Trope Namers / Religion and Myth

Religion and Mythology

Thanks to years and years of written and Oral Tradition, the following ideas are, quite literally, the oldest Trope Namers in the book.

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• Arthurian Legend
  • Black Knight
  • Excalibur in the Stone
  • Fisher King
  • Merlin and Nimue
  • Sir Verb-a-Lot

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• Buddhism
  • Mystical 108

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• A list of general Christian tropes below. For those directly from the The Bible look here. Jesus also has his own list.
  • Ambiguously Christian
  • Anime Catholicism
  • Christianity is Catholic
  • Christmas Tropes
  • Confessional
  • Creepy Catholicism
  • Creepy Crosses
  • Easter Bunny
  • Evil Jesuit
  • Fantastic Catholicism
  • Heaven (along with other religions)
    • Fluffy Cloud Heaven
    • Heaven Above
    • Heaven Seeker
    • Rage Against the Heavens
    • Rays from Heaven
    • Stairway to Heaven
  • Holier Than Thou
  • Hollywood Apocrypha
  • Hollywood Exorcism
  • Hollywood Jehovah's Witness
  • Hollywood Nuns
    • Naughty Nuns
    • Nun Too Holy
    • Nuns Are Funny
    • Nuns Are Mikos
    • Nuns Are Spooky
    • Taking the Veil
  • Infernal Tropes
  • Irish Priest
  • Madonna Archetype
    • Madonna-Whore Complex
  • New England Puritan
  • Patron Saint
  • Pietà Plagiarism
  • Seven Deadly Sins
    • Seven Heavenly Virtues
  • Sins of Our Fathers
  • The Scourge of God
  • Twisted Eucharist
  • The Vicar
  • What Would X Do?

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• Judaism
  • Tzadikim Nistarim

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• Chinese Mythology
  • Celestial Bureaucracy
  • The Four Gods
  • Monkey King Lite
  • Moon Rabbit

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• Hindu Mythology
  • Sacred Cow

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• Japanese Mythology
  • Hihi'irokane
  • Kappa
  • Oni
    • Red Oni, Blue Oni
  • Orochi
  • Tengu
  • Kusanagi
  • Karakasa
  • Youkai
  • Tanuki
  • Yuki-onna

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• General Greco-Roman Tropes Below, for those direct from classical mythology, look here
  • Arcadia
  • Cincinnatus
  • Deus ex Machina
    • Deus est Machina
    • Diabolus ex Machina
    • Diabolus ex Nihilo
  • Et Tu, Brute?
  • Ius Primae Noctis
  • The Caligula
    • Caligula's Horse
  • Giving Radio to the Romans
  • Greek Chorus
  • Our Demons Are Different
  • Spartan Sibling
  • The Spartan Way
  • While Rome Burns

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• Norse Mythology
  • Hel:
  • Ragnarök Proofing
  • Ring of Fire
  • Valkyries
    • "Ride of the Valkyries" (Richard Wagner composition)
  • World Tree

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• Robin Hood
  • Just Like Robin Hood
  • Splitting the Arrow

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• William Tell
  • William Telling

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