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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Most Japanese are not Christian. They hear Westerners talk about it, and most of it gets lost except for the imagery of some poor guy getting ritually killed and then reanimated, and a vague understanding of a specific kind of afterlife and hell. Ironically, this makes the more unfamiliar aspects seem somewhat morbid to those unfamiliar with the context — in fact, similar to how many Westerners view Vodou/Vodun/Voodoo. Additionally, many places are familiar with crosses as historically common execution devices but lack the religious baggage making their depiction explicitly taboo. At the very least, in Japanese imagery, Christian imagery tends to be visual short-hand for occult overtones if it's intentionally symbolic. Occasionally it's used as simply a fashion choice, much in the way kanji inserted just for the hell of it are used in other countries. And sometimes, you'll have people use giant crosses as physical weapons just as much as religious ones. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This isn't at all exclusive to countries unfamiliar with Christianity either, as the familiar symbols and motifs can easily be used for religious, vaguely occult, or otherwise eerie associations in media. See also Crucial Cross (where the cross is used to represent hope in the face of suffering), Crucified Hero Shot (where a suffering hero t-poses) and Faux Symbolism. Examples: |
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Valvatorez from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten has some inverted ones embroidered on his pants. | |
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Edge had a Christian cross on his boots during his Brood days, while Christian had an ankh on both his boots and his tights. Neither had anything to do with either Christianity or ancient Egyptian religions. | |
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In a rather odd manner, Dragon Quest VIII uses a stylized cross as the symbol of the game's obvious Catholic Church Expy, which makes sense so far. The manner in which it is stylized, however, has the two arms bent upwards and both, along with the "head" are tipped with points that give it a sinister pitchforked design... which seems all the creepier because the church isn't secretly worshiping expy-Satan behind the expy-Christ facade. | |
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The Disgaea series has a recurring gun attack called Totenkreuz, which is German for "crux mortis" or "death cross". The character using this attack charges energy into his gun before firing a thick shot, which looks like a fiery laser, down on the target(s). Upon impact, the shot explodes into a gigantic flaming cross. Unlike most of the attacks in Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, this one remains almost unchanged from its Disgaea: Hour of Darkness incarnation. The White Dragon's Holy Flare attack creates a similarly shaped explosion. Valvatorez from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten has some inverted ones embroidered on his pants. |
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The Quincies from Bleach incorporate crosses heavily into their weapons and clothing. And the Quincy cross, albeit in a corrupted form, is used as the logo by the Wandenreich, in the Thousand Year Blood War. |
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In RuneQuest cross is the Rune of Death. It represents the sword of Humakt, the god of death, and can 'coincidentally' be used to repel undead, such as vampires. | |
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AIR: The school uniforms bear crosses on the ties. Religion does bear a big role in the plot - but it's Buddhism and Shinto. | |
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Skeith from the .hack series of games gets a pagan cross as his primary weapon (or a 'red wand' in the English version). When he uses his Data Drain move, the cross teleports behind the victim, giving the impression of a crucifixion. Justified, since Skeith kills the resident Crystal Dragon Jesus with it by Crucified Hero Shot. |
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Tooya in Ceres, Celestial Legend wears a choker with a cross on it. | |
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Crosses show up plenty in Rosario + Vampire, usually in the form of Power Limiters. Another example of crosses and vampires holding a strong thematic association. | |
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Belldandy in Ah! My Goddess has been known to wear discreet crosses as jewelry. Given that she is the Goddess of the Present, inhabits a fairly animist world, and has met the Almighty personally, you have to wonder what she's saying with the fashion choice. | |
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Lyrical Nanoha: Hayate's Armed Device is shaped like a cross (and she's got crosses all over her mage outfit, too) and named accordingly: "Schwertkreuz" means "Sword Cross" in Gratuitous German. What with being a Person of Mass Destruction and all... Her quirky miniboss, Vita, has crosses all over her Elegant Gothic Lolita costume, which Hayate created for her. In fact, the crosses seem to have been a popular symbol in the Ancient Belkan culture (whose magic Hayate and Vita use), as evident in the "magic circle" associated with it (which is actually a triangle with a cross inscribed in it). No in-universe explanation has been provided for this, although the very last God-Emperor of Belka was a Messianic Archetype (or Crystal Dragon Jesus) who sacrificed her life to end the war. For whatever reason, however, crosses also feature prominently in Teana's Custom Uniform, who is about as far removed from Belkan magic as it gets. Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force additionally gives us an ancient Artifact of Doom inconspicuously dubbed "the Bible of Silver Cross". It's nature and origins are yet to be revealed, however. |
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D.Gray-Man: Allen along with the other Exorcists wear crosses on their uniforms to signify that they are part of the Black Order. Most of the Innocence weapons have some allusion to a cross of some sort: Allen's left arm, his weapon, has a cross symbol on the back of his hand. When activated into Crown Clown's Sword of Exorcism, a cross like design appears on his surfboard sized sword. Cross Grave is an attack that destroys Akuma all at once, leaving behind white glowing cross symbols. Lenalee's newly evolved Dark Boots when deactivated turn into a anklets, and a black cross is tattooed into the sides of her feet. Later, Kanda gains the same cross tattoed into the his forearms. Cross's Judgement creates a variation of the cross. Also, regarding clothings, besides the cardinals who obviously have crosses, Renny Epstain is always seen with a cross pendant. The cross is removed in the first anime but is left though, smaller in hallow. |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Greed (Mk. 1) lowered from the ceiling pinned to a cross after Wrath recaptures him. Of course, this cross appears to be the piece of sewer floor Wrath pinned him to—they just sliced up the concrete rather than risk unpinning him and starting over on the capture thing. The dialogue afterward is all about sons and fathers and submission, and in the end Father sacrifices his son and reincorporates him into the greater whole of himself. Does This Remind You of Anything? No, not that. Father has a huge god complex, by the way. However, the cross was changed to a generic block of metal in the anime, presumably to avoid causing offense. Arakawa dealt with religion in fairly Abrahamic terms from the very beginning with Sun God Leto, and kicked it up a notch in the Ishval flashback, which was a Holocaust stand-in despite being the much more historically standard systematic razing of a city. But because she doesn't like to cross-contaminate her fantasy world with Author Filibuster, this is the only appearance of a cross. And there's a good excuse. The symbol on Ed's cloak is an aversion of the Faux Symbolism of this trope, as this is an actual alchemical symbol from Nicholas Flamel's writings. It's derivation can be traced from the Rod of Asclepius, the Greek symbol of medicine, or the Caduceus, the ancient Greek sign of wealth. Both make sense in the context of the work, since Alkahestry deals with medicine, and Alchemy's original goal is the production of gold, or more accurately, immortality. |
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Violinist of Hameln: The kingdom and royalty of Sforzendo use crosses as a holy seal. Flute goes one further and pulls out huge, mallet-sized crosses to beat down on the object of her ire. Queen Horn shoots laser beams from hers. | |
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Slayer from Guilty Gear makes use of cross motifs, being a sufficiently different vampire and all. | |
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Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals' Christian cross at the church has been replaced with the obelisk, or taken out of the North American release. If you visit a town that has been destroyed like Gordovan you can see the Christian cross at the ruins of the church. It is unclear if it has gotten past the Nintendo censorship or if it represents death. | |
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In RWBY, Ruby Rose used to wear a large one on her belt (this has been changed into a rose sigil in later animations) and her Cool Uncle Qrow wears a similar silver cross around his neck. Given their death motifs... | |
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Kiddy Grade's Éclair wears a pair of crosses as earrings. Apparently, they also function as communication devices, and also indicate the status of her nanomist shield. | |
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Nicholas D. Wolfwood from Trigun, partially justified in that he's supposed to be a man of God. Naturally, though, research was sacrificed for the sake of the Rule of Cool... and More Dakka. Oddly, Yoshihiro Nightow is reported to be Christian, though if he is he's goddamn sloppy about it. Wolfwood, on the other hand, is a future space-Episcopalian orphan assassin spy science-experiment priest created by a plant-worshipping murder cult. |
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In Air Gear, Kilik wore these all over his clothes in the past, and all the Gravity Children's Twinkle Eyes invoke this. More often than not, when a Gravity Child reveals their Twinkle Eyes, most, if not all their face is shadowed so it's just like seeing two glowing crosses. | |
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In Cowboy Bebop's fifth episode, aptly called "Ballad of Fallen Angels", there's a cross and other cool church imagery the fight scene takes place in. | |
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The cross-shaped explosions in Neon Genesis Evangelion shown above. Misato's cross was more a memorial to Second Impact and the death it caused than any religious icon. It's also the last thing her father gave her before placing her in the escape pod just before dying from his injuries, thus saving her life. This is actually lampshaded by the producer, who admit most of the symbolism is window dressing and that they might have been more selective about it had they known the show would ever be popular in the West. Lampshaded in the Abridged Series: |
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In Kid Icarus: Uprising, one weapon is a blade those various forms of attacks are all crosses. The charged shots are large crosses with equal-length arms, the rapid-fire shot are lots of tiny traditional crosses, the weapon itself is cross-shaped, and the melee attack extends the weapon with a cross-shaped Laser Blade. The weapon is called the Crusader Blade. | |
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How else would you consider Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction album cover? | |
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Subverted in the Sands of Destruction anime. Funeral crosses are just straight lines going through circles. | |
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A Certain Magical Index: Vento of the Front has a cross attached to a length of chain which is bolted to her tongue. She also wields a hammer that's vaguely in the shape of a cross. Biagio Busoni has dozens of crosses on his person. His fighting style is to throw them at his opponents, then magically make them enlarge to the size of cars in midair. |
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Soul Eater: Death Scythe wears a cross shaped tie and has crosses on his shirt lapels, and had a similar style as a child. It also reflects his Weapon form, which looks like a cross when the blade isn't present. Also the aptly named Death Room is full of hundreds of grave marker style crosses. Justin the priest wore a cross and had some on his clothing but these vanished as part of a Madness/Villanous Makeover IIRC replaced by the eye symbol of the Bigger Bad. | |
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Michelle McCool also had crosses on her clothes. | |
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Rachel from BlazBlue, whose design can best be described as Slayer's reverse-jailbait daughter. | |
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Berserk: The Crystal Dragon Jesus church uses a falcon on a T cross as its symbol. Not quite creepy in itself (except that one panel where a priest has a staff with the falcon nailed to it), at least until Griffith's true nature as a Dark Messiah pops up. | |
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Crosses feature prominently in Weiß Kreuz, the title of which is in fact (slightly mangled) German for "white cross." A white cross appears to be the logo of Weiss, the team of four Hitmen with Hearts who are the protagonists of the series. Several members of Weiss habitually wear crosses - particularly in the Oddly Named Sequel Weiss Kreuz: Gluhen, in which every member of Weiss has a red cross somewhere on his "working clothes," including one who paints a cross on his bare chest. Possibly justified in the cases of Aya and Ken, as they are at least nominally Christian. Crucifixion symbolism also turns up at least once. For added symbolism, regarding the team's red crosses on their working clothes: Ken's extends around his neck and Youji's (the one who paints it on his bare chest every time he gets dressed) is slanted. Aya has a main one on his cravat, which is extended across his entire chest because of the way his Badass Longcoat is styled, and he has two more on the wrists of his gloves. |
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Jung from Gunbuster wears one, despite being from East Germany, when the Communist Bloc historically persecuted devout Christians. Maybe they got lax in the future. While generally East Germans are even less religious than West Germans, the GDR was never able to completely root out Christianity during the 40 years of its existence (and neither did the Soviet Union that lasted almost twice as long). There are still many Christians in eastern Germany and they actually proved to be one of the major forces responsible for the end of Communism (much like the Catholic Church in Poland). |
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In Zatch Bell! when Koko was mindcontrolled by demon Zofis she wore thigh-high boots with crosses. | |
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Snuff Movie: In his final act in recreating the occult murders of his wife and friends, Boris has Wendy literally crucified. Unless he didn't. | |
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Since Chrono Crusade is about a nun with guns and the demon she's contracted to fighting other demons, it makes sense that crosses would pop up—and they do, a lot. The bullets Rosette uses show crosses in the air when fired, the barriers used to trap the demons also glow with cross-shaped energy, in the anime Chrono is badly injured when a cross-shaped piece of a building falls on top of him, Remington's energy blade looks like a cross relic until it's activated... | |
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Duo Maxwell from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing was raised in a Catholic orphanage, wears priest-like clothes and lots of crosses. He is known as Shinigami, or, in good ol' English, Death God. Can't get more creepy than that. Yet, he isn't a devout Christian; he himself states that he doesn't believe in God because he hasn't seen a miracle, but has seen lots of dead people. He wears the crosses and collar as a memento of the priest and nun who cared for him. In Frozen Teardrops Duo appears to be a preacher. It's more of a front for his Bounty Hunter work than anything else. |
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Lampshaded in the Abridged Series: | |
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In the SNES game Final Fantasy VI The Christian crosses can be seen in the North American version of Final Fantasy VI (released as Final Fantasy III). The crosses can be seen on characters shield icons. Also during the turn based battles the cross can be seen when the character like Terra or Locke holds up a shield. Also in the Graveyard of Thamasa or Mobliz the crosses can be seen on the tombstones, especially General Leo's memorial grave. This is one of the examples of church crosses getting past the Nintendo censorship. | |
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BABYMETAL The video for "Gimme chocolate!!" has a giant Virgin Mary statue at the back of the stage set. The concert at which the "Gimme chocolate!!" was filmednote "Legend 1997", marking Suzuka's 16th birthday ends with the lead singer being crucified, in front of said statue. |
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During the NESTS saga of The King of Fighters, Kyo Kusanagi wears a black shirt with 2 pairs of perpendicular white lines forming a cross on his chest. Also, in the Days of Memories Spin Offs, Goenitz, Chris and Shermie are seen wearing crucifixes. It may be important to note that, while of those chracters, Goenitz is supposed to be a priest, his true loyalties are with Orochi. | |
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Choutaro Ohtori from The Prince of Tennis wears a silver cross, despite not being Christian (he says so in the OAV when asked by Shishido). Subverted since he's not creepy, but quite a Gentle Giant. | |
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Death Note: Misa and Mello's respective necklaces (and, in Misa's case, also earrings). Interesting in that while Misa's is generally seen as her being into typically commercialized gothic trends, Mello's is often seen as an indication he is Catholic by fandom. This is probably because Misa's are just random crosses, while Mello is seen at least once with an actual rosary. Not to mention that while Misa is Japanese, Mello is European (what kind is up for debate) and thus more likely to actually have some personal connection to the religion itself. In the anime, the crosses are omitted, with Misa's cross replaced with a fleur de lis and all crosses worn by Mello removed - though interestingly, the cross is retained on the Misa collector's figure included with volume 5 of the DVD series, and she is also depicted wearing it in the anime's first opening. It's also worth noting that, in the scene where he interrogates Soichiro, he's sitting beneath a crucifix. All Christianity may be Catholic in American and European media, but crucifixes are much less common that regular crosses in Japanese media. The fandom also cites the fact that his real name, Mihael Keehl, appears to be Croatian and German. Both countries have a high percentage of Catholics. Death Note Relight features a cross at L's headstone. Taken Up to Eleven when we see Mello's personal quarters◊ in the manga. Of course, that's more like Creepy Cool Catholicism, or Creepy Cool Image Of The Virgin Mary And The Angels... |
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Descendants of Darkness - Dr. Kazutaka Muraki sure loves those crosses to set a mood, and even gives a monologue at one point during the anime about how Christians in Japan in the past had to hide their faith. There's no indication that Muraki himself is a Christian, though. | |
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In Cardcaptor Sakura, some of Sakura's clothes have crosses on them. Sakura is implied to be Shinto. | |
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In Princess Resurrection the vampiress Reiri seems especially associated with crosses; standing on them for effect or having them in her background. | |
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From One Piece, we have Mihawk with his huge cross-shaped sword and his tiny cross pendant knife. That's just the tip of the iceberg - whenever a tombstone appears, it's inevitably a big honking cross, even in places like Alabasta that seem to trend more toward more animistic beliefs. Note that, although the series (as far as we know) takes place on a Constructed World, there have been small hints that Christianity exists in some form - Warlord of the Sea Bartholomew Kuma even carries a Bible around! |
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RosenkreuzStilette justifies by placing the setting in 16th-century Europe (more specifically, the German Holy Empire). One where bombs and clocks have been invented early, and where fairies and demons exist, yes, but nonetheless a European setting. Clockwork was invented sometime in the 11th century, at least. |
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Devil World not only has crosses on the Bibles, but also as the item that lets Tamagon eliminate dots and breathe fire on enemies, and the maze also has big cross-shaped walls. | |
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A number of fans have often wondered about the prevalence of crosses in the first two games of the Legend of Zelda series. Every tombstone in either game has a cross on it, and Link even picks up an actual cross as an item in the second game. Word of God explains that the original plan was to have Christianity as the main religion in Hyrule; the three goddesses weren't invented until after the two NES games were released. Note that crosses are never seen again from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past onward. | |
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Satoshi from D.N.Angel is often shown wearing crosses in his outfits, including one outfit where his shirt has a huge gold-colored cross on the back. This is partially because the manga likes dressing him in gothy visual kei-styled outfits, but is also likely a reference to his alter ego Krad, who has a cross accessory hanging from his ponytail. Given it's a Krad thing, this raises the question of why Satoshi would ever wear crosses ever. |
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Dragon Gate wrestler Dragon Kid names his trademark moves with a religious theme in mind. He has a spinning flying headscissor submission called the Christo that looks vaguely cross-like when applied. Gail Kim brought the move to America during her first WWE run. K-ness, meanwhile wears a cross on his head. | |
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Angel's Egg: The nameless young man (who may be the Christ or Anti-Christ) in Mamoru Oshii's animated film carries a large, cross-shaped weapon in his back. Mamoru Oshii is a former Christian who once aimed for priesthood, so he presumably knows his way around the symbolism better than an average Japanese, but it's still a case of True Art Is Incomprehensible. | |
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Sheamus's ring gear is loaded with crosses, and his finishing move is a crucifix powerbomb. Of course, this makes perfect sense, as Celtic crosses carved from stone are a common motif in traditional Irish art. | |
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Fairy Tail: Larcade of the Spriggan 12 has a cross on his forehead and carries a large metal one on his back, which reinforce his priestly image (though it's more Buddhist than Christian). He also uses the metal cross as a weapon to bludgeon and impale his foes. | |
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Love Hina: An interesting subversion: Naru is neither creepy nor particularly cool, yet a discreet and small cross can be seen around her neck at times. This small cross necklace helped save her life in volume 12, where it and the engagement ring Keitaro had been trying to give to her snagged a tree branch as they fell off a cliff. Then the chain snapped and they fell the last couple feet with no problem. Akamatsu himself says that the cross doesn't really mean anything, that it's likely a shop keeper talked her into buying it at some point in Volume 8. | |
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Rin Tohsaka in Fate/stay night. This is actually explained in backstory. Rin is decended from "Kakure Kirishitans". Japanese Christians who went into hiding in after Japan banned foreign influences (including the Christian religion). Also, her legal guardian is a Catholic Priest. The entire town once belonged to Rin's family - if they used crosses as symbols, the school might have kept it/use it as part of the same tradition. |
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In Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, crosses are symbols of the Panthalassa race. | |
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In the grim darkness of the far future Christianity is a forgotten religion, but you still have crosses: they're usually combined with skull motifs, and worn by The Empire's elite terror troops. It doesn't really get any creepier than this. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, when Kaiba is going to be sacrificed to create the Five God Dragon in the virtual reality story arc, he is tied to a tau or T-shaped pillar, but in a definitely crucified position. Beyond that, the show and the card game alike feature countless dozens of crosses all adorning magicians' robes, spell books, glyphs, etc. | |
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Black Sabbath are masters of this trope. | |
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Employed as a stylistic choice in Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial with Mirror knight, whose powers manifest as cross shapes. | |
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In fact, the original version of La Pucelle was brimming with crosses, the protagonists being a squad of battle clerics and all. Every single one was edited out, from Alouette's earrings, which became rectangular, to Prier's staff, which lost its cross-tip, to the little cursor for target selection in combat, which became a sort of Damocles' sword, not to mention the church buildings. Croix also lost his cigarette, but still put his hand to his mouth at the end of battles... His name means "Cross" in French. There's a lot of Bilingual Bonus in this game if you know a bit of French. | |
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The demon-fighting demon symbiotes of Tokkô all wear crosses. | |
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In Ensemble Stars!, cross imagery is used extensively by UNDEAD as part of their gothic motif. They were also star of one of the only two Easter events the game has run, and it played up the death and resurrection spookiness for all it was worth. Ironically, the unit contains one foreigner character, but he's actually Arabic, and so implicitly Muslim. | |
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Isuzu (Rin) and Hatsuharu Sohma from Fruits Basket occasionally wear crosses. | |
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Parodied in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, where the high school is shaped as a cross. | |
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MÄR: Halloween, a psychopathic villain, is chained to a cross-shaped ARM. As a child, he tortured small animals to death and burned the kids who bullied him to death, and spends most of the story either trying to kill his only childhood friend, Alan, or waiting to. Yeah. | |
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Ivan Uralia from the Strike Series reveals, at the end of his introduction mission, that among his numerous burn marks, he has a cross-shaped one on the palm of his right hand. Creepily fitting from three reasons: he received lethal doses of radiation during his time in the Soviet Air Force as he was helping to contain the Chernobyl disaster but was saved by an experimental treatment, his recruitment mission happens in Transylvania (which is drenched in radioactive fallout during the time of the mission) and the main enemies of said mission are two elite tank units codenamed "Vampire" and "Zombie". There's even a Scare Chord when he shows you his hand scar. | |
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Mercedes Martinez often wears crosses on her clothing, in this case the message is "Only God Can Judge Me!" | |
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Seifer Almasy in Final Fantasy VIII is distinguished by the Templar cross that he wears. | |
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In Broken Saints, there is a rain of crosses similar to a famous scene from The Wall, used for a lucid dream, and later on when referring to the same subject. | |
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Eyeshield 21. The Devil Bats use a play called the Cris Cross, some translators having put in as "Christ Cross," as it was pictured as the religious cross with the quarterback at the center. The play is simply two runners taking the ball from the quarterback, or faking the play so the quarterback can pass. Monta and Sena never successfully play it until one of the last plays of the Christmas bowl. It also turns out that that one time was actually a variation of the move called the Evil cross. | |
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The intro sequence of ''Empire of Sock'' depicts the titular evil hamster being crucified, driving home the Satanic vibe of the series. | |
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Hellsing: Father Alexander Anderson (given his profession) wears one, as do many of his Iscariot protégés. In this case, it's logical; they're explicitly Catholic. Alucard is sometimes seen with them as well, and they're a running theme in the series itself, since the Hellsing Organisation is a religious one. Both Alucard and Anderson sometimes position their weapons (two Hand Cannons and Absurdly Sharp Bayonets respectively) as crosses before battle, too, though Alucard prefers to invert his in order to actively mock the divine. An inverted cross is also a Christian symbol (it only picked up blasphemous connotations recently), but it's fairly obscure even among Westerners as such. Ditto most members of AX in Trinity Blood (for the same reason). |
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In Gungrave, the protagonist Beyond the Grave has a silver cross motif on the front of his hat, the back of his coat, on the red "kneepads" of his pants, the back of his boots, and the soles of his boots. It's probably mainly because of simply being cool. Not to mention the prominent cross shape on each of his twin pistols. And the big one on his Coffin. In the sequel to the game the weapon's "upgraded" so the cross design in no longer there. In Overdose the deadman Fangoram wields a giant cross-shaped gun (resembles the cross punisher from Trigun a bit) called the Center Head. It's the last gun of the Cerberus Series to be made, and is outright stated to be the strongest of the Cerberus line. |
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Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force additionally gives us an ancient Artifact of Doom inconspicuously dubbed "the Bible of Silver Cross". It's nature and origins are yet to be revealed, however. | |
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Triple H uses a cross pattée as a personal logo, and it often shows up on his ring gear and merchandise, as well as the various crowns and thrones he uses for his entrances. | |
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