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Holier Than Thou

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Holier Than Thou	comment	If your work features a religion of some sort, the chances are high that the only character associated with that religion—aside from the saintly All-Loving Hero and devoted Good Shepherd—will be an arrogant blowhard who thinks they are better than "non-believers". Whether the crude and self-righteous Knight Templar or the outright bastard whose piety is nothing but a front, this character will not hesitate to remind you at every opportunity how much more moral they are, and how you are just a "heathen" and "sinner" who is going to Hell for not believing in their god. At the same time, they are likely to make bigoted insults and engage in sins of their own — expect them to brush them off or have a Never My Fault attitude about it. This is especially true if the cast is a bunch of jerkasses anyway. This one is so pervasive that finding an overtly religious character in media and making him or her likable without promoting an anvilicious agenda is difficult. This is especially so if the character is genuine clergy, although you might get lucky with a kind priest or monk of some sort. If you see one of these people in a slasher or horror movie, don't get too attached as they are often the first to get killed in rather nasty fashion. If there are multiple clerical characters and some sort of ranked hierarchy, the higher ranking members are much more likely to be evil or corrupt and possibly so because of their high rank. This trope taken to its logical conclusion gets you the Corrupt Church that thinks of itself as a Saintly Church. If news coverage emphasizes stories with a priest molesting a child more as opposed to, say, a teacher, one reason is that though both hold positions of authority, priests are the ones (usually, but not always) who claim a moral superiority at the same time. Note: Despite the above text, this trope is not limited to religious people, as it refers to anyone, both religious or non-religious, who considers themselves morally superior to others and this trait has been seen in people (in fiction and real-life) of any and all ideologies. The exact words "holier than thou" are found in the King James Version of Isaiah 65, though there in an example referring specifically to insincere priests, who take part in unholy rituals and yet think themselves better than the common people: Subtrope of Pride. Contrast Eviler than Thou, More Hero than Thou, Good Shepherd, and Real Men Love Jesus. Compare Blasphemous Boast (in which "thou" is a god) Egocentrically Religious, The Fundamentalist, Hollywood Atheist, and Reflexive Remark of Reverence. See also Acceptable Targets, Straw Hypocrite. See also Rightly Self-Righteous if the character sees themselves as righteous because they truly are. No Real Life Examples, Please!. Nearly everyone in real-life, religious and non-religious, is like this at some point and who is displaying this behavior is often subjective; for example, it has seen much overuse as a blanket accusation against religious people.
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Holier Than Thou / int_1367cea0	comment	In the Worm fanfic Recoil, Taylor Hebert travels back twenty-two years and gets to know her paternal grandmother rather better than she had originally. This sweet old lady is fervently Christian, and equally fervently anti-gay. The latter causes a few problems later on...
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Holier Than Thou / int_160c1407	comment	Metallica had a song on Metallica (better known as The Black Album) titled "Holier Than Thou". The narrator is accusing the person he's talking to of being this. Lyrics include the lines:
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Holier Than Thou / int_18494c61	comment	Annals of the Western Shore: Iddor, son of Gand Ioratth, is really into the holy-war aspects of occupying Ansul. Since his father is an Old Soldier who sees the whole venture as a waste of time he nevertheless has to carry out, Iddor takes every opportunity he can to prove he's a better Ald—he insults and snubs Orrec, who's there as a guest, and stages all sorts of loud, showy religious ceremonies to make his father look bad for being irritated. In fact, the whole reason the Ansul Rebel Leader's plan fails is that Iddor rescheduled a sacrifice solely to piss off his dad.
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Holier Than Thou / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: The Chantry has an unfortunate tendency to produce this mindset. The worst elements of the Templars, the Chantry's military arm, feel that it's their divine right to treat mages however they want — and to execute anyone, mage or civilian, who disagrees. Anders often acts like this in Dragon Age II: he acts as if he understands magic, the mage conflict and what all mages want better than anyone, down to berating Merrill for using Blood Magic even though he himself is possessed, and potentially murdering a young mage for being frightened of him and calling him a demon if Hawke can't talk him down.
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Holier Than Thou / int_1bdeba5a	comment	Rev. William Stryker is a more straight example of this trope in the X-Men universe, who is a televangelist and a "devoted Christian" who was willing to murder his own son and wife.
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Holier Than Thou / int_1f76648	comment	The majority of the Roman Catholic leadership and God's Right Seat from the magic side of A Certain Magical Index are filled with this. To the point they don't see any issues with killing off the "unbelievers" and making "necessary sacrifices" out of the truly faithful. Ironically though, the head-honcho, the Pope, is actually a pretty swell guy and really sick of this attitude, noting the irony of how the common people put him on a pedestal compared to say, Archbishop Laura Stuart. Really, at least the Anglicans and the Japanese Catholics were pretty honest when they talk to Touma.
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Holier Than Thou / int_20fd725a	comment	Michael from Innocents Shounen Juujigun is convinced that he's the paragon of Godly behavior and that his rules are as good as law...and that anyone who rejects the standards his church sets deserves to die. He also believes that he is the true chosen child of God, not Etienne, and that the latter is nothing more than a heretic for even assuming he can take that role.
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Holier Than Thou / int_213274af	comment	The Expanded Universe novels include a species of alien that worship an offshoot of the Prophets, murdering anyone who worshiped either the normal Prophets or the Pah-Wraiths as heretics and false believers. Also in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch, we have Vedek Yevir, who has ambitions to be kai. At first he looks like a retread of Kai Winn in some regards (tensions with Kira included). However...he gets better later on, particularly in Worlds of Deep Space Nine: Cardassia. He talks a 14-year-old would-be suicide bomber into standing down.
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Holier Than Thou / int_2372359	comment	In The Belgariad Relg, an Ulgo with the ability to pass through stone, aggravates his companions with his incredible self-righteousness. After he's confronted with his own hypocrisy he turns self-hating for a while, but eventually mellows out.
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Holier Than Thou / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Zig-Zagged Trope with Ned Flanders. He's usually portrayed as incredibly nice and compassionate, even to someone like Homer who constantly abuses him, and his faith is shown to be a source of his friendly nature. He's also shown undergoing at least one realistically-portrayed crisis of faith, but still doesn't lose his religion. He's also had a bunch of cringe-worthy moral-guardian moments (such as the time he claimed he's so fit and well-built because he constantly runs for the cure... for homosexuality...), and even his kids are disturbed when he spends untold hours staring at recordings of daily TV shows in search of corruption and anti-Christianity in order to complain about them on the Internet. "Daddy, we think you need a new Mommy..." With that in mind, Flanders DID get more fundamentalist when Maude died, making it a possible example of clinging to religion in an extreme fashion to get past the trauma and pain of losing his wife. The more time he had to cope, however, the more tolerant he got, even to the point of marrying Edna Krabbappel.
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Holier Than Thou / int_2823179d	comment	In The Dirty Dozen, Maggott tries to justify his murder and alleged rape of women through his special interpretation of Holy Scripture. He's still the most evil character in the entire movie. And in a movie of Nazis vs. criminals, that's really saying something.
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Holier Than Thou / int_2acb12c5	comment	The Paranids in the X-Universe play this to the hilt. They are a theocracy and consider every other life form in the known universe unholy to the point of not allowing any non-Paranid to live on their planetsnote though the other races wouldn't really want to live on them anyway because they can't tolerate the climate, although not to the point of trying to wipe them all out.
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Holier Than Thou / int_2b2195d5	comment	Both averted and played straight in Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth. Bishop Waleran is a scheming, manipulative, selfish jerk who exploits his office for personal and political gain. The protagonist, Prior Philip, is a humble, genuinely devout man who seemingly has no limit to his compassion. The strongest example is near the end, where after Waleran's schemes come crashing down, depriving him of everything and leaving him a penniless beggar, Prior Philip forgives him and takes him into the Monastery. This is despite Waleran being personally responsible for most of Philip's troubles for over a decade, including the death of several of Philip's friends.
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Holier Than Thou / int_2c0b2cfc	comment	Sam from the webcomic Men in Hats.
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Holier Than Thou / int_30876163	comment	Blue Exorcist: Paladin Arthur Auguste Angel makes sure that everyone knows how great he is.
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Holier Than Thou / int_32c541e6	comment	The con artist Father Cornello from Fullmetal Alchemist puts on a Good Shepherd front but he shows himself a self-righteous prick to Edward.
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Holier Than Thou / int_3558eaa2	comment	Shirley in Community both parodies and plays this straight; she's the most openly and passionately religious of the study group members, and while, for the most part, she's a likable and friendly person, her beliefs can lead her to get very obnoxiously self-righteous very quickly.
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Holier Than Thou / int_35760d42	comment	The BrontÃ«s liked this trope; the schoolmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst, in Jane Eyre is a hypocritical clergyman who forces the girls under his charge to live in deprivation and, eventually, disease under the excuse that it is God's will that they be cured of their sins through Christian austerity, whilst simultaneously fleecing the joint and ensuring that he and his family live in obscene luxury.
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Holier Than Thou / int_35e05f2a	comment	In RWBY, this is what drives a significant part of the conflict between General Ironwood and any would-be allies. Ironwood wants to stop Salem and repeatedly justifies his actions by claiming they're for the "greater good", but he's firmly convinced that only he knows what the "greater good" is. His refusal to consider any other alternatives, combined with his callous disregard for anyone he deems unimportant, results in his policies and methods harming the people he should be protecting while enabling Salem's Divide and Conquer methods.
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Holier Than Thou / int_37a71462	comment	The saintly Bishop Myriel in Les MisÃ©rables is one of the biggest aversions of this trope out there. He donates most of his salary to the poor and lives in humble surroundings so the fancy house designated for him can be used as a hospital for the sick. When he gives paroled convict Jean Valjean a meal and a place to sleep, Valjean repays him by stealing the church's silverware. When the police capture Valjean and bring him back, Myriel lies to them and supports Valjean's claim that Myriel gave him the silver as a gift. When the police let him go, Myriel tells Valjean to sell the silver and use the proceeds to live an honest life. It inspires Valjean to do just that, and help other people.
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Holier Than Thou / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 3: Zeus thinks himself morally upright especially in comparison to Ares, when in honesty he's decidedly worse than Ares. They're both unrepentant manipulative mass murderers but at least Ares isn't a misogynistic serial rapist who has committed multiple genocides and is upfront about the fact that he's a backstabber while Zeus refuses to admit he has any shortcomings of his own and is homicidally offended any time anyone insinuates he might be in the wrong.
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Holier Than Thou / int_3953baf0	comment	The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Frollo's main defining trait throughout the movie. He thinks that he's better than the rest of Paris' citizens - even though the Archdeacon has to stop him from committing infanticide in the first ten minutes. He even starts his prayers by mentioning how proud of himself he is, without ever noticing the irony.
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Holier Than Thou / int_3a596334	comment	Seen prominently in Shin Megami Tensei I and Shin Megami Tensei II. Although the other side's guys are jerkasses, too. The Messians were just jerkasses first. In general, Law is almost invariably this while Chaos is "Screw The Rules, We've Got Demonic Powers".
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Holier Than Thou / int_41b0198a	comment	Downright defied in The Dresden Files by Michael Carpenter, one of the Knights of the Cross. He's strongly religious and unafraid to show it but is also a genuinely nice guy unless you're a demon or a similarly irredeemably evil being. Even then he's usually at least polite. Harry specifically lampshades that Michael is righteous, not self-righteous, and notes there's a big difference between the two. He even tries to offer Nicodemus, a 2000-year-old guy who shares a body with a demon and has killed countless people, a chance to turn back from his evil ways over the phone. Granted, Nicodemus just laughed at him, but he still tried.
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Holier Than Thou / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: About 19 in every 20 angels have this kind of attitude, even the ones who know God hasn't been giving them orders for millennia. All but a very small minority of angels think they're better than anything that isn't an angel, and many of them place little to no value on human life whilst holding themselves as if they're superior. Due to this, the main heroes (one of whom is an angel himself) don't think highly of angels at all even without all the grief and misery that angels have caused over the show.
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Holier Than Thou / int_48b89582	comment	Mary from Roomies! very quickly develops into this, frequently lecturing everyone around her, even her best friend, for minor things while hiding the fact that she's a total hypocrite. Her rebooted version from Dumbing of Age manages to be even worse.
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Holier Than Thou / int_4ea10091	comment	Grandia II has High Priestess Selene ( or at least, she gives a good performance as this trope, at first). The first time you meet her, she's considering having a village burnt down because a blind child can suddenly see.
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Holier Than Thou / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Kankri in Homestuck is a weird example. He's not devoted to a religion, but to social worker-style psychobabble. As such, he would insist that the tries to be non-judgemental and avoids "trigger words" that might lead others to think, however incorrectly, that he might see them as less than himself in any way. This is a load of crap; he judges everyone, all the time, and is oblivious to how irritating they find him.
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Holier Than Thou / int_52690c13	comment	In Penumbra: Black Plague, the Tuurngait are an example of this, trying to explain how they're so much better than humanity - after having spent the entirety of the game trying to Kill All Humans. Not a particularly religious example, but a good fit, nonetheless.
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Holier Than Thou / int_5755b96a	comment	Miko Miyazaki from The Order of the Stick believes the gods command her to follow every law to the letter, making her act in such a way that perverts the law, even to other paladins. Even after the gods strip Miko of her magic for crossing the Moral Event Horizon in their eyes, Miko believes it's all some sort of grand conspiracy, and that she isn't at fault for any of the things she's done. Other paladins and the party cleric are shown in a much more sympathetic light. though.invoked
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Holier Than Thou / int_58907201	comment	Seymore of Sinfest is relatively tame as far as most examples are concerned. He's actually a good man at heart, his biggest problem is that his ignorance and fanaticism greatly overshadow his better qualities.
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Holier Than Thou / int_5f1376d2	comment	The Inquisitor Pucci from the 2005 version of Casanova, played by Jeremy Irons. Rather than speaking about forgiveness, redemption, or any attempt to save the souls of those ostensibly under his care as a member of the Church, Pucci's goals all seem to revolve around control. There also appears to be an order of nuns willing to add another notch to Casanova's bedpost. When admonished for risking (or perhaps earning, in the eyes of the inquisitor) eternal damnation for a single night with Casanova, the response is "seems fair."
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Holier Than Thou / int_6234f5b3	comment	More than one villain of the 2010s Father Brown series has been this, although a similar number have been Straw Nihilists.
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Holier Than Thou / int_627b3897	comment	Robbie's wife's parents from Everybody Loves Raymond. Also, Frank has his few moments and Marie her many moments.
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Holier Than Thou / int_63230cb	comment	Shockingly, this is Gohan's attitude in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. As Perfect Cell and Android 16 point out, Gohan thinks he's better than everyone else because, unlike his father, the Z-Warriors, and the villains they face, he's a pacifist who doesn't want to fight. He also grows incredibly annoyed by Goku because he isn't as intelligent as he is as well as the amount of Parental Neglect from either being off training or dead. This attitude is deconstructed when Perfect Cell and Android 16 call him out for this, calling him a Dirty Coward who'd rather let the world die than let go of his morals.
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Holier Than Thou / int_6369b8a8	comment	The 1991 Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie plays it both straight and subverted. The bishop is firmly pro-sheriff, to the point of embracing the sheriff's devil-worshiping religion and helps marry him to Marian at the sheriff's Satanic altar (despite the latter flatly refusing), and tries to flee with gold when Locksley storms the castle. On the other hand, Friar Tuck, the down-to-earth churchman, is not only wise, sympathetic, and friendly but can drink sacramental wine and beer with the best of them. What's more, he gets so incensed at the bishop's greed and corruption he defenestrates the bishop from a tower with enough gold and "thirty pieces of silver to pay the Devil on your way to Hell!"
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Holier Than Thou / int_67b085d3	comment	Igrain Crest in The Priory of the Orange Tree considers herself the most virtuous person in Virtudom. Although she keeps the extent of it under wraps, she is the serving Knight of Justice (one of the Six Virtues) and her granddaughter Roslain is less subtle in this attitude. Igrain takes it to villainous levels, though. It transpires that she is the mysterious "Cupbearer" who helped Sigoso murder Queen Rosarian, which she did because Rosarian had an affair. Igrain later has Queen Sabran's chosen husband killed because he wasn't the prince Igrain wanted her to marry, and she imprisons Sabran and tries to force her to abdicate when Sabran loses her pregnancy; when she's finally imprisoned (with Roslain's help), Igrain shows no remorse because she was just trying to prevent Inys from falling into sin.
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Holier Than Thou / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Cardinal Roark of the Sin City story "The Hard Goodbye" used the mob, a police death squad, and a silent and deadly farm boy cannibal whose proclivities he shared in order to do his dirty work. Too bad he was also The Man Behind the Curtain. However, Marv is shown to be a practicing Catholic as well, and he wears a cross around his neck.
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Holier Than Thou / int_6c8e383c	comment	Bastila in Knights of the Old Republic makes a point of being a more perfect adherent to the letter of the Code of the Jedi than everyone else, though by the end of the game Character Development sets in and she becomes a lot nicer. This pride is the very thing that makes it so easy for the Big Bad to turn her to the Dark Side. Atris in the second game refers to herself as the "Last of the Jedi", since in her mind, the Jedi Exile does not count. She also completely fails to realize she has slowly turned to the Dark Side, while the Light-Sided Exile is closer to a true Jedi. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, antagonistic Jedi faced by Imperial classes tend to be pompous hypocrites who are full of themselves and are always willing to brag about their moral superiority regardless of their own actions or how you've been playing your character. If the player character is closer to light-side they get some particularly frustrated responses and get to deliver a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to these Jedi. In the case of the Sith Warrior's first Arc Villain, a Light-side leaning Warrior can make him fall to the Dark Side by point by point proving how much of a better person they are (after said Jedi had become a Well-Intentioned Extremist to deal with the Warrior), to the point they start quoting the Jedi code at him, which fits the Warrior more than their nemesis at that point and makes him fall even harder.
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Holier Than Thou / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	The proprietors of the "Hell House" in a Halloween sequence in Something*Positive are fundamentalist Christians who lead visitors through a haunted house that's supposed to show them the horrors of promiscuity, homosexuality, secularism, and other bogeymen of the religious right, then refuse to let them leave unless they profess Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. However, the set-up is subverted in that the character who calls them out on their attitude is himself a devout Christian who is disgusted at what he sees as a perversion of his faith. To prove his point, he decides to Take a Third Option and sits down, refusing to leave until they let him walk out without saying a thing. When they still won't let him leave, he calls the cops.note These "hell houses" are a real thing, but they typically let people leave with a tract or two in hand; they don't kidnap people.
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Holier Than Thou / int_6d92a167	comment	Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness: Jenner Rythmore, the Jerkass head of the HDA, is firmly convinced that monsters are Always Chaotic Evil and declares open war on them at the first opportunity. Ceal sums him up as such in Act VI; Jenner rants about how monsters are all the same and do nothing but lie and kill, to which Ceal retorts that humans are hardly any different, that Jenner speaks as if humans are all universally good and pure, and declares that for all his talk about wanting to protect humanity, all Jenner really is is a human who thinks he's above monsters just because he's human.
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Holier Than Thou / int_70814599	comment	In Stargate SG-1, given that the "gods" are usually evil, anyone who's particularly devout toward them is probably evil as well, both in the case of the Goa'uld and the Ori. Played straight and averted in Episode 52, "Demons". The Canon is a self-righteous (and self-worshiping) witch-hunt leader; Simon is the devout, who stands up both to the corrupt Canon and "the Devil" (actually a Goa'uld-possessed Unas) at the episode's climax. Senator Kinsey, who loves to tell people how he's doing God's work, even if he has to get in bed with the Devil, said Devil being a shady government agency stealing alien tech and pissing off humanity's only allies.
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Holier Than Thou / int_7374da0d	comment	Cheat Magician Life That Started From Being Judged Useless brings us the case of a Dr. Jerk Takagi Keiicairou. He's the Therapist sent by Japan to the other world to provide therapeutic counselling to all the currently alive summoning victims, especially Kento's schoolmates, including Kento himself. Problem is, he has a strange fixation on browbeating and looking down as hard as he can on protagonist Kento Kobuku, because the poor kid simply isn't a machine that is pumping through his schoolmates back home rapid-fire, for free, at the expense of all else. It doesn't matter who calls him out on it. He is utterly convinced that Kento is nothing more than a shameless skirt-chasing playboy who let a special magical gift go to his head and needs to be browbeat, insulted, and verbally beat-down at every opportunity.
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Holier Than Thou / int_739d59fc	comment	In Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents, this seems to be the hat of the Church of Christian America. Notable examples: Early in the book, Marcus Duran is rescued by his sister, who is in the process of founding a new religion. He decides to try to convert her followers to Christianity by convincing them that Earthseed is nonsense — without bothering to find out what Earthseed actually teaches. He then leaves, graciously forgiving his sister for the fact that her followers pointed out his mistakes. The guards at the Camp Christian reeducation facility are devoted to teaching their prisoners to be good, hardworking Christians. They consider themselves to be better people than their prisoners — despite making the prisoners do all of the work and letting several of them die of overwork and lack of medical attention. Reverend Chandler Benton likes to preach sermons on the evils of every form of sexual behavior he does not indulge in. His sermons mention, for example, homosexuality. They do not mention rape. Later in the book, Marcus Duran, now a minister of Christian America, tries to tell his sister — who was enslaved and tortured, and had her daughter Larkin kidnapped, by members of Christian America — that she should join the church to find her daughter. She doesn't. When he later finds Larkin, he doesn't tell his sister where she is, because he thinks she's better off being raised by emotionally abusive Christian Americans than by her non-Christian mother.
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Holier Than Thou / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Several novels delved into Kai Winn's behavior and how she came off to be holier than thou to most of Bajor and outsiders who had dealings with her. In the relaunch novels Vedek Yevir Linjarin at first comes off as this. As time goes on Yevir's attitude changes, especially after the recently returned Kai Opaka tells him that he shares a good deal of responsibility for the religious discord across Bajor when he excommunicated Colonel Kira. Yevir becomes more of a [1] afterwards. At one point Yevir is able to talk down a teenage suicide bomber. When the time finally comes to elect Winn's replacement (Opaka having refused to resume the office after her return), Yevir decides not to become a candidate for the office of Kai but to continue as a member of the Vedek Assembly.
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Holier Than Thou / int_764175c4	comment	Joked about in The Cartoon History of the Universe during the introduction to Indian religion: Two men standing in the Ganges during the Kumbh Mela:
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Holier Than Thou / int_7884c10d	comment	Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose: Raven Hex frequently harbors delusions of being the greatest proponent that witchcraft has ever seen. This was proven wrong when she tried to rally all of the many covens together, and most of the other witches refused to listen to her bullshit. Played straight and subverted respectively with a Christian woman and a priest Tarot runs into during one her many "they hate me cause I'm a witch" angsts: the woman castigates Tarot as a sinner and harlot before the priest dresses said woman down for failing to "judge not." The priest then apologizes to Tarot and holds a brief friendly conversation with her.
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Holier Than Thou / int_7884ec15	comment	In one episode of Seinfeld, Elaine's boyfriend Puddy is revealed to be a Christian. When she asks him if it bothers him that she's not religious, he tells her he doesn't care because he's not the one going to Hell. He's very unhappy after they're told by a priest that, as a result of their extramarital sex, both are going to Hell (a sign of his self-righteous ignorance itself).
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Holier Than Thou / int_7c6649d2	comment	The Host (2008) has the souls. They see themselves as better than most species, especially humans, as they are peace-loving, refuse to use violence (unless a soul has the job of a Seeker, which includes hunting and finding new host bodies, with violence if necessary) and repeatedly say that they have 'improved' Earth and other planets they have taken over before. The fact that they are blatantly killing off species on the planets never occurs to them as violent or evil.
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Holier Than Thou / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Mark Russell is the non-religious type. He acts very high-and-mighty when he's rudely, belligerently, ungratefully, and at times hypocritically chastising his colleagues for not agreeing with his (understandable but ultimately grossly biased) rants that the Titans should be wiped out, and for using his research on a failed project to create an experimental device for manipulating Titans. That being said, he's not immune to recognizing he's wrong when someone actually calls him out on his bullshit or when he sees the negative results.
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Holier Than Thou / int_7d67ff2b	comment	Father in The Sacrament claims to be this. At the end of the film, we see him snorting coke and it's implied he's having sex with Caroline.
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Holier Than Thou / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: In the TOS novel "Vulcan's Forge" readers learn that as a young man Doctor McCoy had attended a religious revivals held on Earth. The preacher who led the revival was rather bigoted and railed against non-human races. Later on this same preacher made an attempt on the Andorian ambassador's life. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Several novels delved into Kai Winn's behavior and how she came off to be holier than thou to most of Bajor and outsiders who had dealings with her. In the relaunch novels Vedek Yevir Linjarin at first comes off as this. As time goes on Yevir's attitude changes, especially after the recently returned Kai Opaka tells him that he shares a good deal of responsibility for the religious discord across Bajor when he excommunicated Colonel Kira. Yevir becomes more of a [1] afterwards. At one point Yevir is able to talk down a teenage suicide bomber. When the time finally comes to elect Winn's replacement (Opaka having refused to resume the office after her return), Yevir decides not to become a candidate for the office of Kai but to continue as a member of the Vedek Assembly.
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Holier Than Thou / int_817acecf	comment	Implied in Fables: Legends In Exile when describing "The kingdom of the Great Lion fell, and again we did nothing, because we always found the old lion to be a bit too pompous and holier-than-thou for our tastes." This is a Shout-Out (or a Take That!) to Narnia. Word of God from series writer Bill Willingham is that many readers, both the "Hey, he's hatin' on Narnia!" and "Yeah, you show that stupid Narnia!" crowd didn't pick up the importance of the context this description was given in. Like the "Oddness" of Oz, the "Holier Than Thou" derogatory remarks were the excuse the other Fable Homelands used to justify ignoring the fall of these worlds. He's on the record as stating that he loves the Narnia books and characters. The later arc The Good Prince includes a much more positive cameo by Aslan, and he's on the record as hoping that the rights to use the characters might clear up one day.
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Holier Than Thou / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: Demona, like Frollo, attempts to purge the world of evil and sees corruption in every human (and quite a few gargoyles, too, like Goliath). This is more a delusional justification as it is nothing more than Fantastic Racism and extreme pettiness, refusing to see the hypocrisy in her actions.
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Holier Than Thou / int_8577f936	comment	Joseph in Wuthering Heights is a bullying, work-shy and snide man nevertheless full of pious sermons for anyone who crosses his path.
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Holier Than Thou / int_87944929	comment	The Commonwealth in Batman: Holy Terror is a theocratic empire that took over the United States and sees its brand of Puritanism as real Christianity, as they spread it by dominating Catholic nations in the Western Hemisphere such as Brazil and Peru.
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Holier Than Thou / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note has Light argue that his morals and upbringing are enough to excuse his killing spree throughout the series (plus he wants to be the "god of the new world"). Near denies this once he proves Light is Kira and calls him a murderer.
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Holier Than Thou / int_8d814070	comment	Col. Sam Flagg on MAS*H has been described by Hawkeye as "gung-holier than thou." Mix in a little Cloud Cuckoolander and that's Col. Flagg from head to toe. Major Frank Burns, when he wasn't being a sniveling weasel or an incompetent doctor, would behave as though he was the greatest American soldier besides MacArthur. Hawkeye, Trapper, and B.J. all enjoyed knocking him down several pegs. Burns' successor, Major Charles Winchester, subverted the trope. While at first he sneered at the surgical records of his camp mates, it turned out he really was as good as he said, only needing a brief adjustment to the fast-paced "meatball surgery" of the camp before he was stitching wounded and yanking shrapnel with the best of them.
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Holier Than Thou / int_8dfbdff2	comment	The religious Detective Rey Curtis in Law & Order frequently got very self-righteous and judgmental regarding the people around him and the criminals he investigated. After an extramarital one-night stand that almost destroyed his marriage, however, he gradually became a lot more humble.
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Holier Than Thou / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time: The Children of the Light, and many of the Aes Sedai (especially those of the Red Ajah). The Children of the Light were a mixed bunch. Eamon Valda was a nasty piece of work, and the Questioners were deep in Knight Templar territory, but Pedron Niall seemed genuine, if a tad cynically pragmatic, and later Galad definitely had his heart in the right place. Before her Start of Darkness, Graendal was a strict ascetic who made no secret of her disdain for anyone who fell short of her self-imposed standards, which was everyone. She turned to the Shadow and became The Hedonist when she decided the world could never be what she wanted it to be.
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Holier Than Thou / int_91bd8043	comment	This is how Ambrosio in The Monk justifies having sex with Matilda even after he exposed a young nun for having a lover. He's convinced he's just that awesome.
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Holier Than Thou / int_93b9b77c	comment	Angelic characters in Nexus War games have the option of becoming Zealot Angels, who have the power to kill those with gray marks on the Karma Meter without any stain on their own personal morality. Since this clashes with the more tolerant interpretation of Angels portrayed by most players, Zealots tend to be roleplayed as this trope. A few Zealots can learn an additional power, named (appropriately enough) "Holier Than Thou", which allows them to freely attack anyone with lower Morality than themselves - including other angels.
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Holier Than Thou / int_982fa89f	comment	Played with in the BBC Robin Hood series. A Catholic bishop publicly accuses Robin and his outlaws of being heretics, as well as anyone helping them. While it seems that he's on the Sheriff's side, it turns out that the Sheriff is blackmailing him. Apparently, the bishop is secretly translating the Bible into English to allow people to read the book themselves without an intermediary providing his own interpretation. If the truth gets out, the bishop will be excommunicated (or worse). Brother Tuck convinces the bishop to stand up to the Sheriff, who throws the translation into the fire. The end of the episode shows the bishop starting anew.
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Holier Than Thou / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super: Zamasu believes that he's more right than his fellow gods since he's willing to do something about the mortals who misuse the knowledge of the gods while they sit back and do nothing. This includes murdering his fellow gods since they wouldn't agree with his ideals and would try to stop him.
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Holier Than Thou / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the TOS novel "Vulcan's Forge" readers learn that as a young man Doctor McCoy had attended a religious revivals held on Earth. The preacher who led the revival was rather bigoted and railed against non-human races. Later on this same preacher made an attempt on the Andorian ambassador's life.
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Holier Than Thou / int_9bcc183b	comment	Claude Frollo, in both the original The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Disney movie. Disneyfication tempers the trope a little by demoting Frollo from Archdeacon of the Cathedral to a judge, and giving the job of Archdeacon to a much nicer fellow.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a144cb39	comment	Moral Orel: Most of the characters fall under the "piety as a front" version of this trope. They're all really much more concerned with enforcing social norms than any genuine faith, with the (apparently exclusive) exception of Orel himself. Rev. Putty seems to be a subversion too, especially as you get closer to the end of the series. He really seems to want to inspire hope and steer people toward a righteous life but is very understanding of alternate lifestyles and quick to admit he's human. That he has flaws and is just another guy with a job. Putty's Character Development and renewal of faith certainly help. The biggest offender is Miss Censordoll, who believes she is a god thanks to her sexual organs being removed in infancy and in fact says this verbatim.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing : The evangelicals from the first episode. In some episodes, Josh Lyman, a fellow Jew (if a seemingly less-devout one) notes that Toby has a tendency to treat Josh as somehow being a lesser Jew, partly because Toby comes from New York and Josh from Connecticut.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a3604622	comment	In The Baker's Wife, the vicar gets on everybody's nerves with his condescending air of superiority.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a3ef164b	comment	Ultimate Universe Nightcrawler declares his friend Colossus an "abomination" or some such when he finds out the poor guy is gay. Then again, everyone is a dick in the Ultiverse and this version of him isn't particularly religious.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a46c9a7a	comment	X-Men: Ultimate Universe Nightcrawler declares his friend Colossus an "abomination" or some such when he finds out the poor guy is gay. Then again, everyone is a dick in the Ultiverse and this version of him isn't particularly religious. Rev. William Stryker is a more straight example of this trope in the X-Men universe, who is a televangelist and a "devoted Christian" who was willing to murder his own son and wife.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: Jesus Himself was particularly harsh on holier-than-thou types, calling them hypocrites who "are like a tomb whitewashed and beautiful but full of old bones and dead people". He tended to emphasize the importance of humility and self-awareness of one's own shortcomings and often said that those who proudly perform "good deeds" in front of an audience so that everyone knows how good they are will receive no reward in Heaven, having already received all the reward they deserve. The Good Samaritan is particularly famous, where he shows both a priest and Levite (who performed the music in the Jewish Temple) passing by the injured man who lies on the road after being robbed, rather than helping him since it could ritually defile them if he's dead. Only the titular Samaritan (from a group despised traditionally by Jews) helps him, thus the "good" part. Naturally, there's a lot in here-not letting the Law of the Jews stop you from helping others or showing prejudice toward other people as well are often inferred. The Trope Namer comes from chapter 65 in the Book of Isaiah; an interesting case as it's not talking about (religious) Jews or Christians, but Israelite Pagans. God lambasts them for claiming to be holy in His sight while going against everything He ever commanded - and to add to this, they boast about their supposed holiness before the common man.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a61cf021	comment	The Power: Allie's foster parents make a big deal about them being good, upstanding Christians, her mother even congratulates herself over their charitable act of taking her in. Yet although they both believe they're better than other people, they're also horribly abusive to Allie and use their religious beliefs to justify this for themselves.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a7ae79c2	comment	In Star Wars: The Old Republic, antagonistic Jedi faced by Imperial classes tend to be pompous hypocrites who are full of themselves and are always willing to brag about their moral superiority regardless of their own actions or how you've been playing your character. If the player character is closer to light-side they get some particularly frustrated responses and get to deliver a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to these Jedi. In the case of the Sith Warrior's first Arc Villain, a Light-side leaning Warrior can make him fall to the Dark Side by point by point proving how much of a better person they are (after said Jedi had become a Well-Intentioned Extremist to deal with the Warrior), to the point they start quoting the Jedi code at him, which fits the Warrior more than their nemesis at that point and makes him fall even harder.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a7f10814	comment	In Saint Beast, being a god and all Zeus considers himself above criticism despite being the most morally bankrupt occupant of heaven and no more holy by nature than any other race.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a947ca1d	comment	Justified in Joan of Arcadia, as God is Holier Than Thou, and whatever he told Joan to do was ultimately right, even when it seemed wrong. Most other religious characters are a subversion, offering their interpretations of God in a non-demeaning manner. There was one character in one episode as a response to the priest sex abuse scandal, but he was a short-lived exception.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a9570fac	comment	Played more or less straight in Victoria. Anyone affiliated with a church or religion strongly tends to be written as either completely incorruptible (e.g., John Rumford, Maria de Alva, Gunny Matthews), or a completely over-the-top villain (e.g., Ayatollah Ghorbag, Bishop Devlin, the Cascadian goddess). However, Good Is Not Soft is in full effect, so "incorruptible" means anything but "pacifistic" in many cases.
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Holier Than Thou / int_a993be1f	comment	Atris in the second game refers to herself as the "Last of the Jedi", since in her mind, the Jedi Exile does not count. She also completely fails to realize she has slowly turned to the Dark Side, while the Light-Sided Exile is closer to a true Jedi.
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Holier Than Thou / int_abe2e836	comment	The spinster Emily Brent from And Then There Were None disowns her maid when she gets pregnant, claiming it's because the girl doesn't fit in her household anymore for not following the Word of God. Said maid is Driven to Suicide and Emily shows no remorse (though she has some disturbing visions in the course of the story). Judge Wargrave finds out, though, and in the mysterious island where the action takes place, he poisons her as punishment and a part of his Evil Plan to kill everyone. Not too surprisingly, the video game chose Emily Brent as its new "surprise" killer.
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Holier Than Thou / int_acb92fd0	comment	Played with a little in Father Ted. While Jack is a drunken lech and Dougal a ditz, Ted himself is a bit more complex. Clearly he is interested in fame and money but many occasions show that he at least has faith and often means well; he just is a bit too inclined to follow his baser desires. There is an interview with the creators where they discuss their real feelings on religion. If people haven't watched this, they may assume that Father Ted was an affectionate if sharp-tongued parody.
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Holier Than Thou / int_b2700e28	comment	In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, the first season's Big Bad, Karamazov, seems to believe he's much holier than everyone else, so all he does is justified, despite the fact the Ecclesiarch and the Custodes, the Emperor's personal servants, call him out on his actions. This only fuels his conviction that he is truly the most holy.
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Holier Than Thou / int_b52b40a2	comment	In Bumped, Harmony is like this, being from the Amish-like cult Goodside. She is convinced that she must convert her long-lost twin sister Melody to Christianity and stop her from being a surrogate for a family at age 16. It is revealed, however, that she ran away from her husband a few days after marrying him because she was unsure about women's role in Goodside as baby makers.
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Holier Than Thou / int_b541a2a5	comment	The House of Night: A recurring theme is that any male character who doesn't worship Nyx is inevitably a misogynistic, bible-toting hypocrite. In particular, the Big Bad of Lenobia's Vow is a Catholic bishop who believes his status makes it okay for him to rape and kidnap a bastard girl (and to use his pyrokinetic abilities to incinerate anyone who objects). Female characters usually subvert this trope, being compassionate and even-handed toward other faiths.
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Holier Than Thou / int_b5855830	comment	The Book of Eve: Sister Arcangela is sanctimonious and judgmental towards her fellow nuns and even Chiara, the convent's Mother Superior. She makes dramatic displays of piety, prostrating herself before the image of the Son, and is so modest that it doubles back around to being ostentatious. Brother Abramo is similarly convinced of his own righteousness. He makes public displays of mortifying his own flesh, preaches fire-and-brimstone sermons against the evils of his age, but he savours the attention from his followers and delights in calling down judgement on those he sees as sinners.
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Holier Than Thou / int_b8e28f2e	comment	Good Omens (2019): Played straight with angel Aziraphale:
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Holier Than Thou / int_b9d45d45	comment	Marianne and her Christian group in Easy A who protest everything they can think of, such as changing the school mascot from a Blue Devil to a Woodchuck and getting Olive (who accidentally starts and maintains a rumor about being a slut) expelled before "saving" her. It's especially frustrating since her boyfriend is actually sleeping with the guidance councilor, who gives him chlamydia. The movie makes a point to equate their views to the views of the townsfolk in The Scarlet Letter (unsurprisingly, since the film is loosely based on the book).
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Holier Than Thou / int_b9fa8728	comment	In Loving Vincent, Louise Chevalier is a churchgoing Christian, and also incredibly judgmental towards Vincent and the unruly youths of Auvers.
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Holier Than Thou / int_ba99af4d	comment	Saved!: Many of the religious characters are cheating, lying hypocrites who are only concerned with their own image. The decent people are hated and ostracized by the religious ones. Incidentally, the movie is set in the modern-day Midwestern United States. The movie ends, however, with the lead character, a formerly evangelical Christian who was ostracized by her school's Christian Girl Posse for getting pregnant, realizing that faith is not exclusively the province of these harsh fundamentalists, and seeking a more open and accepting form of Christianity which embraces others instead of judging them. Most characters in this movie could be considered religious people. And while some of them use it to justify truly jerkass behavior (or rather, rationalize the jerkass thing they want to do with a religious excuse), most of them are shown struggling with their faith at one point or another, even the Alpha Bitch.
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Holier Than Thou / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X, several of the leaders of Yevon as a whole fall into this in two ways. First, they are complicit to some degree in the church being a Path of Inspiration working for Yu Yevon. Second, they believe the protagonists to be naive children, and are holier than thou about the nature of the Path of Inspiration. Wakka starts this way. Though he's more or less a good guy who has no problems explaining how his religion works to Tidus he hates Al Bhed and reacts very badly to them, saying all the bad things that happen to them are deserved for not obeying Yevon's teachings (though it also has to do with his brother dying while using Al Bhed weapons). Halfway through the game, he changes his view after he learns more about them and the military force of Yevon attacks their Home, which has to be destroyed by Cid. Also seeing how hypocritical the leaders of Yevon truly are helps. Yuna is another aversion: extremely devoted to Yevon (at least until she learns the Final Summoning can never defeat Sin), but she also cares for others to an astonishing degree, and is painfully humble and self-effacing despite receiving the adoration of the entire country because she is going to sacrifice herself so people can live peacefully. In fact nearly all the lower-level members of the clergy are aversions of this trope.
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Holier Than Thou / int_c5188629	comment	Song at Dawn: This attitude can be found in Marcabu who uses his ballads to scold everyone about how they're failing to live up to God's expectations with their Courtly Love and excess and inability to reclaim the Holy Land.
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Holier Than Thou / int_c73f511c	comment	Boardwalk Empire has Nelson Van Alden, an incredibly messed-up Protestant fundamentalist and Prohibition agent; possibly Father Brennan, a Catholic priest with shady deals with corrupt politician Nucky Thompson (and whose influence turns Margaret Schroeder into a Hypocrite Hiding Behind Religion as well); and a rare Jewish example in Manny the Kosher butcher, who kills people with the same facility he offers rabbinical wisdom.
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Holier Than Thou / int_c9b98f4e	comment	In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "I Dream Of Smurfette", Tapper is accused of being "smurfier-than-thou" by Hefty when the two of them along with Handy and Greedy are standing together watching Smurfette go off on her business. Tapper, who is a Christian that is far from the type who would exemplify this trope, simply comments on why looking at Smurfette is more important than their going about their own business.
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Holier Than Thou / int_cac2047f	comment	Carlene Cockburn of the short-lived GCB weaponized this trope.
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Holier Than Thou / int_ccc74c7e	comment	Persephone of Sacrifice justifies this as she is a God, and the Goddess of Life and Nature to boot, but she comes off as quite arrogant with her dialogue (the manual's bestiary doesn't help this image) and she is easily just as aggressive and warlike as the evil gods (she's just as quick to shout down the pacifying attempts of James as Charnel and Pyro are).
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Holier Than Thou / int_d29072fd	comment	The Darksword Trilogy: Bishop Vanya, Head of the Church of the Almin and leader of the faith on Thimhallen is absolutely convinced of the righteousness of any action he takes he cannot even fathom that those who oppose him might be wrong. His character bio even states that he views his relationship with the Almin (essentially God) as less that of Master and Servant and more equal business partners. Even more galling is the fact that, by the end of the series, he has faced no comeuppance for the crimes he committed in the name of his own power, and dies offscreen between the third and fourth books.
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Holier Than Thou / int_d2bae484	comment	The Weaver Family from Season 8 of The Amazing Race. They constantly trumpeted how they were the only team who deserved to win because they were the only good people on the Race, yet they were that season's least popular team and were hated by all the other teams because of the way they acted and their general attitudes. Charla and Mirna (Seasons 5 and 11) were a less severe case of this, but that still didn't stop them from condemning the other teams for being untrustworthy and back-stabbing them. Season 5 even saw Mirna rant that all the other teams were jealous of them.
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Holier Than Thou / int_d3631a89	comment	Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010) features a subplot in which the Church is taxing the peasants unfairly. Initially, Friar Tuck is reluctant to help out of fear of persecution but eventually ends up helping Robin to begin robbing their wagons and stealing the grain back.
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Holier Than Thou / int_d46cc708	comment	Ed, Edd n Eddy: Edd/Double D is the smartest of the three title characters and feels he has the most morals out of all of them due to clearly knowing right from wrong and often feeling ashamed for any wrongdoings he and his friends cause. He also is quick to brag about his "higher morals" than his friends and rub it in their faces when they don't listen to him and end up getting in trouble because of it. This has actually led to him betraying his friends a few times due to believing it will teach them a lesson, like voting for Plank over Eddy as King of The Cul-de-sac, delivering Ed and Eddy's report cards to their parents himself under orders from the principal, and aiding Kevin in getting revenge on Eddy for a prank. Eddy eventually calls him out on this in The Big Picture Show, when Double D blames him and all his scams for their problems, stating that Double D isn't as innocent as he always claims to be by willingly participating and building many of their scams, including the one that went horribly wrong in the movie.
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Holier Than Thou / int_e144ba19	comment	Anders often acts like this in Dragon Age II: he acts as if he understands magic, the mage conflict and what all mages want better than anyone, down to berating Merrill for using Blood Magic even though he himself is possessed, and potentially murdering a young mage for being frightened of him and calling him a demon if Hawke can't talk him down.
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Holier Than Thou / int_e365af07	comment	Pharisee in Dino Attack RPG is depicted as a ruthless Inspector Javert-style lawman who believes he has a divine right to impart justice on others. Interestingly, he believes he has crossed his Moral Event Horizon and uses this as his justification for brutally treating violent criminals since he believes that his fate will be the same either way. Averted by Dr. Noomi Shaw, who was written as a sympathetic character specifically to avoid falling into this trope.
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Holier Than Thou / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: Dry Crusader Norman Grigor lives and breathes this trope in "The Night of the Stag".
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Holier Than Thou / int_e75c6d45	comment	Kore from Goblins. Despite being a Paladin (last of the Gray Paladins in fact) he is by far the most evil thing in the entire series. He attacks peaceful Orcs, Goblins, and other 'unclean' races, without even doing a 'Detect Evil' scan and mercilessly kills and tortures them (including poor Chief). When he found a dwarf child who had been raised by a kindly Orc? He kills said child since he had been 'tainted'. Immediately when Forgath and Minmax show up he begins attacking them even though, due to a misunderstanding, they were attacking the Goblin Adventuring Party just like he was. Forgath decides he has to Hold the Line against Kore so Minmax and the Goblins can escape into a dungeon...
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Holier Than Thou / int_e7e37776	comment	Downplayed with the character Book from Firefly. He does have some elements of this trope, such as giving the other characters spiritual advice (and he manages to do so in a way that is not at all preachy) and sticking to Thou Shalt Not Kill even in rather life-threatening situations. Also, unlike most examples of Holier Than Thou, Book manages to make more than a few jokes about religiosity and Holier Than Thou itself: at one point, Inara asks if he's going to preach about the error of her ways, and Book replies: "I just brought you some dinner, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I have a few catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire—one has lepers."
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Holier Than Thou / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Peter's Bible-thumping father Francis is self-righteous, arrogant, and extraordinarily selfish, using his devotion to God to be terrible not just to his own son, but everyone around him. Even when The Pope gets involved in attempting to convince Francis that Peter is a decent man worthy of God's love, Francis flatly rejects him and his authority, which briefly angers His Holiness enough to threaten him with excommunication.
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Holier Than Thou / int_ea787cd1	comment	Only a Woman Can Take This Sort of Abuse (Forgotten Realms Spin-a-Yarn story) used this straight and then doubled back: a paladin shrank back from a drow and...
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Holier Than Thou / int_ec9155b1	comment	Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods sees himself as the most feverent follower of Omnianism, and the only possible candidate to be the next prophet of the Great God Om. Om sees him as a psychotic weirdo who, like almost everyone in Omnia, he can't commune with because what they believe in isn't actually him.
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Holier Than Thou / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts has Master Xehanort, who seeks Balance Between Light and Darkness... but is ultimately the worst Dark Is Evil Sociopath in the series, ruining many lives (even his own brother figure's and his pupils') on his trek and just invoking Because Destiny Says So whenever given a Kirk Summation. Hypocritically, he himself sees anyone Light-heavy as this, even if they're Properly Paranoid toward Darkness (which he hasn't helped).
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Holier Than Thou / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Aversions are notable in how systematic they are. No priest—be it Brother Theo, Ivanova's rabbi, or any of the other priests or priest-equivalents passing through B5—is shown to be anything other than a good person following their tenets. Delenn is a particularly notable aversion. She is quite religious and is even a nominal priestess. She is also a Messianic Archetype. However, she expresses her messiahship as a stateswoman, not as a religious figure, has a few dark secrets in her past, and so on. She is seldom particularly self-righteous; for instance, she was the one who suggested giving Londo an invitation to the rebirth ceremony. On the other hand, it's played straight with some of the more uptight members of the Minbari religious caste. An alien couple in "Believers" were willing to let their ill son die rather than submit him to surgery, which was against their beliefs. Dr. Franklin operates on him anyway. It didn't occur to him that the parents would destroy what they now believe to be a soulless zombie of their son. In a tragic rather than malicious example, the Markab race died out of plague mostly because they believed that the malady was a divine punishment for debauchery and concealed all facts of contraction out of fear of embarrassment. When the news of the plague spread across the Babylon 5 and the resident Markabs began falling victim both to the disease and angered neighbors, their priest convinced all his kindred to lock themselves in a separate section where they would be untouched by the general corruption and protected by their purity. Naturally, a horde of people susceptible to a respiratory infection gathered closely together in an air-tight space worked out just as well as you'd think. In the end, the entire race except for a few isolated colonies died off in a matter of days.
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Holier Than Thou / int_f8705c18	comment	Hellsing has a couple of religious characters who are all Christian. The Hellsing organization is made up of Protestants and mostly not that holy (sans Integra) but the Catholic Iscariot Unit is really into God and if their badass mascot is rather likable his superior is anything but a Nice Guy. Rather unusually for this trope, they're a card-carrying version: as one of the Unit's goals is personal damnation for its members they take pride in the unholiness of their acts in God's name.
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Holier Than Thou / int_fa3670ec	comment	Elohim Eternal: The Babel Code: Some characters believe they've been given a divine mission by the Kosmokraters and that they have free reign to antagonize and kill anyone they want for the sake of that mission. They'll usually call anyone who hasn't communicated with the Kosmokraters "Blind Ones." In the endgame, it's revealed that the Kosmokraters are speaking to these people by using holograms. They are confirmed to have influenced Balaam, Henock, Nestor, and Lamech into becoming zealots.
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Holier Than Thou / int_fd6480da	comment	In Mysterious Ways: A Divine Comedy, this is played for laughs. Almost the entire angel race fits this trope. Despite being a mortal genus of birds, they claim to be of divine origin, descended directly from the Judeo-Christian God. Every angel is given a choice between training to be a "divine servant", or having their wings cut off and their magic stripped away. This is rationalized by the belief that angels are created specifically to act as divine servants, and if they're not going to do that, they don't really need wings or magic. Angels also have their own branch of Christianity, characterized by a refusal to allow any non-angels to serve as priests because they "don't want to hear about God from one of His rejects." To be fair, several of the regular Christian churches have banned angels from even attending mass. (Again, to be fair, it's because of all the incidents of angels accusing the priest of not having proper authority to speak for God.) To be fair, they are better at divine magic that other creatures like humans, and they make an effort to lend a hand to those in need. Well, except for non-Christians. Or 'cubi. Or homosexuals. Or anyone that has had recreational sex. They also insist that angels only have sex while possessed by the Holy Spirit, so that they can claim God is the father, and they are thus the only true "Children of God".
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