History PlayingWith / ChurchMilitant

* '''Averted''': Father Robert doesn't fight bad guys.
* '''Enforced''': "We don't want Robert to be an albatross around the neck of our FiveManBand. Let's have him kick ass!"

* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''': But when the Legions of Hell knock at his door, he also turns-out to be a BadassGrandpa.

** [[ChurchPolice Our Lady Of the Sword is in charge of enforcing theological orthodoxy, which means killing heretics.]]

** Robert is a BadassPacifist from a religion that promotes peace.

* '''Inverted''': Robert is a warrior for The Enlightenment, a brotherhood of militant atheists who seek out and destroy all traces of religion.

** [[ChurchPolice Our Lady Of the Sword is in charge in enforcing theological orthodoxy, which means killing heretics.]]

** [[SoulsavingCrusader Our Lady of the Sword believes that using "Repent or Die" tactics is an effective way of keep people from going to Hell.]]

** [[SoulsavingCrusader Our Lady of the Sword believes that using "Repent or Die" tactics is an effective way to keep people from going to Hell.]]

** [[HearingVoices Our Lady of the Sword's founder was told by God]] [[CrystalDragonJesus (or this world's equivalent)]] [[HearingVoices to take up arms and create a warlike church.]]

** [[SoulsavingCrusader Our Lady of the Sword really is justified in using violence.]]

** Our Lady of the Sword was told by God [[CrystalDragonJesus (or this world's equivalent)]] to take up arms.

** [[HolyBurnsEvil Holiness is more effective than anything else in fighting evil, so who better than a church to smite the wicked?]]

* '''Straight''': Father [[AliceAndBob Robert]], a priest of Our Lady of {{Badass}}, can hold his own against an attacker, and has been trained to do so by his [[TheOrder order]].

** Our Lady of {{Badass}} was founded by a former BadassPreacher who defected from a more peaceable church, and created an organization of fighting clergy to protect the masses from a rising ancient evil. Robert is the latest of TheChosenMany.

* '''Invoked''': The heroes hire Robert in hopes of him being a fighter, since Our Lady Of Badass is FamedInStory.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Father Robert's Church preaches charity toward humankind. But many of the congregation are personal from a nearby base and some are [[RetiredBadass veterans]] including [[BadassPreacher Father Robert himself]]. Father Robert often uses military metaphors but emphasizes that their true fight is against [[{{Satan}} the devil]] and [[HumansAreFlawed their lower natures.]] But then an [[SealedEvilInACan evil]] [[AbusivePrecursors from beyond time]] appears and opens the doorway to the [[LegionsOfHell lower realms.]] Father Roberts Church then [[LetsGetDangerous takes up arms]] and [[LaResistance leads the fight]] to [[EarthIsABattlefield defend the world.]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Exploited''': The VillainWithGoodPublicity uses Father Robert's Badass ways as a example of how brutish and terrible the Church is.

** The covert ops team convinces the bad guys to try to rob Father Robert's Church, so that they will be killed in the process.

** Other congregations pray to be delivered from the deceits of the devil. Satan [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou prays for deliverence from Father Robert's church.]]

** Father Robert's congregation celebrates every Easter with it's own harrowing of Hell.