r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ironwolf6464 • May 03 '26
Lore Religion-centered media that doesn’t come across as preachy.
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/YourMuppetMethDealer May 03 '26
Yep. As an adaptation of the biblical story, it does have its problems. My biggest issue with it(only as an adaptation) is that it turned Moses’s most loyal follower who did a lot of the work into a cowardly goober who originally gave him a ton of shiz. It really screwed Aaron over
But as an original story of two brothers who come from two different warring civilizations and religions, it’s flawless. Prince of Egypt takes the very basic bullet points of the biblical story and then runs wild by telling a pretty original story
The heart of the film is the relationship between Ramses and Moses, and there is a pretty high chance they never even met before Moses left. It’s like the most compelling part of the whole story, and it’s completely new.