (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The XCOM Files (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Thera (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Total War: Shogun 2 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Total War: Warhammer (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Trails Series (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Transarctica (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Under Night In-Birth (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Valkyria Chronicles II (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Void Crew (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Wasteland 2 (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Welcome To Utopia (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Witch Hunter Izana (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Akatsuki Blitzkampf / Videogame / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Democracy (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
eXceed / Videogame / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Syndicate / Videogame / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Diabolik Lovers (Visual Novel) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru (Visual Novel) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Rewrite (Visual Novel) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The House in Fata Morgana (Visual Novel) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Tsukihime (Visual Novel) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Winds of Change (Visual Novel) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Witch on the Holy Night (Visual Novel) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Puffin Forest (Web Animation) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Codex (Web Animation) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Unbiased History (Web Animation) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Backstroke of the West (Web Video) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Koibu (Web Video) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Oxventure (Web Video) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Xombie (Web Animation) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
And Shine Heaven Now (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Blade Girl! (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
CVRPG	seeAlso	Church Militant
Digger (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Elijah and Azuu (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Foxy Flavored Cookie (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Guilded Age (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Princess Pi (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Soul to Call (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Supermegatopia (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Church Of Gaming (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Dating Guy / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Fractale / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The First Law / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
churchmilitant	sameAs	Church Militant
D.Gray-Man (Manga) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Tech Infantry (Tabletop Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Video Game) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto (Visual Novel) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Errant Story (Webcomic) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant

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