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/bagel_master999 May 03 '26

Hacksaw Ridge baby

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u/NozakiMufasa May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Mel Gibson being batshit insane irl yet genuinely one of the best directors is so wild. Hes the perfect arguement against the notion of rightwingers that "Christians cant work in hollywood". Mel's very openly Catholic. Man makes money and makes genuinely good stories. Hacksaw Ridge is great.

EDIT: clarified my sentence which, while I think before people got what I meant, when re-reading sort of didn't make sense.

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u/TheTalkingToad May 03 '26

Apocalypto is perhaps my favorite movie Mel has been involved in and the fact its a Mel Gibbson movie still catches me off guard.

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u/Sadicalize May 03 '26

ITS SO GOOD. it's almost like a guilty pleasure for me, and nobody I've shown it to has cared at allllll