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| 8 | [[caption-width-right:350:God knows why they're fighting ''here'' of all places.]] |
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| 10 | ->''"Candle-light, privacy, music! Can't think of a better place for hand-to-hand combat!"'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''Phoebus''', ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'' |
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| 13 | Staging an awesome fight scene, be it a shootout or a SwordFight, a duel or a MeleeATrois, in a ([[ChristianityIsCatholic usually Catholic]]) cathedral, chapel, or church apparently has something thrilling for the directors, as does any forbidden fruit. And a shot of Jesus looking mournfully from the cross upon the bloodshed below certainly adds FauxSymbolism to it. |
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| 15 | Commonly seen in HeroicBloodshed movies and {{Anime}}, causing much ValuesDissonance among the Westerners. May involve a ChurchMilitant or two but it's not mandatory. Bonus points if OminousLatinChanting with religious lyrics are added, along with OminousPipeOrgan or even HolyPipeOrgan. Double bonus points if there are {{d|isturbedDoves}}oves flying around during the mayhem. SceneryPorn may be a factor when the building is particularly ornate or the stained glass itself is given particular attention; in addition to the glass itself, the other architectural marvels of a sufficiently large church or cathedral give lots of opportunities for dramatic fight scenes and other dynamic feats. |
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| 17 | Also known as the Church Shootout, if it only involves [[TheGunslinger gunfire and no katanas]]. A fight in a CreepyCathedral may lead to this. Compare WeddingSmashers and BloodSplatteredWeddingDress. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] the possible aftermath of a DestinationDefenestration that's ShownTheirWork, though both meanings can overlap in a church setting. |
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| 20 | !!Examples |
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| 24 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] %% This section has been alphabetized %% |
| 25 | * ''[[Manga/{{Appleseed}} Appleseed Ex Machina]]'' opens with an ''awesome'' Church Shootout. What's up with John Woo and churches? |
| 26 | * In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', a minor but still bloody ([[BlackComedy and almost humorous]]) example. Right before a showdown between the Female Titan and [[spoiler: Titan]] Eren, it cuts to a scene of some loony priest of the Wall preaching that faith is all that they need to be safe. Cue the Female Titan being knocked right through the church and squishing several people flat. |
| 27 | * In ''Manga/BlackButler'' there is not only a battle in a church, complete with a BigDamnHeroes SuperWindowJump in through the stained glass (similar to the Code Geass example). There's also the fact that [[spoiler:their opponent is [[LightIsNotGood an ''angel'']]. Later we find out that [[GenderBender s/he]] isn't actually dead yet, though]]. |
| 28 | %%* One of the first scenes in the anime of ''Manga/BlackCat''. |
| 29 | * ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' features an intense shootout at the entrance of the Church of Violence during the Greenback Jane arc when the arc's title character seeks the aforementioned church as sanctuary. The show blatantly parodies the entire trope; it's an 'intense shootout' as in 'the church had an M-60 and weren't afraid to shoot '''it''' at everyone else involved'. Oh, and a pair of ''supremely'' pissed off {{Sociopathic Hero}}es and a lead nun with a [[BlingBlingBang Golden]] [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]]. |
| 30 | * The opening of ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' has a gun-and-sword fight with a fake priest in a confessional. |
| 31 | * Happens near the beginning of ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', with a demon hiding within a church. |
| 32 | * Lelouch [[spoiler: and Suzaku]] vs. Mao in episode 16 of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', with a BigDamnHeroes SuperWindowJump in through the stained glass. |
| 33 | * The famous first clash between Spike and Vicious in the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession5BalladOfFallenAngels Ballad of Fallen Angels]]" is likely a ShoutOut to both ''Film/TheKiller1989'' and ''Film/TheCrow1994'', or so [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] says. |
| 34 | * Volume 2 of ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' has a vicious vampire invasion on students hold up within, Mina's near-singlehanded rescue of same, and a brutal fight between Akira and Mina in rapid succession within a Catholic school's chapel. |
| 35 | %%* Unsurprisingly this happens quite often in the various incarnations of Creator/GoNagai's ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}''. |
| 36 | * The first [[TheHeartless Akuma]] we see in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' was made from a priest and his fiancee. It does all of its killing inside an abandoned church, and it's destroyed there. |
| 37 | * ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has a brief SwordFight in the basement of Kotomine's cathedral near the end, immediately following TheReveal. |
| 38 | ** ''Unlimited Blade Works'' stages a few confrontations there; at least two of them display the stained glass prominently. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' had an awesome fight sequence inside Aerith's church, ''twice''. |
| 40 | * The sixth ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie features a battle inside the church at Azaka's boarding school. Bonus points for both combatants dressed like nuns. |
| 41 | * The final showdown between Juubei and Toshiki in the ''Manga/GetBackers''' anime. The manga starts them out in a church, but Toshiki decides midway through that the alley where they first met would be more appropriate. You can do that with Divine Design. |
| 42 | * ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': An episode in the second season features a climactic shootout between a terrorist and Section 09 in a Berlin cathedral. The terrorist, using a [[ArmCannon pepperpot firearm built into his knuckles]], fires at Batou, misses, and blows out an entire stained-glass window. |
| 43 | * Happens in the first episode of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', complete with tons of FauxSymbolism. It was not present in the original manga, but only in the syndicated anime; whether this change was for the better is arguable. |
| 44 | * Ever since ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' introduced the [[SaintlyChurch Belkan Saint Church]], this was pretty much inevitable. One such battle appeared in the fourth chapter of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' between Tohma and [[BloodKnight Veyron]]. |
| 45 | * The final shootout in ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' takes place in a chapel. |
| 46 | * Ditto for ''Manga/MyHime'', when [[spoiler: in Episode 25 Natsuki and Shizuru have a fight]], they end up in one of these, even though it's in ruins. |
| 47 | * Of course, this happens more than once in ''Anime/{{Noir}}'', starting with normal churches in the beginning to the big weird Soldats Cathedral Mansion complete with Nuns with Guns in the end. |
| 48 | * The final episodes of ''[[VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom]]'' are centered on one of those. |
| 49 | * In ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', the final battle against Kami-Sama plays with this: the villain lives in a temple with huge Western-style stained-glass windows, in front of which the final battle occurs. [[spoiler:They shatter beautifully after his defeat, as the temple falls to pieces around him [[TheManBehindTheMan and his mentor]].]] |
| 50 | * In ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' the church in [[spoiler:Episodes 25-26]] doesn't have any glass windows, and the one in episode 19 has none at all, but they ''are'' churches, and people are fighting in them, so... |
| 51 | * In ''Manga/SoulEater'' Crona and Maka's first meeting and battle is inside an Italian church, resulting in Soul getting his huge chest scar which infects him with the black blood. Much later in the manga [[spoiler:Maka finds Crona inside that same church]]. |
| 52 | * In the anime version of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'', before Zakuro joins the team, she is targeted by Kisshu while she's praying at church, and promptly kicks his butt before the rest of the titular {{Magical Girl}}s even do anything. (In the manga, the battle took place at the audition.) |
| 53 | %%* ''Literature/TrinityBlood'' likes doing this. |
| 54 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': A variation of this trope is used in form of Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon. When it attacks, it first flies up in the sky and activates its wings, which take the form of a stained glass painting. The golden sky in the background just sells its beauty even more. |
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| 57 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 58 | * In Creator/KevinSmith's run on ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' (the "Guardian Devil" arc), a major fight between Daredevil and Bullseye takes place in a Catholic church. (See also the note on ''Film/Daredevil2003'' in the film section below.) |
| 59 | * There was such a fight in the first modern ''ComicBook/HumanTarget'' story where Christopher Chance impersonates a priest and gets into a gun fight with his principal's would be murderers. |
| 60 | * "God only knows", a volume of the European comic book ''SODA'', focuses almost entirely on a gun fight in a church. Which the main character takes part in while suffering from EasyAmnesia and believing he's a priest. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} and Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} fight [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] (possessed by Deimos), [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] (possessed by Eris) and [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow the Scarecrow]] (possessed by Phobos) in a cathedral in Gotham that the three children of Ares are warping into a new [[{{Mordor}} Areopagus]] for their father. They are backed up by [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Artemis]], [[Characters/BatmanHuntress Huntress]], ComicBook/WonderGirl, Characters/{{Nightwing|DickGrayson}} and Characters/{{Robin|TimDrake}}, who eventually make their way into the cathedral after fighting their way through Maxie Zeus' blank eyed cultists in the graveyard. |
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| 64 | [[folder:FanWorks]] |
| 65 | * The Gotham City Cathedral, identified as Saint Michael's, is a recurring set piece in ''Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat'', foreshadowed throughout to be the place Angel ([[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]]) and original BigBad The Seraphim will have their final battle. [[spoiler: There have also been a few brawls in the chapel of [[ReligionOfEvil The Church of the Voice of God.]]]] |
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| 68 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 69 | * Phoebus and Esmeralda engage in a duel inside the titular cathedral in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', in which Phoebus provides the page quote. At the end of the movie as well, Frollo and Quasimodo fight on the parapets of the cathedral. |
| 70 | * Korean-made anime-style film ''Animation/SkyBlue'' has just such a scene, complete with stained-glass Jesus fitting right into the composition of the scene (see image at top). |
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| 73 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 74 | * ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'': Though Jim first encounters infected in a church, complete with large crosses, piles of dead bodies, and an infected priest, he quickly exits the premises before it comes to a fight with the many infected inside (though not before giving said priest a good smack on the head). |
| 75 | * The Tollywood action movie ''Athadu'', being pretty much a love letter to [[HeroicBloodshed Hong Kong Blood Opera]], has its final shootout in one of these, where Pandhu, played by Mahesh Babu, faces down his former partner and fellow assassin Malli, who betrayed and tried to kill him on orders from the BigBad. |
| 76 | * Batman's final confrontation with the Joker in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' takes place on top of Gotham Cathedral. |
| 77 | * After a shootout inside, the final fight in ''Film/TheCrow1994'' took place on the roof of a neo-Gothic church, in a rainy night, overlooking the graveyard. |
| 78 | * In ''Film/Daredevil2003'', Daredevil and Bullseye's last fight is in a cathedral. Bullseye even [[ImprobableWeaponUser uses shards of stained glass as impromptu shuriken]]. |
| 79 | * The climax of ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded'' is a fierce gun battle between German paratroopers and US infantry in a pretty little English country church. During the battle, one of the paratroopers actually begins playing the film's theme music on the organ. And moments before the battle starts the priest (who had been held hostage by the Germans) is dragged kicking and screaming from the place. You know, just to remind the audience that this is a church, in case the spire, altar, pews and stained glass windows weren't enough of a clue to begin with. |
| 80 | * ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' subverts it by having only one shot fired inside a church, but seeing how there were only two extremely badass guys involved, a SingleStrokeBattle wasn't much surprise, which might make this a straight use instead. Furthermore, keep in mind that the character in question [[spoiler:was shot ''by his best friend, through a book of poetry'']], raising the symbolism to nigh-unbearable levels. And don't forget that both are formally known as Clerics. |
| 81 | * A brief fight between several [[{{Mooks}} Sangs]] and Lee [[Creator/JasonStatham Christmas]] takes place in a church in ''Film/TheExpendables2''. It even has Christmas dress up as a priest. |
| 82 | -->'''Lee Christmas:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner By the power invested in me, I now pronounce you... Man and knife.]] |
| 83 | * Woo knows exactly how [[RuleOfCool utterly cool]] this is when done well. In ''Film/FaceOff'' he had the BigBad march onto the scene with arms outstretched and his head bowed providing a bit of OminousLatinChanting. |
| 84 | * ''[[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973 The Four Musketeers]]'' (1974) did it fifteen years earlier, with D'Artagnan dueling (and killing) Rochefort inside a church. |
| 85 | * In ''Film/Hellboy2019'', the final battle with Gruagach and Nimue takes place in St. Paul's Cathedral. |
| 86 | * Averted in ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'', as Immortals are forbidden to fight on holy ground. |
| 87 | * The final showdown in ''Film/{{Hitman}}'' takes place at a church. |
| 88 | * Film/JamesBond: The final confrontation in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' takes place in a mountaintop church. Bonus points for having ''literally'' bloodstained glass windows. Also the post-final final confrontation in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. |
| 89 | * The opening scene of ''{{Film/Keanu}}'' has the Allentown Brothers blast up a group of drug dealers at a church that has been converted into a drug lab, with the [[CuteKitten adorable title character]] in the middle of it. |
| 90 | * ''Film/KillBill'' had this, too, in the chapel where the Bride was supposed to be married. |
| 91 | * The final shootout in Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller1989'', with the title character and his CowboyCop ally [[TheSiege holding off a virtual army of assassins]], is probably the quintessential example. |
| 92 | * The fight in the church in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. A ''very'' incensed congregation obviously modeled on the [[ActivistFundamentalistAntics Westboro Baptist Church]] is used [[spoiler: as a testing ground for a DoomsdayDevice which triggers a HatePlague. [[OneManArmy One exceptionally highly-trained and disgustingly well-armed secret agent]] was pitted against hundreds of bigoted, angry rednecks. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXB6slJSbL4 They didn't stand a chance]]]]. |
| 93 | * The climactic fight at the end of ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' takes place in a gothic cathedral. And it even has a horseback duel. |
| 94 | * Happens in ''Film/TheLastTycoon'', also starring Chow Yun Fat. |
| 95 | * An attempt to {{invoke|dTrope}} this trope is {{subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad''. The {{Kid Hero}}es are GenreSavvy enough to ''try'' and stage the final showdown with the monsters inside the church as "monsters hate religious stuff." Unfortunately, the door's locked, so they have to do their fighting in the street outside. |
| 96 | * The final battle with the Demon Bear in ''Film/TheNewMutants'' takes place in the hospital's church. |
| 97 | * In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'', Alice's final showdown with Freddy takes place in an abandoned church. |
| 98 | * The first major shootout in the present day from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico'', which has Mariachi blasting up Marquez's men at a church, which starts with the bad guys ventilating the confessional he was in. |
| 99 | * ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'': Aslan's How is a sacred underground site built over the Stone Table (on which Aslan was killed). In all versions, it's the headquarters for the good guys as they plan the war. |
| 100 | * The final showdown in ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'' is set in a NFFA occupied church. |
| 101 | * Happened in ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' when Alice fights a licker. |
| 102 | * Creator/JackieChan's ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'' has guns ''and'' swords in a church. And Owen Wilson dressed up as a monk... |
| 103 | * ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023'': |
| 104 | ** Queen Anne and the Duke of Buckingham are LuredIntoATrap in an abbey and a fight erupts between Buckingham and the Cardinal's guards. D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos join in to rescue them. |
| 105 | ** [[spoiler:The climax with the Protestant rebels [[WeddingSmashers attacking the wedding]] of UsefulNotes/LouisXIII's brother inside a cathedral and the Musketeers defending the royals.]] |
| 106 | * In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Storm and Jean have a brief fight with Nightcrawler in a cathedral. |
| 107 | * The final battle between Venom and Carnage in ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' takes place in a church as a wedding between Casady and Francis is about to take place. |
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| 110 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 111 | * The climax of the ''Literature/BookOfTheShortSun'' occurs during the protagonist's son's wedding at the local mansion when [[OurVampiresAreDifferent inhumani]] attack and the local regime is overthrown. |
| 112 | * Aliette de Bodard's ''Literature/TheHouseOfShatteredWings'' has a showdown in Notre-Dame de Paris involving fallen angels, an alchemist, and [[spoiler: the vengeful ghost of a mortal apprentice betrayed by Morningstar/Lucifer himself]]. Then the BigBad [[spoiler:causes a giant supernatural banyan tree to envelop Notre-Dame and its surroundings, reducing it to even more of a ruin than it already was after the magical apocalypse, and then blows up its doors]]. |
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| 115 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 116 | * ''Series/{{Alias}}'' has at least one hand-to-hand fight in a church. |
| 117 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a season-four episode involving a group of vampires, at Adam's instigation, invading a church to demonstrate they'd overcome their fear. The group's leader comments that after avoiding the place for years it's not that impressive. |
| 118 | * ''Series/{{The Dakotas}}'' was cancelled after an episode where the plot is set up by deputies J. D. Smith and Del Stark chasing a pair of bank robbers into a church in the middle of a funeral service, where the four proceed to shoot it out. |
| 119 | * ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In the tenth episode of Season 3, Wilson Fisk dispatches Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter to kill Karen Page as revenge for her killing James Wesley. Dex tracks Karen down to Matt's church, where she's hiding. After Dex attacks several parishioners to lure Karen out into the main sanctuary, Matt shows up to fight him. As the fight progresses, [[spoiler:Father Lantom]] is killed shielding Karen from one of Dex's batons. Karen eventually lures Dex up to the second floor alcove, where Matt tries to fight him but is quickly overpowered. As Dex prepares to finish off his quarry, Karen swings a large cross at Dex that knocks him over the railing. The episode ends with Karen breaking down sobbing as she cradles the battered and unconscious Matt, [[MythologyGag in a shot that recreates the panel of Karen's death]] from the "Guardian Devil" arc in [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} the comics]]. |
| 120 | * ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Jason Morgan, Sonny Corinthos and Reese Marshall get into a big one of these against Faith Rosco and her men [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtRECU5j14w here]]. Jason even goes GunsAkimbo at one point during the shootout. |
| 121 | * ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' averts this. As mentioned in Film above, the only real rule the immortals follow is not fighting on holy ground. |
| 122 | * Episode 2 of ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'' has Kuuga's true power awakening as he fights a Grongi in a church. Bonus points because the church is {{B|attleAmongstTheFlames}}URNING. |
| 123 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' evokes the look of this tropes with its monster designs themselves, with the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Fangire]] actually being made of stained glass. |
| 124 | * Mr. Eko in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has a background of killing several thugs in a church when he takes on the role of priest. |
| 125 | * ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' has a couple of second-season episodes featuring fight scenes in a church. |
| 126 | ** The first one isn't much of a fight, but it does involve a booby-trapped baptismal font that electrocutes a Terminator. |
| 127 | ** The second one is an ambush of another Terminator with a crossfire (pun intended) in front of the altar, complete with [[CrucifiedHeroShot Crucified Villain Shot]]. |
| 128 | [[/folder]] |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 131 | * Happens occasionally in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', although usually the "Church" in question is either openly or secretly dedicated to someone like [[LawfulEvil Bane]], [[NeutralEvil Vecna]] or [[ChaoticEvil Erythnul]]. |
| 132 | * This visual image is a huge part of the aesthetic of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Indeed, it is almost impossible to find a piece of 40k artwork that doesn't have the ruins of gigantic, forbidding gothic architecture as the background to a ferocious gun battle. Several sets of model scenery are available to reproduce this look on a tabletop battlefield, including the Shrine of the Aquila, Chapel of Vengeance and Honoured Imperium set. Find an Imperial chapel in the 40k galaxy, wait there a few minutes, and you can pretty much guarantee that the fanatical Space Marines will be along to shoot each other to bits in it before you've finished counting the stained-glass windows. |
| 133 | [[/folder]] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 136 | * The climax of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' sees the BigBad blasting pews in a duel with Harry Potter. Interestingly, the Church the battle is in is right next to Potter's first home. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 140 | * In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' you perform your final mission by leaping from the rafters of the Art/SistineChapel to assassinate your target during High Mass, before having a sword duel and a fistfight. [[spoiler:A fistfight with the Pope!]] |
| 141 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'': The first scripted Predator Encounter is in a church, where you save the Arkham Medical Team from Harley Quinn's thugs. It serves as a tutorial on how to play out said encounters. After that however, the church effectively becomes the only safe spot in the city, with survivors making their way there for security. |
| 142 | * In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', one optional battle [[spoiler:with the real Black Mask]] takes place in a church. [[spoiler:And the final battle with the Joker in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown takes place in a prison chapel near the execution chamber in Blackgate Prison. Though neither place is stained with blood, there is, however, the fact that the Joker brandishes a literal [[GunsInChurch Gun in the Chapel]] and may not hesitate to bring in a {{Pretty Little Headshot|s}} to kill Batman if he doesn't counter (especially in [[HarderThanHard I Am the Night Mode]]). Joker will also try and slash at Batman with pieces of stained glass when knocked against a window.]] |
| 143 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': The Vicar Amerlia and Blood-Starved Beast boss battles take place in churches- Vicar Amelia in the Cathedral, Blood-Starved Beast in the Church of the Good Chalice in Old Yharnam. |
| 144 | * ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'': |
| 145 | ** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty2'' features a church in one level, but it's just one of several buildings you have to clear. |
| 146 | ** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'' also has several [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity Russian Orthodox]] churches scattered throughout SAS campaign, such as the one near Prypiat during the mission "All Ghillied Up". Also, in the mission "DeathFromAbove" you are explicitly forbidden to demolish the church; [[ShownTheirWork doing so would violate]] [[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague04.asp#art27 Section IV, Article 27]] of the Hague Conventions. |
| 147 | * ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight'''s first boss battle is in a ruined cathedral. |
| 148 | * In ''VideoGame/CrisTales'' the final battle against the Empress of Time takes place in the Cathedral of Crystallis, which, like every other Cathedral in the game, features a stained glass with a [[TheHecateSisters trio of female figures]] that represent the past, present, and future. Said decoration also {{foreshadow|ing}}s a major plot twist, as [[spoiler:the "present" figure is a dead ringer for the Empress, and the "future" figure is shattered, which gives an attentive player a major hint for the Empress' [[FallenHero true identity]] and [[BadFuture origin]]]]. |
| 149 | * In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', your final battle with Placide if you choose to side against the Voodoo Boys is right in the main chamber of the Pacifica Serenity Bible Church. |
| 150 | * ''VideoGame/DeadMansHand'' has a boss fight against Father Zeke, a SinisterMinister, being a massive shootout in the local church. |
| 151 | * In ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', the first BossFight in the Queen's Tower is in a church in the Prison of Hope. |
| 152 | ** ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' ups this a bit. The first Bell of Awakening is in a church where you first have to fight a bunch of undead in the building proper, then a pair of gargoyles on the roof. Then there's Anor Londo, city of the gods, a blend of this and StormingTheCastle. |
| 153 | ** ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' takes you to the Cathedral of the Deep, [[ReligionOfEvil a sinister church]] that began worshipping the man-turned-BlobMonster that ate the gods they once followed. The boss fight is against the "Deacons of the Deep", a team of [[SinisterMinister evil holy men]], in a large temple chamber. Later, you revisit Anor Londo (see above) and the surrounding area, the Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, with the boss fight being against Pontiff Sulyvahn, the "Pope" of said ReligionOfEvil, taking place in a sanctuary. |
| 154 | * The opening fight scene in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' has Nero fight Dante in a church, [[spoiler: right after Dante puts a bullet in Sanctus's head]]. It's a CrystalDragonJesus kind of church though, but come on, [[MundaneMadeAwesome what do you mean, it's not awesome?]] |
| 155 | * Early on in ''VideoGame/DiabloII'', you have to battle demons in the Rogues' Monastery Cathedral, which Andariel has turned into an outpost of Hell. |
| 156 | ** The first half of the first game revolves around working your way down through a cathedral's basements and catacombs. |
| 157 | * The final boss battle of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII: The Revenge'' for the NES and PC Engine. |
| 158 | * The Chantry in Kirkwall serves as the scene of a couple of fights near the end of Chapter 2 of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', as well as a fight in the "Tranquility" quest in Chapter 1. In [[spoiler: Chapter 3, the Chantry is blown to smithereens by a {{Magitek}} bomb, with SceneryGorn aplenty]]. |
| 159 | * In the ''Knights of the Nine'' expansion to ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', two cathedrals to the Nine Divines come under attack by the forces of [[BigBad Umaril the Unfeathered]]. All the inhabitants of the Anvil chapel are slaughtered, but the PlayerCharacter interrupts the second attack. |
| 160 | * The WWII-set ''VideoGame/EnemyFront'' have a shootout set in a church occupied by Germans where you're battling enemies on the ground level and on higher balconies. There's even crates of extra weapons between the pews. |
| 161 | * Several stages in the survival horror game ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'' take place in Oublie Cathedral, a NoCommunitiesWereHarmed version of the Cathedral of Notre Dame d'Amiens that serves as a front for the EldritchAbomination. |
| 162 | * In ''{{VideoGame/Fahrenheit}}'', when Lucas visits Markus' church he has to fight off the ''angel statues'' out to get him. Although it is revealed to have been AllJustADream, if he loses, the game is over. |
| 163 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' has a boss fight with Judge Bergan in a cathedral, not to mention that [[spoiler: he and his men have just rampaged through the entire holy mountain of Bur-Omisace, slaughtering clergy, pilgrims, and refugees before finally killing the Gran Kiltias Anastasis himself in the cathedral.]] |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'''s first expansion, ''Extraction Point'', features a church in the first level. In it, a cutscene shows Fettel [[BackFromTheDead didn't quite die for real]], and the previously dormant Replica soldiers re-activate, leading to the game's first major shootout. |
| 165 | * ''VideoGame/TheGodfather''. An important plot twist ends with you and an AI controlled character blasting through the basement of a church. |
| 166 | * ''The Opera'' mod for ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' was all about recreating HeroicBloodshed films in video game form. One level was a church as a shout out to ''Film/TheKiller1989''. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Lost Coast''. The bonus level that got released after [=HL2=] had you destroying a headcrab launcher in a church. |
| 168 | * ''VideoGame/HandsOfNecromancy'' has a stage set inside a church... in ''hell''. Said church is filled with demons and cultists on the pews, and you're required to clean up it's contents with your magic. |
| 169 | * The final stage of ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', "Requiem", which has [[spoiler: 47 killing everyone at his own funeral]]. Also, ''[[VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin Silent Assassin]]'''s final battle and overall last stage were in a church, as 47 attempted to save the priest who had helped him. |
| 170 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': Although the battle doesn't take place in a church, Sora and Roxas fight upon the Stage of Awakening, which is a platform decorated like stained glass. |
| 171 | * The church level in ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'' was among the most intense ones to complete. |
| 172 | * ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}} 2: Durandal''[='s=] Pfhor temple in ''Ex Cathedra''. |
| 173 | -->''Durandal:'' This area is used by the Pfhor as a temple in their pathetically boring religion. Maybe they think that sanctity will protect it. |
| 174 | ** The GameMod ''Tempus Irae'', a third-party total conversion of ''Marathon Infinity'', uses this a lot in Renaissance-era cathedrals (time travel is involved). The scenery was, for the time the mod was released, state-of-the-art. |
| 175 | * In one of the later levels ''Ministry of Smiths'' in ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' Smith has ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin taken over a church and Neo has to defeat the church full of Smiths to save Morpheus. |
| 176 | * In ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Underground'', during one mission you fight in the Monastery at Monte Cassino to rescue captured Allied Soldiers. |
| 177 | ** ''Allied Assault'' has this twice. In The Nebelwerfer Hunt there's a church with several machine gun nests in the windows you have to clear out, and Rendezvous with the Resistance has a church at the end with a secret passage to LaResistance's hideout. |
| 178 | * One of the boss fights in ''VideoGame/{{MediEvil}}'' has Sir Daniel fighting a monster made out of stained glass. |
| 179 | * ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' features a background known as the Kombat Temple (also known as the Church), which returned for its updates, ''Mortal Kombat Gold'', and ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9''. |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' has a ClimaxBoss encounter in which [[spoiler:Sunny and Kel fight Aubrey]] in church--during a sermon, no less. |
| 181 | * In ''VideoGame/RedFaction II'', one of the later chapters takes place in and around a church of sorts. The boss fight for the chapter is against [[spoiler:Quill]], whom, appropriately enough, fires at you from a balcony in front of the stained glass window. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome The fight ends with you shooting them]] ''[[DestinationDefenestration through said window.]]'' |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}: Fall of Man'' offended the Church of England by using Manchester Cathedral as scenery (there is a lot of gun crime in the area, so it's a sensitive issue). |
| 183 | * ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' has a firefight with Helga von Bulow's [[AmazonBrigade Elite Guards]] in a church during the second mission. |
| 184 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' opens with a scene where a detachment of German soldiers enters a church, and then a demon comes crashing through the stained glass and starts [[MookHorrorShow horribly slaughtering them]]. Said demon is actually our main character, Yuri, who gets the nickname "Demon of Domremy" for this incident. |
| 185 | * No matter which character you play, the penultimate fight in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries SoulCalibur II]]'''s Arcade Mode is in a cathedral. |
| 186 | * Rescuing Rena in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' involves going into an abandoned church. |
| 187 | * The final battle of ''VideoGame/{{Summoner}}'' takes place in the immense central chamber of the now abandoned Temple of Urath against your EnemyWithout ([[spoiler:you AND him are actually both facets of the same shattered god, Urath, of course]]). For added symbolism, he turns into an [[OneWingedAngel angel]], a simulcrum of you, and a devil [[SequentialBoss as the fight goes on]]. |
| 188 | ** After the battle, you have the option to descend to the secret basement of the temple and [[spoiler:sacrifice yourself and the eight other aspects of Urath in the forge he used for the creation of humanity order in to bring him back to life, which [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/summoner/screenshots/gameShotId,38702/ doesn't look familiar at all]]]]. |
| 189 | * The [[spoiler: seemingly]] last area of ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' involves Gabe descending from the top of an absolutely massive church to the ground floor, killing all the way. When he encounters a large glass window, he [[SuperWindowJump jumps through it]] and resumes killing. |
| 190 | * Towards the end of ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'', the player passes through the bloodstained and bullet-damaged chapel onboard the Rickenbacker, and [[spoiler: it is probably where Polito committed suicide.]] And it's all upside down, because the gravity generator has been reversed. |
| 191 | * ''[[{{VideoGame/Tekken}} Tekken 5]]'' has a cathedral stage, which is where most characters fight Devil Jin in the second-to-last battle in their story modes. |
| 192 | ** ''Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection'' has a "remixed" stage design for all the ''5'' stages; the cathedral one is in a much brighter setting, but with snow pouring in through a hole in the ceiling. |
| 193 | * ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'' has a level set in Notre Dame cathedral, complete with zombie priests. |
| 194 | * ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune'' has a church-gunfight level. |
| 195 | * ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': [[spoiler: The boss fight with Sans]]. |
| 196 | * The battle against the [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Elemental Demigod]] [[PlayingWithFire Ifrit]] in ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'' takes place in the Cathedral's chapel, with the Rood of St. Iocus looking on from the altar. |
| 197 | ** During the game's prologue, Ashley meets, confronts, and tries to arrest Sydney at the chapel in Duke Bardorba's manor. Then Sydney summons his wyvern, D'Tok, who [[SuperWindowJump crashes through the ornate stained glass ceiling]] to battle Ashley, while Sydney himself [[SuperWindowJump leaps out the stained glass window]] at the far end of the chapel. [[SoftGlass Neither is injured]] (although, arguably, D'Tok wouldn't have noticed, what with the spears and lances already stuck in his body.) |
| 198 | * Similarly, ''VideoGame/WorldInConflict'' has a level where a bonus objective is to make sure that the church at the top of a hill survives the mission. |
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| 202 | * In ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays'', the final confrontation between [[spoiler:Rose (with Leo) and Richard (with Cyrus)]] takes place in a church, where the latter was hiding. They try to talk at first, but it inevitably ends up in a gunfight [[spoiler:where Rose kills Cyrus, although Richard manages to escape]]. |
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| 206 | * Although not strictly speaking a church, Gavin, Tariq and Terrence's raid on the Hymn of One Headquarters in the ''WebVideo/KateModern'' episode "Resolution" is a semi example. |
| 207 | ** An actual, albeit animated, church fight scene occurs in the later episode "The Wedding Video". |
| 208 | * In each version of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', there is always a church of some kind on the island. They seem to be among the most popular areas for the handlers of the board, as many people commonly request for a "church fight out" to happen. |
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| 212 | * It happened surprisingly often in European history. The most notorious is probably the murder of UsefulNotes/ThomasBecket that inspired Elliot's ''Murder in the Cathedral'' (and, indirectly, ''The Canterbury Tales''.) Other prominent incidents were UsefulNotes/RobertTheBruce's murder of his rival John Comyn in a church, and the attempted assassination of Lorenzo de Medici during Mass in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}} - the latter being particularly shocking because the conspirators arguably included ''UsefulNotes/{{the Pope}}'' himself. |
| 213 | * The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is under a complex joint-jurisdiction scheme by six different denominations of Christianity and the rules state that any movement of the furniture requires agreement by all six of the churches -- and so a lot of disagreements would end up being resolved by fisticuffs. In 2002, A Coptic monk moved his chair to be closer to the shade, an act which angered the Ethiopian Monks. The resultant fistfight sent 11 people to the hospital. |
| 214 | * [[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-church-shooting.html?_r=0 The Charleston church shooting]] in North Carolina, in which nine people were killed in a prayer meeting before the suspect Dylann Storm Roof was arrested. |
| 215 | * During the Normandy invasion of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII many churches became the sites of battles (or aid stations), bullet holes and blood stains can still be seen today. Church steeples were also regularly destroyed by artillery throughout the war, as they provided excellent vantage points for enemy spotters and snipers. |
| 216 | * On December 29, 2019 in a church in Texas, a shooter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWibXye6YE was stopped]] by a 71-year-old armed parishioner named Jack Wilson. Wilson killed the shooter within only 6 seconds with only two shots. From 50 feet away. |
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