History Series / Bibleman

** The Wacky Protestor, with his less awesome or threatening quit compared to Luxor and Primordius (the latter being his prevous identity), it's easy to forget that his inventions worked just as well, whether it's the child(ren) of the day or even Biblegirl, and his plans are treated serious enough for the Bible Adventure Team to stop him.

* RaceLift: Biblegirl started out being portrayed by a Latina actress, but was replaced by a Causasian a couple episodes later while still being the same character. Her name was even changed from Lia Martinez to just Lia Martin.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Bibleman's ability to recite scripture often seems like a wimpy power, but in many episodes, it is explicitly shown to be the source of his strength. In ''Tuning Out The Unholy Hero'', reciting bible verses acts like a punch to the jaw to the VillainOfTheWeek

* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Wacky Protestor from ''"A Fight For Faith"'' is a goofy-looking LargeHam with an extremely nasally-sounding voice who gets a duet with one of the Bible Team ''during a battle''. His plan is also to lure a bunch of children (and the Bible Team) into an alternate dimension where they're distracted by the amazing wonders on display for long enough that they don't notice that he's ''trapped them forever''.

Aames played Miles Peterson, "who had everything: money, power, fame, until he lost it!" Throwing himself to the ground during a thunderstorm, he found a Holy Bible lying in the mud and was inspired to become Bibleman, an approachable superhero garbed in a suit of armor based on the one from the book of Ephesians. (Although the look of the suit seems to have been inspired by ''Film/BatmanForever''.) Over several years he pitted his faith against costumed losers who had nothing better to do than pick on middle school kids... uh... we mean the legions of Hell, and surrounded himself with a group of sidekicks.

** In a couple episodes [[note]] Such as "Shattering the Prince of Pride" and "Jesus Our Savior" [[/note]] Bibleman says something along the lines of people shouldn't pay attention to him, they should pay attention to God. That's all well and good, but as the point of the show is evidently to make scripture lessons more palatable to kids by having them come from a cool hero with a lightsaber, it's kind of self-defeating. If the Word itself matters more than who delivers it (which it absolutely does), why ensure it comes from someone meant to be so '''marketable'''?

''Bibleman'', as he's known to his friends, is a live-action show originally starring Willie Aames of ''Series/CharlesInCharge'' and ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' as a superhero who [[Literature/TheBible teaches our kids about the Good Book]] without sacrificing [[RuleOfCool the excitement of pulse-pounding lightsabre battles]]. In its original incarnation, the series lasted from 1996 to 2004.

** Even more averted since the villains are all demons or robots, they don't really portray atheists as evil. (the closest thing is the Wacky Protestor in Fight For The Faith, and even then he is a demon who is just using it for his own plan in that episode.)

* VillainSong: There was [[OncePerEpisode one an episode]] in the pre-Power Source days.

* VillainOfTheWeek: In both The Bibleman Show and Powersource, there is a different villain that Bibleman has to face and each was played by a different actor, rather than resusing an actor for more than one villain like in the middle season.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Luxor Spawndroth literally had a pet mouse (or rat) in "Breaking the Bonds of Disobedience" that never showed up the next time he appeared. The Wacky Protestor had a caged up gorilla and some other pets in his first two videos. The Fight for the Faith however, omits them entirely.

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In 2016 B&H kids released an animated Bibleman series that appears to be mostly influenced by the Powersource series (Josh Carpenter is Bibleman, the color schemes for their costumes, Melody, etc.).

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!!Tropes in the animated series:

* AdaptedOut: The Bible Team's computer is no longer a character in her own right, given how the human cast is more than big enough for the shortened run time. LUCI is also absent.
* AllCGICartoon: the 2016 reboot.
* AmbidextrousSprite: Bibleman wields his sword using each hand in different episodes.
* AnAesop: Of course, but the episodes are framed around a specific story from the bible this time, and as a result are clearer than they sometimes were in the live action series.
* ArtShift: The show will often stop to have a sequence done up in flannel-styled ClipArtAnimation and told by a hand puppet Sunday school teacher and her magic flannelgraph board.
* ContinuityNod: The cartoon version tries this, like by recycling villains from the live action series. Some details [[{{Retcon}} don't really gel with what the actual live action episodes said]], though, such as a newer segment saying Josh and Miles were lifelong friends (especially since as noted the apparent intent when they replaced Willie was to hand things over to a [[YoungerAndHipper younger and hopefully more relatable]] new star).
* DecompositeCharacter: In the cartoon, Luxor Spawndroth and some of his identities from the old live episodes appear as different characters. Which just messes up the ContinuityNod attempts mentioned above even more.
* EnvironmentSpecificActionFigure: In the 4th of July episode Bibleman wears an American flag-based version of his regular costume. No extra weapons or gimmicks, it's just red white and blue.
* EvilBrit: The Baroness.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: The theme song now uses the lyrics to set up the show and explain what Bibleman's costume represents, since the episodes are too short now to include the [[OncePerEpisode once-standard]] TransformationSequence.
* ExpressiveMask: Almost to be expected, especially with the episodes now being so short the heroes are almost never out of costume anymore.
* HumongousMecha: Luxor gets one in an episode, though it's a crummy one the heroes still easily overpower.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In one episode Bibleman gets help from late show host [[Creator/DavidLetterman David Noteman]].
* RaceLift: The cartoon recycles a lot of villains from the live series, but for some reason some of them have over the top European accents now. For instance Luxor Spawndroth is German now and the Fibbler is Scottish.
* {{Thememobile}}: They sure embraced the freedom of their new medium by tossing a bunch of {{toyetic}} vehicles at Bibleman like the Biblevan, Biblecopter, Biblejet, Bibleboat...
* ThreeShorts: The cartoon version is released like this with three 11-minute segments per disc.
* ATwinkleInTheSky: The cartoon version's solution to the question of how Bibleman can defeat the villains without resorting to imitable violence: launching the villains into the sky and out of sight.
* TwoDecadesBehind: One episode has Luxor being able to infect most of the town with his new evil MMO, which he interests people in by handing out physical passcards from a booth in the mall.