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Divine Race Lift
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In simplest terms, this trope is showing a deity with a standard appearance in a form people don't expect to see it in. People expect deities to look a certain way. They expect the Hindu Goddess Kali to be an Indian woman. They expect the Norse God Thor to be a red-bearded Viking man (or blond and clean shaven). But what if a work shows Kali as a white man and Thor as a tiny Chinese woman? Well, that would be this trope. A common subversion on the "old white guy with a beard" take on the Abrahamic God is for God to take on the appearance of a minority group instead, usually either black or female (or both). Sometimes, this stretches across to other religious figures, such as the Devil or angels. This could manifest as a subtle and humorous take on discrimination, or if done badly might come across as the Magical Negro trope on steroids. Of course, it could also be nothing more than the creator doing something different. Sometimes it will be hinted that people just see whatever they want to see. This trope also shouldn't come across as a surprise for entities who are proudly shapeshifters. Note that just because an example of this trope involves taking the appearance of a minority group doesn't mean that it's also an example of Token Minority. See also Race Lift and Gender Flip. Not to be confused with Ethnic God, which are gods who are tied to a specific locale or people. |
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The Devil in Narbonic is stated to be female, although she is not seen on-screen. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Demeter starts out as white as her siblings with brown hair, which is already a change from mythology where she's described as having golden blonde hair, and then later artists started depicting her as black without explanation. However, given as she's a manifestation of a Greek deity with stable power—unlike Zeus by this point—her appearance is entirely up to her. | |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Carlton is surprised to find that his guardian angel is not black. | |
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One episode of Blossom featured God as Father Guido Sarducci. | |
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The Thor: The Mighty Avenger series portrayed the Norse god Heimdall as a black man. This was justified by giving Heimdall Voluntary Shapeshifting who simply prefers to take on the form of a black guy. Perhaps as a nod to the controversy around Idris Elba playing Heimdall in the MCU (see below), the Marvel Universe version of the legendary Norse hero Sigurd is a young black man. Subverted with Hogun the Grim, one of the Warriors Three. While Hogun is quite obviously Asian (and from the clothing appears to be Mongolian), he is specifically not an Aesir like Thor and the other residents of Asgard. His true homeland has not been named in the comics (it was conquered by a tyrant before he joined Asgard) but was named as Vanaheim in the MCU. | |
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The Sarah Silverman Program: Black God. | |
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The Kids in the Hall: Played for comedy in a sketch in which Scott Thompson's character sees a vision of a dead friend, who says he's in Heaven. Thompson asks "And how is God? That big, black lesbian in the sky?" | |
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In Roseanne, several of the characters would frequently joke that God was a woman. Roseanne simply did it because she was very feminist. Dan also said it in one episode. After spending the episode carefully navigating around Roseanne during her hysterical PMS-induced mood swings, he finally comes to the conclusion that "God is a woman" is the only way to explain why women can act the way they do during PMS and get away with it. In one Christmas episode, she also said, "Put out a tray of peanut butter cookies, I hear she likes those the best," but it's not clear whether she was saying Santa was a woman, or she was merely placing her order for later. | |
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In the Avenue Q song, "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist", Gary and Kate Monster get into a brief argument over whether Jesus was black or white. Finally Princeton chimes in and tells the both of them that Jesus was Jewish. | |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1987): Demeter starts out as white as her siblings with brown hair, which is already a change from mythology where she's described as having golden blonde hair, and then later artists started depicting her as black without explanation. However, given as she's a manifestation of a Greek deity with stable power—unlike Zeus by this point—her appearance is entirely up to her. Wonder Woman (Rebirth): Aphrodite in the DC comics had previously always stuck to the Western expected depiction as a blonde white lady, this version has brown eyes & hair and a light olive complexion which becomes amusing when later writers chose to alter this version of Aphrodite's family tree to go with her less popular mythological parentage of Zeus, the blue-eyed (formerly) blonde guy. |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Gaia, the spirit of Earth and Big Good. Voiced by Whoopi Goldberg, she's Ambiguously Brown. Ironically, heroes and gods from Greek Mythology are usually depicted as white, despite being from the Mediterranean. This Gaia probably looks more authentically Greek than most, even if she does have purple hair. According to the show's own website, she's supposed to have features from numerous races—dark skin (African), almond-shaped (Asian) blue eyes (Caucasian), etc. Any connection to Greek myth is In Name Only (especially since the mythological Gaia was rarely anthropomorphic and kept giving birth to monsters). | |
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The Norse deity Heimdall is black in Avengers Assemble and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., taking a note from the movies. | |
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Inverted in a MADtv (1995) skit in which Jesus appears as the standard "white hippie" despite showing up in a black church. The skit doesn't even lampshade this, which arguably makes it funnier. | |
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On Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Gina has a near-death experience. When asked what God looked like by Rosa, Gina replies "she's ethically ambiguous". | |
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On Dave's World, Shel's young daughter goes as God for Halloween explaining that He is in fact, like her, a black woman. | |
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Small Wonder had an episode in which Joan and Vicki were competing against Ted and Jamie on a camping trip, with everything going swell for the mother and daughter and rotten for the father and son. When Jamie asks his father why men always have bad luck when they compete against women, Ted can only suggest that God must be female. | |
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The New Zealand cartoon Bro Town features Pacific Islander characters — including a Pacific Islander God. And an entirely white Jesus. You figure it out. | |
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In Life Blood, God appears as a Lipstick Lesbian wearing a diaphanous wrap and nothing else. | |
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Wonder Woman (Rebirth): Aphrodite in the DC comics had previously always stuck to the Western expected depiction as a blonde white lady, this version has brown eyes & hair and a light olive complexion which becomes amusing when later writers chose to alter this version of Aphrodite's family tree to go with her less popular mythological parentage of Zeus, the blue-eyed (formerly) blonde guy. | |
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Teen Angel: Rod — semi-deity and cousin of the real God — was the floating head of Ron Glass. In one episode he also played the Devil's cousin Neville. | |
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On the original British version of Cracker, the lead character is present during a natural childbirth. As the delivering mother is (obviously) in pain, he leans in and asks "Still think God is a woman?" (Of course, he is an archetypal Jerkass...) | |
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Troy: Fall of a City: Zeus is portrayed by a black actor, while normally of course he's shown looking Greek. | |
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Some characters in Yo-Kai Watch are based off of religious figures. For example, Lord Enma is based on the God of Death, but he's a young-looking Bishōnen with red skin and yellow Anime Hair. | |
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In Exalted, where there are literally millions of deities, the chief one, the master of the world, and so on and so forth (the Sun) has a form of a four-armed man. However, his original form, before he favored humanity above other races was that of a huge golden dragon, with hundreds of arms and blazing eyes with galaxies in them. Prior to this shift, he was also the racial deity of a Mayincatec dinosaur-people, so he's consciously aware of his image change. And that's way fucking cool. | |
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Parodied in 21 Jump Street: the undercover police HQ is located in a church in Koreatown featuring a statue of Jesus that looks Korean. One of the main characters briefly prays to "Korean Jesus." In the sequel, since they've relocated to a Vietnamese church Jesus is now "Vietnamese Jesus". | |
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God has been portrayed as an elderly woman in earlier Spawn comics. And a fiery woman, at some point. And as a small black boy - with Satan as his sister. In Spawn God isn't really God God. Satan is his sibling as created by the "real" God God. They did their good vs evil schtick until the "real" God God got sick of it and made them little kids to give them "an appreciation for humanity". Also, the "real" God God is occasionally portrayed and often referenced as female. And was also Jesus. God God is called MoM (female) but it stands for Man of Miracles (male). | |
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An episode of American Dad! had Steve envision God while stranded in Saudi Arabia. She appeared to him as Angelina Jolie. He was able to convince everyone of God's wise words, including the easy, fair way to peace in the Middle East. Until he said God was a "she". | |
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Pathfinder: Shelyn, the goddess of beauty, romantic love, and the fine arts, is typically depicted as a brown-haired white woman, but is ostensibly a deity of Tian (fantasy Asian) origin. Articles about her mention that she tends to be depicted according to local standards of beauty no matter the region, it's just that Avistan (corresponding to Europe) is where most of the Golarion setting's material is set. | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Asgardian Heimdall is played by the black Idris Elba. The Norse god upon which he is based was called "the whitest of the gods."note Note that 'white' here does not necessarily refer to race or appearance. This caused a minor controversy, though most agree Elba's performance to be worth it. | |
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Discussed in Mage, when Kirby is bemused by Coyote, a Native American culture-hero, being African-American in this incarnation. Kevin says that it seems to be pretty random and points out that he (the modern incarnation of King Arthur) isn't British and Kirby (the modern incarnation of Heracles) isn't Greek. | |
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In Noragami, the god of warriors Bishamon (from East Asian Buddhism mythology) takes the form of a blonde white woman. | |
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God ("De Lawd") in The Green Pastures, though He's not really a token since the rest of the cast is also black. | |
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In Overcompensating, the Devil is a black woman, while God is white trash (although He still has a beard). | |
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In Final Crisis, the New Gods of Apokolips take on new forms, with Glorious Godfrey posing as a black preacher, Desaad taking the form of Mary Marvel, and Granny Goodness posing as one of the Alpha Lanterns. | |
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In Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, the Norse god Tyr is described having dark skin. | |
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In the Betsy the Vampire Queen series, Satan usually appears resembling actress Lena Olin, which is more of a Mythology Gag: Satan possessed Betsy's stepmother (then, her father's mistress) on a lark and ended up pregnant. "She" appears to Laura and Betsy in this form to remind them of their relationship. | |
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In The Boondocks, Huey Freeman believes that Jesus is black, while Uncle Ruckus believes that Jesus is white. | |
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A sort of example in one of Marcus Brigstocke's rants on The Now Show, in which he explains that in his head, God sounds like Dr Hibbert from The Simpsons. So for the rest of this routine, God is represented by a white British guy (Brigstocke) doing an impression of a white American (Harry Shearer) playing the voice of an African-American (Hibbert). | |
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In Valérian the Holy Trinity manifests as an obese private detective straight from early 20th century Noir, a stoned hippie with stigmata, and a broken one-armed bandit. The characters who come from the 22nd-century Galaxity don't see anything strange about this, while the 20th-century Christian character sees them as charlatans or usurpers. Just how real a deal they are is never clarified, but the Father claims to remember Moses fondly. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls series, the Daedric Princes are Eldritch Anthropomorphic Personifications of the spheres over which they govern. Technically formless deities, they can take any shape they wish, though the majority do take a fairly consistent humanoid shape when dealing with mortals, with gender more likely to change between appearances (Boethiah and Mephala being most prone to this) than race. | |
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The Good Place: Gen, the series' equivalent to God, is a black woman played by Maya Rudolph. Lampshaded in one episode in which she goes to Earth and is surprised to learn that she has a race at all. | |
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In The Shack, God - or rather, "Papa" - appears as a black woman (Octavia Spencer) and also as a Native American man (Graham Greene). It's explained that these are forms the protagonist needs to see at different times. Jesus, meanwhile, is an Israeli man (Aviv Alush). | |
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Moral Orel: Parodied somewhat where Buddha has the voice and mannerisms of an effeminate southern man. | |
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Lucifer: The angels consider themselves siblings and literal children of God, and they appear as a variety of different races. Leading to a lot of confused stares when the white Lucifer and black Amenadiel introduce themselves as brothers to mortals who don't believe Lucifer's outlandish claim to be the Devil. When God finally appears he's black. | |
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In Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty, God is Morgan Freeman, although it may be more accurate to say Morgan Freeman is God. But with that voice, who would mind? | |
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Touhou Project: Suwako is a blonde Shinto goddess of Earth. And she was supposed to have carved significant chunks of Japanese land into existence. Prince Shotoku —here known as Toyosatomimi-no-Miko and is a girl— looks like a very Caucasian boy, even though Japanese nobles from his time claim descent from Amaterasu. Shou also looks like a Caucasian boy despite being a disciple/avatar of Buddhist deity Vaisravana. In her case, she was a tiger prior to becoming an avatar, so the light-brown hair is justified. |
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Joan of Arcadia: God takes lots of different forms, possibly as a deliberate attempt to subvert both "old white man God" and "female/black/child/whatever God OMG!" Basically, whenever Joan is alone, God takes control of a person nearby (or, it's implied, was that person the entire time) and uses that person to speak to her, ranging from a boy she has a crush on to a bad boy goth kid, to her lunch lady. Entirely appropriate for a show based on the song, "(What If God Was) One of Us". A parody by either MAD or Cracked showed God taking the form of a (female) stripper who gives lap dances, much to the Joan character's disgust. When called out on this, God fires back with "I could have disguised myself as a lawyer, but that would have been too sleazy." | |
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I Am Not an Easy Man: In the alternate world, God is always "She", in keeping with the female-dominated society. Christianity also has Mary as next in importance to God, with Islam having a female prophet. | |
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On All in the Family, Archie and Henry Jefferson get into an argument over the race of both Jesus and God, Henry claiming that they are both black. It comes up again in the episode "Archie In the Cellar" when Archie accidentally locks himself in the basement, gets drunk, and becomes convinced he's dying and that the furnace man trying to rescue him is God coming to take him to heaven. Then "God" turns out to be a black guy, causing a horrified Archie to fall to his knees begging forgiveness for everything he's ever said about blacks. | |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance is apparently a retelling of the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic, with R. Junnah as Prince Arjuna and Bagger Vance as Vishnu/Krishna (who incarnated in the epic as Arjuna's charioteer). | |
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In Bedazzled (2000), the Devil is played by Liz Hurley and God is a black man. | |
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!HERO: The Rock Opera has the Messiah making His first visit to mankind as a black man. On the album and the DVD performance, he is portrayed by Michael Tait. | |
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Good Omens (2019): we don't see God, but the voice we hear in the narration is female. Additionally, the Archangel Michael is female, and other angels, demons, and Horsemen of the Apocalypse we see have a wider variety of appearances and genders than might be traditional. | |
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Dogma: God appears as a slightly spacey woman played by Alanis Morissette toward the end of the movie. In a twist, He/She/It takes the form of a white-haired man with a beard - albeit poor and homeless - when (S)he visits Earth at the beginning of the movie. It is implied that Alanis appears because God's physical form is only a convenience for mortals, and She's what the ardently feminist protagonist needs God to look like. Presumably the old white guy- who was not witnessed by much of anyone but the camera (and some demons) - was simply habit. Rufus (the thirteenth disciple, and Chris Rock) mentions Jesus was black, which to an audience accustomed to a white Jesus may be another example of the same thing. Historical evidence suggests that Jesus had darker skin than what is usually depicted in Western artwork, but the perception remains that he looked fairly European. | |
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The first Oh, God! film had George Burns's God take multiple forms, including a black woman and a Hispanic busboy. Burns' own portrayal of God as a little old man could rate as a mild example, as Grandpa God is usually depicted as tall and strong-looking. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The God-Emperor of Mankind, implied on occasion to have been Saint George or even Jesus, was born in Anatolia, and resembles a very tanned white man (well, before he looked like a cybernetic skeleton). | |
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The Wicked + The Divine: Amaterasu, the Japanese goddess of the sun, is portrayed as a white girl. Naturally, Cassandra, who is of Japanese descent, has a huge problem with this. She repeatedly points out how offensive it is for a white girl to represent the persona of a Japanese goddess. The comic also shows that despite Cassandra's repeated protests, Ammy doesn't listen and her failure to be sensitive to another goddess, Sekhmet's anger, resulted in Ammy's death. | |
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In an American Gods (2017) episode, Mr. Wednesday offhandedly mentions to Shadow that gods come in all sorts of shapes and sizes (and they can all co-exist), to suit the beliefs and values of the various people groups who worship them. He makes an example with Jesus, as seen on the page quote. And sure enough, we see a lot of the aforementioned variants of Jesus throughout the series, mostly in the first season finale where they attend an Easter party. | |
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In New Mutants, Native American Dani Moonstar became a Valkyrie. | |
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Most works of fiction produced in North American, European, and even some Latin American countries will depict the Greek love-goddess Aphrodite with blonde hair. In the 1967 Cream song "Tales of Brave Ulysses", however, Eric Clapton emphasizes her Mediterranean roots and explicitly mentions her "brown body", suggesting that her hair would be black or dark brown. (Interestingly, the hair of Aphrodite's aunt Demeter, goddess of grains, is stated to be blonde - the color of wheat - in the recorded myths.) | |
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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: The Sword Coast Adventurers' Guide mentions some Tieflings (human and devil Half-Human Hybrids) claiming the various gods appearing to them in the form of Tieflings, proving that these gods care more about a person's soul than their heritage; it's left to the reader's interpretation whether theirs any truth to these claims or not, but the rumors certainly make more mainstream Clerics and Paladins uncomfortable, particularly those who believe Tieflings are Always Chaotic Evil. | |
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Pushing Daisies: The temporarily-revived corpse of the episode sees Emerson and inquires if he's God. | |
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Boy Meets Boy features the Devil as a woman named Lucy. | |
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Hades portrays the Greek gods as a wide range of ethnicities. Developer commentary says this is because Ancient Greece would not have considered their gods to be limited to Greece, and therefore their designs reflect the gods' worldly scope. | |
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In the Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation version of the story of Abraham, Jeremy explains that "For the purposes of winding up bigots, God will be played by Debbie Isaacs." | |
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Inverted in Lucifer somewhat in that God, after cycling through a dozen other forms, picks a portly, white, English gentleman. And is later replaced by a twelve-year-old girl. | |
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In The Sandman (1989), Death is a Perky Goth girl rather than being The Grim Reaper. | |
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In South Park, God doesn't even appear as a human — he's a hippo/monkey hybrid. He's also Buddhist - after all, he doesn't need to believe in himself so why not an agnostic religion? - even though Mormons are the "right" religion that gets into Heaven. Satan, on the other hand, is gay (and a bottom). | |
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A short film from the 1970s, Parable, reimagined first-century A.D. Palestine as a traveling circus and cast a whiteface clown as Jesus Christ and the other circus performers and carnies as his disciples. The Jesus-clown never spoke or even made a sound (except at the climax, when he screams while being crucified on a flying trapeze) and is completely white: white powdered face, white skullcap, white leggings, and a short white toga. The toga was obviously supposed to evoke marble statues of Christ, but instead it makes the clown look literally like a statue, especially when he's viewed from a distance. He brings up the rear of the circus parade riding on a donkey, so we get the symbolism right off the bat. Of course, Jesus is also a clown (albeit a definitely human one) in the film version of Godspell. | |
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Satan, Andy's girlfriend on Casey and Andy is female as far as the rest of the cast is concerned- (s)he Has Many Forms, though, including a giant terrifying demonic one which certainly appears to be male, and which actually shows up pretty regularly. God seems to be male (and is dating "Andina" in the Dimension of Hackneyed, Stereotyped Opposites). | |
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In Good Times, JJ paints an otherwise traditional-style image of Jesus, which freaks out devout Christian Florida because A) he's black, B) he looks like Ned The Wino, and C) The Evans get a streak of good luck immediately upon JJ hanging up the painting. | |
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American Gods Mr. Ibis (Thoth) and his fellow Ancient Egyptian deities who live in Cairo, Illinois. Ibis notes that while for a long time, he and his family were just taken for foreign visitors, from the 1800s onward, people in the town assumed their Ambiguously Brown features meant they were black Americans, and thus from then onward, they've lived with/associated with that community in Cairo. Shadow is implied to have a black mother, making him multiracial. Word of God says he looks like The Rock. He is actually the incarnation of Baldr, described as pure white in Poetic Edda/Prose Edda. |
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The Adjustment Bureau originally cast and shot scenes with Shohreh Aghdashloo as The Chairman, portraying god as a motherly figure, whereas the case workers (angels) of the Adjustment Bureau are all men of various races. However, the role was left out of the final film to leave the Chairman's identity deliberately vague. | |
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The 2018 televised stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar had John Legend in the role of Jesus. | |
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Family Guy: According to Stewie, Jesus is actually Chinese, and his full name is "Jesus Hong." He has no idea where people are getting "Christ" from. (Actually, "Christ" is a title, not a name. It comes from Greek Χριστός, Christós, meaning "the anointed one.") There was also a Cutaway Gag about "Black Jesus." He is shown preaching to a crowd of entirely white Israelites, thus fitting the trope perfectly. In the episode where he actually shows up, Jesus is shown to be a self-hating Jew. (He looks like the standard Hippie Jesus, but Peter takes a peek down the front of his underwear to verify his Jewishness.) |
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Spoofed in Wonder Showzen. God is a black man, and he blew up the Earth because he didn't like the way "You honky-ass crackers are keeping the black man down." Wonder Showzen being what it is, he gets defeated in Rock–Paper–Scissors and kills himself. | |
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Blood of the Tribades: In-Universe, the priests of Bathor refer to him as male repeatedly. However, the female vampires do the opposite. The latter are right; she's a woman. | |
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Spoofed and played for laughs in the third Major League movie. When the team's manager is hit with a line drive, he sees a blurry figure as he's coming to. He first guesses it be God, then Moses before fully coming to and recognizing it as Serrano, the team's Big Guy who was introduced as a Scary Black Man in the first movie before subverting that all to hell. Later in the scene, Serrano teases the manager about the terror on his face when the manager realized that God was black. The manager immediately quips "Yeah, I always thought she was white." | |
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The Brazilian miniseries-turned movie O Auto da Compadecida (aka "A Dog's Will") does have a black Jesus, although it's established that this appearance is simply the form he chose to assume, to play on the prejudices of protagonist João Grilo and the other town residents that are judged with him. ("...I thought you were very less burnt...") | |
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Oracle of Tao: God usually appears throughout the game as the Triforce. When actually pictured in battle, God looks like Pistis Sophia (Holy Spirit), a sort of Mother Earth archetype (God), and a female Jesus on the cross. This picture takes up the whole screen with an Amazing Technicolor Battlefield showing a few different creation myths spliced together. | |
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In TV Funhouse, most animals are Christian, and every church depicts Jesus as a member of the congregation's species. | |
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