History Main / KungfuJesus

* Ronald D. Moore commented that the story of Moses was one of the inspirations for Benjamin Sisko's character arc on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine.'' In this case, a group of {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s stand in for the burning bush. He doesn't get into much hand-to-hand asskicking (at least, no more than any other Starfleet captain), but he ''is'' a key figure planning Starfleet's overall strategy during the Dominion War and kicks a fair amount of ass as captain of the series premier CoolStarship, and in the finale he does [[spoiler: tackle a Pah Wraith-possessed Gul Dukat off a cliff]].

* [[Literature/TheFourGospels The Gospel of Matthew]] has a canon moment where Jesus clears the temple in Jerusalem. With a ''whip''. ''That he made himself'' for that very occasion (meaning that it wasn't a moment of blind rage, but rather a very deliberate thing he put time and effort into while the Apostles watched him do it). It's worth emphasizing pacifists are not usually known for wandering into public meeting places with weapons to beat eight tons of crap out of everyone making a quick buck off of religion. He also [[FlippingTheTable flipped a table made of marble]]. Yet that is ''exactly'' what Jesus did.

* According to Islam, two of the major signs that the Day of Judgment (''Yawm ad-Din'') is fast approaching are 1) the appearance of an [[TheAntiChrist Antichrist]] or false messiah (''ad-Dajjal''), followed by 2) the return of Jesus, who will then kill the Antichrist, end all wars, and preside over a period of total peace and prosperity...until [[spoiler: God knocks down [[SealedEvilInACan the wall that confines the tribes of ''yahjuj'' (Gog) and ''mahjuj'' (Magog)]] and [[ZombieApocalypse they ravage the Earth and even (successfully) attack "the people who live in the sky."]]]] Really. That was probably inspired by Revelation, which has a similar prediction. In some interpretations of the Bible, after the Tribulation Period (which begins with the Rapture and ends at Armageddon, mentioned above), there will be a seven-year period in which God Himself will reign on Earth. After that period, He will loose the forces of Hell for one last hoorah before finally and permanently banishing them and what followers still remain on Earth to the Lake of Fire. He'll then merge Heaven with Earth, creating a perfect paradise free of eternal damnation, with New Jerusalem as its capital.

*** ....With Chris Tucker.

** ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' did a similar joke, except it was a parody of ''Film/KillBill'' that replaced the Bride and Bill with Jesus and the Easter Bunny.

* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Saints with a capital "S" are people who are born with bodies possessing properties close to that of Jesus himself, which grants them incredible physical and magical powers, to the point they can fight ''actual angels''. One side-story light novel makes the comment that Saints are usually never called in unless the threat in question is capable of causing ''mountain-range'' levels of devastation at least. The chances of actually being born with such a body, however, are very slim, as there are only 20 known people in the world who can qualify. Known Saints include the female MasterSwordsman and former head of the Amakusa Christians, Kaori Kanzaki; the member of God's Right Seat of the Roman Catholic Church, Acqua of the Back; the [[NinjaMaid strongest maid in Britain]] and currently the travelling companion of Ollerus, Silvia; and the {{Valkyrie}} (which also gives her the powers of Norse mythological beings), Brunhild Eiktobel.

* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Saints with a capital "S" are people who are born with bodies possessing properties close to that of Jesus himself, which grants them incredible physical and magical powers, to the point they can fight ''actual angels''. The chances of actually being born with such a body, however, are very slim, as there are only 20 known people in the world who can qualify. Known Saints include the female MasterSwordsman and former head of the Amakusa Christians, Kaori Kanzaki; the member of God's Right Seat of the Roman Catholic Church, Acqua of the Back; the [[NinjaMaid strongest maid in Britain]] and currently the travelling companion of Ollerus, Silvia; and the {{Valkyrie}} (which also gives her the powers of Norse mythological beings), Brunhild Eiktobel.