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* WouldHurtAChild: In the very first scene, Purifiers murder two young children. Stryker later attempts to shoot the then 13-year-old Kitty Pryde himself.
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* WouldHurtAChild: In the very first scene, Purifiers murder two young children. Stryker later admits to an entire audience listening to his sermons that he murdered his infant son for being born visibly mutated and at the climax attempts to shoot the then 13-year-old Kitty Pryde himself.
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A story first published in 1982, ''God Loves, Man Kills'' is one of the most famous ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' stories from the Claremont period. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of the 1980s, ChrisClaremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains, The Reverend William Stryker, a SinisterMinister who believes mutants are demons from hell that must be completely eradicated.
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A story first published in 1982, ''God Loves, Man Kills'' is one of the most famous ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' stories from the Claremont period. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of the 1980s, ChrisClaremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains, The villains: the Reverend William Stryker, a SinisterMinister who believes mutants are demons from hell that must be completely eradicated.
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** Stryker actually banks on this, using Nightcrawler's demonic appearance to justify his crimes and hatred but Kitty [[TheReasonyouSuck shoots him down]] with an [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming epic speech citing Kurt's kindness and nobility]] While Stryker is a murderous psychopath.
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** Stryker actually banks on this, using Nightcrawler's demonic appearance to justify his crimes and hatred but Kitty [[TheReasonyouSuck [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech shoots him down]] with an [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming epic speech citing Kurt's kindness and nobility]] While nobility]], while Stryker is a murderous psychopath.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Stryker is aiming a gun at Kitty Pryde, his words indicating he intends to kill her. A whole panel is filled with the sound effect "Bang!" [[spoiler: Next, we see a policeman holding a smoking gun, and a bystander yells: "That cop shot the reverend!"]]
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A story first published in 1982, ''God Loves, Man Kills'' is one of the most famous ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' stories from the Claremont period. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of the 1980s, ChrisClaremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains.
Taking on issues such as prejudice, religion and the growing Christian fundamentalism of the time, the story proved to be a hit and was one of the influences for the second ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie.
Taking on issues such as prejudice, religion and the growing Christian fundamentalism of the time, the story proved to be a hit and was one of the influences for the second ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie.
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A story first published in 1982, ''God Loves, Man Kills'' is one of the most famous ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' stories from the Claremont period. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of the 1980s, ChrisClaremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains.
villains, The Reverend William Stryker, a SinisterMinister who believes mutants are demons from hell that must be completely eradicated.
Taking on issues such as prejudice, religion and the growing Christian fundamentalism of the time, the story proved to be a hit and was one of the primary influences for the second ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie.
Taking on issues such as prejudice, religion and the growing Christian fundamentalism of the time, the story proved to be a hit and was one of the primary influences for the second ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie.
* BadassBystander: In the book's climax, Stryker aims a gun at Kitty when they confront him at Madison Square Garden. A shot is fired. [[spoiler: But it turns out to be a random police officer working security. He shoots and arrests Stryke, believing the Reverend has gone too far if he's willing to kill an unarmed teenage girl]].
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* TomatoInTheMirror: Anne, Stryker's most loyal Purifier, [[spoiler: is a mutant herself]]. This revelation goes [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness about as well as one would expect with Stryker.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: Anne, Stryker's most loyal Purifier, [[spoiler: is a mutant herself]].herself (though we never find out what her powers are)]]. This revelation goes [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness about as well as one would expect with Stryker.]]
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* NeverMyFault: Stryker says in his backstory that his son's mutation was a curse from god, not because of his own sin, but because of his wife's.
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** Stryker actually banks on this, using Nightcrawler's demonic appearance to justify his crimes and hatred but Kitty [[TheReasonyouSuck shoots him down]] with an [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming epic speech citing Kurt's kindness and nobility]] While Stryker is a murderous psychopath.
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* TooDumbToLive: The X-Men want information from you. Magneto approaches, looking a little reluctant as he alludes to the possibility of torturing you. You call him "mutie scum!" ''How could you possibly expect that to end well?''
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* TooDumbToLive: The X-Men want information from you. Magneto approaches, looking a little reluctant as he alludes to the possibility of torturing you. You call address him "mutie scum!" by a racial epithet ("mutie," to be precise). ''How could you possibly expect that to end well?''
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* TooDumbToLive: The X-Men want information from you. Magneto approaches, looking a little reluctant as he alludes to the possibility of torturing you. You call him "mutie scum!" ''How could you possibly expect that to end well?''
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* BigEntrance: Magneto makes one of these at Madison Square Garden, partly to provide a diversion for the X-Men's attempt to rescue Xavier.
* CategoryTraitor: Watching Purifiers consider Stevie Hunter a traitor to the human race, as "she treats those mutie scum like real human beings."
* CategoryTraitor: Watching Purifiers consider Stevie Hunter a traitor to the human race, as "she treats those mutie scum like real human beings."
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* VillainousRescue: The X-Men are in the process of losing their first fight against the Purifiers, when all of a sudden the Purifiers' high-tech metal suits are shredded and turned into mummifying bonds. Enter the X-Men's then-foe, Magneto.
-->Magneto: Sheath your claws, Wolverine. Magneto is here as a friend...and, if you'll have me, an ally.
-->Magneto: Sheath your claws, Wolverine. Magneto is here as a friend...and, if you'll have me, an ally.
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A story first published in 1982, ''God Loves, Man Kills'' is one of the most famous ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' stories from the Claremont period. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of the 1980s, ChrisClaremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains. villains.
Taking on issues such as prejudice, religion and the growing Christian fundamentalism of the time, the story proved to be a hit and was one of the influences for the second ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Happens early on in the novel, with Kitty punching out a fellow student for coming down on the side of Stryker's crusade. When [[CoolBigSis Stevie Hunter]], her African-American dance instructor, tells her his rhetoric was "just words," Kitty responds with an enraged:
-->'''Kitty''': "What if he'd called me a '''nigger'''-lover, Stevie? Would you have been so damn tolerant '''then?!'''"
-->'''Kitty''': "What if he'd called me a '''nigger'''-lover, Stevie? Would you have been so damn tolerant '''then?!'''"
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* PrecisionFStrike / NWordPrivileges: The above-mentioned ArmorPiercingQuestion was considered highly controversial for its time thanks to Kitty's language.
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* EnemyMine: William Stryker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him. This was the first instance of an alliance between Magneto and the team, which would later lead to bigger repercussions down the road, including becoming a regular event on [[Series/{{X-Men}} X-Men: The Animated Series]] in the 1990s.
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* EnemyMine: William Stryker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him. This was the first instance of an alliance between Magneto and the team, which would later lead to bigger repercussions down the road, including becoming a regular event on [[Series/{{X-Men}} [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} X-Men: The Animated Series]] in the 1990s.
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* EnemyMine: William Stryker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him. This was the first instance of an alliance between Magneto and the team, which would later lead to bigger repercussions down the road, including becoming a regular event on [[Series/X-Men [[Series/{{X-Men}} X-Men: The Animated Series]] in the 1990s.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Magneto does... something to the Purifiers to make them tell the X-Men of Stryker's plans. Only Nightcrawler provides objection to it. Also a case of BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Magneto does... something to the Purifiers to make them tell the X-Men of Stryker's plans. Only Nightcrawler [[TheMessiah Nightcrawler]] provides objection to it. Also a case of BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork.
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* EnemyMine: William Stryker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him. This was the first instance of an alliance between Magneto and the team, which would later lead to bigger repercussions down the road, including becoming a regular event on [[Series/X-Men X-Men: The Animated Series]] in the 1990s.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: Anne, Stryker's most loyal Purifier, [[spoiler: is a mutant herself]]. This revelation goes [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness about as well as one would expect with Stryker.]]
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Magneto does... something to the Purifiers to make them tell the X-Men of Striker's Stryker's plans. Only Nightcrawler provides objection to it. Also a case of BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork.
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* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: After watching Xavier's debate with Stryker, Cyclops is disturbed by the fact that Xavier looks severe and almost scary, while Stryker is handsome and personable.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Stryker is a televangelist popular enough to fill Madison Square Garden, and his "crusade" has many supporters. He's also responsible for a number of mutants' murders.
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** Nightcrawler averts this when he takes his own prisoner (Stryker's brainwashing expert), preferring instead to use threats and his own demonic looks to intimidate the man.
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* OffingTheOffspring: Long ago, this is how Stryker dealt with his newborn mutant son.
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* FakingTheDead: The Purifiers' fraud fools the police, but doesn't hold up to Wolverine's enhanced senses.
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* TheDragon: Anne, to Stryker. It doesn't work out well for her.
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* EnemyMine: William Striker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The police watching over Striker's rally comment on their disbelief over his message and later step in to help the X-Men.
* SinisterMinister: Striker is probably one of the best examples for this trope to come from Marvel: a fanatic who believes that God wants him to wipe out every Mutant in the world under the idea that Mutants are created by Satan.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The police watching over Striker's rally comment on their disbelief over his message and later step in to help the X-Men.
* SinisterMinister: Striker is probably one of the best examples for this trope to come from Marvel: a fanatic who believes that God wants him to wipe out every Mutant in the world under the idea that Mutants are created by Satan.
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* EnemyMine: William Striker's Stryker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The police watching overStriker's Stryker's rally comment on their disbelief over his message and later step in to help the X-Men.
* SinisterMinister:Striker Stryker is probably one of the best examples for this trope to come from Marvel: a fanatic who believes that God wants him to wipe out every Mutant in the world under the idea that Mutants are created by Satan.
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* VillainousValor: To escape Magneto and the X-Men, and report their doings to her mentor, Stryker's [[TheDragon dragon]] Anne pries open the doors of a runaway elevator and leaps a perilous distance down to a roof.
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* WouldHurtAChild: In the very first scene, Purifiers murder two young children. Stryker later attempts to shoot the then 13-year-old Kitty Pryde himself.
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->''"Once more, genocide in the name of God. a story as old as the race."''
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->''"Once more, genocide in the name of God. a story as old as the race."''
->~ '''Magneto'''
A story first published in 1982, ''God Loves, Man Kills'' is one of the most famous ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' stories from the Claremont period. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of the 1980s, ChrisClaremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains. Taking on issues such as prejudice, religion and the growing Christian fundamentalism of the time, the story proved to be a hit and was one of the influences for the second ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie.
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!!'''Tropes associated with ''God Loves, Man Kills'':'''
* EnemyMine: William Striker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The police watching over Striker's rally comment on their disbelief over his message and later step in to help the X-Men.
* SinisterMinister: Striker is probably one of the best examples for this trope to come from Marvel: a fanatic who believes that God wants him to wipe out every Mutant in the world under the idea that Mutants are created by Satan.
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->~ '''Magneto'''
A story first published in 1982, ''God Loves, Man Kills'' is one of the most famous ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' stories from the Claremont period. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of the 1980s, ChrisClaremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains. Taking on issues such as prejudice, religion and the growing Christian fundamentalism of the time, the story proved to be a hit and was one of the influences for the second ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie.
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!!'''Tropes associated with ''God Loves, Man Kills'':'''
* EnemyMine: William Striker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The police watching over Striker's rally comment on their disbelief over his message and later step in to help the X-Men.
* SinisterMinister: Striker is probably one of the best examples for this trope to come from Marvel: a fanatic who believes that God wants him to wipe out every Mutant in the world under the idea that Mutants are created by Satan.
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