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** There's the whole ''the goddess'' thing, which implies that all pagan religions worshipped female deities in a similar way and that it made them more egalitarian as a society. Here Brown seems to be under the impression that "paganism" was a sort of unified, global religion with different localizations instead of an umbrella term used by early Christians to label just all non-Christian beliefs they found.[[note]]Had they been that unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover. Maybe.[[/note]] The idea that pagan religions had a stronger female presence than patristic Christianity is true in several ways, but the social role of goddesses and women varied ''wildly'' through time and place, and even in the most liberated societies like the Celtic or the Germanic were far from being a straight FeministFantasy. The fact that Brown chose Classical goddesses to make this point is even more ludicrous, as Greek and Roman societies were strongly male-dominated despite their impressive abundance of female deities.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than out of a ), the claim that they were more peaceful than Christianity is wrong at a basic level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that became UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}}) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. That early Christians weren't interested in waging war was such an oddity at the time that it was a source of misunderstanding even among their own sects.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than out of a ), the claim that they were more peaceful than Christianity is wrong at a basic level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that became UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}}) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. That early Christians weren't interested in waging war was such an oddity at the time that it was a source of misunderstanding even among their own sects.
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** There's the whole ''the goddess'' thing, which implies that all pagan religions worshipped female deities in a similar way and that it made them more egalitarian as a society. Here Brown seems to be under the impression that "paganism" was a sort of unified, global religion with different localizations instead of an umbrella term used by early Christians to label just all non-Christian beliefs they found.[[note]]Had they been that unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover. Maybe.[[/note]] The idea that pagan religions had a stronger female presence than patristic Christianity is true in several ways, but the social role of goddesses and women varied ''wildly'' through time and place, and even in the most liberated pagan societies like the Celtic or the Germanic ones were far from being a straight FeministFantasy. The fact that Brown chose Classical goddesses to make this point is even more ludicrous, as Greek and Roman societies were strongly male-dominated despite their impressive abundance of female deities.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than out of a), true preaching goal), the claim that they were more peaceful than Christianity is wrong at a basic level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that became UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}}) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. That early Christians weren't interested in waging war as a concept was such an oddity at the time that it was a source of misunderstanding even among their own sects.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than out of a
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** The last part is (more or less) true. There is no "french equivalent of the FBI" because France is not a federal state, but the "police judicaire" is part of the National Police and are the ones who investigate the most serious crimes such as murders.
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** Sophie puts a GPS tracker on a bar of soap from the Louvre and throws it out the window onto a passing truck. The bathrooms in that part of the Louvre have no windows and don't use bar soap.
**"Madonna of the Rocks" hangs in the Grand Gallery, not the Salle des Etats. The painting directly across from the "Mona Lisa" is Caliari's "The Wedding Feast at Cana." This painting is an enormous 32 feet (9.9 meters) wide. Even if "Virgin of the Rocks" did hang opposite the "Mona Lisa," it's 6.5 feet (1.99 meters) tall, too tall for Sophie to see over. The painting's ornate wooden frame is also too heavy for an average person to lift unassisted.
** Sophie puts a GPS tracker on a bar of soap from the Louvre and throws it out the window onto a passing truck. The bathrooms in that part of the Louvre have no windows and don't use bar soap.
**"Madonna of the Rocks" hangs in the Grand Gallery, not the Salle des Etats. The painting directly across from the "Mona Lisa" is Caliari's "The Wedding Feast at Cana." This painting is an enormous 32 feet (9.9 meters) wide. Even if "Virgin of the Rocks" did hang opposite the "Mona Lisa," it's 6.5 feet (1.99 meters) tall, too tall for Sophie to see over. The painting's ornate wooden frame is also too heavy for an average person to lift unassisted.
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** There's the whole ''the goddess'' thing, which implies that all pagan religions worshiped feminine beings in a similar way and that it made them more egalitarian as a society. Here Brown seems to be under the impression that "paganism" was a sort of unified, global religion with different localizations instead of an umbrella term used by early Christians to label just all non-Christian beliefs they found.[[note]]Had they been that unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover. Maybe.[[/note]] The idea that pagan religions had a stronger female presence than patristic Christianity is true in several ways, but the social role of goddesses and women varied ''wildly'' through time and place, and even in the most liberated societies like the Celtic or Germanic were far from being a straight FeministFantasy. The fact that Brown chose Classical goddesses to make this point is even more ludicrous, as Greek and Roman societies were strongly male-dominated despite their admittedly impressive abundance of female deities.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested per se in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than by evangelist policies), the claim that they were more peaceful than Christianity is wrong even at a fundamental level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that gave birth to Judaism) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. That early Christians weren't interested in waging war at all was such an oddity at the time that it was a source of misunderstanding even among their own members.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested per se in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than by evangelist policies), the claim that they were more peaceful than Christianity is wrong even at a fundamental level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that gave birth to Judaism) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. That early Christians weren't interested in waging war at all was such an oddity at the time that it was a source of misunderstanding even among their own members.
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** There's the whole ''the goddess'' thing, which implies that all pagan religions worshiped feminine beings worshipped female deities in a similar way and that it made them more egalitarian as a society. Here Brown seems to be under the impression that "paganism" was a sort of unified, global religion with different localizations instead of an umbrella term used by early Christians to label just all non-Christian beliefs they found.[[note]]Had they been that unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover. Maybe.[[/note]] The idea that pagan religions had a stronger female presence than patristic Christianity is true in several ways, but the social role of goddesses and women varied ''wildly'' through time and place, and even in the most liberated societies like the Celtic or the Germanic were far from being a straight FeministFantasy. The fact that Brown chose Classical goddesses to make this point is even more ludicrous, as Greek and Roman societies were strongly male-dominated despite their admittedly impressive abundance of female deities.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interestedper se in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than by evangelist policies), out of a ), the claim that they were more peaceful than Christianity is wrong even at a fundamental basic level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that gave birth to Judaism) became UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}}) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. That early Christians weren't interested in waging war at all was such an oddity at the time that it was a source of misunderstanding even among their own members.sects.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested
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** Then there's the whole ''the goddess'' thing. It's implied that all Pagan religions worshiped feminine beings in a similar way, and that it made them more peaceful as a society.[[note]]The idea of an ancient Goddess-oriented faith was not made up for the book nor is it 100% baloney, but any theory that ''all'' pagan religions had the same symbolism and traditions can safely be dismissed as hogwash. (Had they been that unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover.)[[/note]] Nor were they all that peaceful. For instance, the Greek Spartans and Aztecs based most of their culture on waging war (and human sacrifice in the Aztec case).
** In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders, urging followers to sanctify everyday pursuits such as family and career, not retreat from the world. In addition, the self-flagellation that Silas partakes in is optional in real life Opus Dei and isn't required to be as extreme as whipping (a cold shower would be fine).
** In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders, urging followers to sanctify everyday pursuits such as family and career, not retreat from the world. In addition, the self-flagellation that Silas partakes in is optional in real life Opus Dei and isn't required to be as extreme as whipping (a cold shower would be fine).
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** Then there's There's the whole ''the goddess'' thing. It's implied thing, which implies that all Pagan pagan religions worshiped feminine beings in a similar way, way and that it made them more peaceful egalitarian as a society.[[note]]The idea society. Here Brown seems to be under the impression that "paganism" was a sort of unified, global religion with different localizations instead of an ancient Goddess-oriented faith was not made up for the book nor is it 100% baloney, but any theory that ''all'' pagan religions had the same symbolism and traditions can safely be dismissed as hogwash. (Had umbrella term used by early Christians to label just all non-Christian beliefs they found.[[note]]Had they been that unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover.)[[/note]] Nor takeover. Maybe.[[/note]] The idea that pagan religions had a stronger female presence than patristic Christianity is true in several ways, but the social role of goddesses and women varied ''wildly'' through time and place, and even in the most liberated societies like the Celtic or Germanic were they all far from being a straight FeministFantasy. The fact that peaceful. For instance, the Brown chose Classical goddesses to make this point is even more ludicrous, as Greek Spartans and Aztecs based most of Roman societies were strongly male-dominated despite their culture on waging war (and admittedly impressive abundance of female deities.
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested per se in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than by evangelist policies), the claim that they were more peaceful than Christianity is wrong even at a fundamental level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that gave birth to Judaism) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. That early Christians weren't interested in waging war at all was such an oddity at theAztec case).
time that it was a source of misunderstanding even among their own members.
** In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders,urging precisely because it urges followers to sanctify everyday pursuits such as family and career, not retreat from the world. In addition, the self-flagellation that Silas partakes in is optional in real life Opus Dei and isn't required to be as extreme as whipping (a cold shower would be fine).
** It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested per se in expanding beyond their regional frontiers (rulers and conquerors sometimes chose to forcefully implant their own beliefs in their territories, but this was more often done by reasons of cultural identity than by evangelist policies), the claim that they were more peaceful than Christianity is wrong even at a fundamental level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that gave birth to Judaism) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. That early Christians weren't interested in waging war at all was such an oddity at the
** In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders,
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* ShoutOut: Leigh Teabing's name is derived from Richard '''Leigh''' and Michael '''Baigent''' (whose last name is [[SignificantAnagram rearranged]] into '''Teabing''', who co-wrote the "nonfiction" book ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail''. (Third co-author, Henry Lincoln, was [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg left out]].)
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* ShoutOut: Leigh Teabing's name is derived from Richard '''Leigh''' and Michael '''Baigent''' (whose last name is [[SignificantAnagram rearranged]] into '''Teabing''', '''Teabing'''), who co-wrote the "nonfiction" book ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail''. (Third co-author, Henry Lincoln, was [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg left out]].)
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** The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had an interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue, but as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]
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** The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had an interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue, but as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]
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** The supposed vote at the Council of Nicea about which books of the Bible were canon, if it ever happened at all (modern day scholars are dubious), was a ''poll'' about which book were ''already'' being taught as canon (and, according to what records exist of this event, a fairly unanimous one at that) so that Constantine could have Bibles commissioned for the churches of Constantinople. The actual topic of debate, like pretty much ''every other council in the history of Christendom'', was about the ''interpretation'' of scripture and whether [Insert Thing Here] was sufficiently orthodox or sufficiently secondary to not fight over.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had an interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue, but as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]
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** The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had an interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue, but as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]]]
** The Priory of Scion is a real organization that actually exists...but it was founded in ''1956'' by a bunch of people who went as far as to plant ''fake evidence'' as to their "theory" on how Christianity is BasedOnAGreatBigLie.
** The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had an interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue, but as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.
** The Priory of Scion is a real organization that actually exists...but it was founded in ''1956'' by a bunch of people who went as far as to plant ''fake evidence'' as to their "theory" on how Christianity is BasedOnAGreatBigLie.
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** The supposed vote at the Council of Nicea about which books of the Bible were canon, if it ever happened at all (modern day scholars are dubious), was a ''poll'' about which book were ''already'' being taught as canon (and, according to what records exist of this event, a fairly unanimous one at that) so that Constantine could have Bibles commissioned for the churches of Constantinople. The actual topic of debate, like pretty much ''every other council in the history of Christendom'', was about the ''interpretation'' of scripture and whether [Insert Thing Here] was sufficiently orthodox or sufficiently secondary to not fight over.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In TheMovie, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus's bloodline from reaching the public. They seem to think that having access to DNA samples from Mary Magdalene's corpse would, by itself, give someone a way to prove that she and Jesus had children. Actually, it would just prove that ''she'' had children at some point (not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation). Proving that Jesus fathered her children would require a DNA sample from Jesus, too.
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** In TheMovie, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus's bloodline from reaching the public. They seem to think that having access to DNA samples from Mary Magdalene's corpse would, by itself, give someone a way to prove that she and Jesus had children. Actually, it would just prove that ''she'' had children at some point (not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation). Proving that Jesus fathered her children would require a DNA sample from Jesus, too.
** In TheMovie, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus's bloodline from reaching the public. They seem to think that having access to DNA samples from Mary Magdalene's corpse would, by itself, give someone a way to prove that she and Jesus had children. Actually, it would just prove that ''she'' had children at some point (not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation). Proving that Jesus fathered her children would require a DNA sample from Jesus, too.
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** Then there's the whole ''the goddess'' thing. It's implied that all Pagan religions worshiped feminine beings in a similar way, and that it made them more peaceful as a society.[[note]]The idea of an ancient Goddess-oriented faith was not made up for the book nor is it 100% baloney, but any theory that ''all'' pagan religions had the same symbolism and traditions can safely be dismissed as hogwash. (Had they been that unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover.)[[/note]]
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** Then there's the whole ''the goddess'' thing. It's implied that all Pagan religions worshiped feminine beings in a similar way, and that it made them more peaceful as a society.[[note]]The idea of an ancient Goddess-oriented faith was not made up for the book nor is it 100% baloney, but any theory that ''all'' pagan religions had the same symbolism and traditions can safely be dismissed as hogwash. (Had they been that unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover.)[[/note]])[[/note]] Nor were they all that peaceful. For instance, the Greek Spartans and Aztecs based most of their culture on waging war (and human sacrifice in the Aztec case).
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* EvilAlbino: Silas. As inaccurate as the portrayal of albinism is, the use of the trope is arguably justified. Silas's father was an alcoholic thug who abused his son because of his freakish appearance, forcing Silas to run away from home as a teenager and turn to crime to survive. He's not an evil hitman ''because'' of his albinism, but it's understandable that his treatment might lead to some unsavory career choices.
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* EvilAlbino: Silas. As inaccurate as the portrayal of albinism is, the use of the trope is arguably justified. Silas's father was an alcoholic thug who abused his son because of his freakish appearance, forcing Silas to run away from home as a teenager and turn to crime to survive. He's not an evil hitman ''because'' of his albinism, but it's understandable that his treatment might lead to some unsavory career choices.
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* HollywoodLaw: Dan Brown seems to be under the impression that all it takes to extradite a British national from their own country is for a foreign law enforcement agent to make a call to a local police officer. Also, he seems to think that said local police will simply detain the suspects until the foreign police arrive to make the arrests themselves.
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* HollywoodLaw: Dan Brown seems to be under the impression that all it takes to extradite a British national from their own country is for a foreign law enforcement agent to make a call to a local police officer. Also, he seems to think that said local police will simply detain the suspects until the foreign police arrive to make the arrests themselves. Also, he says the French police judiciare is the equivalent of the FBI. It's not-this refers simply to detectives. The closest France has to the FBI is the National Police.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Sort of; Adventurer Symbologist (a [[strike:made-up]] discredited discipline) in this case.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Sort of; Adventurer Symbologist (a [[strike:made-up]] discredited discipline) in this case.
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** [[spoiler: Subverted. It turns out to be the work of a lone nutjob with an agenda. All the power players seemingly acting in concert against our heroes turn out to be un-associated individuals merely acting on poor information.]]
** Though in the movie, due to AdaptationalVillainy, [[spoiler: it turns out that there actually ''is'' a secret faction within the Catholic Church that actively wants to find and destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb]].
* AncientOrderOfProtectors: The Priory of Sion guards the HolyGrail
** Though in the movie, due to AdaptationalVillainy, [[spoiler: it turns out that there actually ''is'' a secret faction within the Catholic Church that actively wants to find and destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb]].
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** Though in the movie, due to AdaptationalVillainy,[[spoiler: it [[spoiler:it turns out that there actually ''is'' a secret faction within the Catholic Church that actively wants to find and destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb]].
* AncientOrderOfProtectors: The Priory of Sion guards theHolyGrailHolyGrail.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Sort of; Adventurer Symbologist (a [[strike:made up]] discredited discipline) in this case.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In TheMovie, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus' bloodline from reaching the public. They seem to think that having access to DNA samples from Mary Magdalene's corpse would, by itself, give someone a way to prove that she and Jesus had children. Actually, it would just prove that ''she'' had children at some point (not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation). Proving that Jesus fathered her children would require a DNA sample from Jesus too.
** Albinism is often linked to poor eyesight due to lack of pigment in the eyes as a result of being melanin-deficient. Silas would most likely be a very poor candidate to be what is effectively an assassin, since shooting at long distances and being able to drive at night is part of the job description.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had in interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue but, as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In TheMovie, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus' bloodline from reaching the public. They seem to think that having access to DNA samples from Mary Magdalene's corpse would, by itself, give someone a way to prove that she and Jesus had children. Actually, it would just prove that ''she'' had children at some point (not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation). Proving that Jesus fathered her children would require a DNA sample from Jesus too.
** Albinism is often linked to poor eyesight due to lack of pigment in the eyes as a result of being melanin-deficient. Silas would most likely be a very poor candidate to be what is effectively an assassin, since shooting at long distances and being able to drive at night is part of the job description.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had in interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue but, as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Sort of; Adventurer Symbologist (a [[strike:made up]] [[strike:made-up]] discredited discipline) in this case.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In TheMovie, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence ofJesus' Jesus's bloodline from reaching the public. They seem to think that having access to DNA samples from Mary Magdalene's corpse would, by itself, give someone a way to prove that she and Jesus had children. Actually, it would just prove that ''she'' had children at some point (not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation). Proving that Jesus fathered her children would require a DNA sample from Jesus Jesus, too.
** Albinism is often linked to poor eyesight due to lack of pigment in the eyes as a result of being melanin-deficient. Silas would most likely be a very poor candidate to be what is effectively an assassin, since shooting at long distances and being able to drive at night is part of the jobdescription.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore hadin an interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue but, issue, but as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In TheMovie, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence of
** Albinism is often linked to poor eyesight due to lack of pigment in the eyes as a result of being melanin-deficient. Silas would most likely be a very poor candidate to be what is effectively an assassin, since shooting at long distances and being able to drive at night is part of the job
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had
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** Then there's the whole ''the goddess'' thing. It's implied that all Pagan religions worshiped feminine beings in a similar way, and that it made them more peaceful as a society.[[note]]The idea of an ancient Goddess-oriented faith was not made up for the book nor is it 100% baloney, but any theory that ''all'' pagan religions had the same symbolism and traditions can safely be dismissed as hogwash. (Had they been that unified they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover.)[[/note]]
** In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders, urging followers to sanctify everyday pursuits such as family and career, not retreat from the world. In addition, the self-flagellation that Silas partakes in is optional in real life Opus Dei and isn't required to be as extreme as whipping (a cold shower would be fine).
** In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders, urging followers to sanctify everyday pursuits such as family and career, not retreat from the world. In addition, the self-flagellation that Silas partakes in is optional in real life Opus Dei and isn't required to be as extreme as whipping (a cold shower would be fine).
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** Then there's the whole ''the goddess'' thing. It's implied that all Pagan religions worshiped feminine beings in a similar way, and that it made them more peaceful as a society.[[note]]The idea of an ancient Goddess-oriented faith was not made up for the book nor is it 100% baloney, but any theory that ''all'' pagan religions had the same symbolism and traditions can safely be dismissed as hogwash. (Had they been that unified unified, they'd have been better able to resist the Christian takeover.)[[/note]]
** In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders, urging followers to sanctify everyday pursuits such as family and career, not retreat from the world. In addition, the self-flagellation that Silas partakes in is optional in real life Opus Dei and isn't required to be as extreme as whipping (a cold shower would be fine).
** In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders, urging followers to sanctify everyday pursuits such as family and career, not retreat from the world. In addition, the self-flagellation that Silas partakes in is optional in real life Opus Dei and isn't required to be as extreme as whipping (a cold shower would be fine).
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs Using planks as parachutes]].]]
** There's also a Chekhov's [[spoiler: Allergy. As soon as we hear that Rémy has a peanut allergy he once had to have an emergency tracheotomy for, we know how he's going to die.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Teabing]] is revealed to be either controlling all the important characters or at least planning around their actions.
** There's also a Chekhov's [[spoiler: Allergy. As soon as we hear that Rémy has a peanut allergy he once had to have an emergency tracheotomy for, we know how he's going to die.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Teabing]] is revealed to be either controlling all the important characters or at least planning around their actions.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs [[spoiler:[[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs Using planks as parachutes]].]]
** There's also a Chekhov's[[spoiler: Allergy.[[spoiler:Allergy. As soon as we hear that Rémy has a peanut allergy he once had to have an emergency tracheotomy for, we know how he's going to die.]]
* TheChessmaster:[[spoiler: Teabing]] [[spoiler:Teabing]] is revealed to be either controlling all the important characters or at least planning around their actions. actions.
** There's also a Chekhov's
* TheChessmaster:
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* CunningLinguist: Averted, especially in the movie, in which it's more than obvious that Langdon (as well as Tom Hanks who portrays him) knows absolutely nothing about French and can only react to familiar phrases (such as his own name); at other times he just looks at Sophie expectantly. How he managed to become a world-renown expert in symbols while only knowing English is anyone's guess.
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* CunningLinguist: Averted, especially in the movie, in which it's more than obvious that Langdon (as well as Tom Hanks who portrays him) knows absolutely nothing about French and can only react to familiar phrases (such as his own name); at other times times, he just looks at Sophie expectantly. How he managed to become a world-renown world-renowned expert in symbols while only knowing English is anyone's guess.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Both Sophie's parents are killed in a car accident when she was young, making her ConvenientlyAnOrphan raised by her [[RaisedByGrandparents grandfather]].
* DeliberatelyPainfulClothing: Silas wears a spiked chain around his right thigh.
* DesperateObjectCatch: Langdon throws the cryptex to distract the villain, who tries [[spoiler: and fails]] to catch it.
* DoubleStandard: [[spoiler: Teabing and the Piory's grievance with the Church is centuries of persecution and deceit. This ignores the fact that those things are also found (in sometimes greater and sometimes lesser degrees) among some non-Catholic Christians, religions besides Christianity and non-religious people, ideologies and institutions.]]
* DeliberatelyPainfulClothing: Silas wears a spiked chain around his right thigh.
* DesperateObjectCatch: Langdon throws the cryptex to distract the villain, who tries [[spoiler: and fails]] to catch it.
* DoubleStandard: [[spoiler: Teabing and the Piory's grievance with the Church is centuries of persecution and deceit. This ignores the fact that those things are also found (in sometimes greater and sometimes lesser degrees) among some non-Catholic Christians, religions besides Christianity and non-religious people, ideologies and institutions.]]
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Both of Sophie's parents are killed in a car accident when she was young, making her ConvenientlyAnOrphan raised by her [[RaisedByGrandparents grandfather]].
* DeliberatelyPainfulClothing: Silas wears a spiked chain around his rightthigh.
thigh.
* DesperateObjectCatch: Langdon throws the cryptex to distract the villain, who tries[[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and fails]] to catch it.
* DoubleStandard:[[spoiler: Teabing [[spoiler:Teabing and the Piory's grievance with the Church is centuries of persecution and deceit. This ignores the fact that those things are also found (in sometimes greater and sometimes lesser degrees) among some non-Catholic Christians, religions besides Christianity Christianity, and non-religious people, ideologies and institutions.]] ]]
* DeliberatelyPainfulClothing: Silas wears a spiked chain around his right
* DesperateObjectCatch: Langdon throws the cryptex to distract the villain, who tries
* DoubleStandard:
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* EvilAlbino: Silas. As inaccurate as the portrayal of albinism is, the use of the trope is arguably justified. Silas' father was an alcoholic thug who abused his son because of his freakish appearance, forcing Silas to run away from home as a teenager and turn to crime to survive. He's not an evil hitman ''because'' of his albinism, but it's understandable that his treatment might lead to some unsavory career choices.
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* EvilAlbino: Silas. As inaccurate as the portrayal of albinism is, the use of the trope is arguably justified. Silas' Silas's father was an alcoholic thug who abused his son because of his freakish appearance, forcing Silas to run away from home as a teenager and turn to crime to survive. He's not an evil hitman ''because'' of his albinism, but it's understandable that his treatment might lead to some unsavory career choices.
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Silas has one: "[[IronicEcho I am a ghost.]]"]]
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Silas [[spoiler:Silas has one: "[[IronicEcho I am a ghost.]]"]]
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* HollywoodLaw: Dan Brown seems to be under the impression that all it takes to extradite a British national from their own country is for a foreign law enforcement agent to make a call to a local police officer. Also he seems to think that said local police will simply detain the suspects until the foreign police arrive to make the arrests themselves.
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* HollywoodLaw: Dan Brown seems to be under the impression that all it takes to extradite a British national from their own country is for a foreign law enforcement agent to make a call to a local police officer. Also Also, he seems to think that said local police will simply detain the suspects until the foreign police arrive to make the arrests themselves.
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** "Only the worthy find the Grail" becomes this for [[spoiler: Teabing, who gets this spat back at him by Langdon]].
* KnightTemplar: The original Knights Templar figure heavily in the AncientConspiracy AlternateHistory of the book. Ironically, practically all the antagonists of the book also follow this trope, being extremely moral [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremists]], or just badly misinformed. This is most evident in [[spoiler:the Teacher, Sir Leigh Teabing, a Knight of the British Empire who also sees himself as furthering the good works of the original Knights Templar]].
* LinkedListClueMethodology: The cryptex; a moderately clever way to protect a secret message - basically a combination lock with a vial of vinegar to destroy the encased papyrus should one attempt to open it without the password(s).
* MeaningfulRename: "Silas" isn't actually Silas' birth name. He discarded the name that his parents gave him, and was later rechristened "Silas" by Bishop Aringarosa because the circumstances of his escape from prison match those of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas Silas]], the apostle Paul's accomplice in [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Acts]] [[note]]Which makes the fact that Silas was played by actor ''Paul'' Bettany in the film adaptation a somewhat too on-the-nose coincidence.[[/note]].
* KnightTemplar: The original Knights Templar figure heavily in the AncientConspiracy AlternateHistory of the book. Ironically, practically all the antagonists of the book also follow this trope, being extremely moral [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremists]], or just badly misinformed. This is most evident in [[spoiler:the Teacher, Sir Leigh Teabing, a Knight of the British Empire who also sees himself as furthering the good works of the original Knights Templar]].
* LinkedListClueMethodology: The cryptex; a moderately clever way to protect a secret message - basically a combination lock with a vial of vinegar to destroy the encased papyrus should one attempt to open it without the password(s).
* MeaningfulRename: "Silas" isn't actually Silas' birth name. He discarded the name that his parents gave him, and was later rechristened "Silas" by Bishop Aringarosa because the circumstances of his escape from prison match those of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas Silas]], the apostle Paul's accomplice in [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Acts]] [[note]]Which makes the fact that Silas was played by actor ''Paul'' Bettany in the film adaptation a somewhat too on-the-nose coincidence.[[/note]].
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** "Only the worthy find the Grail" becomes this for [[spoiler: Teabing, [[spoiler:Teabing, who gets this spat back at him by Langdon]].
Langdon]].
* KnightTemplar: The original Knights Templar figure heavily in the AncientConspiracy AlternateHistory of the book. Ironically, practically all the antagonists of the book also follow this trope, being extremely moral [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]], [[WellIntentionedExtremistWell Intentioned Well-Intentioned Extremists]], or just badly misinformed. This is most evident in [[spoiler:the Teacher, Sir Leigh Teabing, a Knight of the British Empire who also sees himself as furthering the good works of the original Knights Templar]].
* LinkedListClueMethodology: The cryptex; a moderately clever way to protect a secret message- -- basically a combination lock with a vial of vinegar to destroy the encased papyrus should one attempt to open it without the password(s).
* MeaningfulRename: "Silas" isn't actuallySilas' Silas's birth name. He discarded the name that his parents gave him, and was later rechristened "Silas" by Bishop Aringarosa because the circumstances of his escape from prison match those of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas Silas]], the apostle Paul's accomplice in [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Acts]] Acts]].[[note]]Which makes the fact that Silas was played by actor ''Paul'' Bettany in the film adaptation a somewhat too on-the-nose coincidence.[[/note]].[[/note]]
* KnightTemplar: The original Knights Templar figure heavily in the AncientConspiracy AlternateHistory of the book. Ironically, practically all the antagonists of the book also follow this trope, being extremely moral [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist
* LinkedListClueMethodology: The cryptex; a moderately clever way to protect a secret message
* MeaningfulRename: "Silas" isn't actually
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Remy makes it clear that he only serves Teabing because he's getting paid to. [[spoiler: He seemingly betrays Teabing for a large sum of cash before it's revealed that it was an act orchestrated by Teabing himself]].
* OutGambitted: Langdon does this to [[spoiler: Teabing by fooling him into thinking that he couldn't open the cryptex, not even at gunpoint. After the knight is apprehended and in custody, he realizes that Langdon figured it out and removed the secret beforehand.]]
* OutGambitted: Langdon does this to [[spoiler: Teabing by fooling him into thinking that he couldn't open the cryptex, not even at gunpoint. After the knight is apprehended and in custody, he realizes that Langdon figured it out and removed the secret beforehand.]]
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Remy makes it clear that he only serves Teabing because he's getting paid to. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He seemingly betrays Teabing for a large sum of cash before it's revealed that it was an act orchestrated by Teabing himself]].
himself.]]
* OutGambitted: Langdon does this to[[spoiler: Teabing [[spoiler:Teabing by fooling him into thinking that he couldn't open the cryptex, not even at gunpoint. After the knight is apprehended and in custody, he realizes that Langdon figured it out and removed the secret beforehand.]]
* OutGambitted: Langdon does this to
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* PopCultureSymbology: The book makes a mention of Grail symbolism hidden within Disney cartoons, from Snow White to the Little Mermaid.
* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Sophie's falling out with her grandfather is over this; when she was younger she caught him in the middle of a sex ritual]].
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Inverted. Langdon and Sophie have some sexual/romantic tension in the book and it ends with them kissing and agreeing to meet up again for a date. In the movie, these are removed, with the kiss being changed to one on the forehead.
* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Sophie's falling out with her grandfather is over this; when she was younger she caught him in the middle of a sex ritual]].
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Inverted. Langdon and Sophie have some sexual/romantic tension in the book and it ends with them kissing and agreeing to meet up again for a date. In the movie, these are removed, with the kiss being changed to one on the forehead.
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* PopCultureSymbology: The book makes a mention of Grail symbolism hidden within Disney cartoons, from Snow White ''Snow White'' to the ''The Little Mermaid.
Mermaid''.
* PrimalScene:[[spoiler: Sophie's falling out [[spoiler:Sophie's falling-out with her grandfather is over this; when she was younger younger, she caught him in the middle of a sex ritual]].
ritual.]]
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Inverted. Langdon and Sophie have some sexual/romantic tension in thebook book, and it ends with them kissing and agreeing to meet up again for a date. In the movie, these are removed, with the kiss being changed to one on the forehead.
* PrimalScene:
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Inverted. Langdon and Sophie have some sexual/romantic tension in the
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* RedHerring: As in all Creator/DanBrown books, [[spoiler:but literally in this case: "Aringarosa" is Italian for...[[RedHerring you guessed it]].]]
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* RedHerring: As in all Creator/DanBrown books, [[spoiler:but literally in this case: "Aringarosa" is Italian for... [[RedHerring you guessed it]].]]
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Teabing makes full use of his privileges as one of the Queen's knights to help Langdon out. [[spoiler: It's also this and his metal crutches that let him smuggle a gun through security checkpoints.]]
* SelfDestructingSecurity: The cryptex protects its contents with a five letter combination lock. Attempting to force the cryptex open will break the vial of vinegar inside, which would dissolve the papyrus along with its message before it could be read. As a result, only the right password will grant access to the message, since it'd be pretty difficult to brute force when where are ~12 million possibilities.
* SelfDestructingSecurity: The cryptex protects its contents with a five letter combination lock. Attempting to force the cryptex open will break the vial of vinegar inside, which would dissolve the papyrus along with its message before it could be read. As a result, only the right password will grant access to the message, since it'd be pretty difficult to brute force when where are ~12 million possibilities.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Teabing makes full use of his privileges as one of the Queen's knights to help Langdon out. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's also this and his metal crutches that let him smuggle a gun through security checkpoints.]]
* SelfDestructingSecurity: The cryptex protects its contents with afive letter five-letter combination lock. Attempting to force the cryptex open will break the vial of vinegar inside, which would dissolve the papyrus along with its message before it could be read. As a result, only the right password will grant access to the message, since it'd be pretty difficult to brute force when where are ~12 million possibilities.
* SelfDestructingSecurity: The cryptex protects its contents with a
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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Silas, Remy, ''and'' Aringarosa.]]
* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: The film adaptation has cryptologist Robert Langdon unearth ancient genealogy research that detective Sophie Neveu is a descendant of [[spoiler:Jesus Christ]], and is under the protection of the Priory of Sion, which is the 21st century form of the Knights Templar.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Silas, again. Also [[spoiler: Leigh Teabing]].
* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: The film adaptation has cryptologist Robert Langdon unearth ancient genealogy research that detective Sophie Neveu is a descendant of [[spoiler:Jesus Christ]], and is under the protection of the Priory of Sion, which is the 21st century form of the Knights Templar.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Silas, again. Also [[spoiler: Leigh Teabing]].
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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Silas, [[spoiler:Silas, Remy, ''and'' Aringarosa.]]
* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: The film adaptation has cryptologist Robert Langdon unearth ancient genealogy research that detective Sophie Neveu is a descendant of [[spoiler:Jesus Christ]], and is under the protection of the Priory of Sion, which is the21st century 21st-century form of the Knights Templar.
Templar.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Silas, again. Also[[spoiler: Leigh [[spoiler:Leigh Teabing]].
* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: The film adaptation has cryptologist Robert Langdon unearth ancient genealogy research that detective Sophie Neveu is a descendant of [[spoiler:Jesus Christ]], and is under the protection of the Priory of Sion, which is the
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Silas, again. Also
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''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 thriller written by Creator/DanBrown. It sold 80 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the bestselling novels in history. It also caused a huge controversy because of its statements about early Christianity, and was sharply criticized for that and it's historical inaccuracy. In 2006, a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released.
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''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 thriller written by Creator/DanBrown. It sold 80 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the bestselling novels in history. It also caused a huge controversy because of its statements about early Christianity, and was sharply criticized for that and it's its historical inaccuracy. In 2006, a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: When at the Depository Bank of Zurich, Sophie realizes that cracking a 10-digit code will take the DCPJ's computers "months" to crack. However, even a computer in the early 2000s could test millions of passwords per second. Even if the password is protected with a technique like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching key stretching]], a computer cluster with each core testing a few thousand passwords per second would still crack the key in a very short time.
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* AncientOrderOfProtectors: The Priory of Sion guards the HolyGrailkids
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''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 thriller written by Creator/DanBrown. It sold 80 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the bestselling novels in history. It also caused a huge controversy because of its statements about early Christianity, and was sharply criticized for that and it's historical inaccuracy. inaccuracy. In 2006, a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released.
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* DoubleStandard: [[spoiler: Teabing and the Piory grievance with the Church is centuries of persecution and deceit. This ignores the fact that those things are also found among some non-Catholic Christians, religions besides Christianity and non-religious people, ideologies and institutions.]]
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* DoubleStandard: [[spoiler: Teabing and the Piory Piory's grievance with the Church is centuries of persecution and deceit. This ignores the fact that those things are also found (in sometimes greater and sometimes lesser degrees) among some non-Catholic Christians, religions besides Christianity and non-religious people, ideologies and institutions.]]
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* FollowTheLeader: Created an explosion of AncientConspiracy quests ''*cough* Film/NationalTreasure *cough*'' and books about the Holy Grail. Also, this was was inspired by a [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory "nonfiction" book]] which is about a conspiracy theory similar to the one Langdon runs into.
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* ShoutOut: Dan Brown names a main character, Leigh Teabing, [[SignificantAnagram anagrams]] of the names of the author of that "nonfiction" grail book.
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* ShoutOut: Dan Brown names a main character, Leigh Teabing, Teabing's name is derived from Richard '''Leigh''' and Michael '''Baigent''' (whose last name is [[SignificantAnagram anagrams]] of rearranged]] into '''Teabing''', who co-wrote the names of the author of that "nonfiction" grail book.book ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail''. (Third co-author, Henry Lincoln, was [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg left out]].)
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** There's also a Chekov's [[spoiler: Allergy. As soon as we hear that Rémy has a peanut allergy he once had to have an emergency tracheotomy for, we know how he's going to die.]]
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** There's also a Chekov's Chekhov's [[spoiler: Allergy. As soon as we hear that Rémy has a peanut allergy he once had to have an emergency tracheotomy for, we know how he's going to die.]]
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* SelfDestructingSecurity: The cryptex protects its contents with a combination lock. Attempting to force the cryptex open will break the vial of vinegar inside, which would dissolve the papyrus along with its message before it could be read. As a result, only the right password will grant access to the message.
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* SelfDestructingSecurity: The cryptex protects its contents with a five letter combination lock. Attempting to force the cryptex open will break the vial of vinegar inside, which would dissolve the papyrus along with its message before it could be read. As a result, only the right password will grant access to the message.message, since it'd be pretty difficult to brute force when where are ~12 million possibilities.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Bishop Aringarosa gets this in TheMovie. In the book, he's just the leader of Opus Dei (where he's presented as nothing more than an unusually conservative Catholic prelate) who gets roped into helping The Teacher find the tomb out of desperation to keep his order from being abolished, and in fact, actually requests that the "bearer bonds" he was ordered to bring to Teabing instead be distributed amongst the families of the murder victims. In TheMovie, he leads a secretive "shadow council" within the Church that actively wants to destroy the tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus' bloodline from reaching the public, and he manipulates police captain Fache (who's an Opus Dei member in the movie) into hunting down Langdon despite his innocence.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Bishop Aringarosa gets this in TheMovie. In the book, he's just the leader of Opus Dei (where he's presented as nothing more than an unusually conservative Catholic prelate) who gets roped into helping The Teacher find the tomb out of desperation to keep his order from being abolished, and in fact, actually requests that the "bearer bonds" worth 20 million euros he was ordered to bring to Teabing instead be distributed amongst the families of the murder victims. In TheMovie, he leads a secretive "shadow council" within the Church that actively wants to destroy the tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus' bloodline from reaching the public, and he manipulates police captain Fache (who's an Opus Dei member in the movie) into hunting down Langdon despite his innocence.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Bishop Aringarosa gets this in TheMovie. In the book, he's just the leader of Opus Dei (where he's presented as nothing more than an unusually conservative Catholic prelate) who gets roped into helping The Teacher find the tomb out of desperation to keep his order from being abolished. In TheMovie, he leads a secretive "shadow council" within the Church that actively wants to destroy the tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus' bloodline from reaching the public, and he manipulates police captain Fache (who's an Opus Dei member in the movie) into hunting down Langdon despite his innocence.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Bishop Aringarosa gets this in TheMovie. In the book, he's just the leader of Opus Dei (where he's presented as nothing more than an unusually conservative Catholic prelate) who gets roped into helping The Teacher find the tomb out of desperation to keep his order from being abolished.abolished, and in fact, actually requests that the "bearer bonds" he was ordered to bring to Teabing instead be distributed amongst the families of the murder victims. In TheMovie, he leads a secretive "shadow council" within the Church that actively wants to destroy the tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus' bloodline from reaching the public, and he manipulates police captain Fache (who's an Opus Dei member in the movie) into hunting down Langdon despite his innocence.
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* AncientOrderOfProtectors: The Priory of Sion guards the HolyGrail.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were Kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had in interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue but, as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how much "barbarous" this people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were Kings, kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had in interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue but, as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how much "barbarous" this these people really were. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it that way.]]
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** In the film discovering descendants of Jesus is treated as something that would destroy the Catholic church, and [[spoiler: Teabing and the Piory]] wants to bring down the Church for centuries of persecution and deceit. Aside from the fact that this is a very [[HypocriticalFandom selective]] and [[ConfrimationBias biased]] DoubleStandard, as such things are also found among non-Catholics, non-Christians and the non-religious, in Christianity, Christ's divinity and spiritual authority did not come from human genes, so there's not reason to think his spiritual power can be passed on by them In addition, God being infinite, it would not be diluted across His descendants; not to mention being Christian cannot be inherited from one's parents, it requires a personal decision. Proving that Jesus had a wife and descendants would be a remarkable finding that would cause a stir, but marriage is a God-ordained union, a sacrament in the Catholic Church and a central feature of Christianity so it would not do what the film claims it would do. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it at that.]]
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** In the film discovering descendants of Jesus is treated as something that would destroy the Catholic church, and Teabing wants to bring down the Church for centuries of persecution and deceit. Aside from the fact that this is a very [[SingleIssueWonk selective]] and [[HypocriticalFandom prejudiced]] DoubleStandard, as such things are also found among non-Catholics, non-Christians and the non-religious, in Christianity, Christ's divinity and spiritual authority did not come from human genes, so there's not reason to think his spiritual power can be passed on by them In addition, God being infinite, it would not be diluted across His descendants; not to mention being Christian cannot be inherited from one's parents, it requires a personal decision. Proving that Jesus had a wife and descendants would be a remarkable finding that would cause a stir, but marriage is a God-ordained union, a sacrament in the Catholic Church and a central feature of Christianity so it would not do what the film claims it would do. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it at that.]]
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** In the film discovering descendants of Jesus is treated as something that would destroy the Catholic church, and [[spoiler: Teabing and the Piory]] wants to bring down the Church for centuries of persecution and deceit. deceit. Aside from the fact that this is a very [[SingleIssueWonk selective]] and [[HypocriticalFandom prejudiced]] selective]] and [[ConfrimationBias biased]] DoubleStandard, as such things are also found among non-Catholics, non-Christians and the non-religious, in Christianity, Christ's divinity and spiritual authority did not come from human genes, so there's not reason to think his spiritual power can be passed on by them In addition, God being infinite, it would not be diluted across His descendants; not to mention being Christian cannot be inherited from one's parents, it requires a personal decision. Proving that Jesus had a wife and descendants would be a remarkable finding that would cause a stir, but marriage is a God-ordained union, a sacrament in the Catholic Church and a central feature of Christianity so it would not do what the film claims it would do. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And we'll leave it at that.]]
