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** Herr Starr's [[IncrediblyLamePun Starrt]] [[StartOfDarkness Of Darkness]].

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** Herr Starr's [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} Starrt]] [[StartOfDarkness Of Darkness]].
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* FriendInThePress: Darkly Subverted. Cassidy meets up with his old friend Simon "Si" Coltrane, now working as a freelance journalist to help him investigate a SerialKiller dubbed the "Hacker-Slasher" and the "Reaver-Cleaver" by the press. But when Cassidy goes into the apartment, [[spoiler: he learns not only said friend ''is'' the Hacker-Slasher, he set up Cassidy to take the fall.]] Cassidy only escapes the cops by [[spoiler: stabbing himself in the neck with a scalpel and feigning death]] until he breaks out of the body bag.
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->'''Starr''': Son of God or Son of Man, Marseille, you can't fuck your sister and expect much good to come of it.
->'''Marseille''': (''sees Humperdoo pissing on an old man'') I think I'm going to be sick.
->'''Starr''': I don't blame you. Can you imagine rushing THAT out when we make our move? "Behold, ye multitudes: the Messiah!"...shitting himself and throwing it at passerby.

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->'''Starr''': -->'''Starr''': Son of God or Son of Man, Marseille, you can't fuck your sister and expect much good to come of it.
->'''Marseille''': -->'''Marseille''': (''sees Humperdoo pissing on an old man'') I think I'm going to be sick.
->'''Starr''': -->'''Starr''': I don't blame you. Can you imagine rushing THAT out when we make our move? "Behold, ye multitudes: the Messiah!"...shitting himself and throwing it at passerby.
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** The latest "Messiah" (or "Humperdoo" after his catchphrase) is technically the most direct blood descendant of Jesus Christ Himself, and as such is revered by The Grail (most of them, at least). However, [[DivineIncest centuries of inbreeding only those individuals directly related to Jesus]] has led to massive intellectual deficiencies among His descendants, such as Humperdoo's father shitting in his hand and tossing it at Grail representatives or Humperdoo himself being under the impression that [[InsaneTrollLogic he can transubstantiate his urine into wine, which he can then use to water flowers]]. Starr's assistant Marseille is disappointed that none of Jesus' "Divine Essence" apparently made it down the line.
->'''Starr''': Son of God or Son of Man, Marseille, you can't fuck your sister and expect much good to come of it.
->'''Marseille''': (''sees Humperdoo pissing on an old man'') I think I'm going to be sick.
->'''Starr''': I don't blame you. Can you imagine rushing THAT out when we make our move? "Behold, ye multitudes: the Messiah!"...shitting himself and throwing it at passerby.
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** There is no indication of what happened to Tommi after she left with Jody and T.C. at the end of ''The Good Old Boys''.

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** There is no indication of what happened to Tommi after she left with Jody and T.C. at the end of ''The Good Old Boys''. [[UncertainDoom It likely wasn't good.]]
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Creator/GarthEnnis' ''Preacher'' tells the story of Jesse Custer, a down-at-heel Texan preacher whose life is turned around when he is cursed with The Word of God, which compels people to do whatever he commands. After finding out that God has abdicated His throne, Jesse sets out on a quest to bring Him to task, joined by Tulip, his ex-girlfriend-turned-hitman, and Cassidy, an Irish vampire.

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Creator/GarthEnnis' ''Preacher'' tells the story of Jesse Custer, a down-at-heel Texan preacher whose life is turned around when he is cursed with The Word of God, [[CompellingVoice which compels people to do whatever he commands.commands]]. After finding out that God has abdicated His throne, Jesse sets out on a quest to bring Him to task, joined by Tulip, his ex-girlfriend-turned-hitman, and Cassidy, an Irish vampire.
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* DecoyBackstory: In the "Salvation" story arc, Jesse is aided as Sheriff of Salvation by Gunther Hahn, a German immigrant who tells Jesse he once worked for the Nazi party as a spy. He tricked them into sending him to the US on a mission, then simply never completed it and never went back, preferring to live in peace. It holds up until Jesse finds Gunther's name and backstory in a history book that says he was killed in combat; "Gunther" is actually Siegfried Vechtel, a Nazi policeman who rounded up and murdered civilians and worked in a concentration camp. When Jesse confronts him with the truth, Vechtel is DrivenToSuicide.
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* SlidingScaleOfDivineIntervention: The entire point of the series is that God has abandoned His flock and Reverend Jesse Custer seeks Him out to demand to know why He hasn't done right by His creations.

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* SlidingScaleOfDivineIntervention: Class 1. The entire point of the series is that God has abandoned His flock and Reverend Jesse Custer seeks Him out to demand to know why He hasn't done right by His creations.
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* SlidingScaleOfDivineIntervention: The entire point of the series is that God has abandoned His flock and Reverend Jesse Custer seeks Him out to demand to know why He hasn't done right by His creations.
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* AnythingThatMoves:
** T.C. - though, in all honesty, even the "moves" part seems to be negotiable.
** Jesus [=DeSade=]. If it has a hole, he's probably fucked it.

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* CutenessProximity: The Saint gets a couple of moments of this with the girl he later marries, and then with their child, though of course it's largely played for contrast. Also, to his surprise, Tulip's RatedMForManly dad (though it helps that she just burped).

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* CutenessProximity: The Saint gets a couple of moments of this with the girl he later marries, and then with their child, though of course it's largely played for contrast. Also, to his surprise, Tulip's RatedMForManly manly dad (though it helps that she just burped).



* RatedMForManly: Jesse, Jesse's dad, the Saint, Tulip's dad, Jody...
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Their quest takes them across the dark heart of America, from the streets of New York to the Louisiana swamps, and along the way they meet inbred hicks, serial killers, Creator/JohnWayne's ghost, The Saint of Killers, the mentally-hanicapped descendants of Jesus, an ancient religious conspiracy, a pair of perverted Sexual Investigators, Creator/BillHicks, the anti-Pope, fallen angels, voodoo children, psycho goths, TheKlan, and a kid with a face like an arse.

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Their quest takes them across the dark heart of America, from the streets of New York to the Louisiana swamps, and along the way they meet inbred hicks, serial killers, Creator/JohnWayne's ghost, The Saint of Killers, the mentally-hanicapped mentally-handicapped descendants of Jesus, an ancient religious conspiracy, a pair of perverted Sexual Investigators, Creator/BillHicks, the anti-Pope, fallen angels, voodoo children, psycho goths, TheKlan, and a kid with a face like an arse.
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[[caption-width-right:299:Counterclockwise from bottom left: Jesse, Tulip, Cassidy, and the Saint of Killers.]]
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* MondegreenGag: When Jesse, Tulip, and Cass sing along to "What a Feeling" by Irene Cara in "Dixie Fried," they sing the line "got me reelin'" instead of "bein's believin'"

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* MondegreenGag: When Jesse, Tulip, and Cass sing along to "What a Feeling" by Irene Cara Creator/IreneCara in "Dixie Fried," they sing the line "got me reelin'" instead of "bein's believin'"
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* DebatingNames: The SerialKiller known as the Hacker-Slasher got his name due to competing newspapers calling him either the Hacker or the Slasher.
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** When Cassidy pretends to be Jesse Custer, his dialogue shows that he's hazarding a pretty cartoonish Southern accent.

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** When Cassidy pretends to be Jesse Custer, his dialogue shows that he's hazarding a pretty cartoonish Southern accent. When ''Jesse'' hears it, he remarks "Good thing ol' Starr's a Kraut".
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** Cassidy's somewhat muted response to ''having his head cut off'', when Jesse picks up his head; "Can ye sew?" (Apparently, somebody could, because his head is back on his neck and the wound is healing up when next we see him.)

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