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Sinister Minister

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Sinister Minister	comment	Men of the cloth serve a plethora of roles in all branches of media, both modern and ancient. They may be wise counselors or confused and bumbling but generally well-intentioned old duffers. But every once in a while, a preacher crops up who is intimidating, charismatic, and completely devoid of morality. These archetypal villains typically serve as the Big Bad in their respective worlds, controlling vast hordes of starry-eyed True Believers or manipulating the inner workings of their Church. He is often a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant clergyman, but there's nothing saying he can't not be a white Anglo-Saxon and there's definitely nothing saying he can't be a Catholic (especially if the setting is in the Middle Ages) and is clean-cut and perpetually smiling while delivering sermons that alternate between gentle reminders of the importance of virtue and scalding fire-and-brimstone rants commanding their followers to rise and smite heathens in the name of the Lord, amen. The Sinister Minister is a one-man Corrupt Church (and it's usually a man in this role, though female examples are not unheard of) in that all power typically ends up resting firmly in his hands and his hands alone as opposed to being shared out within an organization. He seldom employs Sidekicks or advisors, preferring to rely instead on his own usually very devious brain for scheming while entrusting the main grunt work to the hordes of unwashed and sanctimonious Mooks who make up the bulk of his followers. Usually well-educated and cultured, the Sinister Minister is nonetheless unspeakably evil and regularly engages in acts of sexual depravity (or perhaps not; many a Sinister Minister is Straight Edge) and, if not outright violence, threats, and intimidation. Or, he may even be an Enlightened Antagonist if heâ€™s fervently devoted to the teachings of his faith that it pushes him to commit malicious acts in the name of much greater truths. The Sinister Minister usually keeps his own hands relatively clean until late in the game when his power base is secure and he can act with impunity. There are typically two types of Sinister Minister. The first type is subtle and deceptive, using soft words and a friendly attitude to gain trust among his congregation; in this way, he's much like any other man of the cloth, but his true motives are anything but typical, taking advantage of that trust once he has it. The second type is far less subtle, using scare tactics in the form of fiery sermons to convince people that God is a vengeful Creator who will not hesitate to condemn "heretics" (a favorite word this villain has for anyone who disagrees with him) to the pits of Hell or even smite the world early unless they follow what he calls his ideal path. It's amazing how well this can draw people in, and if the Sinister Minister does it enough, even he might start to believe it. The motivations of the Sinister Minister may be as simple as the lust for power, though some are examples of the Church Militant and Knight Templar. A common motivation for the more religious among this trope's subjects is the Mission from God, which is often either a personal delusion on the part of the Minister or in reality a mission from a Satanic or otherwise Evil divine power. In the case of those simply out for their own gain, the Minister may be skeptical as to God's existence/power or harbor outright atheistic views. If there is a Good Shepherd in the series, then the two are usually enemies. However, if the Good Shepherd is a Horrible Judge of Character then he might actually be a supporter of the Sinister Minister (at least until he discovers the truth). Unmasking the Sinister Minister is a waste of time, as his followers will believe any lies and fabrications the Minister employs as a cover against the brave heroes attempting to reveal him for the monster he really is. This particular school of villainy usually meets its end violently, not through rhetoric. The Corrupt Church tends to be rife with the likes of him, but the Saintly Church may also prove to have a few black sheep. Not to Be Confused with high-level government officials — if they're a villain, they'd fall under Evil Chancellor. Also not to be confused with any high-ranking worshippers of a Religion of Evil; this Trope is for corrupt members of established and (hopefully) respected faiths. And no relation to White-Collar Crime; that's generally a different style of collar. Contrast Nun Too Holy, a trope about genuinely good members of the clergy who somehow continue to hold their offices despite being hugely obnoxious or depraved, in a lovable way. If the villain is merely pretending to be a priest or nun, then that's Bad Habits. If at least one of the things that makes the minister "sinister" is the fact that he molests children, then you're dealing with a Pedophile Priest. One who pretends to have healing powers is a Fake Faith Healer. For a priest that is simply a lecher, see Dirty Old Monk. Compare Greedy Televangelist, which is usually Evangeligal and whose primary sin is greed. See also the Churchgoing Villain, who does not necessarily have to be a religious leader. Super-trope to Evil Jesuit. In terms of rank, the Authority Tropes arguably equal are Corrupt Corporate Executive, Irish Priest, Preacher Man, Pedophile Priest, Schoolteachers, Sexy Priest and The Vicar. For the next step down, see Student Council President. For the next step up, see Dean Bitterman. The trope name was also a name (and gimmick) used by professional wrestling manager James Mitchell, as well as a song by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Contrast Good Shepherd, Badass Preacher.
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Sinister Minister / int_101bfcd7	comment	In Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes, Mitsuhide poses as Tenkai, a monk who acts as adviser to the cowardly and easily manipulated Hideaki. Even in this guise, he barely tries to hide his sadistic nature and is still as Obviously Evil as he was in previous games.
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Sinister Minister / int_109e2a51	comment	Doctor Krishna: In this Carnatic language Indian film, you have Swamy Haivadan Rai, a charismatic popular Hindu priest on the outside, but a greedy schemer, who ultimately murders his best friend and frames that friendâ€™s son for it.
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Sinister Minister / int_11000b6	comment	Joyeux NoÃ«l: The Scottish bishop, who remarks with disgust at the fraternization of the Scottish soldiers, dismisses Father Palmer's defense of it, and creates a jingoistic, xenophobic sermon for Scottish soldiers, that was actually said in Real Life.
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Sinister Minister / int_113fb70c	comment	In Left for Dead, Mobius Lockhart was a not-so-holy Preacher Man who was murdered by the whores of Amnesty and who has made a pact with the devil to remain as an earthbound spirit unable to travel beyond the borders of the town's cemetery and slaughtering any who trespasses.
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Sinister Minister / int_1215a23d	comment	The Abyss Lector enemies in Genshin Impact serve as something akin to this within the Abyss Order, espousing the virtues of the Abyss as they assault you with Electro or Pyro attacks.
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Sinister Minister / int_13b6da8c	comment	One of the applicants to the Evil League Of Evil on the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog DVD is the Perverse Puppet The Reverend.
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Sinister Minister / int_16fc4335	comment	A good portion of the priesthood in Karse in the Heralds of Valdemar series. That is, until the god Vkandis got fed up with the Corrupt Church and did some rearranging, with a Bolt of Divine Retribution for starters.
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Sinister Minister / int_17def828	comment	Cardinal Lucius in Anno 1404. Big Bad of the campaign and a hard difficulty A.I. in Continuous Mode.
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Sinister Minister / int_187d570a	comment	Sanctus from Devil May Cry 4 is dressed like a Pope and is the head of the Order of the Sword. He becomes even more sinister when he gets his hands on the Sparda sword and becomes Sanctus Diabolica.
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Sinister Minister / int_18df377	comment	In Blades of Light & Shadow, Book 1, Solerne, the High Priest of the Temple of Light, is revealed to be this at the end of Chapter 13 when the party finds out that the Temple practices Human Sacrifices.
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Sinister Minister / int_1a1965d5	comment	Zachary Malius from Happy Hell Night, though inadvertently as he is a corpse possessed by a demon.
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Sinister Minister / int_1a76b721	comment	Sweetwater: Josiah, a self-proclaimed prophet with a small band of fanatical followers, is a bigoted, paranoid murderer.
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Sinister Minister / int_1b021fcb	comment	Donato Porpora from Tokyo Ghoul, a Catholic Priest that ran an orphanage. While beloved by the children, in reality he would use their "adoptions" to cover up murdering and eating them. When his adopted son discovered the truth, he abandoned the ruse and went on to become an infamous killer of children and Ghoul Investigators before being captured. As a prisoner in Cochlea, he serves as an informant and offers priestly counsel to Haise about his emotional problems. After his escape, he resumes wearing the robes and even wields a kagune formed from crosses.
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Sinister Minister / int_1b989390	comment	Castlevania series: Graham Jones in Aria of Sorrow. Dressed like a Southern Baptist televangelist, and sounds like one too. He also shares the Knight Templar fundamentalism qualities. In Order of Ecclesia, Barlowe. First appears to be Shanoa's mentor, but in the good ending, revealed to be the one behind attempting to revive Dracula and thus the Arc Villain. He is fought as a boss at that point. Lords of Shadow 2 has Guido Szandor, who dresses like a Catholic Cardinal, complete with the hood. In reality, though, this is a subversion since he is actually the leader of the Church of Satan.
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Sinister Minister / int_1bac76aa	comment	The priest of the church that Bartek seeks shelter in in Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight lies to Bartek about how they don't have any cellphone reception or a working landline. When the landline rings, the priest knocks Bartek unconscious and ties him to a chair.
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Sinister Minister / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: The Reverend William Stryker. He and his Corrupt Church believe that mutants are demons from Hell, and has an army of mercenaries to carry out his will. He first appeared in the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, and became a recurring villain after the success of the movies, as X2 was loosely based on said graphic novel. Another example is Reverend Craig Sinclair, a church leader in a small Scottish hamlet who is introduced in New Mutants leading a mob with Torches and Pitchforks after Rahne Sinclair (a mutant) to "burn the Devil out of her" (read: murder her) to fulfill God's will. In a later story, he's pulling the same shit on another mutant girl, prompting a now adult Rahne to confront him. She denounces him as a hypocrite and a bully who cares nothing for the outside world because he can rule here with impunity. She then speculates that when he decided to "save" her mother, a woman accused of loose morals and possibly prostitution, that he may have in fact sired Rahne. Some people like to claim that if there's a priest in X-Men who is not Nightcrawler, chances are he's going to be evil. However, this is perhaps more a consequence of the anti-Catholic Nightcrawler storyline in Uncanny X-Men (Chuck Austen). One aversion in X-Men is a preacher in Denver whose wife became infected with a brood egg but regained her free will. He was always sympathetic to the mutant cause, but we haven't heard from them in awhile.
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Sinister Minister / int_1be2f653	comment	Reverend Crane, father of the main protagonist of Sleepy Hollow (1999), tortured and killed his wife for practicing witchcraft. Also on a smaller scale, Reverend Steenwyck: the austere, corrupt town pastor who had sex with the Villainess.
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Sinister Minister / int_1d14f277	comment	Ulysses Tiberius, a villain who appears in both Shadowchasers: Torment and Shadowchasers: Ascension, was an Air Force Chaplin before the contradictory nature of his job and the stress related to it drove him to madness, turning him into this Trope before being expelled from the service on a medical discharge. In the present he no longer fits the Trope, being a leader in the Cult of Tharizdun, confident that he Hates Everyone Equally.
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Sinister Minister / int_1f630f72	comment	Dark Souls III: Pontiff Sulyvahn. His title of "pontiff" means "pope", meaning he's the highest member of the clergy in Irithyll Valley. He even looks like The Pope with the sword. Yorshka's dialogue and the item description of the Golden Ritual Spear imply that the "pontiff" title was gained when he usurped control of Irithyll and Anor Londo from Gwyndolin and falsely declared himself the leader of the moon-worshiping religion in Irithyll related to the Darkmoon Knights. Downplayed though with the Deacons of the Cathedral of the Deep. They look very much like stereotypical Catholic priests, except they're insane undead in service to a Religion of Evil. Both them and Pontiff Sylyvahn worpship Aldritch, and it is popular among fans to believe that Sulyvahn is a Pontiff/ Pope of the Deacons, but their actual connection is completely unknown.
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Sinister Minister / int_202462bc	comment	Jonas from the Alphas episode "A Short Time In Paradise." Somewhat subverted as he didn't really want to kill his congregation... it just happened because of his ability. Then he tries to burn them all in an attempt to destroy the Darkness within. Rosen stops him.
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Sinister Minister / int_206781a5	comment	Anaconda: The human villain Paul Sarone mentions that he was a priest before he decided to become an Evil Poacher. He claims he wasn't even bad at his job, he just wanted to "explore the world"... which apparently involves catching giant, man-eating snakes and feeding people to them.
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Sinister Minister / int_210767ac	comment	A fair number of these will crop up in Crusader Kings. Those who manage to be appalling even by the era's brutal standards will get the Wicked Priest trait. There's an achievement for making such a priest into the pope, and any pope with the Wicked Priest trait will face the Cadaver Synod when they die.
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Sinister Minister / int_2192aeb3	comment	There is often at least one in Fire Emblem games. One is the primary antagonist in Genealogy of the Holy War, another is the Anti-Climax Boss of Thracia 776, one is a miniboss in Blazing Blade, and one is a primary antagonist in Sacred Stones. The Tellius games (Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn) have the Begnion senators, who are also religious figures. However, the series also has a tendency (at least since Binding Blade) for the highest-ranking religious figure in the game to be benevolent, and in a couple of games, playable. One notable example from the Tellius game is Sephiran, who is the one responsible for the resurrection of Ashera and who wants everything to end, but who could also make a Heelâ€“Face Turn and joins the heroes in the final battle against Ashera (though, good luck with that).
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Sinister Minister / int_226f6b3f	comment	Haven's Reverend Driscoll is the town's leading agitator for Fantastic Racism against the "Troubled". Apparently believing them to be cursed, he's been working to establish enough influence for him and his followers to one day wipe the Troubled out.
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Sinister Minister / int_22fe4557	comment	Patema Inverted: Izamura's reign has religious overtones, as he's the only one in the Agian government to dress in clerical robes and rails against the inverts as being "sinners". He is also so Obviously Evil that it's a wonder how anyone can possibly think his intentions are good ones. The man is batshit insane, high on his own power, and clearly self-serving. He even ordered the death of Age's father, for having contacted a member of the "inverts" and daring to want to explore the sky. Then had Lagos captured and killed and keeps his dead body preserved in a stasis chamber. Thankfully, he meets a karmic end.
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Sinister Minister / int_2442edf2	comment	Pryrates from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is a priest as well as the most cliched Evil Sorcerer one can imagine. He lives in a tower that no one dares to enter, he wears scarlet robes, has a shaved head, kills a puppy as one of his character introduction scenes and has such evil vibes that the hero notices him as a bad guy right away. And the King doesn't care at all. It's pretty heavily implied that Pryrates indulges in every Villain Trope he can think of just because he knows it will creep people out.
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Sinister Minister / int_246f306a	comment	In the third epistle of John, the apostle speaks of Diotrephes, a church head who was a malicious gossip and excommunicated members of his church for not adopting gnosticism.
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Sinister Minister / int_256ad44f	comment	View from Below: Peter is the head clergyman of the Pieties and is secretly sending mortals on a suicide mission against the Crimson God so that their blood will fuel the evil deity. Father Joseph is the leader of Ash's church, but abused the latter. He's also implied to be involved in Delilah's poor treatment in her hometown, leading to her joining the Crimson God.
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Sinister Minister / int_297bdfdf	comment	Tanz Der Vampire: In the American version, Dance of the Vampires, the "Seize The Night" ("Carpe Noctem", in the original Austrian version) sequence does have zombie-like vampires who dance ravingly, but instead of a duo of vampires or Magda/Herbert, some evil-dressed monks are the ones to initiate the nightmare sequence and guide the Nightmare Vampires.
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Sinister Minister / int_29b1dbac	comment	The Jackyl, New Age-inspired charismatic cult leader with an unmatched flair for brainwashing and mind control.
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Sinister Minister / int_2b2707d5	comment	In We Summon the Darkness, John Henry Butler is a televangelist whose ministry is built heavily around the Satanic Panic. Which he himself is whipping up with his daughter Alexis, carrying out a series of fake "Satanic" murders in order to make their claims of Satanic cults lurking behind every corner look genuine and scare people into embracing religion.
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Sinister Minister / int_2d16e106	comment	Doctor Syn ("The Scarecrow"): The Reverend Doctor Syn, a "mild-mannered clergyman from Kent", is also known as the vicious criminal "the Scarecrow", and the feared pirate Captain Clegg.
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Sinister Minister / int_2dfaf313	comment	Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition: Reverend Hicks has become incredibly unhinged after his near-fatal encounter with the living dead, now convinced that the zombies are demons from hell and a sign of the apocalypse.
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Sinister Minister / int_2e828ffa	comment	Red State: Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) is the patriarchal leader of the Five Points Trinity Church, a reclusive and extremist offshoot Christian doomsday cult, which consists mostly of himself and his extended kin. They actively lure 'sinners' to their compound to ritualistically execute them, before ending up in an extended siege situation with the ATF. They were loosely based on Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, which is mentioned in-film as a separate organization to avoid potential legal issues.
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Sinister Minister / int_3018d109	comment	HourofPoop: Friar Tuck, the Villain Protagonist of "Friar's Rubbing Hood - Fall of Nottingham". This incarnation of the friar is a man of the cloth, a murderer, and a practitioner of dark magic who committed genocide against the citizens of Nottingham by saluting the sun cursing Nottingham to suffer eternal destruction over not getting away with stealing a children's ice cream and being humiliated for it.
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Sinister Minister / int_3063264a	comment	Ozzy Osbourne's "Miracle Man", a Take That! toward Real Life Sinister Minister, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, with whom Ozzy had a feud in the eighties.
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Sinister Minister / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): Father Claridge from "Fear Itself" murdered a little girl and burned her corpse before blaming her brother, turning the boy into a traumatized wreck for most of his life and haunted by the experience. He ends up driven to madness by the brother's psychic powers, imagining himself burning alive. In "The Shroud", Reverend Thomas Tilford had Marie Wells impregnated with a clone of Jesus without her knowledge. Her husband Justin was aware of the baby's true nature and went along with Tilford's plan but he gradually grew disillusioned with him. Justin comes to recognise that Tilford is not doing God's work but intends to use the baby for his own ends once he is born. In "Revival", Luke is an alien whose species plans to enslave humanity through religion. He eats several young women and frames Ezra Burnham for the murder of Sheriff O'Brien when he tries to interfere with his plans. In "Mindreacher", a mentally ill homeless man experiences severe hallucinations about a priest who transforms into a hideous monster with tentacles and More Teeth than the Osmond Family. The implication is that this priest molested him when he was a child.
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Sinister Minister / int_32c541e6	comment	Father Cornello from Fullmetal Alchemist. Using alchemy and a philosopher's stone, he managed to pretend to be a miracle-worker and essentially establish himself as the leader of a theocratic government in the city of Liore. It was eventually revealed that he was himself being manipulated by the homunculi to create a 'blood seal' by using his influence over the people to kick off a bloody conflict.
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Sinister Minister / int_34342b04	comment	On The Long Call, Dennis Stephenson, church elder of a small fundamentalist sect called the Barum Brethern, seems charismatic, moral, and pious. He also emotionally abuses his wife Grace and artfully manipulates the Brethren both collectively and as individuals. Dennis is also behind Simon Walden's murder, having manipulated Grace into actually doing it because Dennis suspected that Simon threatened his control over the Brethren. In the novel that the show is based on, he also conspired to cover up the rape of a mentally-disabled young woman committed by somebody he had only a tenuous personal connection to for reasons of public image.
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Sinister Minister / int_343830b9	comment	Archbishop Grishom from The Night Unfurls is this. At first, he is an Obstructive Bureaucrat that blocks relief efforts. He then graduates into Arc Villain status by staging an uprising, exhorting the common folk to join the Black Dogs, and putting the capital in a state of chaos.
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Sinister Minister / int_35760d42	comment	In Jane Eyre, Mr Brocklehurst is a clergyman of a rich, honourable, and influential family and he has quite a strong position in society, but he has a sick, twisted mind. For instance, he scares Jane with his idea of hell and horrible religious teachings and he's an extreme hypocrite. His mother founded the Lowood school as a charitable institution for orphaned girls, but he runs it as the Boarding School of Horrors of the worst kind — the pupils suffer from hunger and cold in winter. When the poor food causes a typhus outbreak that kills a large group of students, the outside world finds out about the horrors, but he's too important to be punished for his mismanagement of the school.
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Sinister Minister / int_35ce6432	comment	Idura in Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals is a priest in Parcelyte. He's noted as acting oddly after the appearance of the Sinistrals... shortly before he kidnaps Guy's girlfriend, becoming a recurring minor villain in the service of the Sinistral of Chaos.
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Sinister Minister / int_36343514	comment	Graham Jones in Aria of Sorrow. Dressed like a Southern Baptist televangelist, and sounds like one too. He also shares the Knight Templar fundamentalism qualities.
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Sinister Minister / int_36bc9faa	comment	The Day of the Beast: The story's sinister minister ends up being the main character, Father Angel Berriartua, who sees himself as a Well-Intentioned Extremist as he commits a series of crimes and human rights violations in the belief that he's stopping The Antichrist's apocalypse on a Twisted Christmas. For example, Mina allows him at her boarding house at a late hour because he's a priest, and later Angel will drug her unconscious against her will in order to take her blood for a ritual.
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Sinister Minister / int_37242968	comment	The perverted and greedy Reverend Madeley in Silent Night (2012) skims from the collection plate and hits on young female parishioners.
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Sinister Minister / int_37419634	comment	Discworld Noir: Mooncalf, though he's more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist than actually evil.
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Sinister Minister / int_381d9226	comment	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio has a somewhat downplayed example with a local village priest. He is allied with a Podesta and he accuses Pinocchio of being a product of the devil, but he just seems to be a product of Fascistic system as a whole and unlike the Podesta, he doesn't seem to go out his way to either harm Pinocchio or use him for any sinister purpose.
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Sinister Minister / int_38c57aa2	comment	High Cardinal Krozen from Eberron, senior cardinal of the Silver Flame and the most powerful individual in Thrane. Krozen is a corrupt warmonger who plays on religious fundamentalism to support his power. He's far from the worst in Thrane, though; the militant bishops in charge of the city of Thaliost (captured from rival Aundair in the backstory and never fully assimilated culturally or religiously) are infamously cruel and sadistic to the point of facing opposition from lower-ranking church members who more closely follow the religion's teachings, and in the backstory Thrane fanatics have attempted genocide against lycanthropes and committed horrific war crimes including ethnic cleansing against rival nations. Ironically, Thrane's state religion, the Silver Flame, is Lawful Good officially; but due to Eberron's unique rules on clerics' Character Alignment, this has little bearing on the actual conduct of its priests and followers, much like how real religions' teachings are easily twisted by corrupt churchmen to serve their own ends.
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Sinister Minister / int_3953baf0	comment	Deliberately averted in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. While Disney's version of Frollo is significantly more evil than the novel version and also religious, his title has been changed to JUDGE Claude Frollo, with a Reasonable Authority Figure taking Frollo's original role as the Archdeacon.
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Sinister Minister / int_399a6bc8	comment	One of the major villains in Hawksmaid is the Abbess, who is the Sheriff of Nottingham's sister and Prince John's mistress. She conspires to help John take over the kingdom while Richard is held prisoner, captures Matty, and tortures her in an attempt to discover the location of the rubies.
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Sinister Minister / int_3ac51861	comment	Father Ailnoth in Cadfael is appointed to the Foregate community for purely political reasons — the Church wants to demonstrate its support for King Stephen, and Ailnoth is a Stephen fanatic. He casually dismisses the brutal mauling of a man suspected of supporting Maud, and when called upon to actually minister, is blatantly unfit for the job. He preaches hellfire and damnation, seizes the Foregate lands his predecessor had allowed the locals to farm, and instead of granting absolution to a young woman pregnant out of wedlock, calls her a whore and drives her from the church. Then he refuses responsibility when she drowns herself and the village blames him. It is therefore no surprise to anyone when he is found clogging up the Foregate millwheel just days into his tenure.
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Sinister Minister / int_3b11d63f	comment	A couple of chapters of Nightmares & Fairy Tales feature a group of nuns that are anything but holy. They keep a pet demon in the attic of their convent, and as for what they feed it? Let's just say that the local adoption rate of orphaned babies has been slipping since they showed up.
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Sinister Minister / int_3b88d68c	comment	Dante and Virgil encounter many corrupt clergymen in Hell in The Divine Comedy. (To put this simply, Dante despised such people, and the punishment he portrayed them as suffering was horrid, to say the least.) There's even a section of Hell for corrupt clergy, where they are placed upside down in holes resembling baptismal fonts and have their feet burnt in a parody of baptism. Dante's Arch-Enemy Boniface VIII, a notoriously power-hungry Pope who was largely responsible for Dante's exile, is mentioned to be destined for this area of Hell even though the poem is set before his death.
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Sinister Minister / int_3d093919	comment	The Reverend Fred Sultan in The Great White Hype: a conniving and manipulative businessman who also acts as Roper's fight promoter. Sort of a No Celebrities Were Harmed mashup of the Reverend Al Sharpton and Don King.
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Sinister Minister / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files has a short story about a priest who thinks that it's a travesty that Harry has custody over Swords of the Cross as opposed to finding new users for them (which Harry is actually doing). The guy was once in the military and has been staring a lot of evils in the face from his position in South America and tries to kill Harry to get the swords out of what he perceives to be enemy hands. Michael is not amused.
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Sinister Minister / int_42800440	comment	Cardinal Trebaldi is the main antagonist in The Scorpion. He is an ambitious cardinal who later becomes Pope and starts a reign of terror in Rome.
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Sinister Minister / int_44e08ee8	comment	One episode of Homicide: Life on the Street featured a menacing biker warlord nicknamed Preacher, nicknamed as such because he was also a bishop in the American Fellows Church who officiates weddings on the side.
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Sinister Minister / int_452cb6f3	comment	The Good Dinosaur has a rough prehistoric equivalent in Thunderclap, a vicious and deranged pterodactyl who leads an obsessive cult that deifies the storms. He speaks very much like a corrupt religious leader.
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Sinister Minister / int_468bebb0	comment	Vorbis from the Discworld book Small Gods. Unlike some examples, though, Vorbis believes with absolute certainty that all the bad things he does to advance the church and himself are necessary according to his twisted conception of the religion. A character in the book mentions this trope, expecting that Vorbis maintains his austere image just to hide a life of luxury and indulgence, but he doesn't. It is implied that this makes him worse than a garden-variety corrupt priest, as Vorbis's crimes are driven by something stronger and more constant than self-interest.
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Sinister Minister / int_46a4b34d	comment	Annias in The Elenium by David Eddings is a high-ranking clergyman who loudly proclaims his virtue... while using bribes, threats, and outright murder in his attempt to seize the throne of the Archprelate (AKA the Pope). Later, it turns out that he's actually working for an ancient, evil god, too.
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Sinister Minister / int_46e9a4d	comment	Monkey Man has a non-Christian example - Baba Shakti is a Hindu guru who gives his backing to a far-right nationalist party that stokes violent division between Hindus, Muslims and Christians, and employs a private army of Dirty Cops to drive poor people off land he wants to own.
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Sinister Minister / int_49b587be	comment	Many of the religious officials taking part in the pilgrimage in The Canterbury Tales. The Pardoner is the traditional medieval corrupt churchman who sells forgiveness, the Summoner is a hypocrite guilty of the sins he accuses others of, and the Friar and Prioress are at the very least more interested in worldly goods than their callings would expect. Another summoner appears in "The Friar's Tale", and the Friar portrays him similarly, as well as having an amiable relationship with a demon. The Summoner retaliates by making his own tale about corrupt friars.
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Sinister Minister / int_4ae414f0	comment	Babylon Berlin features a tattoo-covered mob enforcer going by the nickname "Saint Josef" (and may or may not actually be an ordained priest); He generally struts around town in a Catholic habit and biretta clutching a rosary, delivering threatening messages in the name of his Boss.
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Sinister Minister / int_4b01578c	comment	Vincenzo Bianchi and Cardinal Genovese from the Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator games, both high-ranking Vatican officials.
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Sinister Minister / int_4b4b80de	comment	Reverend Wringhim Senior, from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, drills it into his son Robert's head that Robert has been guaranteed his salvation no matter what he does, and also uses his influence to clear Robert's name whenever he is faced with harassment and assault complaints from other people, including Robert's brother George.
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Sinister Minister / int_4ccb5958	comment	FBI: Most Wanted: In "Black Mirror", the task force investigates an abduction of a pair of teens. The case leads the team to an errant pastor and his brother. Though the vibes in the church were off seeing as they boasted imagery of the devil...
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Sinister Minister / int_4ce56986	comment	Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. He sometimes features guests on his calls. In "Scammers Hated Us After This 7hr Prank," WillNeff's Pastor Stewart character seems like a nice guy who is concerned about Kitboga's Mary character's health and brings her soup and such. But he also has Mary, a befuddled old lady, handling church finances and later he gives her "$500 gift cards" that are actually just $5 gift cards with two zeros written in after the 5s.
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Sinister Minister / int_4d7927ed	comment	The title character of Elmer Gantry is a young, narcissistic, womanizing college athlete who abandons his early ambition to become a lawyer because the legal profession does not suit his lack of ethics. After college, he attends a Baptist seminary and is ordained as a Baptist minister. During his career, Gantry contributes to the downfall, physical injury, and even death of key people around him, including a sincere minister, Frank Shallard, who is plagued by doubt. However, he is portrayed more as merely slick and self-deluded rather than as "pure evil."
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Sinister Minister / int_4f17ca94	comment	In The Con is On, Sidney is a priest and a drug dealer.
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Sinister Minister / int_503c05af	comment	Vicar Oddie from In the Flesh is constantly preaching against zombies and orders the parish council to do less than ethical actions.
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Sinister Minister / int_5082a6a	comment	The Cardinal in The Three Musketeers, though he's an antagonist because he is the prime minister of France. The religious aspect of his position is irrelevant to his character and the plot.
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Sinister Minister / int_5090b9e6	comment	Bishop Maltheus from Clive Barker's Jericho. Another Well-Intentioned Extremist who used children to try and take back the Holy Land from Muslims during the Crusades. Now as a twisted servant of the First Born, he continues to keep the souls of the dead children under his command, but man, do they want revenge for what he did to them. Cruel, misguided, and seeking out 'sin' wherever he can to destroy.
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Sinister Minister / int_512b4b82	comment	In Order of Ecclesia, Barlowe. First appears to be Shanoa's mentor, but in the good ending, revealed to be the one behind attempting to revive Dracula and thus the Arc Villain. He is fought as a boss at that point.
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Sinister Minister / int_5374d379	comment	In Divine Intervention, a demonic priest floating above a pentagram is a minor boss that appears occasionally.
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Sinister Minister / int_54e8e82d	comment	James Mitchell, the man behind this gimmick, did much the same act in TNA under his real name.
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Sinister Minister / int_56704149	comment	A couple of these types pop up in Jack Taylor. First we have "Lucifer" the sadistic and enigmatic nun who helped to run a Magdalene laundry in 1960s Galway. Next we have the Pedophile Priest who abused and traumatized his altar boys. Father Malachy is a subversion of this—although he and Jack frequently clash, it's more out of the Father's loyalty to Jack's estranged mother over his unconventional and unwieldy lifestyle rather than some ulterior and sinister motive.
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Sinister Minister / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Minister Malack is initially Affably Evil, striking a friendship with Durkon and being nice and polite despite allying himself with the dictatorship that is the Empire of Blood. However, he uses his affable nature as a facade for his truly vile depths: He is a vampire who has made plans with Tarquin and the rest of the Vector Legion to turn the Empire into a vehicle for thousands of human sacrifices per day for his god Nergal. And that's not even going through what he does to Durkon...
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Sinister Minister / int_585b45e1	comment	Sister Jude from American Horror Story: Asylum is an Ambiguously Evil gender-flipped version of this trope. She's basically a Knight Templar who believes in beating the sin out of her patients (with a rather loose definition of what constitutes "sin" even by the standards of the early Sixties) but thanks to far worse people and things inhabiting Briarcliff plus her own tortured history she can be interpreted as either an Anti-Villain or Anti-Hero.
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Sinister Minister / int_58f28be1	comment	Archbishop Gilday from the third film of The Godfather trilogy is a ruthless schemer and the mastermind behind the assassination of Pope John Paul I.
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Sinister Minister / int_5ae078da	comment	ECW/MLW wrestling manager The Sinister Minister: It's his friggin' name! James Mitchell, the man behind this gimmick, did much the same act in TNA under his real name.
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Sinister Minister / int_5c23597c	comment	The terrifying Asa Hawks from John Huston's Wise Blood, based on Flannery Oâ€™Connor's novel. Worth mentioning here because Harry Dean Stanton's wonderfully creepy portrayal of the character comes across as more villainous than in the book.
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Sinister Minister / int_5e91c7d	comment	Chief Bitores Mendez of Resident Evil 4. He was a Catholic priest whose parish constituted an isolated, rural community in Spain until he came under the thrall of Osmund Saddler, infected with the Plagas and became a mutant who helped infect the rest of the village and became an enforcer for the cult.
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Sinister Minister / int_5ec299b4	comment	In Alias's "Rebecca, Come Home" arc, Jessica goes out to a small town in upstate New York to track down a missing girl and runs into your average fundie bigot pastor at the local church. This being Marvel, he's anti-mutant, justifying it by the fact that the word doesn't appear anywhere in The Bible, ergo God didn't create mutants, ergo they're an evil of man. Jessica chews him out because the girl reportedly claimed she was a mutant and because, in her view, religion is supposed to be about improving ourselves. He actually has no direct connection to the girl's disappearance, though: she's not a mutant, she's a lesbian and ran away to get away from her crappy right-wing hometown and be with her girlfriend.
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Sinister Minister / int_5f01f80a	comment	Deacon Blackfire from Batman: The Cult. Abducts the homeless, uses torture to brainwash them, practices Human Sacrifice, and came close to psychologically breaking Batman himself. Might also be an immortal who predates the arrival of Christianity on the American continent, it's unclear.
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Sinister Minister / int_6043432e	comment	Future Force features a crimelord priest. He proves the lesser of two evils compared to the Dirty Cop Big Bad and saves the hero's life at one point.
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Sinister Minister / int_6089983e	comment	In The Mountie, Olaf, the Orthodox priest and most powerful figure in the settlement of Merci, is in league with Cossack criminals, and part of the opium ring. He also threw his daughter's newborn baby over the side of a ship because it was a bastard (a Child Of Rape).
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Sinister Minister / int_60e46d26	comment	Played for laughs in one popular MAD article, "When Priests Go Bad". (Which was followed by sequels like "When Nuns Go Bad" and "When Clowns Go Bad".)
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Sinister Minister / int_6369b8a8	comment	The Bishop of Hereford from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, who accused Robin's father of being a devil worshipper and is actually either a devil worshipper himself or someone who knows that the Sheriff of Nottingham is a devil worshiper and looks the other way.
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Sinister Minister / int_640d9be1	comment	However, the series also has a tendency (at least since Binding Blade) for the highest-ranking religious figure in the game to be benevolent, and in a couple of games, playable. One notable example from the Tellius game is Sephiran, who is the one responsible for the resurrection of Ashera and who wants everything to end, but who could also make a Heelâ€“Face Turn and joins the heroes in the final battle against Ashera (though, good luck with that).
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Sinister Minister / int_654ab3ee	comment	Revelations brings us Cyril of Rhodes, the rare example of an Eastern Orthodox priest. He is a member of the Templar Order and plans to assassinate the patriarch of Constantinople.
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Sinister Minister / int_662b5ae9	comment	Silver Bullet has a variation when it comes to Reverend Lowe. At the start, he appears to be a genuinely conscientious priest who wants to do good for his flock and is horrified by what his werewolf curse has made him into. However, events of the movie gradually turn him more and more into this due to a possible combination of the trauma of losing his eye, being sent multiple letters encouraging him to commit suicide, and the full moon drawing closer and smothering his humanity. By that time, he's become completely evil and depraved, attempting to murder Marty and giving some poorly justified reasons on shaky religious grounds for his murders.
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Sinister Minister / int_667f6509	comment	In The Council of Hanwell, the church in town has a sacrificial chamber in the basement and it's implied the local religion in someway includes the anomalies.
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Sinister Minister / int_69dabedf	comment	Vampyr (2018): Played with Sean Hampton, who combines this trope with Good Shepherd. He is a genuinely pious individual who looks after the safety of the East End Docks' population, even after becoming a Skal. However, he becomes a lot more ghoulish and now eats on raw flesh, and if Jonathan chooses to leave him alone instead of killing or curing him, he will succumb to his condition and being forced to be put down. Father Tobias Whitaker, on the other hand plays this trope straight, believing London is being ravished by the plague as punishment for men's sins and advocates cleansing it with fire to save it. Furthermore, it turns out he is a serial killer that has been murdering people for their lack of faith and expresses no remorse over this.
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Sinister Minister / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons, any evil cleric could be one of these, depending on how and where they operated. In an issue of White Dwarf, a custom class called a "Black Priest" was statted who could also fit the trope.
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Sinister Minister / int_6af83614	comment	A Thing of Vikings: Father Michael Henriksson is devout in his beliefs, if not a little too-devout. For the entirety of the Berkians' stay in Norway, he makes the demand that they must all convert to Christianity to solidify their treaty. When this does not work, he manipulates Wulfhild into a Christian wedding with Hiccup, using it in a long-term plan to convert Berk and bring it under the control of the church, intentionally omitting various details and technicalities (like how polygamy has been banned from Christian practices centuries ago). After Ruffnut becomes queen, Henriksson does everything he can to undermine her, including trying to take control of her hospital under the assumption that women are too fragile to care for the sick and injured. When she refuses to have her children baptized - believing that they have the right to choose their gods when they are old enough to decide - Henriksson baptizes Ruffnut while she is sleeping before trying to smother her with a pillow, trying to make it look like a Death by Childbirth. When Einar catches him in the act he changes his plan to making it look like they killed each other. Oh, and it was revealed that he ordered the first assassination attempt on Hiccup and Astrid when they first came to Norway.
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Sinister Minister / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark from Sin City, the most nefarious member of the city's Corrupt Church and just one member of the series resident powerful Big, Screwed-Up Family.
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Sinister Minister / int_6c2d5381	comment	Lucas Langeais of Bokura no Kiseki. He's the only priest besides the Bishop whose Reincarnation in the main plotline has yet to be revealed, and yet he's already been set up as a villain. Teshimano has memories of Lucas attacking Veronica during the Moswickian invasion, and Lucas's reincarnation is the prime suspect for the attack on Kamioka. When he first appears in a flashback, there is something just not right about him.
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Sinister Minister / int_6cc7497b	comment	Castlevania (2017): The Starter Villain is an unnamed Bishop who mercilessly murders anyone who disagrees with his views, declaring them to be heretics. He burns Lisa (Dracula's wife) at the stake for being a doctor along with her paraphernalia from Dracula's knowledge, accusing her of witchcraft, and refuses to accept responsibility for the fact that this causes Dracula's vengeful rampage. Later, he tries to kill Trevor and the Speakers, despite them being the only ones with the means to protect people from Dracula's forces, just because they don't follow his dogma. He further likes how Dracula's attack gives him the opening to increase his religious political power and potentially becoming the absolute leader. His evils are so great that it eventually turns out that he's desecrated the church he works in. God's Love for him is gone and He permits demons to enter the church and kill the Bishop. This also applies to all his priests, as they're all, to a one, violent bullies. The first two seen are bullying and about to beat up an elderly Speaker. Speakers are nomadic people who help any in need and may be scholars of magic. There are others in the Bishop's ranks who try to kill Trevor later. The Bishop's superior the Archbishop is hinted at being one of these as he too is against the sciences, preferring to keep the people of the country in an uneducated state. Prior Sala and his abbots from Season 3 are a Religion of Evil example, being former Christians who turned to worship Dracula after the Bishop's actions lead to the catastrophe that consumed the land. They manage to out-creep the Bishop and his associates since they are an evil cult that embraces Satanic symbols (like the alchemical symbol for sulfur which stands for "Hell") and placed the crucifix on their priory upside down. They are also plotting to bring back Dracula to life after he was slain in Season 2 by opening a portal to Hell.
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Sinister Minister / int_6d2aec8f	comment	Father Enrico Pucci from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean is a priest who works at a prison and uses his status and special ability to gain many of the guards and prisoners as followers and allies via his Stand ability. It is revealed later that he set up the protagonist, Jolyne, to get framed at the beginning of Stone Ocean. His ultimate goal was to achieve the power of "Heaven" and create the vampire Dio's perfect universe "for the good of mankind".
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Sinister Minister / int_6f1bcb62	comment	The Tellius games (Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn) have the Begnion senators, who are also religious figures.
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Sinister Minister / int_6f734712	comment	Edward Teague on Smallville was a Well-Intentioned Extremist and former Amoral Attorney who became a Catholic priest to protect a MacGuffin at St. Christopher's church following the death of his wife Genevieve and son, Jason. Formerly a firm believer in the cult of The Traveller, he turns on Clark after the revelation that he is unwilling to kill Archenemy Lex Luthor, and tries to put them both out of his misery. One could argue that he's an Antihero, but no matter how you slice it, he's very sinister, and given the religious overtones of almost every action he takes, it ain't just an act.
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Sinister Minister / int_701f0ece	comment	Bishop and High Inquisitor Mozgus of Berserk is an Obliviously Evil Knight Templar version, who sincerely believes that rounding people up under dubious accusations of heresy and gruesomely torturing them to death to extract confessions and repentance is his divinely sanctioned mission. As a matter of fact, there are evil heretics among the refugees in St. Albion who practice cannibalism and demon worship, but his punishment falls equally on those whose only crime was having the temerity to protest against his insane witch hunt.
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Sinister Minister / int_70814599	comment	The Canon on the medieval planet in Stargate SG-1 made use of creative interpretations of The Bible, the fear engendered by the Goa'uld System Lord Sokar's raids for hosts, and a lightning-summoning ring in order to maintain control over his village. When SG-1 arrived, he accused Teal'c of consorting with demons. And starting in season 9, the Priors of the Ori and their head honcho, the Doci, are pretty creepy. Which is exactly as their gods intended.
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Sinister Minister / int_71a2d83d	comment	Pastor Young from The Vampire Diaries takes over the council as of series 4 and returns it to its original kill all vampires mission.
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Sinister Minister / int_7244e221	comment	The Traitor Son Cycle has two: The Archbishop of Alba is deliberately destabilizing Alba, to the point of implicating the pregnant Queen into murder so that he gets a chance of burning her alive. He's also not-so-subtly implied to be working with Ash, the Big Bad, and without the "angel" facade that the dragon employs with his other pawns. The Patriarch of Rhum deliberately raises an army to block Red Knight's path when the latter is trying to fight The Virus — and not because he's infected.
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Sinister Minister / int_7288f27	comment	The Priest background from Cultist Simulator... sort of. They're preaching an extremely heretical distortion of Christianity that incorporates the lore of Eldritch Abominations, strange and often perverse occult practices, and often outright criminal activity. However, they aren't manipulating their parishioners, per se. Their flock consisted of willing followers of the heresy when the Priest showed up, and the Priest's special ascension is a Heroic Sacrifice where, through painful ritual self-mutilation culminating in a willingly accepted Fate Worse than Death for themself, they allow their followers to ascend to the Mansus. The parallels are obvious.
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Sinister Minister / int_733aa1b7	comment	Gatehammer Fantasy Battles: Averted per Word of God. Natter Bismarck is ambitious as Satan, about twice as ruthless and half as pleasant, but he is a genuinely devout man who believes that what he is doing is best for the Cult of Sigmar, The Empire and the people he is seeking to convert (and himself, in a "the-rising-tide-lifts-all-boats" sort of way) with no indication (yet) that he is wrong.
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Sinister Minister / int_73d7930f	comment	Winn Adami in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who goes from a vedek (similar to a bishop or cardinal) to the kai (leader, equivalent to a pope) of a Saintly Church purely in pursuit of personal power, and somehow fools everyone except the main characters. (She even tries to have a rival vedek assassinated.) Initially she believes that everything that goes right for her is proof she's doing the Prophets' will, and everything that goes wrong is a test, but later she decides that if the Prophets don't agree with her they're wrong, and turns to the Pah-Wraiths, the Bajoran equivalent of demons. Though, during the Grand Finale, after Gul Dukat has tricked her into releasing the Wraiths and helped him essentially become The Antichrist, she helps Sisko stop him. Naturally, she dies. At first, Winn expressed resentment of the Federation's presence due to their secularism. Later, when Sisko starts to embrace his role as the Emissary of the Prophets, it's more that she sees him personally as a threat to her power. After all, when the Emissary has arrived, what need is there for a Kai? It's rather akin to a scenario where the Pope is resentful of the fact that Jesus outranks him, which illustrates how much her ambition twisted her religious beliefs.
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Sinister Minister / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Look has The Incredibly Twisted and Horrible Person Who Unaccountably Is Still A Vicar, who confronts a young couple who've only recently moved into the neighbourhood, and berates them for trying to look around the church, at length, not being particularly religious but still having some "ideas", and dismisses the ideas of love and tolerance as a fad that wasn't likely to catch on, before driving them out completely. His speech even comes with an ominous wind, and later, ominous chanting.
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Sinister Minister / int_75e9b784	comment	Valeria Trifa from Dies Irae initially comes off as a harmless bumbling friendly priest who Can't Hold His Liquor. However, that impression doesn't last long as it becomes apparent that he is quite the schemer, working to aid Reinhard. At least, that is how it initially appears. In actuality he is The Starscream, trying to wreck the plan in order to protect his surrogate daughter Rea. However, he has become so twisted that he is practically trying to do Reinhard's plan over and over again on a smaller scale, and is even trying to become Reinhard himself. All stemming from a deranged obsession with repenting for his sins from back when he was just a kindly priest who was goaded into killing the children in his care.
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Sinister Minister / int_7678fef	comment	Brother Love, the evil televangelist/manager.
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Sinister Minister / int_76c01b30	comment	Bishop Antony Lilliman in V for Vendetta is a child molester, as well as a cheerleader for the fascist regime.
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Sinister Minister / int_76ee633d	comment	Castlevania: Nocturne: Abbot Emanuel is a more sympathetic example than those in the original show, as he is driven by a genuine belief that the French Revolution will destroy the church and ruin society as a result. However, he still comes across as a hypocritical fundamentalist and Evil Reactionary due to the fact that he's so desperate to stop the revolution that he's willing to join forces with the self-proclaimed vampire messiah, Erzsebet BÃ¡thory, acting as her Forgemaster in order to provide her with an army of Night Creatures to Take Over the World with. He's even, albeit reluctantly, willing to sacrifice his own illegitimate daughter Maria to seal this alliance.
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Sinister Minister / int_783392b	comment	Dante's Inferno: The Heretics and Pagans from the Sixth Circle are dressed like demonic clergymen are capable of casting magic and are immune to Dante's Cross attacks. The backstory features a creepy smiling bishop who claimed he absolved the crusaders of all their sins — the Grim Reaper has made it clear to Dante that they were absolved of nothing.
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Sinister Minister / int_788da0fd	comment	The main villain of the graphic novel Bikini Cowboy is Father Graves, a priest who wants to kill Whisky Jill because he doesn't approve of her lifestyle.
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Sinister Minister / int_7894fb5d	comment	The Pharisees and Jewish leaders in The Four Gospels, whom Jesus denounced publicly for their actions in Matthew chapter 23. They so hated Jesus for it that they conspired to have Him be put to death.
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Sinister Minister / int_79e4edd2	comment	Pope Zenon of Crying Suns is the leader of the Church of Singularity. He rules the Church cluster with an iron fist in the wake of the Empireâ€™s collapse, letting his fanatical followers terrorize nonbelievers with their battleships. He himself knows that their religion is a sham and does not believe in it, but keeps up the pretense to maintain his power.
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Sinister Minister / int_79fb7cd4	comment	Reverend Kane from Poltergeist II: The Other Side: a deceased, insane preacher who tricked his congregation into committing mass suicide by sealing themselves inside of a cave to await the Apocalypse. He returns as a poltergeist and attempts to destroy the Freeling family.
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Sinister Minister / int_7a59fbeb	comment	Batman also encounters these if he's dealing with the Order of St. Dumas (Azrael himself tends not to count, traditionally being an Anti-Hero).
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Sinister Minister / int_7a7102f5	comment	Pastor Richards in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City VCPR radio station. He plans to build a giant statue for himself and his concubines and needs your donations to do so.
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Sinister Minister / int_7c0f1317	comment	In the Diogenes Club story "The Case of the French Spy", the villain is the Reverend Mr Sellwood, a bitter Young Earth Creationist who's obsessed with destroying anything that contradicts his beliefs, not hesitating to use violence and coercion where he considers it necessary. Technically, he's no longer a qualified minister; he was defrocked after he refused to stop advocating that Charles Darwin's works should all be burned and Darwin with them.
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Sinister Minister / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies: "Wacky Wales" has the Reverend Llewellyn Llewellyn Llewellyn Llewellyn (played by Jon Pertwee) of the Church of the Seventh Day Repressionists. It turns out that his church is also a drudic cult that practices Human Sacrifice, and he attempts to sacrifice the Goodies for being too entertaining. Played for Laughs.
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Sinister Minister / int_7df1939b	comment	Immersion Breakers: The first Pontiff of the Temple of Light is an agent for the Lich King.
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Sinister Minister / int_7f9dbbcf	comment	Far Cry 5 has Joseph Seed, a David Koresh-inspired cult leader who preaches of an inevitable apocalypse and through a combination of charisma and mind-control drugs has created a cult that is violently taking over a county in Montana and killing anyone who attempts to go against them.
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Sinister Minister / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: Deacon Blackfire from Batman: The Cult. Abducts the homeless, uses torture to brainwash them, practices Human Sacrifice, and came close to psychologically breaking Batman himself. Might also be an immortal who predates the arrival of Christianity on the American continent, it's unclear. Batman also encounters these if he's dealing with the Order of St. Dumas (Azrael himself tends not to count, traditionally being an Anti-Hero).
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Sinister Minister / int_814a15a7	comment	Grounded for All Eternity: Samuel Parris was the reverend of Salem centuries in the past, and used his position to orchestrate the Salem witch trials. Upon taking over the town in the present, he takes on this role once more to orchestrate another witch hunt and has his followers attempt to kill the heroes.
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Sinister Minister / int_827c5e91	comment	Simon Ark: In his first story ("The Village of the Damned"), Simon exposes the leader of a religious community who drove his followers to commit mass suicide.
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Sinister Minister / int_833ad429	comment	Daughter for Dessert: Smoking Dog was this all the way. His New Age â€œchurchâ€� is nothing more than a cult. He openly used Lainie for her money, and then subjected her to a traumatizing â€œpurification ritualâ€� after she got cut off from her family fortune.
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Sinister Minister / int_8378d68a	comment	From the apocryphal Books of Maccabees, there's Jason, the corrupt high priest appointed by King Antiochus IV, who brought Greek culture into Judea and made the Jews turn from following God. He was succeeded by Menelaus, the brother of the corrupt Temple official Simon, who basically bought his position with money and was described as having "the hot temper of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a savage wild beast." He even goes so far as to put his brother Lysimachus in charge, who ends up stealing valuable items from the Temple. Also Alcimus, who was appointed by Demetrius.
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Sinister Minister / int_83968f3f	comment	King Rat: Father Drinkwater is a particularly nasty example, but he doesn't cling to any of the usual stereotypes. He isn't malicious, or evil, intolerant, or interested in whipping up a religious frenzy, or persecuting the sins of others. What he does is so much worse. He usually latches onto a young, impressionable inmate, comforts them with sermons, lets them help organize services, etc... and then waits until they are willing to make a charitable donation of part of their food ration. He never asks for anything, just cowers behind his collar and waits. And when the hapless victim eventually transpires due to malnutrition, the good, well-fed Father moves on to his next victim.
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Sinister Minister / int_85237000	comment	Pope Joan has Anastasius, a priest working in the Pope's household as an advisor, who plots to eliminate Pope Sergius and take over the office of Pope himself.
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Sinister Minister / int_85c4596e	comment	Alexander Nevsky: The Bishop who sanctions the heinous actions of the Teutonic Knights and blesses them. Later in the movie, he drowns along with the majority of the army. There was also a Catholic priest in black robes who was playing the organs and was captured along with the Grandmaster at the end of the movie.
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Sinister Minister / int_8784dabc	comment	They don't get much more evil than Powerwolf's "Cardinal Sin", a cardinal who takes confession and does ugly, ugly things by night.
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Sinister Minister / int_88c4faa2	comment	Henry VI has the Bishop of Winchester, later Cardinal of Winchester, who orders his half-brother's death in an attempt to secure the crown and is noted by all other characters to be a depraved and power-hungry man. Interestingly, the current Bishop of Winchester, when Shakespeare was writing, made a substantial amount of his fortune by licensing prostitution. He also owned the land on which the Globe Theatre was built...
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Sinister Minister / int_8942a3ba	comment	Cathedral of the Sea has chief inquisitor Nicolas whose main motive for framing Arnau for heresy is so the church can take his wealth.
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Sinister Minister / int_89f4bc45	comment	The Undertaker, while leading the Satanic cult-inspired Ministry of Darkness.
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Sinister Minister / int_8afceb4f	comment	At the start of The Right Stuff, the widow of a test pilot is shown cowering in fear from the saturnine black-clad priest sent to inform her of her husband's death. He's merely the Bearer of Bad News however, and not actually malevolent.
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Sinister Minister / int_8c5f856b	comment	Father Kemp from Being Human is a member of the secretive organisation pursuing supernaturals in Series 2. He is a religious zealot who appears to have his own agenda as regards supernaturals, whom he thinks should be removed from society.
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Sinister Minister / int_8d23bbd1	comment	The Man Who Knew Too Much: The assassin Mr. Drayton turns out to be a minister in his day job. He's even got a congregation!
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Sinister Minister / int_8d817ccb	comment	On Lost, a prison chaplain refused to absolve Richard for accidentally killing a doctor, in blatant violation of Church doctrine. Richard was about to be hanged, and apparently, someone wanted him softened up and scared to be sent to the New World as a slave.
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Sinister Minister / int_8ec33a87	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Amalthus serves as a Pope-like figure as the "Praetor" of the Vatican-esque Indoline Praetorium, where people worship the Titans. He also wishes to wipe out all life on Alrest, having long ago given up on humanity and the world due to witnessing its worst actions and deluded himself into believing that this is the divine Architect's will.
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Sinister Minister / int_90032631	comment	Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black isn't an actual minister, but she acts as one for several inmates. An intolerant zealot, she's one of the few inmates (if not the only) that becomes less sympathetic when her backstory is revealed. She's in prison for murdering an abortion clinic nurse who criticized Pennsatucky's large number of abortions. She only became religious after the religious right started supporting her and donating to her legal defense because they mistook her crime for an act of pro-life protest.
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Sinister Minister / int_9044741c	comment	The Blob (1988): The final scene shows Reverend Meeker having gone off the deep end, preaching a fire and brimstone apocalyptic sermon... and having kept a small piece of the Blob for the very purpose of starting said apocalypse when "the Lord will give him a sign".
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Sinister Minister / int_9096e12c	comment	CarnivÃ le's Brother Justin Crowe is a super-powered example of this trope who turns out to be not only the living embodiment of evil as the Avatar of Darkness, but the fabled Usher of Destruction.
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Sinister Minister / int_91bd8043	comment	The title character from The Monk. Ambrosio's Start of Darkness was to break his vow of chastity with a woman who disguised herself as a monk.
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Sinister Minister / int_92a56bcb	comment	In the Masters of Horror episode "The Screwfly Solution", the priest in the Canadian hospital euthanizes female patients against their will while preaching the "fundamentally evil" nature of women.
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Sinister Minister / int_93d6ffd3	comment	Finally, in Origins, we have Hetepi, the Lizard. He is a powerful priest of Anubis and has the trust of the high priest, Pasherenptah. Since Anubis is the Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife, Hetepi's acts as the Lizard were contrary to his priestly duties.
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Sinister Minister / int_95e7f86b	comment	The Cardinal Rolo vi Britannia in Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally has shades of this. While the Geass Directorate/Cult was not explicitly religious in the original series, it was much more so in the manga, with Emperor Charles declaring a religious state at the climax. The Cardinal serves as the mouthpiece for the religion throughout and plans to kill Nunnally, Charles, and Lelouch to become the Demon King.
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Sinister Minister / int_96b185bb	comment	Eli Sunday There Will Be Blood is a cold-hearted and narcissistic man who runs his church with an iron fist and only opposes Daniel Plainview's plans because he fears that it will break his own hold on the town.
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Sinister Minister / int_97d8ac3a	comment	In the story "Rogues in the House," Nabonidus, the Red Priest, "who was the real ruler of the city."
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Sinister Minister / int_987626d8	comment	Prophet Darren of The Infected is a deeply conservative man of the cloth, who is firmly against the abomination of the Infected (think mutants). As time passes, the readers learn that he also kept a commune of abused children and a vast harem made up largely of his daughters and that he himself is an Infected with emotion-manipulating powers. The public reveal of this is enough to destroy him utterly, the protagonists barely needing to lift a finger towards his end.
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Sinister Minister / int_9ab0076a	comment	In Dragon's Crown, the Church Cover-up side-quest involves one, with the Flavor Text of the accompanying Vampire Hunter Treasure Art revealing that the local priest of the village with the Vampire problem was actually in colleagues with the Vampires after he became enamored in them, and the demon-repelling barrier he set-up was actually a cursed seal that invites the Vampires to the village.
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Sinister Minister / int_9ac6b8f8	comment	In The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School, the school chaplain, the Reverend Mr Bainter, is a smarmy man with leanings toward some non-Christian, and probably evil, religion. The school gossip has it that he's a white slaver; the truth is arguably worse. Since Drearcliff is an Academy of Adventure by design, it may be that some degree of sinister is part of the job description; the new school chaplain who arrives at the end of the book is implied to be a vampire. (Although the sequel reveals his wife was the vampire.)
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Sinister Minister / int_9b6c0c44	comment	The Comfortable Courtesan has the Reverend Mr. Gorston, later Marquess of Bexbury, who starts off as being simply obnoxious and bigoted, and is revealed over the course of the serial to be truly villainous.
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Sinister Minister / int_9bcc183b	comment	The Hunchback of Notre Dame's sexually frustrated Archdeacon, Claude Frollo who proves to be much morally weaker in dealing with his lust than he was with everything else. Turning from an antisocial recluse with a sensitive side to a lustful, confused, and militant wretch.
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Sinister Minister / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Following its source material, Game of Thrones has its share of these: Season 5 presents us with the High Sparrow who has been given plenty of Adaptational Villainy and turned into a power-hungry religious fanatic who tries to eliminate anyone he deems as a threat to his religion and power. He is also an Expy of Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps, but much more brutal and fanatical. Also, following High Sparrow's example, Aeron Damphair also undergoes Adaptational Villainy. While he was already an example of this in the books, he opposed the evil plan of his much more monstrous brother Euron Greyjoy and got imprisoned. In the show, he happily goes with Euron's plan to kill their niece and nephew. Admittedly, since many of their brothers have been Adapted Out, this does tone down Euron's cruelty. In earlier Seasons, we already had an example, albeit a much less extreme and smaller. The first High Septon could qualify too, seeing how he represented everything that was wrong with Faith of the Seven being greedy, fat, and not caring about the starving smallfolkâ€”who showed how much they cared about him by literally ripping him apart during a riot.
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Sinister Minister / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	Oh Father in The Boys. A Scary Black Man, Pedophile Priest at a megachurch, and a superhero (in name only) who was one of the first to join Homelander's coup attempt against the United States government.
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Sinister Minister / int_9e99fedb	comment	In The Lawnmower Man, the priest who regularly beats Job with a rod. His brother confronts him, calling him a "pious asshole".
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Sinister Minister / int_a23b15c8	comment	Rain (2010): Father Quenton, the school principal, is established as this in his opening panel. (Ok, he is probably the lower-grade "high-school" version of evil incarnate, but he still qualifies.) Also established to have a Bald of Evil.
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Sinister Minister / int_a451444d	comment	Josiah Reed of Gun does a terrible job of convincing people he's anything but this.
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Sinister Minister / int_a49a890c	comment	All Father D'Aronique, and sundry other clergy of the Grail conspiracy from Preacher. Apparently entirely sincere in his beliefs. Most of the Grail personnel who appear are Knight Templars though. While Jesse Custer is used as the page image, he is not, in fact, this trope, and is more of a Lovable Rogue with a side-order of Badass Preacher. He's also got a complicated and not-particularly-friendly relationship with his own religion.
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Sinister Minister / int_a5549ed0	comment	Some notable examples in The Bible: Eli's sons Hophni and Phineas from 1 Samuel, who not only took the best portions of the sacrifices that were meant for God but also slept with the women who assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. God also holds Eli responsible for not taking strong measures against his sons abusing their power and position. The Pharisees and Jewish leaders in The Four Gospels, whom Jesus denounced publicly for their actions in Matthew chapter 23. They so hated Jesus for it that they conspired to have Him be put to death. In the third epistle of John, the apostle speaks of Diotrephes, a church head who was a malicious gossip and excommunicated members of his church for not adopting gnosticism. From the apocryphal Books of Maccabees, there's Jason, the corrupt high priest appointed by King Antiochus IV, who brought Greek culture into Judea and made the Jews turn from following God. He was succeeded by Menelaus, the brother of the corrupt Temple official Simon, who basically bought his position with money and was described as having "the hot temper of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a savage wild beast." He even goes so far as to put his brother Lysimachus in charge, who ends up stealing valuable items from the Temple. Also Alcimus, who was appointed by Demetrius.
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Sinister Minister / int_a5fec434	comment	Preacher in the Twisted Metal games. However, as he is loath to admit, he's not an ordained minister — no church would accept him. He's murderous, and like almost every other player character in Black, he was interned at Blackfield Asylum prior to the events of the game. He believes a demon lives inside of him, forcing him to kill; turns out he's just schizophrenic. In the 2012 reboot, though, he's significantly less sinister (at least in the sense of being evil, since he's still really creepy and mean-looking). He just wants to take out Calypso, whom he sees as the Devil himself.
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Sinister Minister / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, Elesh Norn, Praetor of the white-aligned faction of New Phyrexia, leads her faction as Grand Cenobite (which is equivalent to the position of Pope) of the Religion of Evil called the Machine Orthodoxy. The Church of Deals Orzhova would necessarily have a few. Pontiff of Blight, for instance.
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Sinister Minister / int_a877956	comment	The Witcher series: The Reverend from the first game; He initially seems to be a fair, if slightly rude priest, but is actually a Knight Templar psychopath. He has his own pregnant daughter thrown out of the village for refusing to follow the psycho-cult religion he does, forcing her to become a prostitute just to get by and gives children to Salamandra (who perform horrific genetic experiments on them). He then tricks his own people into believing that the (mostly) innocent mage Abigail is responsible for the recent rise in monster attacks, forming them into a howling lynch mob. He does this merely out of petty spite and prejudice, as there is no real evidence she was guilty of any wrongdoing, while at the same time he turns a blind eye to the other villagers' many misdeeds. If Geralt prevents the lynching, even after saving the village from the monsters, the Reverend will try to have him killed, again purely out of petty spite. He doesn't fight Geralt himself first but manipulates dozens of innocent villagers to attack, willing to sacrifice the lives of his own village just because Geralt hasn't let him murder an innocent woman. In the third game, there is Reverend Nathaniel Pastodi, the one the Concerned Citizen frames for his crimes. He's an easy frame-up, after all—he was Novigrad's head torturer for years before the Church of the Eternal Fire took over, after which he donned the frock of a cleric and was given supervision of the city morgue. He particularly enjoyed torturing women, and he pays to burn prostitutes with a hot poker just because that's what gets him off. Even when Geralt finds he's not guilty of the Concerned Citizen murders, he can still kill Nathanial, and Dandelion notes that this time, he takes no issue with Geralt being judge, jury, and executioner. Also, at the beginning of the game, there is a minor unnamed priest from the side quest "Funeral Pyres" who asks you to burn the bodies. It is later revealed that the priest himself was responsible for those deaths, and he bribes you to stay silent and you can either accept the offer or reject it, and fight the priest.
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Sinister Minister / int_a9b45855	comment	Blackfeet of Robb Returns, the septon that incites the Faith Militant's reappearance in the Riverlands. Heavily implied to be the High Sparrow.
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Sinister Minister / int_ab9ec4d0	comment	Pastor Johannsen in Orphan Black, a folksy but viciously authoritarian and misogynistic cult leader who rules his commune with an iron fist, has his daughter's mouth sewn shut to punish her, and treats women as nothing more than breeding receptacles.
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Sinister Minister / int_abb70593	comment	The Magician: In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Reverend Wally runs a homeless mission, but is secretly supplying Disposable Vagrants to the eponymous conglomerate to become bodies to be used in their Faking the Dead racket.
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Sinister Minister / int_abfd6948	comment	In The Dear Hunter's overarching story, the Big Bad is referred to as the Pimp and the Priest. As the name suggests, he is a priest who also works as a pimp, and later diversifies into charismatic prosperity gospel. The first album has him trying to kill the Boy's mother, Ms. Terri, and he only gets worse from there.
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Sinister Minister / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted: Bishop Brennan is a domineering bully with a secret son in America and shoves the Pope out of the way when he realises that Ted has kicked him up the arse. Father Jack, the oldest priest on Craggy Island, was a Sadist Teacher and is hinted to have been a paedophile, back before he became an incoherent violent drunk. Father Dick Byrne, Ted's Jerkass rival, enjoys mocking Ted and goading him into bad decisions for the hell of it. Several oneshot priests are this, ranging from Father Todd Unctious, who steals another priest's clothing for no real reason and tries to steal Ted's Golden Cleric Award, to Father Williams, who has apparently been running guns. Even Ted himself in that he apparently misappropriated funding from that Lourdes thing.
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Sinister Minister / int_af06d67	comment	Father Lucci in The Seventh Sign is actually Cartaphilus, Pilate's porter who struck Jesus. Cursed to wander the Earth until Christ's return to judge humanity, he intends to allow the apocalypse to take place so that his curse will finally be broken.
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Sinister Minister / int_af48fb56	comment	Father Jonas from Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil is an overzealous priest who kills "whores and sinners".
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Sinister Minister / int_af88e831	comment	Eli's sons Hophni and Phineas from 1 Samuel, who not only took the best portions of the sacrifices that were meant for God but also slept with the women who assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. God also holds Eli responsible for not taking strong measures against his sons abusing their power and position.
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Sinister Minister / int_afc86b0a	comment	Reverend Habit Morgan from the Ender's Game book War of Gifts was a real Holier Than Thou piece of shit. He beat his son Zeck regularly and found fault and sin in everyone but himself. When Zeck got taken away by the International Fleet, the IF representative was accused of infringing on the church's freedom to worship as they pleased. The rep responded by tearing open Zeck's shirt to show the congregation his bloody and scarred back. While at battle school, Ender speculates that Zeck's mother divorced her husband now that Zeck was out of his reach.
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Sinister Minister / int_b0de067a	comment	Francis Davey, the vicar of Altarnun in Jamaica Inn, is the true head of the wrecker gang. He even draws himself as a wolf while the members of his congregation have heads of sheep.
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Sinister Minister / int_b2e7e9c7	comment	The VelociPastor is about a priest who turns into a dinosaur and eats people on the streets before targeting criminals.
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Sinister Minister / int_b3b15bc1	comment	X-Men: The Animated Series has a wedding between Cyclops and Jean Grey that seems to go fine, until the minister who performed the ceremony is later revealed to be a disguised Morph working for Mister Sinister.
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Sinister Minister / int_b425fd32	comment	Some people like to claim that if there's a priest in X-Men who is not Nightcrawler, chances are he's going to be evil. However, this is perhaps more a consequence of the anti-Catholic Nightcrawler storyline in Uncanny X-Men (Chuck Austen).
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Sinister Minister / int_b5855830	comment	Brother Abramo from The Book of Eve uses psychological and physical torture to extract confessions and repentance from alleged sinners and leads a militant group of fundamentalists (the Lambs). He brutally enforces the status quo under the guise of piety. He cannot abide the idea of women living independently, so he tries everything he can to disband the protagonist's convent. However, he seems to genuinely believe that he is on the side of good.
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Sinister Minister / int_b6155ef5	comment	Chief Rabbi Kai in !Hero: The Rock Opera, working together with Dirty Cop Officer Devlin to take down Hero.
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Sinister Minister / int_b634ed2c	comment	In 5 Card Stud, Reverend Johnathan Rudd is a gun-toting Badass Preacher with a mysterious past. He is also the murderer.
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Sinister Minister / int_b68a572f	comment	One of the drivers in Rides With Strangers is Father Donald. He's a creepy priest with a deep hatred for "heathens" (including homosexuals, blasphemers, and women who wear perfume) who nevertheless believes God will forgive him for his own sins... like molesting and killing young boys.
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Sinister Minister / int_b96cfdc2	comment	The Faraway Paladin: Subverted with Bart Bagley, the Bishop of Whitesails. He has a somewhat questionable reputation in the temple for lack of piety and for carousing with the town's nobles. However, William discovers after meeting him that he's actually a Pragmatic Hero: he is a deeply pious and wise, if curmudgeonly, Father to His Men who only parties with the nobles to ensure that the mundane needs of his priesthood are taken care of, and prays privately so that his poor reputation doesn't make his subordinates look bad.
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Sinister Minister / int_b9809b83	comment	Kingdom of Heaven takes it to the extreme. Nearly every member of the Catholic Hierarchy is a villain but the particular two examples that stand out and represent this trope are the Jerkass Priest who antagonizes Balian at the beginning of the film and the Bishop of Jerusalem who is shown to be a Dirty Coward willing to leave people of Jerusalem to die or convert to Islam. Also, when Guy de Lusignan and the Templar Knights march on the battle of Hattin, some Catholic priests are seen giving them blessings, while going with them. And there is also a Muslim example in the form of the Mullah advising Saladin who is eager to for bloodshed and wants to slaughter Christian civilians.
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Sinister Minister / int_b98a3853	comment	Apocalyptica's "I'm Not Jesus" is about the grown-up ex-victim of a Pedophile Priest, who is very angry about what said priest put him through as a kid.
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Sinister Minister / int_b9b796cf	comment	Kotomine Kirei of Fate/stay night, whose appearance and voice actor practically screams 'sinister' despite being the overseer of the Grail War and Rin's guardian — and sure enough, he ends up as the Big Bad of the first route, the one responsible for much of the grief in the second, as well as being the Final Boss in the third, even though in this route he is not as evil as in the previous routes. In Fate/Zero, he also usurps several stronger villains and ends up as the Big Bad yet again. As detailed in Heaven's Feel, his entire reason for becoming a priest was to try and live a good life in spite of his own twisted psyche. He hoped that by doing good he would become good, but realized he was simply too broken when he witnessed his wife's death... and only regretted not being responsible for it. He really wants to know why God created him.
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Sinister Minister / int_b9c617af	comment	Dagon: The town's priest disguises himself in a regular Catholic priest's attire, but he's actually part of Dagon's Religion of Evil. Captain Cambarro was this in years past: after turning Imboca to Dagon worship, he became the town's head priest.
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Sinister Minister / int_ba63d0a9	comment	Played mildly in Oh, God! with money-grubbing televangelist Rev. Willie Williams.
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Sinister Minister / int_bad0166a	comment	Dead In Vinland has one that comes as a shock: the seemingly sweet and gentle missionary Brother Angelico, who appears to be a Good Shepherd but is actually a delusional or possibly possessed Serial Killer who will murder another member of the Player Party at random if he's kept around long enough.
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Sinister Minister / int_bad84d32	comment	In Wonka, Father Julius is a corrupt priest who is allied with a chocolate cartel and in has a base of their operations under his church. He is is also so greedy that when Noodles disguised as a hungry child begs him for some food he says he doesn't have any... and proceeds to eat chocolate right after.
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Sinister Minister / int_bd1137ca	comment	Subverted in the Illuminatus!!-trilogy, where Padre Pederastia (a nickname, obviously) is a Camp Gay Roman Catholic priest who runs a Satanic sect in his spare time, and routinely steals the sacramental bread from his church to be used in the Satanic rituals. The sect is completely harmless, Padre himself doesn't even believe in God or Satan, and he is indeed one of the good guys.
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Sinister Minister / int_bfe14bb1	comment	Brian McNeill's song "A Far North Land" portrays the Calvinist pastor Rev. John Knox as a religious zealot little better than his rival Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Sinister Minister / int_c104a0eb	comment	The Book of Eli plays with it with Carnegie, the Big Bad, who is not one yet. His Evil Plan is to find a Bible (it's mentioned in passing that people who survived the Unspecified Apocalypse that turned the world into a hellhole burned as many of them as they could find, thinking religious extremism was to blame somehow) to have the proper messages of hope he can twist around to turn people into his personal army. And what do you know, Eli happens to be carrying a Bible...
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Sinister Minister / int_c2463c55	comment	Seymour Guado of Final Fantasy X. Murdered his own father for power/revenge, kidnaps the female lead and tries to force her to marry him, and widely considered to provide multiple of the hardest bosses in the game. The rest of the Church of Yevon isn't much better.
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Sinister Minister / int_c346fa94	comment	Another example is Reverend Craig Sinclair, a church leader in a small Scottish hamlet who is introduced in New Mutants leading a mob with Torches and Pitchforks after Rahne Sinclair (a mutant) to "burn the Devil out of her" (read: murder her) to fulfill God's will. In a later story, he's pulling the same shit on another mutant girl, prompting a now adult Rahne to confront him. She denounces him as a hypocrite and a bully who cares nothing for the outside world because he can rule here with impunity. She then speculates that when he decided to "save" her mother, a woman accused of loose morals and possibly prostitution, that he may have in fact sired Rahne.
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Sinister Minister / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder: In "The Archbishop", every representative of the clergy seen is sinister and greedier than sin at the very least (although not sinister, Edmund is quick to get Baldrick to find out about the money-making opportunities that come with being an Archbishop). This only decreases their differences with the nobility and the gentry. In "The Black Seal", Friar Bellows has a lust for virgins and for murder. And yet he's got nothing on... The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells from "Money", who drowns infants at Christenings. He's also a moneylender, with a particular pleasure for dealing with recalcitrant clients with a red hot poker, and if he arrives in the morning, he tends to eat their children before getting down to business. He is also by his own admission a "colossal pervert", willing to do anything to anything, animal, vegetable, or mineral. Yet despite all this, and his reputation, he's also a Villain with Good Publicity, being friends with Queen 'Liz herself, and his parishioners believe his only vice is "a little tipple before evensong".
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Sinister Minister / int_c3a5fa9	comment	Abbot Hugo in Robin of Sherwood, who is the clerical equivalent of a Corrupt Corporate Executive, mainly interested in acquiring land and wealth for the Church (really for himself).
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Sinister Minister / int_c43df4d8	comment	Revered Magister in the Doctor Who serial "The Daemons" is Wicked Cultured. It will come as a complete shock to learn that he's actually The Master.
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Sinister Minister / int_c5188629	comment	Song at Dawn: the Arch Bishop is behind all the attempts on Dragonetz' life and schemes to undermine Emerganda's authority so he can fill his coffers and make himself a more elaborate church to berate people from. Also, he hates Jews.
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Sinister Minister / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Archbishop Lazarus of the Diablo series was one of the high priests of the Zakarum faith until he found a new master to follow in the title archdemon. He was instrumental in leading King Leoric down the path of madness, convincing him to send his knights and soldiers off to die in a war against Westmarch, kidnapping Leoric's youngest son Albrecht and making him a vessel for Diablo, and even having Leoric's wife Asylla executed as a traitor for the sake of getting her out of his way. He was also responsible for leading many of the citizens of Tristram into the Cathedral to rescue little Albrecht, only to leave them all to die at the hands of the Butcher.
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Sinister Minister / int_c7f59f7d	comment	Brother Blood, recurring enemy of the Teen Titans. Originally a priest somewhere in Europe, he murdered a colleague to get Jesus' prayer shawl. Currently trying to spread his bizarre cult worldwide.
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Sinister Minister / int_c8df3bb4	comment	The villainous Bishop of Aquila from the film Ladyhawke, who put a demonic curse upon Etienne and Isabeau because he wanted the latter for himself and was denied.
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Sinister Minister / int_c96cfe29	comment	Agahnim from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, former poster boy for Evil Sorcerer, was referred to as a priest in the original Japanese script.
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Sinister Minister / int_c9b98f4e	comment	In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "The Smurf Village Revival", Benedictus plays the part of an unassuming preacher who bestows upon the Smurfs the "gift of the Holy Spirit" that enables them to speak in tongues and to live holy orderly lives. However, Grandpa Smurf finds out that Benedictus is really working for Lucifer and that he's not only deceiving the Smurfs into receiving a false spirit, but also using that same spirit to put them under his control, eventually having them turn against the Smurfs that Benedictus claims have "Jezebel spirits".
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Sinister Minister / int_caa848c3	comment	The village priest in the novel Chocolat. He tries to make Vianne and her daughter leave as he believes her shop inappropriate. Fanatical and puritanical in his beliefs, he comes to believe that she is Satan's helper. He is Changed in The Film of the Book, which portrays him as a young, idealistic man who is being manipulated by the local Comte.
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Sinister Minister / int_cb6c417f	comment	Tormented Souls: The at-first gentle and helpful Father Noah is not all that he seems. He's actually a complete lunatic and the one responsible for all the terrible happenings going on at Wildburger Hospital.
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Sinister Minister / int_cbe5dd75	comment	The Dark Angels senior Chaplain Asmodai has a couple screws loose, and not in a funny way. He's a bitter, anti-social jerkass and an in-universe "Stop Having Fun" Guy. And while a Dark Angel Chaplain is expected to brutally torture captive traitors in order to make them repent and thus redeem their souls, Asmodai sorta stopped reading after the words "torture captive traitors".
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Sinister Minister / int_ccb58e7f	comment	Father Zeke from Dead Man's Hand is a priest who is one of The Nine, who scams his congregation's welfare to enrich himself and a bloodthirsty murderer. When fought as a boss, his taunts are Bible quotes:
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Sinister Minister / int_ccf875f7	comment	The Criminal Minds episode "Demonology" has a priest who kills people using drug-laced holy water in his exorcisms, specifically targeting four people who he believes to have murdered a fellow priest while on pilgrimage.
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Sinister Minister / int_cda38c8a	comment	Father Henri Sardis from Brotherhood of the Wolf is secretly the head of the Brotherhood and believes that he is restoring worship of God to France by unleashing the beast of GÃ©vaudan to instill fear in the populace.
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Sinister Minister / int_ce2cf80	comment	Bishop Laris Sebastius in The Arts of Dark and Light is introduced as one as part of the first book's opening mystery: a mysterious priest who appears somehow involved in the death of the late Pope. Toward the climax, there is The Reveal that he is really one of the Watchers that haunt the setting..
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Sinister Minister / int_cec99ed9	comment	Safehold's Church of God Awaiting has its Sinister Ministers, but the standout is its the Grand Inquisitor Zhaspahr Clyntahn, whose crossings of the Moral Event Horizon include the brutal execution of a scapegoat Archbishop, having members of his order instigate a massacre against traders and merchants of the heretic nation of Charis, and having an allied prince and his sixteen-year-old heir assassinated when said Prince was about to surrender to the Charisian emperor, Cayleb. Making Clyntahn especially dangerous even after all that is he has himself utterly convinced that he's a Well-Intentioned Extremist. And the fact that his religion explicitly states that good intentions based in religion justify any kind of extremism makes him even worse.
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Sinister Minister / int_cf9c72e6	comment	The Rabbi from Lucky Number Slevin, who is a major crime boss in the city. He justifies his criminal activities by creative interpretation of The Torah.
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Sinister Minister / int_d037040	comment	Hack/Slash gave us Father Wrath, a serial-killing undead ghoul who was a fire-and-brimstone homophobe that hid his cross-dressing homosexual urges from his congregation in his mortal life. When he tried to make out with his assistant, said assistant stove in his head with a huge crucifix. He is resurrected by an Ax-Crazy catholic schoolgirl who uses him to kill all the young partygoers at Spring Break. He is later dispatched, but his assistant takes up the cause.
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Sinister Minister / int_d30f13f0	comment	Genkaku from Deadman Wonderland was an Ax-Crazy Buddhist monk (in his words, "Super Monk")who practiced a warped version of the religion, worshipping death as the ultimate liberator from suffering.
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Sinister Minister / int_d319bcd9	comment	Harry Powell from The Night of the Hunter claims to be a preacher and has long talks with God, but is actually a roaming Serial Killer and Con Man whose preferred MO is marrying wealthy widows, then killing them and stealing their possessions.
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Sinister Minister / int_d3631a91	comment	In Robin Hood (2018), the Cardinal is part of a conspiracy with the Sheriff to ally with the Saracens and overthrow the King of England.
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Sinister Minister / int_d371eaa5	comment	Downplayed with Bagoo from Klonoa: Empire of Dreams. He is described as the minister to Emperor Jillius, and he wears priestly garb, but we never see him performing any religious duties. We don't even know if the Empire of Dreams has a religion. He instead acts more like a chancellor, but he definitely fits the "sinister" part. He is actually an Eldritch Abomination called the King of Despair who attempts to take over the empire by turning all of its inhabitants into monsters.
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Sinister Minister / int_d494343b	comment	Iron Maiden have "Holy Smoke", which lambasts sinister ministers—"Holy Smoke, Holy Smoke, Plenty bad preachers for the Devil to stoke"—written in response to the very public falls from grace of several anti-heavy-metal (and nearly everything else) televangelists. It alludes to several in a No Celebrities Were Harmed way—"Jimmy The Reptile" for Jimmy Swaggart, "The TV Queen" probably referring to Tammy Faye Bakker.
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Sinister Minister / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	Reverend Ezekiah Grimme from Deadlands. A humanitarian to boot. The game ultimately comes clean and reveals he's not even human; he's an Abomination, basically a demon that walks around in the real world in the good Reverend's shape. Has been ever since the real Reverend Grimme was murdered and eaten by his starvation-maddened flock, back before Lost Angels was really founded. The real Grimme was a whiskey priest of the highest order, but did his (admittedly not very impressive) best to care for his people and was a far cry from actual capital-E Evil From the same game, there's Professional Killer "Deacon" Jim Miller. Unlike the real Miller, who was called "Deacon" just because he attended church and didn't smoke or drink, this version is an actual Methodist deacon when he isn't out bushwhacking people for money.
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Sinister Minister / int_d4fe0152	comment	Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier, a defrocked pastor convicted of embezzlement who begins building his own army of converts inside the prison on Oz.
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Sinister Minister / int_d5780d77	comment	PAGUI has a demon priest, a former Taoist priest-turned-demon who attacks you with burning Paper Talismans. He's still clad in his priestly garbs when faced as a boss.
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Sinister Minister / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends has Elise, the Spider Queen. She leads a church dedicated to a spider god but secretly uses her followers as food for said god so she can safely harvest its venom, which is the source of her powers.
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Sinister Minister / int_d62bbf7a	comment	Assassin's Creed II had Antonio Maffei, a Florentine monk, member of the Templar Order, and a participant in the Pazzi conspiracy.
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Sinister Minister / int_d716d915	comment	Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto flip-flops this with enemy cardinals Rodrigo Borgia and Giuliano Della Rovere. Cesare's first line in the play says that his father, Rodrigo, is a monster, but Rodrigo doesn't do anything monstrous here, he's just a Large Ham. Meanwhile, Della Rovere is seen as the major threat throughout the story, but when dangerous situations do arise, they come from an entirely different angle, and after the events, Della Rovere gets a sympathetic Song of Prayer scene involving a vision of the Sistine Chapel frescoes he would commission Michelangelo to paint some decades later. Savonarola's monks, on the other hand, fit this, though they aren't truly characters, just shadowy figures.
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Sinister Minister / int_d8cf6937	comment	Brimstone: The villain is a sinister unnamed Protestant minister (Guy Pearce) who has a long track record of murder and rape and has some sort of past association with main character Liz.
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Sinister Minister / int_d98ab15	comment	Rave Heart: Reverend Sergio is in on Count Vorakia Estuuban's plan to take over the galaxy of Xerxes, and he uses the Galactic Enforcers to help achieve that goal. Worse yet, he sees himself as a righteous prophet even as he forcibly transforms people into "divine" mutants. Father Valermo is even worse, since he uses his position as a Lord of Divinity clergyman to get away with molesting children. He also wants to exterminate the Farseen community for rejecting the Lord of Divinity.
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Sinister Minister / int_d99024a2	comment	The Genesis song (and video) "Jesus He Knows Me" is about a televangelist who enjoys a decadent, corrupt lifestyle funded by the contributions of his viewers.
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Sinister Minister / int_dc4363c5	comment	The warmongering, terrorist Reverend Steve Newland of True Blood.
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Sinister Minister / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: Subverted by The Deacon, who is the undisputed leader of organized crime throughout the city, but is simply a crime boss who dresses like a religious figure. The Deacon is balanced by his greatest enemy, the Confessor, who's not only religiously themed, but is actually a real priest. And then subverted again when the Confessor is outed as a vampire. "The Dark Ages" featured the Hellsignor, a skeletal Evil Sorcerer who called himself "Satan's Archbishop".
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Sinister Minister / int_e096101e	comment	Sixes and Sevens: Pat immediately took a dislike to Reverend Craig Sinclair of Ullapool. He describes Sinclair as being too eager to help the local women, leering at his then-teenage sister, and often delivering fire and brimstone sermons. Later he whips a mob of Torches and Pitchforks to go after a phantom wolf, claiming it was sent to punish the locals for their sinful ways.
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Sinister Minister / int_e144ba19	comment	Sister (later Mother) Petrice from Dragon Age II is a total Smug Snake and petty racist who outright admits to pulling a number of half-assed machinations to rile the people of Kirkwall up against the Qunari in an attempt to commit ethnic cleansing against the "heretical" Qunari. She succeeds, but will only live to see it if you help her, which she... doesn't exactly encourage.
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Sinister Minister / int_e214a513	comment	Anastasia has the Big Bad Rasputin. He is described by Dowager Empress as one everyone thought of as "holy man" and he was implied to be some sort of clergy member who later made a pact with dark magic. In Real Life, he was a mystic and Eastern Orthodox preacher, but he was never formally ordained into a priest. Plus, later in the movie he goes full into Evil Sorcerer (albeit still wearing his clerical robes).
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Sinister Minister / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Caleb is a psychotic misogynist and serial killer who used his sermons to lure impressionable young women to him and then brutally murder them. This was before he became The Dragon for the Big Bad in the universe, who granted him super-strength and an army, then tasked him with massacring the Slayer Potentials and the Watchers. He took to his mission with sadistic glee, reciting twisted prayers and Biblical references as he casually broke arms, snapped necks, and put out eyes. Caleb was, bar none, the single vilest villain in Buffy canon, even surpassing Angelus in depravity and pure hatred. His voice and mannerisms are also a direct reference to Robert Mitchum's character from The Night of the Hunter, whom some might consider to be even spookier than Caleb. Joss Whedon defended himself from backlash by pointing out that the Church had kicked Caleb out (though even defrocked he continues to dress, and sometimes behave, like a priest). And for those who would doubt the above statement about Caleb being worse than Angelus, Angelus is a vampire. He has no soul whereas Caleb has no such excuse for his evil. The Anointed One's guardian, Abasalom. ("When She Was Bad") A Catholic Priest, Josephus du Lac, wrote a number of books containing dark rituals, resulting in du Lac being excommunicated. ("What's My Line, Part 1" and "Part 2")
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Sinister Minister / int_e2cb4c1	comment	In Doctor Strange, Silver Dagger is a former Catholic Cardinal who has devoted himself to eradicating magic, which he considers Satanic. He's an enemy of both Dr. Strange and Werewolf by Night.
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Sinister Minister / int_e3386114	comment	In There Was a Little Girl, Julia's uncle James is a Catholic priest — who also happens to be her Evil Twin Mary's accomplice.
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Sinister Minister / int_e4ba0958	comment	Bray Wyatt, leader of the very Manson-esque Wyatt Family who preaches about his beloved 'Sister Abigail' and, since their debut, has done a number of horrifying things from corrupting Daniel Bryan to possibly planting the seeds of betrayal in The Shield.
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Sinister Minister / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "Death's Shadow", the murderer is the local priest, responsible for three murders. The reason for this is that (unbeknownst to his wife and the rest of the village) he'd had a kid some 20 years earlier with an unmarried woman, and said kid had died in a Deadly Prank (in order to join a "club", the members made him stand tiptoe on a chair with a noose around his neck while they went off for a smoke). When one of the victims thought he was dying, he confessed to the priest, who decapitated one, burned another alive, and arrowed the last through the back. Quite a normal Backstory for a resident of Midsomer County. In "Second Sight", Reverend 'Preaching' Pete Kubatski is annoyed that the town, venerates people with "Second Sight" as he sees it as ungodly. He's also sexually and romantically interested in one of his congregation. Despite being meek and mild to the exterior, he is actually dangerously psychotic. Unable to take confirmation of his failure as a priest from John Ransom's psychic abilities Pete murdered John in a fit of rage. He then proceeded to commit several other murders to cover up his crime.
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Sinister Minister / int_e6405649	comment	The Dinosaur Lords has father Jeronimo, Emperor's confessor, who everyone agrees is creepy and who has not been seen by anyone in years. He has fundamentalist views and seems to be influencing the Emperor to start wars. Also, he's actually a Grey Angel, one of seven creatures hell-bent on wiping out humanity.
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Sinister Minister / int_e824fac3	comment	An Islamist-terrorist version in Assef, a Taliban leader with sunglasses, in The Kite Runner. He leads a freaking stoning execution of a couple in a football stadium, and he abuses children like Sohrab, whom he knows because in youth, he was the same bully who used to tease Amir, but went so far as to rape Hassanâ€”Amir's best friend, and Sohrab's dad.
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Sinister Minister / int_ea7a369b	comment	Cannibal Girls has the Reverend Alex St. John, the leader of a cannibal cult with a powerful, charismatic hold over the small Ontario town of Farnhamville and all facets of its operation. He bears more than a few similarities to real-life cult leader Charles Manson, possessing similar traits involving charisma, possessing mistresses, and ordering his followers to commit murder.
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Sinister Minister / int_eab28410	comment	In White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf, Alfred Molina plays Reverend Leland Drury, which turns out to be a lie so he can secretly enslave the Haida tribe and illegally mine gold off their land. He even tells the protagonist throughout the movie that they share the same religion; he eventually reveals which religion.
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Sinister Minister / int_eb3cec86	comment	Father Tony in The Summer Is Ended And We Are Not Yet Saved is a cheerfully smiling, good-humored, and thoroughly demented murderer at a Christian summer camp.
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Sinister Minister / int_ec02633a	comment	In the third game, there is Reverend Nathaniel Pastodi, the one the Concerned Citizen frames for his crimes. He's an easy frame-up, after all—he was Novigrad's head torturer for years before the Church of the Eternal Fire took over, after which he donned the frock of a cleric and was given supervision of the city morgue. He particularly enjoyed torturing women, and he pays to burn prostitutes with a hot poker just because that's what gets him off. Even when Geralt finds he's not guilty of the Concerned Citizen murders, he can still kill Nathanial, and Dandelion notes that this time, he takes no issue with Geralt being judge, jury, and executioner.
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Sinister Minister / int_f0243421	comment	The Season 2 finale of Wild Card, "Zoe's Phony Matrimony", has the culprit be a priest willing to kill to obtain Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna's antique wedding rings, leading to Zoe and her partner Dan posing as an engaged couple to get close to him.
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Sinister Minister / int_f1739812	comment	In "Righteous", a short story from Dark Horse Comics' Tales of the Slayers, a pious Christian girl (who, like all the other main characters in this story, is unnamed) is called as the Slayer in a medieval village. After she successfully routs the vampire called Saint Just, the local priest, jealous of her success and popularity, denounces her as a witch and convinces the villagers to burn her at the stake.
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Sinister Minister / int_f2dff49f	comment	To a lesser degree and outside Christianity, Baber, the conservative ex-imam from Little Mosque on the Prairie. He is bigoted and intolerant, calls most non-Muslims "imbeciles" and "infidels", and utters anti-Semitic remarks. He also once falsely claimed that he was on the American no-fly list to cover up his own fear of flying.
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Sinister Minister / int_f367511c	comment	There are a few monsters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game that suggest this, but the most obvious example would be Darkbishop Archfiend. (Seriously, that guy is Obviously Evil.) The in-game Albaz storyline has Dogmatika Maximus, Head of the Dogmatika Church and very much one of the main villains in the plot.
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Sinister Minister / int_f3897bcf	comment	Witch Hunter Robin first subverts and then defies this trope. First the Inquistioner is more of an official than a minister and less 'sinister' than 'playing bad cop' to find potential new hunters. Second is Father Juliano, Robin's foster father and grandfather, who tried to be this trope but raising Robin mellowed him out. She's actually harder on herself than he is on her. Instead of condemning her, he blesses her.
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Sinister Minister / int_f401cf02	comment	Blood of the Tribades: Grando, the vampire priest, is a vicious fanatic who hunts lesbian vampires both for homophobia and judging them to be the cause of the plague. Also, like the rest of his priests, he's visibly turned on by the thought of two females getting intimate, which makes him a hypocrite too.
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Sinister Minister / int_f41aa707	comment	Sugawara Akitada: Akitada's Confucianist background leads him to regard Buddhism with suspicion. Corrupt monks and abbots are sprinkled throughout the series, along with some honest Buddhists.
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Sinister Minister / int_f4593d2	comment	Zoser, the high priest in Aida, and his mooks are slowly using arsenic to kill their pharaoh.
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Sinister Minister / int_f6f20f5a	comment	Thieves of the Wood has the depraved Dean Peck who serves as an adviser to the evil Mayor.
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Sinister Minister / int_f76d8fcb	comment	In Even Lambs Have Teeth, the Pastor is one of the clients of the Sex Slave ring. He visits the girls wearing a pig mask.
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Sinister Minister / int_f7c8e36e	comment	Matthias in Octopath Traveler sets himself up as the supposed â€�savior of Wispermillâ€� by lifting the woes of Wispermillâ€™s people to make them trust him. He ultimately attempts to sacrifice them in a ritual ceremony in the end, but the ritual is stopped thanks to Ophelia. Wispermillâ€™s people make it out alive, but Matthias is a different story.
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Sinister Minister / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed II had Antonio Maffei, a Florentine monk, member of the Templar Order, and a participant in the Pazzi conspiracy. Girolamo Savonarola, also II who not only is an extremist preacher like his real-life counterpart but also is willing to use the Apple of Eden to subjugate Florence and spread his agenda. There's also Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI, and his son Cesare, a cardinal, both given a Historical Villain Upgrade (which isn't to say the real ones were good.) Revelations brings us Cyril of Rhodes, the rare example of an Eastern Orthodox priest. He is a member of the Templar Order and plans to assassinate the patriarch of Constantinople. Finally, in Origins, we have Hetepi, the Lizard. He is a powerful priest of Anubis and has the trust of the high priest, Pasherenptah. Since Anubis is the Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife, Hetepi's acts as the Lizard were contrary to his priestly duties.
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Sinister Minister / int_f8705c18	comment	Father Enrico Maxwell from Hellsing, the leader of the Iscariot Organization, definitely qualifies, being both a self-serving hypocrite and a ruthless Knight Templar. He thankfully never gets contact with regular churchgoers, though. Alexander Anderson, a Knight Templar, puts Maxwell down after he finally goes too far. That has to say something. An earlier example in the series is the unnamed vampire priest terrorising the village of Cheddar. No other character looks (or sounds) more overtly villainous in the entire series.
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Sinister Minister / int_f893eff5	comment	One of the earliest cinematic examples would be the Bishop of the Black Canons from The Adventures of Robin Hood, who runs the Corrupt Church and is one of the most loyal followers of Prince John. He and John both get exiled in the end by King Richard.
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Sinister Minister / int_f899ac74	comment	An inmate called "Preacher" in Hard Time: 50 to Life was imprisoned for setting fire to an abortion clinic while there were people inside. He continues to be a pyromaniac in prison by pouring out the gasoline he occasionally puts in his mop bucket on a kneeling penitent and lighting the poor bastard up.
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Sinister Minister / int_f970288c	comment	"Joseph Arthur" by Daniel Romano is about a swindling preacher.
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Sinister Minister / int_f98c4eca	comment	Nun-Chuck in Minions: The Rise of Gru, a supervillain nun and member of the Legion of Doom that young Gru seeks to join. Despite being more Laughably Evil than her associates, she's every bit as ruthless and Would Hurt a Child.
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Sinister Minister / int_fe379f5d	comment	The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster has the Cardinal, the Duchess' brother (Webster was more into plots than names, it seems). He conspires to have his sister killed and her kids murdered, partly in order to preserve the family honor and partly to get his hands on her wealth. He also pulls strings to have ill-gotten lands deeded to his mistress.
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Sinister Minister / int_fe94578f	comment	Reverend Desmond McCain in the Alex Rider series serves as the Big Bad of Crocodile Tears. He is initially presented as a man who turned from sin to religion, becoming a pastor after a stint in jail, and he runs a charity that's known for its speedy and effective responses to disasters. However, he's quickly revealed to still be a rotten piece of work who uses the charity as a front to make money for himself and is not above engineering disasters to make people donate.
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Sinister Minister / int_ff0b6458	comment	All For Luz: Tyler Wittebane is a good example of this trope: A fanatic that runs a mega church who believes that God wants him to wipe out every super-powered person in the world under the idea that they were created by Satan. His brand of Christianity is reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition and has an army of fanatical mercenaries to carry out his will.
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Sinister Minister / int_fff2d31b	comment	Pope Innocent XLII in Grendel, who has turned the entire Catholic Church into a Path of Inspiration. He's actually an evil vampire who appeared under a different identity as the villain of a previous arc and is plotting to blot out the Sun so that he can rule humanity and use them as bloodbags.
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Jesus Video / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
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Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Midnight Mass (2004) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Monstrous Regiment / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Nightmare Beings / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Noli Me Tangere / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Odd Thomas / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Pandaemonium / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Prophet's House / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Realm of the Elderlings / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Safehold / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Sha Po Lang (Novel) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Smaller & Smaller Circles / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Strange Highways / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Sugawara Akitada / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
That Hoodoo Voodoo That You Do / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Amityville Horror / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Areal / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Black Swan / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Bloodless Boy / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Blue Castle / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Celestial Kingdom / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Child Thief / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Comfortable Courtesan / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Curse of the Blue Figurine / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Da Vinci Code / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Dark is Rising / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Devil All the Time / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Dinosaur Lords / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Divine Comedy / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Dragon Knight / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Elenium / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Eye Of The Bedlam Bride / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The 5th Wave / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Four Gospels / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Golden Key / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Great God's War / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Infected / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Ingenue / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Merlin Trilogy / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Monk / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Order of Melkizedek / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Railway Series / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Saintess and the Villainess / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Shadow Campaigns / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Shadow Over Innsmouth / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Stepford Wives / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Sum of All Fears / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Summer Is Ended And We Are Not Yet Saved / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Three Musketeers / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Traitor Son Cycle / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Twelve Chairs / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Warlord Chronicles / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Yiddish Policemen's Union / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Three Dark Crowns / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Till Eulenspiegel / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Tsar Gorokh's Detective Agency / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
V. / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Wise Blood / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
World Without End / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Young Samurai / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
MAD (Magazine) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
MAD (Magazine) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Azincourt	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
Console RPG Clichés 145 to 168	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
ContrastSoul	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
DirtySexyMoney	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
Landlord	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
LivingDeadDolls	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
Political Stereotype	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
TheDearHunter	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
TheMagdaleneSisters	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
Blade of the Immortal (Manga) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Bokura no Kiseki (Manga) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Case Closed (Manga) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (Manga) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
High School Exciting Story: Tough (Manga) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Maria the Virgin Witch (Manga) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Wings of Vendemiaire (Manga) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
A$AP Rocky (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Brian McNeill (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ghost (Band) (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Hero (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Iron Maiden (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Operation: Mindcrime (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ozzy Osbourne (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Perturbator (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Powerwolf (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
St. Anger (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Stupendium (Music) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Kingmaker Histories (Podcast) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Magnus Archives (Podcast) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Bleak Expectations (Radio) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Communication (Roleplay) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
American Horror Story: Cult / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Blackadder / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Blue Bloods / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Bonekickers / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Boston Legal / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Brimstone / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Cadfael / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Charmed (1998) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Cluedo / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Comrade Detective / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Constantine / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Constantine (2014) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Da Vinci's Demons / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Dark Shadows / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Death in Paradise / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
EastEnders / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Father Ted / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Friday the 13th: The Series / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
From / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Grantchester / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Grimm / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Gunpowder / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Hail to the Chief / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Hot Bench / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
In the Flesh / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Isabel / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Jack Taylor / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Journey to the West (1996) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Kamen Rider BLACK SUN / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Kamen Rider V3 / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Law & Order / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Lewis / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Little House on the Prairie / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Martin (1992) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Midnight Mass (2021) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Miracles for Sale / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Mr Bates vs The Post Office / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Oz / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Peaky Blinders / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ravenswood / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Robin of Sherwood / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Sherlock Holmes / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Sleepy Hollow / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Snuff Box / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Sullivan & Son / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Tales from the Darkside / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Cry of Mann / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Day Today / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Goodies / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Long Call / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Magician / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Vampire Diaries / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The X-Files / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
True Blood / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Twisted Metal (2023) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Under the Banner of Heaven / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Under the Dome / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
WKRP in Cincinnati / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Wagon Train / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Betrayal at House on the Hill (Tabletop Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Clue (Tabletop Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Deadlands (Tabletop Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Eberron (Tabletop Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Hero Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Illuminati: New World Order (Tabletop Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Others (2015) (Tabletop Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
A Man for All Seasons (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Aida (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Aida (John/Rice) (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
DarkOfTheMoon	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
Don Carlo (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ghosts (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Henry VIII (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Henry VI Part 2 (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Inherit the Wind (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Mozart! (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Tanz der Vampire (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Tartuffe (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Duchess of Malfi (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The King in Yellow (Theatre) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Alchemist Code (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Arcane – Online Mystery Serial (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Assassin's Creed II (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Battle Chess (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Blood West (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Bubble Bobble (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Choice of the Vampire (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
ClueSweeper (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
ContrastSoul	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Cult of the Lamb (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Dante's Inferno (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Dark Souls (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Dead Man's Hand (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Destiny Child (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Diablo (1997) (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Discworld Noir (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Elona (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Empire: Total War (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Fallout (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Fallout Frost (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Far Cry Primal (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Fear & Hunger: Termina (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse Of The Crimson Elixir (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Gun (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Hard West (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.² (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Interstate '76 (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Kartia: The Word of Fate (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Kathy Rain (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Kirby Star Allies (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
LOOM (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Last Year: The Nightmare (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Loop Hero (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Lords of the Realm 2 (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Medieval II: Total War (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Megido Abyss (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Metro Exodus (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Midnight Fight Express (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Monster Train (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
My Child Lebensborn (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ninja Spirit (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Outlast II (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
PAGUI (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Penny Dreadfuls: Sweeney Todd (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Rave Heart (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
SWAT 4 (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Shank (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Shivers Two: Harvest of Souls (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Sins of a Solar Empire (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Tamriel Rebuilt (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Chaos Engine (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Council of Hanwell (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Evil Within 2 (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The King of Fighters XV (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Last Door (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Overseer Series (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Thief (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Tormented Souls (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Vader Immortal (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Vandal Hearts (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
View from Below (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
WitchSpring (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
X-Men: Destiny (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki (Video Game) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Dark Romance / Videogame / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Baldr Sky (Visual Novel) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Daughter for Dessert (Visual Novel) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Echoes of the Fey (Visual Novel) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Rewrite (Visual Novel) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Smoke Room (Visual Novel) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
HourofPoop (Web Animation) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Backwater Gospel (Web Animation) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Apple Texts (Web Video) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Electronic Game Information (Web Video) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Immersion Breakers (Web Video) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Kitboga (Web Video) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Perfect Castlevania Timeline (Web Video) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The VelociPastor (Web Video) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ghost Eyes (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Ghost Teller (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Golden Shrike (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Hero Material (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Magical Boy (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Nan Quest (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Niels (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
NonPack (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
RAIN (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Rain (2010) (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Usurper AU (Webcomic) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Castlevania (2017) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Felidae / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Road to El Dorado / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Wendell & Wild / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Bray Wyatt (Wrestling) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Don Callis (Wrestling) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Paul Bearer (Wrestling) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Undertaker (Wrestling)	seeAlso	Sinister Minister
Criminal (Comic Book) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Goon (Comic Book) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
So Soars The Young Falcon / Fan Fic / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Joyeux Noël / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Being Human (UK) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister

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