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A character type generally found in works set or written in the The Cavalier Years, although some are later examples, this is what you get when you cross the Church Militant with Wicked Cultured. In Real Life, the Society of Jesus, also known by their shorthand name "Jesuits", are a Christian (specifically, Roman Catholic) religious order known for their military character (reinforced by the fact that their founder, Basque nobleman Ignatius of Loyola, was a knight who took the habit after having a spiritual awakening while recovering from wounds received in battle during the Italian Wars, in order to provide the Church an active arm in world affairs), their commitment to broaden Renaissance education, and their missionary endeavors. Among their religious opponents, chiefly the early Protestants, they accrued a reputation for finding clever arguments to excuse any kind of behavior. Common plots have such characters throw off their habit to assume the appearances of laity, sometimes becoming military leaders or advisers. The historical basis for the Society's negative archetype comes largely from their work during the Counter-Reformation. For many centuries, the Roman Catholic Church relied extensively on secular authorities (especially the Holy Roman Emperor and, later, the King of France) to combat heresy by providing a civil basis for investigating unorthodox beliefs and/or practices and, if need be, administering appropriate civil action against the offending party. However, during the height of the Protestant Reformation, various governments in northwestern Europe declared themselves independent of the Church's spiritual authority as a precedent for their secular sovereignty, establishing either Lutheranism or Calvinism, the two Protestant sects deemed legal options as of the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, as the de facto, if not de jure, state religion. As a result, the Church was often without (legal) recourse to counter what they saw as the epidemic heresy of Protestantism in these regions, where Catholic and Protestant populations were often engaged in sectarian violence. In light of these facts, as well as reforms created by the Council of Trent, which stressed using education as the most effective means of combating Protestantism, the Jesuits were often called upon to travel to states in which local Protestant rulers were repressing Roman Catholic populations, or at least disrupting ecclesiastical hierarchy, and engage in what essentially amounted to clandestine missionary work: supporting (often secret) worship, teaching doctrine, and ingratiating themselves with local ministers in order to encourage them to convert, or at least be lenient towards Catholics. Predictably, Protestant governments used their efforts as the occasion to propagandize against the Roman Catholic Church, promoting a view of it as foreign and reactionary, and Jesuits in particular as sinister subversive infiltrators spreading throughout Christendom, intent upon undermining or overthrowing legitimate local powers and destroying true (that is, Protestant) Christianity in favor of the reinstatement of the Papal Anti-Christ. This trope doesn't just appear in Protestant works, though. The Jesuits also got a bad reputation in Catholic countries too, and were outright expelled from the Portuguese and Spanish Empires during the reigns of Joseph I and Charles III, albeit for different reasons. In the 17th century, the Jesuits—who swear an oath of loyalty and obedience to the Pope in addition to the standard religious vows—became identified with ultramontanism, a doctrine that asserted the absolute supremacy of the Pope in all matters. Although this is largely standard Catholic doctrine today, there were many movements in Catholicism that opposed that kind of supremacy. Perhaps more significantly, ultramontanism challenged many Catholic rulers' rights to meddle in Church affairs, particularly the then-standard practice of letting Catholic monarchs choose the Church hierarchy with only a nominal papal veto. The Jesuits also gained a reputation for being power-seeking and economically successful, angering both temporal rulers and the higher-ups of the Church in Rome. The fancy logic and scholarship the Jesuits cultivated to beat Protestants in arguments could also be used to challenge Church orthodoxy—and it often was (and still is). The Jesuit activities in missionary work, which led to the not entirely incorrect accusation of running their own private empire, also triggered some good old-fashioned colonialism. While the Jesuit missions were far from perfect and rather paternalistic, they treated the Native Americans as basically people and fought against their enslavement, which came to cause turmoil whenever either law or custom disagreed. This eventually caused a true military conflict, the Guaranà War, where native militias trained and chieftained by Spanish Jesuits revolted openly in order to stop large tracts of land of the Spanish Empire to be handed to its Portuguese counterpart, as while native slavery was illegal in Spain, it was legal and very profitable in Portugal (with natives happily partaking on it), which would allow slavehunters to prey on the inhabitants of the lands unopposed. Although the rebellion was crushed, the event essentially confirmed all the fears in Europe about the Company of Jesus being a dangerous intra-state able to challenge sovereign powers, factoring heavily in their suppression and making them distinctly unpopular even in Catholic countries until they end of 19th century. Subtrope of Sinister Minister. |
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Ian Pears' novel An Instance of the Fingerpost has one of the unreliable narrators slides between this and Anti-Villain. | |
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Cunegonde's brother would count in Candide (which was a definite influence on Henry Esmond above) — while a lot of the characters change identities in the book, he becomes a Jesuit but is also at some points a military leader (not surprisingly, as he was written as a Take That against Frederick the Great). | |
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Averted in Sid Meier's Pirates! where the Jesuit priests are actually pretty friendly and helpful, and can be turned to in order to earn a clemency from destroying flagships, and can initiate quests to pursue Baron Raymondo, holder of your captive family, for free. | |
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In Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Gudenov, Polish princess Marina Mniszech is pressured by a Jesuit priest to marry Russian Tsar False Demetrius I or else she will burn in hellfire. | |
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Elizabeth: The Jesuits in the film are portrayed as brutal assassins sent to murder Elizabeth. | |
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The Man in the Iron Mask: King Louis XIV is nearly assassinated by a man that he immediately identifies as a Jesuit. In reality, the most evil man in the film is Louis himself. And this is Artistic License – History, the French crown had no problem with Jesuits during Louis' reign. | |
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In Flann O'Brien's (author of The Third Policeman) later novel The Hard Life, the protagonist's guardian Mr. Collopy is friends with a Jesuit priest, Father Kurt Fahrt. When Fahrt refuses to countenance Collopy's plan to blow up Dublin City Hall (in a planning dispute over ladies' public toilets), Collopy reminds Fahrt of the Jesuits' own role in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He also seems to think the Jesuits were responsible for the Franco-Prussian War. | |
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Downplayed in Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams with Luis Frois, an real-life Jesuit missionary that received Historical Villain Upgrade in the game by being turned into an Mad Scientist and a Sinister Minister. However, his ties with Jesuits aren't emphasized and it turns out he was possessed by a demon and was Good All Along. | |
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Averted in The Mission: Father Gabriel is a benevolent Jesuit missionary, and the evil role goes to Captain Mendoza (pre-Heel–Face Turn). | |
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Mentioned in British statesman Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son. "I do not know a crime in the world, which is not by the casuists among the Jesuits (especially the twenty-four collected, I think, by Escobar) allowed, in some, or many cases, not to be criminal." (letter 52) Although he regarded the Jesuits as the "most able and best governed society in the world." (letter 85) | |
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In Jeff Long's The Descent, the leader of the Hadals, and the inspiration for Satan, posed as a Jesuit, though this was later retconned, changing him to be a mere disciple of Satan (who occasionally is more evil than Satan himself), since he has real human vileness in him, while Satan is just an example of alien Blue-and-Orange Morality. | |
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Despite portraying some of the worst excesses of the Roman Catholic Church in his novels, Jose Rizal averts this trope, since some of his more sympathetic clergymen characters are Jesuits — in Real Life, Rizal was very fond of his Jesuit mentors. | |
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Shogun: Both in the novel and in the television miniseries adaptation the Jesuits are varying degrees of this as they attempt to convert 17th century Japan to Roman Catholicism. When John Blackthorne and other surviving crew members of the Erasmus arrive at Japan the Jesuits immediately see the protestant Blackthorne as a threat because the Englishman tells Lord Torunaga of world affairs from a different perspective than the Jesuits or Portuguese have been giving them. As part of this Blackthorne told Torunaga about the Treaty of Zaragoza, which divided up previously undiscovered lands between the Spanish and the Portugese with Japan in the Portugese zone. While it's not confirmed one way or the other it's implied the Jesuits tried to have Blackthorne assassinated by having an Amida Tong assassin infiltrate the castle and kill him as he slept. Later on, as Blackthorne's importance and influence grew the Jesuits begin trying to co-opt Blackthorne and even protected him from a Portuguese ship Captain determined to kill the Englishman. Even members of other Catholic monastic orders don't like the Jesuits all that much, with the Franciscan Friar Domingo telling Blackthorne that the Jesuits are there to increase their power and influence instead of bringing the message of Christ to the Japanese, and have banned all other religious orders from operating in Japan. Domingo tells Blackthorne that the Jesuits had defied specific orders from The Pope regarding behavior of missionaries. |
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Silence averts this stereotype, with the Jesuits being portrayed as noble missionaries who endure horrifying torture for their faith at the hands of the Japanese authorities. | |
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Shakespeare appears to take a veiled shot at Jesuits in Macbeth, when after Duncan's murder there's a knock at the door answered by a porter, who plays up as though he's the Keeper of the gate to Hell, and mentions an "equivocator" who committed treason and could not equivocate his way to Heaven, and now is knocking on the gate of Hell. This is a reference to the real life Jesuit practice of "Mental Reservation", which is more commonly called equivocation, and the talk of treason is almost certainly a slam on one particular priest, Henry Garnet, who was convicted of and executed for treason around the same time Shakespeare was writing Macbeth, and had written in defense of equivocation. See the note for more details. note Garnet had knowledge of the Gunpowder Plot before it happened, but since that information was revealed during a Confession, he did not go to the authorities. Garnet had previously opposed any violent action towards the English crown despite their persecution of Catholics, so he tried to plead with the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot to cancel the plans and wrote to Rome trying to get a papal order against violence in the hopes that would cause the plotters to stand down. Regardless, when the plot was found out by the authorities Garnet was given a show trial and then put to death. | |
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Fate/Grand Order features the Big Bad of the Shimousa story chapter, an Alternate Universe version of Amakusa Shirou, already Japan's most (in)famous Christian, using "dark Jesuit sorcery" in order to create a curse. He applies this curse to Servants to corrupt them and turn them into his underlings with the goal of destroying all of Japan. [spoiler:(Possibly subverted since it turns out that the magic he's using comes from a completely different source.)]] | |
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According to the Chick Tracts, the Jesuits are the High Priest Vatican Assassin Warlocks of the Catholic Church who are actively working for Satan and are responsible for all the evil in the modern world. | |
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A few of the Jesuits in Black Robe, a film set in colonial New France, are pretty unscrupulous — notably, one lies to the Huron and tells them that baptism will cure their smallpox — and the film is certainly critical of the Jesuits' mission, though the film's protagonist is a genuinely good Jesuit who honestly believes he is helping people. His Algonquin guides, however, are pretty wary of him, since he wears the eponymous black robe, sleeps separately from everyone else, and refuses to have sex with the women. | |
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Averted in the 1632 series. While one book had a bigoted Jesuit character, he was no more bigoted than any 17th-century person. In fact, a number of the allies of the protagonist uptimers — Americans sent back in time by Alien Space Bats (long story) — are worse. Also, the historical domain characters of Father Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld and Father-General Mutio Vitelleschi are their allies, who are described as good but flawed (as are many characters, protagonist or antagonist). After the Spanish Cardinal Borga usurps Pope Urban VIII, tries to murder him, and murders several of his allies, the Jesuits begin to suffer a schism — one remains loyal to Urban VIII and thus remain friendly to the uptimers, while the other — mostly composed of Spanish Inquisitors and witch-hunters — become outright hostile. | |
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Assassin's Creed: The Jesuits were a secret Templar faction that supervised the introduction of Catholicism in the Far East as a front to recruit more Templars among the converts. | |
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