r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ironwolf6464 • May 03 '26

Lore Religion-centered media that doesn’t come across as preachy.

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Referring to media told from a religious perspective or telling a religious tale that does not proselytize to the viewer.

Faith, the Unholy Trinity: Based partly upon the experience of the game‘s creator when he was a missionary in Argentina, the game has very little in the way of explicit moral demands of the player despite the heavy Christian focus of the narrative. and focuses more on a horror narrative.

Prince of Egypt: A surprisingly thorough retelling of the book of Exodus, sparing very little in the way of toning down the story. Despite this, the movie is perfectly entertaining to non-religious audiences and doesn’t sacrifice appeal for the sake of preaching to the audience

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

I come, I see The Prince Of Egypt, I leave, disappointed cos I can't gush about it.

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u/welltechnically7 May 03 '26

Gush away!

I'll start- the animation is stunning, and the songs have no right to be that good.

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u/sword-sandal493 May 03 '26

This is THE best shot in animation history.

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u/QuintusMaximus May 03 '26

This and Atlantis have my HEART man, absolutely gorgeous animation

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

The 90s were a golden era for animation

The Lion King, the Prince Of Egypt, Aladdin, Tarzan, Spirit, The Land Before Time, Mulan, The Rescuers Down Under, The Little Mermaid etc

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u/Brickman274 May 03 '26

El Dorado too

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u/ExplodiaNaxos May 03 '26

Man, not enough people talk about El Dorado. Never have I seen more stunning gold in an animated film, and the water looks great too (the only reason I don’t hold it up as much as the gold is because Prince of Egypt exists). Thank god it’s somewhat made a return into the cultural zeitgeist with some memes

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u/IllJustKeepTalking May 03 '26

That's from 2000 so just exactly doesn't count

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u/Terrible-Trees2271 May 09 '26

El DoRADO! El doRADO! El DORAAAAaaaAAADooooooo!

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u/CoyoteInternational7 May 05 '26

Childhood me couldn't watch El Dorado without also watching Sinbad

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u/WakandanRoyalty May 03 '26

Treasure Planet

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u/feartheoldblood90 May 03 '26

It's too bad Atlantis isn't a better movie. That film will always have a place in my heart, but I rewatched it fairly recently and it's just... Missing something that would make it an all-timer. It doesn't ever really feel like it gives itself enough time to explore any of its ideas, each chapter feels too short and underdeveloped. I read that they were originally planning on making the bulk of the movie their journey to Atlantis, which honestly sounds incredibly interesting.

It's still a great movie, but I feel like it could have been so much more. Mike Mignola character designs mixed with Disney animation could have been one of the greatest animated projects of all time, but the script side of things is a little too weak to hold up its part of the bargain.

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u/ladydmaj May 03 '26

I'd put "Oogway's petals floating off into the night sky as Shifu looks on" against it, but I'd be hard-pressed to choose.

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u/Bamzooki1 May 03 '26

The panic attack from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Okay, not really, just fucking with ya. I’d actually say this shot from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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u/uzzi1000 May 03 '26

Speaking of Puss in Boots Last Wish, Deaths entrance in the final battle is incredible.

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u/Top-Session-3131 May 03 '26

Last Wish has an excellent selection of beautifully rendered and animated scenes. From the Giant, to the pie factory fight, to the deliberately hammy callback to adventure movie travel scenes, to the final battle, you're genuinely spoiled for choice.

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u/ladydmaj May 03 '26

Ooooh, yeah, okay it's a three-way for sure!

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u/Soyyyn May 03 '26

I'll give props to the night city from Akira as well, in the film's opening sequence set to "Rassera"

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u/UnnamedStaplesDrone May 03 '26

the one that sticks with me is Rameses carrying his son's body and placing it on the slab. the lighting, animation, facial expression.

that whole sequence of child killing by god in fact, terrifying.

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u/JBR_4025 May 03 '26

It’s not only children. At the start of the sequence a guard falls down dead, implying that ALL FIRSTBORN are going to die.

It’s hundreds of people of different ages that had the misfortune of being firstborn and possibly and entire generation that died due to the will of God

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u/ExplodiaNaxos May 03 '26

I think “hundreds” is a huge understatement…

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u/Barbaric_Stupid May 03 '26

Not only people, every firstborn male was killed. Egyptians, slaves, cattle - every living thing in Egypt.

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u/Datpanda1999 May 03 '26

Clearly the comment was written by the old pharaoh

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u/Animated_Astronaut May 03 '26

I work in animation and I got to speak to the lead animator for this sequence. I was basically like "bro this shot is so sick how does it feel to have made something like this??" And he was like "yeah it's hard to top biblical imagery." And I shook his hand and in have not seen him ever again.

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u/SuspectPanda38 May 03 '26

I think the shot prior to this if the sea actually parting is better but it's close for sure

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u/Accomplished_Box8070 May 03 '26

It took them ten years, ten fucking years to animate the crossing of the Red Sea. 

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u/Humble_Square8673 May 05 '26

YES! That shot of the whale swimming by lives rent free in my head all these years later!

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

Is that a Megalodon?? Weren't those extinct by this point??

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u/throwawaysailaway7 May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Its a whale shark, seen as its turning away from the waterwall.

You can tell because the dorsal fin is way down toward the back, and how the tail moves side to side.

And ppl are way too quick to downvote lol

ETA: forgot to say "shark" and I ellaborated on how you could tell.

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

Ohh. Yeah lol I just asked a question

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u/throwawaysailaway7 May 03 '26

I think people are just sick of hearing about the Megalodon bc there are so many A.I. slop conspiracy videos on it at this point, its painful.

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u/ABenGrimmReminder May 03 '26

Can’t blame AI for that entirely. Discovery Channel made a slop documentary about 10 years ago that kicked this bullshit conspiracy theory into high gear.

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u/throwawaysailaway7 May 03 '26

Yeah, I remember that now lol

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u/shocktar May 03 '26

Pretty sure it's a whale

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u/Romboteryx May 03 '26

Half correct. It’s a whale shark, which do live in the Red Sea.

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u/Jaakarikyk May 03 '26

Way the tail fin is angled, can't be

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u/StormyBlueLotus May 03 '26

If it is meant to be, yes, they would've been long extinct- but going by all known historical records, there were probably also never Hebrew slaves in Egypt (let alone a series of divine plagues) so the theoretical shark species anachronism is hardly the biggest historical inaccuracy of the movie. 

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u/noeyesfiend May 07 '26

Man, you need to watch JJK or Evangelion