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* AnAesop: The entire premise of the series. Often several Aesops are present in a single episode.

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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anna. Even Wikipedia calls her "the barefoot street wise member of the group".
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Stoutacus.
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**Milo reveals that he took Joseph, Mary, and Jesus to Egypt.
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'''Marcus:''' No. You're bad.

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'''Marcus:''' [[BrutallyHonest No. You're bad.]]

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** Zak occasionally treats the rest of the kids this way and the third episode had it as a plot point. He gradually overcomes this, recognizing each of the kids' strengths and helping them put them to use.

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** Zak occasionally treats the rest of the kids this way and the third fourth episode had it as a plot point. He gradually overcomes this, recognizing each of the kids' strengths and helping them put them to use.



* {{Flanderization}}: Zak gets more and more Comically Serious in the first half of the series. That said, he gets de-flanderized in the latter half.



* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Emperor Nero, here portrayed as StrawNihilist.

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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Emperor Nero, here portrayed as StrawNihilist. Not that he was much better in real life.


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* JackOfAllTrades: Ben and his crew have a surprisingly varied and adaptable skill set. They are all exceptionally talented as comedic actors, for example. This likely comes with the territory of their role as storykeepers.

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* {{Crossdresser}}: Most of the heroes at one point or another.


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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Most of the heroes at one point or another. Sometimes it's IncrediblyConspicuousDrag, complete with LarynxDissonance (especially from Ben and Helena), [[PaperThinDisguise but none of the bad guys ever see through the disguises.]]

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* PapaWolf: Ben. Later Tacticus and Cyrus' father.

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* PapaWolf: Ben. Later Tacticus and Cyrus' father.Sabin (Cyrus' father).



* SupremeChef: Ben; he was good enough to become Nero's royal baker and is definitely known for his food.
* TeamMom: Helena. This seems to be her only real function in the series.

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* SupremeChef: Ben; he Ben. He was good enough to become Nero's royal baker and is definitely known for his food.
food. [[AllThereInTheManual Ben's backstory states that he was actually forced by the Roman army to move from Galilee to Rome because they loved his baking so much.]]
* TeamMom: Helena. This seems to be her only real function in the series.series until episode 11.



* UglyGuyHotWife: Ben and Helena.



--> '''Tacticus:''' Are you the one who taught these children about Jesus? (Ephraim nods) If everyone who listens to your stories becomes like these children, then all of Rome should hear about your Jesus...A fellow centenarian left me to die but these children saved my life because of Jesus.

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--> '''Tacticus:''' Are you the one who taught these children about Jesus? (Ephraim nods) If everyone who listens to your stories becomes like these children, then all of Rome should hear about your Jesus...A fellow centenarian centurian left me to die die, but these children saved my life because of Jesus.

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It's A.D. 64, and the infamous fire of July 18 has separated four children from their families. The kids, Anna, Cyrus, Justin and Marcus, find shelter with Ben and Helena, a Jewish baker and his wife. They also discover that Ben is the leader of one of Rome's underground churches, and is known as a storykeeper; that is, someone who passes on the stories of Jesus' life and ministry. Together with teenage Zealot Zakkai, the kids and their guardians go through many adventures during their search for the kids' [[DisappearedDad missing]] [[MissingMom parents]], all the while spreading the stories of Jesus ''and'' trying to avoid Nero's ever-tightening noose on Christianity in Rome.

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It's A.D. 64, and the infamous fire of July 18 has separated four children from their families. The kids, Anna, kids--Anna, Cyrus, Justin and Marcus, find Marcus--find shelter with Ben and Helena, a Jewish baker and his wife. They also discover that Ben is the leader of one of Rome's underground churches, and is known as a storykeeper; that is, someone who passes on the stories of Jesus' life and ministry. Together with teenage Zealot Zakkai, the kids and their guardians go through many adventures during their search for the kids' [[DisappearedDad missing]] [[MissingMom parents]], all the while spreading the stories of Jesus ''and'' trying to avoid Nero's ever-tightening noose on Christianity in Rome.



-->'''Capella:''' Listen, you little brats, the baker's wife is out there worried sick about you. Tell me where he is, and I'll let you go back to her.\\

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-->'''Capella:''' ->'''Capella:''' Listen, you little brats, the baker's wife is out there worried sick about you. Tell me where he is, and I'll let you go back to her.\\



%%* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Nero.]]

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%%* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Nero.]]* InformedJudaism: Despite several of the characters having Jewish names and origins (Ben is stated outright to be from Galilee in a late episode), none of them are shown practicing any Jewish customs or holidays, despite the fact that they would certainly still have done so in the first century, as Christianity was still regarded almost universally as a sect of Judaism.



* MamaBear: Helena. Later Miriam and Cyrus' mother.

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* MamaBear: Helena. Later Miriam and Cyrus' mother.Risa (Cyrus' mother).


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** Tacticus is a near-anagram of Tacitus, a first and second century historian who provided an extra-biblical record of the crucifixion of Jesus, as well as of the persecution of the early church.
** Helena is a Hellenistic (Greek) Jew.
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* TheStoryteller: Important leaders in the Christian church like Ben are called "storykeepers" (hence the show title), since they tell stories about the life of Jesus to new converts.

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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Marcus.

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* IllegalReligion: The Christians living in Rome are persecuted by Nero.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Marcus.Marcus, as demonstrated in a conversation with Capella.



* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Nero.]]

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* %%* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Nero.]]
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* DavidVersusGoliath: Cyrus, when he and some other Christians are about to be thrown to a huge gladiator named Giganticus. Helena references this story while trying to encourage Cyrus.

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* DavidVersusGoliath: Cyrus, when he and some other Christians are about to be thrown to a huge gladiator named Giganticus.[[MeaningfulName Giganticus]]. Helena references this story while trying to encourage Cyrus.
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* OhMyGods: In the first episode, after the Christians ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Cyrus]]) escape from the Colosseum, Nero yells "For the love of Zeus, would somebody just KILL somebody?!" [[ArtisticLicenseReligion Of course he should have been yelling "For the love of Jupiter".]]

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* OhMyGods: In the first episode, after the Christians ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Cyrus]]) escape from the Colosseum, Nero yells "For the love of Zeus, would somebody just KILL somebody?!" [[ArtisticLicenseReligion [[AncientGrome Of course he should have been yelling "For the love of Jupiter".]]
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* BigBad: Nero.

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* BigBad: Nero.Nero, the emperor persecuting the church.

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* BloodlessCarnage: [[spoiler: Capella]] gets stabbed right in the stomach but doesn't bleed at all.

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[[spoiler: Capella]] gets stabbed right in the stomach but doesn't bleed at all.all.
** In the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus says that the traveler was bleeding after being beaten by the thieves, but the animation does not show any wounds.

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