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As any religious scholar will tell you, Christ said many things that were profound, inspiring, and uplifting, but He wasn't all too entertaining... or was He? It's an interesting phenomenon: Jesus is generally presented as an admirable figure, or at least benign, even in non-Christian or anti-Christian media. Atheists, Jews, Buddhists, cynics — anyone who might author stories unflattering in their portrayal of the Almighty, The Bible or religion in general — are nonetheless complimentary to the original Nice Jewish Boy. This can be used as a Take That! to Christianity ("Jesus was cool even if His followers all suck"), but also as a Pet the Dog moment from a character who is otherwise portrayed as villainous and/or hostile to the status quo ("Even Bad Men Love Their Jesus"). This makes sense, in a way. Jesus was supposed to be God in mortal form, and as such, having a sense of humor is possible, if not probable. This is not always received well. Portraying Jesus as a cool dude can somewhat dent His gravitas as a religious figurehead, and as a result some Christians can get offended by (what they consider to be) the trivialization of their Lord and Savior. There's also the fact that Jesus is a figure in Islam as well, and general Islamic sentiment is that prophets are sacred and should not be portrayed. Others may note that Jesus is Way Cool because He happens to agree with the writer on all sorts of subjects, even those where all the evidence is the other way round. On the other hand, when employed in works that try to play up Christianity as being "cool" by association, it generally gets a free pass. Always remember that tropes are neither inherently good nor inherently bad, just tools. The trope is usually associated with atheistic former Christians who are attempting to dissociate themselves from Christianity, but still have issues with it, and therefore need to view/depict Christ as a sympathetic figure, in order to obtain integration, resolution, and catharsis; Kevin Smith's example (from Dogma, as shown in the trope photo) is quintessential of this, as was South Park's attempt to basically include Jesus as a member of their community. In these cases, it can overlap with God Before Dogma: their issue isn't necessarily with the Lord Himself, just with religious doctrines or practices done in His name. Nevertheless, the trope actually does have some genuine theological support insofar as Jesus tended to associate with the outcast and marginalised members of society, like prostitutes, people found guilty of adultery, tax collectors, and various other types who were considered unsavoury by the religious authorities of the day. He also had a pronounced anti-authoritarian streak, regularly calling out religious leaders for hypocrisy and acting Holier Than Thou. Several portions of the Bible also portray Him as a master of the Verbal Judo and an expert in Shaming the Mob, which undeniably gives Him an air of being an accomplished Badass Pacifist. And last, but certainly not least, there are also the facts that Jesus' whole ethos is bound up on the idea that He is the ultimate All-Loving Hero who will offer Forgiveness to all who willingly seek it, no matter how great their crime or transgression, and that is His whole mission is being The Paragon who will lead humanity unto a better path. These are all traits that are highly likely to find Values Resonance across time periods and cultural differences. Study of the New Testament (and the non-canon Gospels) will tend to show Christ as much less severe than He is sometimes depicted by certain church authorities, who have been known to (ironically) misuse His words with an eye on political and social control. When Jesus surpasses "way cool" and delves into "Freakin' Badass", that's Kung-Fu Jesus. Compare and contrast Jesus Was Crazy, Hippie Jesus. When cool people express admiration for him, it's a case of Real Men Love Jesus. When people philosophize about imitating Him, it often overlaps with What Would X Do?. A supertrope to No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus (Jesus is always special, even if there are individuals In-Universe who are capable of matching or exceeding His own supernatural feats) and No Such Thing as Space Jesus (one part this to one part Humans Are Special). Also overlaps with Everyone Is Christian at Christmas, when even people of other faiths or none think it's cool to observe that holiday about His birth. Compare God Is Good, which is similar to this trope but more focused on The Father or the whole Trinity instead of just The Son; the third leg would fit under Humans Are Good. Compare Everybody Loves Zeus, where they focus on various other divine beings of light and the heavens. Sub-trope of Periphery Demographic, since it involves non-Christians who nonetheless admire Jesus and His teachings despite being non-Christians. Contrast Jesus Taboo, where He may be special but we never find out because people avoid mentioning Him. Examples |
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A semi-regular character in Ansem Retort. He first came to train the cast to fight against Larxene (much to Marluxia's disappointment, who wanted a hot Latino). He later shows up to officiate over Axel and Aerith's wedding, for an "Old Testament" drinking party with Axel and Zexion, and most recently has joined Axel, Zexion, Riku, and Marluxia to fix the timestream. | |
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A flashback in Preacher shows Jesus to have been a good-natured Nice Guy who didn't particularly want to die on the cross but was resigned to obey his father's will. Compare this to God, who is heavily implied to have abandoned his duties in Heaven to indulge in depraved sex acts on Earth. | |
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In The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, one of the socialist characters who is openly opposed to Christianity admits that he is perfectly fine with Jesus, claiming that he was a practical man. | |
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The Handsome Family's "Water into Wine" somewhat parodies it. The narrator thinks the miracles Jesus performed were all pretty neat, but he thinks what makes him a truly great guy was by far his ability to provide free alcohol to people. | |
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Clone High had Jesús, a Latino clone of the Nazarene, who would attempt to give sage advice to other characters but often ended up accidentally injuring himself. | |
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In The Salvation War, Jesus is definitely cool. He realizes how insane his father is well before anyone else and tries three times to help humanity (Jesus, Mohamed, and someone else, possibly Joan of Arc or Martin Luther), but after these attempts backfire and he sees how rapidly they are progressing, he decides to see what they can do to correct the injustices done to them on their own. Even after Michael the Angelic Anti-Hero sets him up to die by nuclear weapon, he still forgives him because he understands his motivation for doing so. | |
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Inside Job (2021): Invoked by the new "chill AF" Pope in Part 2 of Season 1, whose public sermon is "And Jesus said, 'I shall not foresake salvation, Heaven is deadass lit, fam!' In Rome itself, a vendor can be seen selling "Jesus is bae" t-shirts. | |
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Although He never speaks and is only seen from behind or at a distance, Jesus appears as a background character in Ben-Hur. One memorable scene has Him giving a drink of water to the title character. A Roman Centurion tries to stop Him, but Jesus just stares at him without a word and the Centurion backs down. In the original stage version, Jesus was played by a spotlight. Part of the contract from the author of the original book was that Jesus would not be portrayed by an actor. |
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Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter has the titular character hunting vampires, doing Kung Fu, dancing, singing, and preaching tolerance for sexual minorities. | |
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The Simpsons has referenced this trope a few times: They showed Jesus in another episode where Homer and Bart were being drawn to Catholicism. Marge had a nightmare where she went to the WASPy Protestant Heaven while Homer and Bart went to the loud, boisterous, Catholic Heaven. Jesus ended up in the Catholic Heaven, "going native". Subverted in an episode about religion where Homer begins reminding the family of a certain cool guy with long hair and big ideas... but he's talking about a guy "who used to drive that blue car", whose name escapes him. On another occasion, the bullies confront Bart after Lisa converts to Buddhism, responding to his "Who cares?" by telling him there's a man who cares, who has long hair, works as a carpenter, and has some crazy ideas about peace and love. His name's Gunnar, and he's dating Jimbo's mom. Sometimes he buys them beer. Rev. Lovejoy pulled a joke like this too during one of his sermons. He said "I know of one visitor who came from the heavens, only to die and be reborn... And his name was... E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial." (Cries a little)'' "I loved that little guy." Parodied in A Star Is Burns, the crossover with The Critic, where Burns' ridiculously narcissistic and self-absorbed Self-Insert entry into the film festival includes a scene that directly references the Ben-Hur movie mentioned above, except Burns is in plain view as Jesus, and even has a line when he gives Ben-Hur water, with Hur gushing how he truly is the "king of kings". The audience is absolutely outraged with Burns and his blasphemy. |
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Most of Godspell is taken up with showing the cool things Jesus said and did in the Gospels, demonstrating how it made him beloved by his Ragtag Band of Misfits. Works on a meta-level as well, since a show that's simply a straightforward presentation of Hippie Jesus as a cool guy became a wildly popular staple of musical theater. | |
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The Chosen: Jesus is depicted as a laid-back, friendly, and cheerful individual, and even a Deadpan Snarker; one day he's exorcizing demons and performing miracles, and the next he's dancing at his childhood friend's wedding and cracking jokes with the disciples. Many characters who know who he really is are often taken aback by this, as they expected him to act like a divine warrior or ancient prophet, and not... well, a regular guy. | |
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Beavis And Butthead: "Heh, heh, heh ... Christ is cool." | |
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Jesus has never personally appeared in a Shin Megami Tensei game, unless you count the strongest of the Olympus Mons in Persona 3, which represents Messianic figures in general, there are implications here and there that both the Law and Chaos factions seriously respected Him. Given that these two factions are perfectly willing to nuke entire universes to piss each other off, that this is the one thing they can agree on speaks volumes. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, the holy saint that gives out Stands like candy is implied to be Jesus himself, the first Stand user. Jesus was also quite literally the first JoJo, since his full name was Yoshua-bar-Yosef. | |
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NBC's Community, season 2 episode 5, starts off with Abed not really religious or in favor of Christianity (he was raised Muslim, but is largely an atheistic sci-fi nerd). Shirley manages to convince him to actually sit down and read the New Testament start-to-finish. While Abed doesn't convert or anything and still doesn't particularly favor "Christianity" the organization, actually reading the source material makes Abed change his mind and think that Jesus himself was pretty cool as He was depicted in the narrative of the New Testament (regardless of how "real" any of it was historically), or as Abed describes it "He was like E.T., Edward Scissorhands, and Marty McFly combined." | |
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Rev. Lovejoy pulled a joke like this too during one of his sermons. He said "I know of one visitor who came from the heavens, only to die and be reborn... And his name was... E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial." (Cries a little)'' "I loved that little guy." | |
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The Boys (2019): Befitting his status as a parody of "hip" ministers, Ezekiel presents Jesus in this way, peppering his sermons with slang and referencing Jesus referring to people as "bro." | |
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In The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, the main conflict erupts between the local druid/pagan factions of Britain and early Christians at the time of King Arthur. Even so, at least one prominent druid (Merlin, no less) remarks that he has never had a problem with Jesus, only with the way most people interpret His words. This theme continues in prequel book, "The Forest House", with the priestess Caillean seeming to also hold Jesus in high regard. | |
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Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil, revolving around a pending Armageddon, has Jesus as a laid-back deejay (though he can be kind of a dick sometimes.) | |
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The Animaniacs short "Little Drummer Warners" had the Warner Brothers (and Sister) as Shepherds coming to visit baby Jesus. Since they don't have any gifts to present like the Three Kings, Wakko offers to instead play on his drum, which turns into a jazzy, upbeat version of "Little Drummer Boy" that becomes appreciated by everyone. Especially Jesus Himself. | |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian is surprisingly non-scathing toward Jesus in a work that parodies the religions based on his teachings; the Pythons rejected their initial concept of Brian as a forgotten disciple of Jesus because the laughs stopped dead whenever Jesus was around — none of them felt comfortable directly making jokes about Him. He remains in one scene where people mishear the Sermon on the Mount (which He is delivering straight), which basically epitomizes the real theme of the movie: the conflict between what Jesus said and what certain people thought (and still think) they heard. (The Pythons had hoped to persuade George Lazenby to play Jesus so they could proclaim "George Lazenby IS Jesus Christ!" on their posters, but Lazenby was busy.) | |
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The View Askewniverse (the films of Kevin Smith): The franchise gives us The Buddy Christ, part of the "Catholicism WOW!" campaign in Dogma as part of a move to boost Church attendance. Oddly, despite the cynicism of the move, Cardinal Glick's stated reasoning was sound: the symbol of Christianity being the cross was, to him, "wholly depressing". "Christ didn't come here to give us the willies! He came to help us out!" He has since cameoed in more than one Kevin Smith film since then (Smith's comic shop even had a life-size version in the store). Jesus was also mentioned several times by Rufus over the course of the movie, including agreeing with Glick, if not explicitly or by the same reasoning, that there is an issue with Catholics "mourning" their faith. While other parts of the movie parody different parts of religion, specific references to Jesus himself pretty much match what's written in the Bible. From the descriptions, Jesus seems to have been fairly laid back (he apparently owes Rufus twelve dollars) and enjoyed listening to people talk more than anything else. The extended scenes has Bethany ponder WHY Jesus loved to hear people talk: saying nothing of importance was a luxury he was never afforded. Unfortunately, He still owes Rufus twelve bucks. |
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As shown in Religulous, Bill Maher was severely outnumbered in a trucker chapel, and thanked his interviewees for their kind hospitality and their not-kicking-his-ass by saying "Thanks for being Christ-like and not just Christians." He makes a similar point here. |
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Averted in Homestuck: There are four characters with Crystal Dragon Jesus roles (though we know literally nothing about the fourth other than that he presumably exists). The straightest example is the Signless Sufferer, who was forced to lead a violent uprising due to living in a dystopia, and whose death was called not the Crucifixion, but the Vast Expletive. Then there's the Second Signless who he prophesied of, who is more of a descendant than a reincarnation, and is a total asshole, albeit one who's more bark than bite, and never openly questions the system under which he lives. And then we've got the pre-Scratch version of the Sufferer, who is a social justice warrior taken to the most annoying extreme: he considers lack of smell to be a disability, constantly censors people for fear of triggers, preaches for absurdly long periods simply assuming that others are listening and agree, has a Holier Than Thou attitude, judges his alternate self for resorting to violence in a situation where anyone with a brain could tell you it was necessary, and claims that sexism isn't real despite it clearly being real. |
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Jesus is a semi-recurring character in Penny Arcade, where he hangs out with Gabe and Tycho, playing video games and being a cool guy in general. Though he is apparently a bit of a poor winner at Street Fighter. | |
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The members of Altar Boyz portray him as such. | |
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Sinfest — in which Jesus Christ is the most awesome superhero since Barack Obama. Notably, Sinfest portrays Jesus as far more awesome than his father in pretty much every conceivable way. Sinfest also gives Buddha this treatment; he is so mellow, neither God nor The Devil can upset him; he alternates between being the epitome of chillax and headbanging to rock without a problem; and he is, of course, also Pals with Jesus. |
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In the Red Dwarf episode "Lemons," the crew is accidentally sent back in time and encounter Jesus in 23 AD in India, where he's a fairly nice guy who's big on pacifism. After accidentally taking him back to the future with them, he ends up reading about himself and is horrified at what the religion he starts will do to the world, so journeys back in time to trash his reputation in order to make sure that no one bases a religion around him. The Red Dwarf crew, despite being fairly a-religious, figure they should go back in time and fix this, and manage to convince Jesus that while Christianity did plenty of terrible things, he can still do good. Then they figure out that he's the wrong Jesus (he's Jesus of Caesarea, not Jesus of Nazareth) so the whole thing is moot. You do get to see the real Jesus at the very end, but it's indeterminate whether this Jesus is Way Cool or not. | |
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In Spawn, God and Satan, though neither are particularly malevolent toward anyone but each other, are portrayed as essentially bratty teenagers on a cosmic scale. Jesus, on the other hand, is not God's son, but His mother, and the true Creator of the universe. She (the entity is technically genderless, but usually given feminine attributes) incarnated herself on Earth in an attempt to make humanity better than her children. As can be imagined given this goal, religious fundamentalism gets her down. Incidentally, Spawn's creator and head writer Todd McFarlane is an atheist. Speaks to his respect of the guy. |
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In an American Dad! Christmas episode, the Rapture occurs and Stan and Francine were left behind. Jesus comes back to lead people against the Anti Christ. He doesn't have his superpowers (except for being able to withstand freezing temperatures and Walk on Water), but he's still a badass. He's hunky and charismatic and actually front flips onto the Anti Christ's shoulder and snaps his neck with his thighs. He's also allowed to date this time and Stan calls him the best guy Francine could ever end up with. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic has the character of Santa Christ, a combination of Jesus and Santa who saves puppies from fires, cures diabetes, saved us from our sins, and also likes pancakes. | |
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Jesus first appears in Shortpacked! as a hallucination after Robin gets a nasty knock on the head. Eventually, he becomes a background cast member (when Galasso resurrects him). Though he has a much darker skin tone than generally depicted and referred to as "the Historical Jesus," he's also portrayed as a friendly man who spends most of his time promising nice customers that kindness is always rewarded. Though he does tell off a couple rich guys and give Ethan (a Jew) a good Death Glare when he finds out the latter is perfectly willing to work on the Sabbath. He would later officiate at Leslie and Robin's wedding. How many people can say that? | |
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In another Ennis-written example, the demon Hoss tells Ghost Rider a story that strongly implies that Jesus's message of forgiveness and love was distorted by demonic interference so that it became one of "pain an' sacrifice an' guilt...just another damn religion." The same comic features a ruthless, mass-murdering, child-killing archangel as Heaven's agent on Earth and two Smug Snake lesser angels in the Celestial Bureaucracy only out to save their own bacon, suggesting that Jesus was a major exception to the usual way of doing business Up There. | |
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In Old Harry's Game, Jesus only gets mentioned rather than appearing directly, but even Satan seems to have some grudging respect for him, with the worst he has to say being that he's a bit holier-than-thou. This is a marked difference from his attitude to God Himself and non-fallen angels. | |
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In season 2 of Castlevania (2017), Sypha explains that Speakers consider God to be petty and cruel, retelling the Tower of Babel story as God striking down the people's greatest achievement in jealousy. In season 3, however, she explains to Saint-Germain that while the Speakers may dislike God, they have nothing but admiration for Yeshua, the christ, whose sacrifice was a lesson to humanity in unconditional love. | |
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While most of The Last Temptation of Christ focuses on his internal strife over living as a man or dying painfully to fulfill God's will, the Wedding at Cana scene gives Jesus a sense of fun and humor. Even better, the whole exchange is Canon: | |
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Rush (1974): One episodes revolves around Doctor Kirby, an atheist paleontologist whose mere presence in 1850s Victoria is enough to stir up trouble from the local Anglican minister Reverend Smith. At one point, while filling in as a schoolteacher, the minister's daughter asks for his opinion on Jesus. He tells her, "Jesus was a very great man. Who did all kindness and lived a good life. If we all followed his example the world would be a happy place indeed." But this isn't good enough for Smith himself, who presses him further and forces him to admit to the class that he doesn't believe Jesus was the son of God. | |
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Dragalia Lost: It turns out that Euden is actually a part of Xenos’ heart, more specifically, the part that gives to others. This means that he is essentially this universe’s version of Jesus, and as a Jesus-esque figure, Euden is pretty cool. He’s always willing to help others whenever they need to, he isn’t afraid to stand up to evil, and he’s a Royal Who Actually Does Something. | |
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The Woody Guthrie song "Jesus Christ" depicts Christ as a socialist rebel killed for speaking truth to power (and notably makes no reference to his resurrection). Guthrie also wrote a song called "Christ for President," later recorded by Wilco as part of Mermaid Avenue. President Christ promises "a job and pension for young and old." |
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Second Coming: God is portrayed as a lazy deity frequently indifferent to humans and their suffering. Jesus however was determined to help them find a better way. It didn't work out, but he is never shown as anything except a deeply compassionate person, unwilling to do harm except as a last resort in self-defense. | |
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Sandra from Sandra and Woo thinks that Jesus was a swell guy, but she can't stand his fanboys. Surprisingly, Satan gets this treatment in an arc much later down the line, being a Benevolent Boss who's stuck as the bad guy thanks to the Human God's multi-million dollar propaganda machine. He's also on quite amicable terms with Ganesha, who similarily disapproves of the way God treats the humans. |
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Just don't piss him off, either before or after the amnesia. As an amnesiac, he massacred a bunch of cardinals when they tried to kick him out of the Vatican. With his memory, as shown by the Pills of Jenus strips... Well, if you say your bullying son was just joking when he put a gas compressor up the butt of his victim and activated it he'll appear with a Candid Camera sign and put a gas compressor up your ass (a reference to a bullying episode that made Italian news when the strip was made), and when the SS captain Erich Priebke died and nobody wanted to have him buried there he made him a grave with the stone doubling as a fully functional toilet (remember, Jesus was a Jew). | |
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In the TV movie Jesus (1999), starring Jeremy Sisto, while Peter and the other fishermen are discussing Jesus' plan to go out during the day to fish, which was the wrong time for it, what is Jesus doing? Standing on the shore, skipping rocks! What, was he just supposed to stand there, looking holy? He also spends several more scenes just joking around with his disciples, and his teachings (such as the Sermon on the Mount) have an overall lighthearted touch. | |
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In Gifted, Frank talks about religion with his adorably precocious niece, Mary. She asks if there's a God, and he simply says he doesn't know, and that while he does have an opinion, he feels it's not his place to push it onto her, since she should be allowed to decide for herself what she believes. Mary then asks, "What about Jesus?" Frank responds, "Love that guy. Do what he says," but declines to clarify whether or not he thinks Jesus is divine or just a very wise and good person. | |
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Yes, Minister. Hacker and Humphrey both agree that if Jesus had been around in their time, they would have had to suppress him because of "all those things about the meek inheriting the earth". In other words, they don't think he's cool but the meek would. | |
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Played for laughs with the B-side "Voice of Harold", which is Michael Stipe reading the liner notes of a gospel album to the tune and backing track of "7 Chinese Bros.". | |
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Jesus shows up a few times in the Italian comedy series Fantozzi: In the first movie Fantozzi and Filini get stuck in the middle of a lake without food and in sweltering heat. Cue Jesus (He's supposed to be one of religious-themed hallucinations Fantozzi suffers from when injured, but Filini saw and interacted with Him too) just walking out of nowhere to multiply any bread or fish they have... Except they failed to fish anything and forgot the bread. The fifth film, Superfantozzi, shows the (mis)adventures of Fantozzi in various time periods, including a Jewish one in Jesus' time. Too bad Fantozzi's original incarnation is responsible for Adam and Eve eating the Fruit, thus Jesus shows up to enact divine punishment and test him: During the first encounter Fantozzi, a poor farmer, is toiling at his food garden on the shore of Lake Tiberias when Jesus walks on the lake and reaches the shore, before calling to him the children... On the other side of the garden. The obvious result is the long-awaited divine punishment, and the set-up for the test. Some time later Fantozzi is told that his rich uncle just died of leprosy... And Fantozzi, as the only heir, is openly happy at the event, and follows up with torching the shack he lives at with his wife and daughter and showing up at the funeral proclaiming himself the heir, bullying everyone, and then going to a long-haired man he thinks is the lawyer and asks for the documents to sign to get the inheritance... But the long-haired man only says "Lazarus. Rise and walk.", bringing Fantozzi's rich uncle back to life and allowing him to disinherit him for how horribly he acted. |
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Also, when Doc Brown runs over Judas and the guards from the Sanhedrin to prevent the birth of Christianity Jesus makes sure the plan works anyway. How? He goes to Pilatus and turns his glass of wine into water, threatening to do the same with all his wine unless he gives him his help, and promising he'll give him back his wine and more if he does. Way to go, Messiah! | |
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In Valérian the Son is the most laid-back member of the Trinity of Hypsis, taking the form of a guitar-playing, weed-smoking hippie with stigmata. He once healed the comic's Satan Expy (who isn't really a bad guy either)! | |
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Obviously, most Jewish people don't believe that Jesus was actually a divine figure, but very few think that he was anything but a very good person. Most of their issues come from the Book of Revelation and Matthew 27:24-25. | |
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Moral Orel: Reverend Putty hands out flyers saying "Remember kids, Jesus is Cool!" | |
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Parodied on Futurama with the robot Jews, who believe that Robot Jesus was built and that He was a well-programmed robot, but they don't believe He was the robot Messiah. It's unclear if Robot Jesus has any relation to Zombie Jesus or the Jesus involved in the Second Coming of 2443. | |
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In Andreas Eschbach's Jesus Video, a modern day guy travels back in time to meet Jesus, who turns to be certainly what he expected even if the Church doesn't live up to his standards. | |
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The Holy Quran. Jesus could talk soon after he was born, and he wasn't killed-God raised him to the sky and tricked the Romans into crucifying someone else (often depicted as Judas or a criminal) in his place. Muslims generally regard Jesus as a great prophet second in holiness after The Prophet Muhammad himself (though they consider the idea of holding him as an actually divine being, the son of God, or even God Himself in human form as a grave insult against both God and Jesus). In fact, one of the many Hadiths about Judgment Day prophesies that Jesus will return to Earth as the Messiah to lead all true believers against The Antichrist (called the "False Messiah/Dajjal" in Islam) and finally kill him, then reign over a long utopian realm on the otherwise gone-to-shit planet for a long time before the world finally comes to an end. | |
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In the manga Saint Young Men, Jesus and Buddha are best buddies living in Tokyo and generally enjoying the human world on their vacation, doing such mundane things as going to convenience stores, taking the train and buying souvenirs. Even though Jesus is depicted as a bit of a Bunny-Ears Lawyer, it's affectionate rather than insulting. | |
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In All in the Family, self-stated agnostic (later atheist) Mike Stivic enjoyed celebrating Christmas, as he admired the life of Jesus and thought he was a good man with a good message. He just didn't believe the claim that Jesus was divine. | |
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Jesus Christ Superstar, a Rock Opera version of the Passion Play. There is even the line "One thing I'll say for him, Jesus is cool." | |
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Alienby Comics: In "Trans Jesus", Jesus is depicted as an all-loving, non-judgemental figure whose beliefs are similar to modern progressive values, such as breaking bread with sex workers and outcasts. | |
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In Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he parodies this after he says that he finds Infrastructure fascinating: | |
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In Evil Diva, Jesus runs a cafe where he gives out advice and coffee. | |
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Jesus is the only main character in Good Satan who is shown to be completely selfless and virtuous to the point where even Satan can't bother to hate him. Even when he's kicked out of Heaven for being outed as gay, Jesus leaves Heaven willingly and enters Hell, leading to Satan taking him back out of guilt for essentially ruining his life. | |
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Despite being irreverent towards religion in general, the beginning of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy still gives a nod to the man who was "nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change." | |
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I'll Bet He was Cool by Savage Garden. | |
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Good Omens (2019): There's a brief scene of Aziraphale and Crowley at the Crucifixion. Both Aziraphale and Crowley liked Jesus, which is why Crowley was the one who showed him all the kingdoms of the world ("Well he's a carpenter from Galilee, his traveling opportunities are limited"). They are also clearly disturbed that Heaven manipulated things to put him on the cross. | |
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The Axis of Awesome has a song dedicated to this trope. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is awesome. | |
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Carlin also played Cardinal Glick (see the example for Dogma above). | |
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On Black Jesus, Jesus is depicted as a weed-loving party dude, with a perpetually sunny attitude. | |
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Julian goes on for a bit about how Jesus was not God, that his followers suck, that the Roman prefect was correct in executing him... and that his moral teachings are beyond question. | |
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In the Mr. Deity series, Jesus isn't perfect, but he's almost always standing up for the general good of humanity and objecting to particularly unreasonably aspects of the way his father does things. Out of Mr. Deity (God), Larry (archangel), Lucy (devil and Mr. Deity's girlfriend), and Jesus, who are the four main characters, Jesus generally gets portrayed as being more concerned with doing good than the other three and more reasonable than Mr. Deity. | |
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In the Battle Pope series, Jesus is the hippie and oblivious sidekick to a badass post-apocalyptic God-buffed Pope. | |
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In Child of the Storm, when Thor and Loki are telling the other Avengers about other pantheons and gods they know personally, they mention Jesus as a personal friend, and a very nice (if snarky) guy. When he shows up in Ghosts of the Past, Harry's psychic powers detect nothing from him but an almost overwhelming amount of empathy and compassion - though since he's extremely twitchy at that point, his instinct is to lash out with a psychic blast that would have lobotomised Wembley Stadium (capacity: 90,000 people). Nothing happens beyond Jesus being mildly surprised that he felt it. Thereafter, he serves as a combination of Harry's Parole Officer (post Dark Phoenix) and - in Jesus' view, more importantly - occasional therapist/mentor, acting as a liaison between him and the other pantheons. | |
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Appears very rarely in Elijah and Azuu, where he seems to take on a sort of cool older brother role for the various angels. Has an apparent tendency to answer all questions of morality with, "What would I do?" (much to the annoyance of divine beings looking for a little guidance). God has a similarly laid-back personality. | |
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In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden states that he's "sort of an atheist" but he likes Jesus, though his disciples annoy him. He also believes that "Jesus never sent old Judas to Hell". | |
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Queen: The aptly-titled "Jesus" is a driving Hard Rock sound about how Jesus was a powerful and charismatic "leader of man" who drew adoration from the people around him. Ironically, songwriter Freddie Mercury was Zoroastrian. | |
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South Park, an outrageous show if ever there was one, generally shies away from Crossing the Line Twice where its Jesus is concerned. The miracles and theology take some whacks, but Jesus himself is a generally nice and occasionally heroic character in a Crapsack World of loathsome misanthropes and buffoons. He was part of the "Council of the Nine" in the Imaginationland trilogy - the most righteous and heroic characters in all of fiction. (Note that Aslan was a member too. Jesus is so awesome, he got to be on the Council TWICE.) Also doubles as a Take That!. He also has a rather fitting knack for Heroic Sacrifice. Of course he recovers. The genesis of the show was in a short called The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. Santa, in which the Lamb Of God opens a can of whoopass on Kris Kringle. |
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He was part of the "Council of the Nine" in the Imaginationland trilogy - the most righteous and heroic characters in all of fiction. (Note that Aslan was a member too. Jesus is so awesome, he got to be on the Council TWICE.) Also doubles as a Take That!. | |
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An episode in the second season of True Blood has this as well, with Godric interrupting an execution scene by the corrupt church, explaining that even some vampires think Jesus was a nice guy. Averted with Russell though, who claims to have met Jesus personally and says contemptuously that he was "just a dirty hippie". |
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is equal parts this and a Take That! against organized religion (compare the many variations of "your Christians are so unlike your Christ" in Real Life below). It suggests that the "great humanistic teacher" and the Shameless Self-Promoter, who C. S. Lewis considered so incompatible, were separate characters, with "the Scoundrel Christ" corrupting and profiting from the acts of "the Good Man Jesus", and that they were conflated by contemporary chroniclers. | |
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Bruno the Bandit portrays Ailix, the local equivalent of Jesus, as this. He was the physical incarnation of the Creator Of the Universe, and his teachings became the foundation of The Church of The Blessed Ailix, which unfortunately warped into a Corrupt Church with a greedy leadership only interested in filling their own pockets. The Pope himself is only a figurehead for the rich and powerful, to the point that when the current Pope is convinced by a manifestation of Ailix to renounce his riches and become a true, inspiring leader of the Church, he's immediately forced to step down by the other officials who dont WANT Ailix followers to follow his example. Yeah, the comic got rather Anvilicious towards the end. | |
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Michael Stipe is often critical of religion in his lyrics, and in "New Test Leper", the narrator, a gay man with AIDS, states that while he can't say he loves Jesus, the guy did make some good points. This is contrasted with the studio audience of the talk show that the narrator attends, who use their Christian beliefs to mock and belittle him. | |
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Well before her true religious conversion in Angel of the Bat, Cassandra Cain is shown to be notably uncomfortable with Christianity (particularly the Old Testament), only really starting to warm up to it when she learns about Jesus, who she really likes and gets behind. | |
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Family Guy Portrays Jesus as playing golf with guys on weekdays, and going to bars with God on weekends (Seth MacFarlane is an atheist). According to Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, was a very bad magician and he's really short. One cutaway portrayed Jesus as black. He also entertains his friends by turning water into funk. Another episode portrayed him as Chinese: This also happens to a Genius Bonus, as Hong Xiuquan, the head of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom believed he was Jesus Christ's brother. At one point, Jesus shows up to convince the temporarily anti-Semitic Peter that Judaism and Christianity are two sides of the same coin. He then says that all religions are complete crap, earning a thank you from the atheist Brian. The earlier episode "The Thin White Line" features a significantly tamer example: a Sunday school classroom with a poster reading "it's cool to love Jesus." |
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In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a Secret Test of Character has the seeker of the grail pick from a hundred different grails. Donovan, neither a devoted christian or archeologist, accepts a gaudy, golden cup, calling it a cup "fit for the King of Kings." Indy instead picks a plain wooden cup, remembering that Jesus of Nazareth was a traveling carpenter, and certainly couldn't afford anything fancy. | |
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DarkMatter2525: Although the cartoon mercilessly satires Yahweh as a highly incompetent jerk (at his best) Jesus is always portrayed well, as a nice, put-upon guy who frequently doesn't like what his dad does. In several cases, he is the foil for modern American conservative Christians, juxtaposing more compassionate, humble teachings he had with their views (as the opposite). Sometimes he's even told off by characters with these views, to show how little people like this can even recognize what he really said. | |
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In How I Met Your Mother Barney credits Jesus with inventing a few of the cornerstones of Bro-ness such as the three-day rule and, notably, the high five. | |
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Subverted in The Inquisitor Cycle, which takes place in a timeline where rather than dying for humanity's sins on the cross Jesus broke out of the cross, became a brutal warlord and conquered the Roman Empire. He then proceeded to turn Christianity from a faith dedicated to forgiveness and love to a Religion of Evil dedicated to destroying anyone different from you. | |
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Parodied in A Star Is Burns, the crossover with The Critic, where Burns' ridiculously narcissistic and self-absorbed Self-Insert entry into the film festival includes a scene that directly references the Ben-Hur movie mentioned above, except Burns is in plain view as Jesus, and even has a line when he gives Ben-Hur water, with Hur gushing how he truly is the "king of kings". The audience is absolutely outraged with Burns and his blasphemy. | |
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The Brazilian movie O Auto da Compadecida features Jesus Christ as a black man named Emmanuel (one of his many Biblical names) judging the main characters in the afterlife. He is never anything other than extremely nice to everyone, even to the Devil, who is an prick and towards the main hero, who makes a racist remark against him, but Jesus takes it in stride while calling him out in the most chill manner. | |
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