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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it spelled Jael or Yael?[[note]]They are alternate transliterations and are pronounced the same.[[/note]]
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** See LoveMakesYouDumb.
** And his drunkenness, which he God told him to avoid, gave Delilah the chance to cut his hair.
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** His lust for women. See LoveMakesYouDumb.
** And his drunkenness, whichhe God told him to avoid, gave Delilah the chance to cut his hair.
** And his drunkenness, which
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* RedemptionEqualsDeathRedemptionEqualsDeath: After a HumiliationConga with having his hair shaved off and losing his strength, his eyes are gouged out and he finds himself on the chain gang, working the grain grinder. During this time, his hair grows back and he recovers his strength. When the Philistines are having a victory party, an older and wiser Samson asks a youth to prop him up against the pillars of the temple of Dagon in Gaza, and he prays that God will strengthen him one last time as he pushes against the pillars of Dagon's temple, which collapses and kills Samson along with the Philistines of Gaza
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* SuperStrength: The Jewish Archetype
* TakingYouWithMe: How his RedemptionEqualsDeath happens.
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* SuperStrength: The Jewish Archetype
Archetype, with his greatest display being demolishing the temple where he was held prisoner by ''pulling the pillars down''.
* TakingYouWithMe:How his RedemptionEqualsDeath happens.He prays to God to give him strength one last time and collapses the temple with all the rulers of the Philistines inside, and three thousand of their people on the roof.
-->''Those who were slain by him as he died outnumbered those who had been slain by him when he lived.'' (Judges 16:30)
* TakingYouWithMe:
-->''Those who were slain by him as he died outnumbered those who had been slain by him when he lived.'' (Judges 16:30)
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* HumanSacrifice: Literalist interpretations of the scripture contend that this is what he did to his daughter.
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* HumanSacrifice: Literalist Wooden literalist interpretations of the scripture contend that this is what he did to his daughter.
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* The Dreaded: Before David, Samson was considered the ''worst'' thing that's ever happened to the Philistines.
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* BadassIsraeli: The book covers a time period where, in lieu of kings, Israel was ruled by a series of badasses.
* BadassIsraeli: The first example of Mossad-style infiltration and assassination. He is said to have invented the double-edged sword.
* BadassIsraeli: Led Israel against the Canaanites.
* BadassIsraeli: Dispatched Sisera, the fleeing General of the Canaanite army, by inviting him into her tent, giving him with milk (instead of water as he requested) to tire him out, [[UnusualEuphemism "covering"]] him in her bed until he fell asleep, before finally ''driving a tent stake through his head.'' This single-handedly won a war.
* BadassIsraeli: DoubleSubversion. He refused to go into battle against the Canaanites unless Deborah agreed to go with him, which she did. This only further cements Deborah's own badassery.
* BadassIsraeli: Especially considering the odds he and his band of underdogs were up against.
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* BadassIsraeli: He is ''the'' strongman of Jewish myth. He kills a thousand soldiers with the ''jawbone of a donkey''...and [[BondOneLiner follows up]] with a {{pun}}. He also lifted two-ton doors and took them for a hike, lifted a loom by his hair, tore a lion apart with his bare hands, and, imprisoned, blinded and chained to a wall for his enemies to laugh at, simply yanked the chain hard enough to pull down the building.
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* BadassIsraeli: Shamgar, mentioned only in one verse. All it says is he took an [[ImprobableWeaponUser ox goad]] (which is essentially a stick with a pointy end, and a hooked end) and single-handedly slaughtered a group of 300 Philistines.
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* AntiHero: Probably one of the least conventionally heroic of the judges (tied with Samson). Child sacrifice was as abhorent to a pious monolatrous Israelite as it is to moderns.
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* AntiHero: Probably one of the least conventionally heroic of the judges (tied with Samson). Child sacrifice was as abhorent abhorrent to a pious monolatrous Israelite as it is to moderns.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Everyone knows about his hair.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Everyone knows about Got his hair.
SuperStrength from [[ConditionalPowers Nazirite rituals]] (not cutting your hair, taking alcohol, or touching the dead), and breaking them was his big weakness. He tried to mask this by making up a bunch of equally weaksauce fake weaknesses, only to kill anyone who actually tried them. He was still stupid enough to tell his true weakness to Delilah, despite her being the only one who knew of his "weaknesses" and therefore the only one who could have told them to his enemies. By the time he'd cut his hair he'd already violated other parts of the Nazirite rituals, such as drinking alcohol, and handling dead bodies. Cutting his hair was the last straw, so to speak.
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->''"You say that you have decided to use me to rescue Israel. Well, I am putting some wool on the ground where we thresh the wheat..."''
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Initially was skeptical and wanted God to prove He is who He says he is by "putting out a fleece".
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Initially was skeptical and wanted God to prove He is who He says he He is by "putting out a fleece".
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* SonOfAWhore: He was kicked out of town for it.
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* SonOfAWhore: He was kicked out of town for it. His original band of soldiers were also various kinds of social outcasts, but prove remarkably effective against the invading Philistines because of God's favor.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Donkey jawbone. Enough said.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Donkey ImprobableWeaponUser: Samson kicks ass with an ass's jawbone. Enough said.(Animal jawbones with flaked flint chips wedged into their tooth-sockets were actually used as primitive cutting implements by many Neolithic cultures. Hey, it's easier than carving a saw from scratch out of wood.)
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Shamgar's weapon was an ox goad. Or, basically, a sharpened stick designed to poke livestock and get them moving. Given that he killed ''600'' men with it, he must have been absurdly strong in his own right.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Shamgar's weapon was an ox goad. Or, basically, Or a sharpened stick designed to poke livestock and get them moving. Given that he killed ''600'' men with it, he must have been absurdly strong in his own right.
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* HotBlooded: And HOW
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* HotBlooded: And HOWA WorldsStrongestMan who killed a ''thousand'' Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. After a deadly HumiliationConga that involved a certain [[TheVamp seductress]], a TraumaticHaircut ''and'' EyeScream, [[TakingYouWithMe took down thousands more]] with him by breaking the pillars of a temple.
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* ReallyGetsAround: His casual bedding of prositutes is mentioned.
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* TheHighQueen: Fourth Judge of Israel and LadyOfWar. So inspirational that her appointed military leader did not think he could win the impending battle without her.
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* NinetiesAntiHero: While most Bible heroes had their flaws, Samson was characterized almost entirely by vengeance, and would often commit mass slaughter when something pissed him off -- but those slaughters were of Philistines, whom God wanted dead too, so it's all right. His other major point of characterization was a weakness for women, to the point of committing a TooDumbToLive blunder with Delilah. He even fired off a stereotypically-badass BondOneLiner at one point -- a possible English translation would be "[[ImprobableWeaponUser With the jaw of an ass]], mass upon mass!"
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* DownfallBySex: Samson had a lust problem, and the Philistines he tormented used this against him by bribing a prostitute named Delilah to try to learn his secret. He eventually caves, and is captured and humiliated as a result.
* DreadlockRasta: Specifically stated to wear his hair in dreadlocks in Judges 16:13. He's a sort of a proto-monk, which fits the "for religious purposes" connotations of the trope. As a Nazirite (sort of a proto-monk), he actually combines this trope with DreadlockWarrior.
* DreadlockWarrior: Samson, the [[SuperStrength inhumanly strong]] OneManArmy, is specifically stated to wear his hair in dreadlocks.
* DreadlockRasta: Specifically stated to wear his hair in dreadlocks in Judges 16:13. He's a sort of a proto-monk, which fits the "for religious purposes" connotations of the trope. As a Nazirite (sort of a proto-monk), he actually combines this trope with DreadlockWarrior.
* DreadlockWarrior: Samson, the [[SuperStrength inhumanly strong]] OneManArmy, is specifically stated to wear his hair in dreadlocks.
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Owing to his father Gideon's many [[{{Polyamory}} concubines]], he had '''''seventy''''' half-brothers. [[KillEmAll Or, in his mind, seventy pretenders to his throne. He gets rid of (very nearly) all of them.]]
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Owing to his father Gideon's many [[{{Polyamory}} concubines]], he had '''''seventy''''' half-brothers. [[KillEmAll Or, in his mind, seventy pretenders to his throne. He gets rid of (very nearly) all of them.]]
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: His name means "lightning".
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: His name means "sun."
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* NinetiesAntiHero: More or less the UrExample. His characterization mostly revolves around destroying things when pissed off and the occasional womanizing. Also an UnbuiltTrope as his womanizing led to his downfall.
