| 1 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HistoricalHeroUpgrade_4749.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:300:No, not ''[[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Him]]'' -- [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfStuart Charles I]] of England. But of course the two are easily confused...]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | This trope refers to a character whose hairstyle and facial hair make him resemble conventional depictions of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} of Nazareth: ''i.e.'', a male with long hair worn loose and a simple full beard. His hair can be straight, wavy, or curly, but braids, dreadlocks and such are right out. It might overlap with WildHair but can be neater. There's some latitude in the length of the beard, but anything that covers the collarbone is probably too long to qualify, and braids or other affectations are right out. Bonus points if he winds up in sandals and/or a robe at any point. |
| 5 | See also WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Compare HippieJesus, if he not only looks the part, but also acts like it. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | ---- |
| 10 | !!Examples: |
| 11 | |
| 12 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 13 | |
| 14 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 15 | * Toki in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is a martial arts practitioner with a near-messianic demeanor and HealingHands, who looks [[https://hokuto.fandom.com/wiki/Toki near-identical]] to Jesus barring his [[DiseaseBleach white hair]]. [[{{Mukokuseki}} Which is strange, since according to his character bios he's apparently ethnically Chinese]]. This may or may not be a nod to the Chinese historical figure Hong Xiuquan, leader of the infamously bloody Taiping Rebellion, who claimed to be Jesus Christ's younger brother. |
| 16 | * Inverted in ''Manga/SaintYoungMen'': Jesus is often noted in-universe as greatly resembling Creator/JohnnyDepp. |
| 17 | * Ulysses in ''Anime/Ulysses31''. Justified in that in this particular version, Ulysses is a Messianic figure -- not just a parallel to the original protagonist of ''Literature/TheOdyssey''. |
| 18 | * Rare female example in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. Ibara Shiozaki is a UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian girl whose superpower is having thorny vines as hair, evoking the image of Jesus' crown of thorns. In addition, her hero costume is just a plain white robe. |
| 19 | [[/folder]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 22 | * Paul Monroe in ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' looks so much like Jesus that this is his actual nickname. People refer to him by the name Jesus more often then his real name. He also resembles Jesus in other aspects. Despite being a highly skilled warrior, he generally tends to avoid violence against other humans except when absolutely necessary. He also routinely ends up on good terms with people after their initial confrontation starts with violence. |
| 23 | * Wallace from ''ComicBook/SinCity'' has the whole look, combined with a very calm, polite, stoic demeanor. He would be a HippieJesus if he wasn't a OneManArmy. |
| 24 | * ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'': "Stormwatch Team Achilles", during the brief period where they were working for the Illuminati, were tasked to kill this one guy who got godlike -- nay, Godlike -- powers from being a descendant of Jesus. The man they find looks like this. Then, the actual descendant, who was nearby and is dressed more modernly, shows up and kicks their asses, while mocking them for falling for the oldest IconicOutfit in the book. |
| 25 | * The Creator/MarvelComics character Wundarr the Aquarian was created by Creator/SteveGerber as a parody of Franchise/{{Superman}} -- a character who already had Messianic overtones -- but in appearance resembles Jesus in a costume that might be called "Spandex [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]]." |
| 26 | * Due to ComicBookFantasyCasting ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' were drawn to look like various celebrities. WordOfGod says they couldn't decide who [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] should look like, so they drew him to be like Jesus. |
| 27 | [[/folder]] |
| 28 | |
| 29 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | * Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm : Subverted, and Jesus - a [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller short]] [[NiceJewishBoy Jewish]] carpenter with [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething work-roughened]] hands, Middle Eastern looks, short curly hair and a short beard - [[DeadpanSnarker drily]] lampshades it: |
| 32 | -->[T]he works of the Italian masters [...] while superb pieces of art, seem to be of the firm belief that I was about six feet tall [and had] enviably manageable hair. Not so much. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 37 | * The Dude from ''Film/TheBigLebowski''. Also wears a robe and sandals in his intro scene. Then of course there's [[OneSceneWonder The Jesus]] himself, though to a lesser extent since he doesn't sport long hair (he probably looks more similar to the real life Jesus though). |
| 38 | * Likewise, Kevin Flynn in ''Film/TronLegacy'', played by the same actor. |
| 39 | * A policeman calls hirsute Alan "fat Jesus" in ''Film/TheHangover''. Likely an ActorAllusion; see the Zach Galifianakis entry in the RealLife section. |
| 40 | * ''Film/{{Saved}}'': After Mary hits her head in the pool, she is rescued by the pool cleaner, who looks like this. Due to her head injury she thinks he actually is Jesus. |
| 41 | * Niander Wallace in ''Film/BladeRunner2049'', although contrary to most examples, he's the BigBad and a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive a merciless corporate tyrant]] -- albeit one with a seriously holy [[AGodAmI self-image]] and aspirations of [[DarkMessiah leading humanity.]] |
| 42 | * ''Film/ForrestGump'', when he runs across America. |
| 43 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 44 | ** Qui-Gonn Jinn from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. |
| 45 | ** Also Obi-Wan in the later prequels, especially in Episode II. No, it's not a mullet. It has been riffed on extensively ever since, and he's been nicknamed "space Jesus" by the fandom. Reportedly, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/8lk6m5/if_this_sub_was_brave_enough_for_religion/ one little kid even mistook a picture of Jesus for Obi-Wan]]. |
| 46 | * The Thief in ''Film/TheHolyMountain''. So much so that he's knocked out and used as a plaster cast for making crucifixes. |
| 47 | * ''Film/TheViewAskewniverse'': Silent Bob, given his tendency to be the voice of reason whenever he ''does'' actually say something (except in ''Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back''), and his overall attitude. Albeit a slightly barrel-shaped Jesus. |
| 48 | * ''Film/JesusChristVampireHunter'' inverts this at a certain point. Jesus Christ looks like his usual depictions at first, but after a shave, a haircut, some earrings, and a change of clothes, he looks like a regular guy. |
| 49 | * Aragorn in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy. Bonus points for being a saviour for Gondor along with HealingHands. |
| 50 | * In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', the younger Charles Xavier not only sports longer hair and a BeardOfSorrow, but he ultimately becomes an AllLovingHero at the movie's climax. |
| 51 | * ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex''. During the riot at the Springer newspaper offices, Ulrike Meinhof witnesses a shirtless hippy type who fits this trope, [[CrucifiedHeroShot with his arms outstretched]] decrying the lousy state of the world. |
| 52 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:'' |
| 53 | ** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'': In the second stinger, [[spoiler:Bucky Barnes]] looks like this with his long hair, beard, and the red and blue Wakandan robes he wears. |
| 54 | ** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Thor on the Asgardian frescoes is depicted with long hair, a beard and a HolyHalo. |
| 55 | * [[spoiler:Steve Davis]] from ''Film/PsychOut'' has long, tangled brown hair, a short beard, and a wild expression, and wears white robes. The church father who comments on the hippies' idealism compares them to the early Christians. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 59 | * Puggy in ''Literature/BigTrouble''. At one point he's even mistaken for Jesus by a disoriented maid. |
| 60 | * In ''Literature/{{Perelandra}}'', when the King of Venus (essentially, the Adam of the nascent HumanAlien civilization of Venus) is finally revealed, Ransom immediately recognizes his features. Although it is not stated in plain text, the Queen/Eve of Venus reveals that ever since [[{{God}} Maleldil]] materialized Himself as a human on Earth, the human form became the default for all new sentient species, ergo it is only logical that the default human ''male'' form always LooksLikeJesus, too. |
| 61 | ** Subverted in the sequel ''That Hideous Strength''. Either the narration [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane or]] (via telepathically talking to the [=POV=]-character) God Himself gets the snark on at the classical depictions; in either case strongly implying that He does[=/=]did ''not'' look like them in His human form in-universe: |
| 62 | --> horrible lithographs of the Saviour (apparently seven feet high, with the face of a consumptive girl) |
| 63 | * Cadderly from ''Literature/TheClericQuintet'' is a white, brown-haired priest. In "Night Masks", he grows a beard, making him resemble traditional depictions of Jesus. |
| 64 | * In the novel of ''M*A*S*H'', Trapper is described as looking like this early on, to the point that the gang raises money to send Ho-Jon to the States by taking pictures of Trapper and selling them as "autographed pictures of Jesus". |
| 65 | * [[RealityWarper Patrick Danville]] in ''Literature/{{The Dark Tower|2004}}'' looks like a slightly younger version of Jesus; one of the pictures in the hardcover edition of the book even has him drawn in the same pose as the famous "Sacred Heart of Jesus" portrait. |
| 66 | * Merrin in ''Literature/BlackMan'', which is milked for all it's worth as one of his followers-slash-protectors genuinely believes him to be the Second Coming of Christ. |
| 67 | * ''Cops: Their Lives in Their Own Words'' has a prisoner who'd badly injured a police officer being handcuffed to a detention cage in the [[CrucifiedHeroShot requisite position]] with a paper crown-of-thorns on his head. |
| 68 | -->The guy had a beard. I genuflected when I walked in. Christ on a Cage. |
| 69 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': As if to drive his messianic characterization home, [[TheFundamentalist Baelor I Targaryen]] is depicted as having [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/c/ce/BAELOR_I.jpg the stereotypical features of Jesus, except with silvery blond hair]] (a Targaryen family trait). Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, when asked to describe his appearance, merely said, "Think Jesus". |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 73 | * Just like his comic book counterpart, Paul in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' so closely resembles Jesus in looks and deeds that this is his nickname. The only difference between from comic book version is that he has the last name "Rovia" instead of Monroe. |
| 74 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EliXena.JPG Eli]] on ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''. |
| 75 | * Manny in ''Series/BlackBooks'' has the beard and long hair already, and the first episode has him wandering about in a hospital gown, a beatific expression on his face from having digested (literally) ''The Little Book of Calm'', and being mistaken for Jesus by a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses. |
| 76 | * Jordan Collier of ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'' after his resurrection. WordOfGod says [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic it's not symbolic.]] |
| 77 | * Happened a few times on ''Series/TopGear'' where one of the presenters (mainly [[LargeHam Jeremy Clarkson]]) would confuse someone with long hair and a beard for the son of God in a short-lived gag. |
| 78 | * In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', Gaius Baltar [[http://cloud.niamu.com/images/125/bsg3-11.jpg looks like Jesus]] when he wanders around the Cylon Basestar in a plain white robe, with long hair and a beard. Bonus points for being played by the actor [[SignificantMonogram James Callis]] and eventually preaching about the Cylons' monotheistic religion to the human survivors. |
| 79 | * In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the [[Creator/MattSmith Eleventh Doctor]] with a beard and robe looks like Jesus. |
| 80 | * In ''Series/{{Spartacus|BloodAndSand}}'', the title character finishes the first episode dressed in a loincloth with long hair, a bloody brow, and a wound in his side. Given that he's a famed savior who is popularly (if probably incorrectly) believed to have died on the cross, the symbolism was almost certainly intentional. |
| 81 | ** The latter cast addition Gannicus also invokes this look, which is further reinforced in the GrandFinale when [[spoiler:he dies via crucifixion]]. |
| 82 | * [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjNhZTkxYTEtZTliOC00OTYzLWEwYWQtZmZmNThiMzkxMWFhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_.jpg Desmond]] from ''Series/{{Lost}}''. He does shave the beard off later, though. Making it even more HilariousInHindsight is that his actor Creator/HenryIanCusick actually ''did'' play UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} in ''The Gospel of John''. |
| 83 | * Subverted in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch. A cop tries to get the Two A-Holes to describe a criminal they saw. The female a-hole says that he looked like Jesus. The cop replies "so, you're saying he had long hair and a beard?", to which the female a-hole shakes her head: |
| 84 | -->'''Cop:''' So, then why did he look like Jesus?\ |
| 85 | '''Female A-Hole:''' He was wearing sandals.\ |
| 86 | '''Male A-Hole:''' Like Jesus.\ |
| 87 | '''Female A-Hole:''' They were ugly. |
| 88 | * Theatre/RichardII in ''Series/TheHollowCrown''. Seems to be a calculated appearance on his part, invoking GoldAndWhiteAreDivine in his typical dress. When he's summoned to cede his kingship to Henry, Richard travels on a donkey in a long white robe, like Jesus on Palm Sunday. (And in his last days and death, he wears a white loincloth like Jesus on the cross.) |
| 89 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 90 | ** In Season 5, the [[MasterOfDisguise Faceless Man]] assassin, Jaqen H'ghar shows up in [[CityOfCanals Braavos]], and has ditched his earlier LovableRogue persona for that of the HighPriest of a friendly death cult. While Jaqen previously wore rags and (later) armor, he now wears a monastic robe, which [[http://media.melty.com/article-1600-ajust_930-f91495075/jaqen-h-ghar-at-the-house-of-black-and-white.jpg gives the Jesus effect]]. |
| 91 | ** The Stark men have a tendency to have their dark hair long and an affinity in sporting a beard. This progressively applies especially to Jon Snow, as his ManlyFacialHair becomes fuller as seasons go by. Both their deaths even involves a cross, though Jon wasn't crucified. His resurrection sequence is modeled on Renaissance paintings of Jesus. |
| 92 | ** Jory Cassel sports dark long hair and a rough beard. |
| 93 | ** This happens to Daario Naharis once Michiel Huisman takes over the role starting Season 4. |
| 94 | * ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': |
| 95 | ** Halbrand has unkept, shaggy shoulder-length hair and sports a PermaStubble. He physically resembles Aragorn from the movie trilogy. [[spoiler:He is also the human form of Sauron, making him an EvilCounterpart to Aragorn]]. |
| 96 | ** Elendil himself looks like the typical Catholic interpretation of Jesus, being a man with shoulder-length dirty blond hair and the kindest deep blue eyes, with a bit of a beard. |
| 97 | * ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' has a tendency to cast long-haired guys who, over a course of 39 days, turn into this. Namely Ozzy, Malcolm, Joe Anglim, and Coach. |
| 98 | * One episode of ''Series/BarneyMiller'' has the owner of an Indian restaurant stroll into the squadroom, but his hair, beard, and flowing white robes make him look more like ''this'' than "Bodhisattva." A bookie present whispers "I'll give you seventy-five to one it ain't!" to Fish. The elderly Fish, meanwhile, is a little worried when the man says he was "sent" to the squadroom. |
| 99 | -->'''Fish:''' For any''one'' in particular...? |
| 100 | * ''Series/SleepyHollow'': [[http://www.theplace.ru/archive/tom_mison/img/sleepy_hollow_tom_mison2.jpg Tom Mison]] as Ichabod Crane. |
| 101 | * Jonas Maliki of ''Series/Sense8'', played by Creator/NaveenAndrews, has long, wild hair and a short beard, and spends most of the series imprisoned by BPO. |
| 102 | * When [[spoiler: Ezra Bridger]] is introduced in [[Recap/AhsokaS1E6Chapter6FarFarAway Episode 6]] of ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', he's gotten a beard, longer hair, and wears a layered set of robes. Because he's 28 and played by an actor of Middle Eastern descent, he likely resembles the historical Jesus more than the older, whiter Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, earning him the FanNickname "Biblically Accurate Space Jesus". Because he lives with a group of pacifist aliens and his response to being found is essentially, "'Sup? Long time no see!" he also comes across as HippieJesus. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 106 | * Music/JohnLennon, from the Beatles. While he was clean shaven and sported medium-length hair early on with the Beatles, starting from around 1968, he grew out his hair and beard commencing in a wild messianic mane as seen on the cover for Abbey Road (bonus points for the white suit). Also, during his and Yoko's bed-ins for peace. |
| 107 | * Music/GeorgeHarrison, fellow Beatle, grew out his hair and beard at the same time as Lennon. Around 1969 and especially in 1970, his hair was the longest a beatle had ever worn. Especially so on the cover for his solo album All Things Must Pass. |
| 108 | * Music/{{Gorillaz}} had a (fictional) stalker by the name of "Wee Jimmy Manson," who was described in ''Rise of the Ogre'' as a "Jesus-bearded fella." Averted in that he overall looked more like Charles Manson...and acted the part. |
| 109 | * Frontman Jerry Garcia and keyboarder Brent Mydland of rock band [[Music/TheGratefulDead The Grateful Dead]] both sported a long unkempt mane combined with a thick beard. |
| 110 | * Music/JimMorrison, singer of 60s rock band The Doors. He started out clean shaven, but grew his beard later in life. Applies especially on [[https://www.poeticous.com/system/poets/photos/000/026/357/large/jm-flower-crown.jpg?1481219945 this photo]]. |
| 111 | * [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]], and all his bandmates from Led Zeppelin to some extent. Take a look [[http://www.zvuki.ru/images/photo/6/6738.jpg here]] and [[https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/from-left-to-right-john-bonham-robert-plant-and-jimmy-page-news-photo/87218796?#from-left-to-right-john-bonham-robert-plant-and-jimmy-page-of-english-picture-id87218796 here]]. |
| 112 | * Music/CatStevens during his 70s heyday. |
| 113 | * Music/TheyMightBeGiants, "Kiss Me, Son of God" |
| 114 | -->I look like Jesus, so they say\ |
| 115 | But Mr. Jesus is very far away |
| 116 | * Averted in "When You Were Young" by Music/TheKillers, wherein it is pointed out that the subject of the song "doesn't look a thing like Jesus". |
| 117 | * Lil B, if his song "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Look Like Jesus]]" is to be believed. |
| 118 | * Referenced in the Bran Van 3000 song "Mama Don't Smoke": |
| 119 | -->Chris said somethin' 'bout all them\ |
| 120 | Long-haired Jesus Christ lookalikes\ |
| 121 | Shining down on me |
| 122 | * [[https://mediadl.musictribe.com/media/PLM/data/images/artist/john-petrucci.png John Petrucci]] from Music/DreamTheater. |
| 123 | * [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTIxOTMwMDc0Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMTYzNDI1._V1_.jpg Chad Kroeger]] from Music/{{Nickelback}} during much of their earlier career up until ''Dark Horse''. |
| 124 | * Dave Gahan from Music/DepecheMode during the ''Music/SongsOfFaithAndDevotion'' era in 1993-94. He did not look like that neither during the precedent Violator era in 1990 nor during the subsequent Ultra era in 1997. Lampshaded in the "Condemnation" video where he plays a thinly-veiled version of Jesus. |
| 125 | * MTV Brazil had a football tournament between musicians. Brothers [[https://www.tenhomaisdiscosqueamigos.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/jesus-jr-rockgol.jpg Luis and Hugo Mariutti]] (best known as part of Music/{{Angra}}) had TheNicknamer announcers name them "Jesus" and "Jesus Jr." for bearing this look. |
| 126 | * Marco Antonio Solis, composer and lead singer of Mexican band, Los Bukis, always sports long hair and beard bearing a Jesus look [[https://images.ctfassets.net/86mn0qn5b7d0/featured-img-of-post-139470/3ed5fbc64910f833556c37b4d0c1d449/featured-img-of-post-139470.jpg?fm=jpg&fl=progressive&q=50&w=1200 bearing a Jesus look]], that holds even in these days. |
| 127 | [[/folder]] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 130 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_golden_throne-imperial_webway_415.jpg This version]] of the GodEmperor of Mankind. Amusingly, he may have been Jesus in one of his incarnations... [[EmperorScientist clearly his views]] [[FlatEarthAtheist have shifted since then]]. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 134 | * The title song of ''Theatre/{{Hair}}''. |
| 135 | -->''My hair like Jesus wore it\ |
| 136 | Hallelujah I adore it\ |
| 137 | Hallelujah Mary loved her son\ |
| 138 | Why don't my mother love me?'' |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 142 | * ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Legends}}'': In a similar vein, one of the more popular model choices for male characters in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II'' is sometimes known in the fandom as "Jedi Jesus". |
| 143 | * There's an obvious symbolism with Jacob in ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTombRaider''. Besides simply [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/laracroft/images/d/d7/Jacob_in_Cave.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20161127002025 looking like Jesus]], he's also [[spoiler:the Deathless Prophet of Constantinople who used the Divine Source to inspire a religious movement]]. |
| 144 | * Pees'lubn Andistan'dhin from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' looks like a NewAgeRetroHippie Jesus. [[spoiler:He's also a {{metalhead}} and a murderer]]. |
| 145 | * In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', Takaya is a tall, emaciated man with long straight hair, a scruffy beard, intense eyes, and a headband that brings to mind the Crown of Thorns, resembling the Jesus depicted on typical crucifixes. (He also has a great deal of vaguely religious-seeming tattoos.) However, he's a StrawNihilist explicitly against saving people. [[spoiler:This makes him the {{foil}} to the protagonist, who not only has "Messiah" as his ultimate Persona ability but performs a HeroicSacrifice to save the world despite its sins.]] |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 149 | * ''Webcomic/{{Irrelevator}}'' has the green stick figure who [[http://i.imgur.com/wA81VWz.gif looks]] a [[http://i.imgur.com/Xh7e0cc.gif lot]] like [[http://i.imgur.com/Git4AZX.gif Jesus.]] |
| 150 | * ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' has Homeless Emperor, a member of the Monster Associations who claims to be on a MissionFromGod to eradicate humanity because HumansAreBastards. Incidentally, he has shaggy long hair and full beard, which is fitting for his status as a DarkMessiah. |
| 151 | * ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' had a character named Jesus Mickey, whose whole shtick was that he made himself look like Jesus (even with nails embedded in his wrists!) in order to attract chicks. Like many gag characters from the early years, he was eventually KilledOffForReal. |
| 152 | -->'''[[http://somethingpositive.net/onlyinflashbacks.shtml Cast page]]:''' And he didn't come back on the third day, proving he was a considerably lacking Jesus imitator. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 156 | * Jebus from WebAnimation/MadnessCombat looks much like the saviour, down to having a golden halo. In the earlier episodes, this is because he was a straight parody of Jesus, but later episodes would give him a bit more of an individual character, greatly expanded on in the series' official video game Project Nexus, rebranding him as a scientist named Dr. Jebediah Christoff working for the Nexus Core who betrayed and killed the project's director. With all of these developments, his roots as a parody of Jesus remain deep seated. |
| 157 | * Website/NotAlwaysWorking: [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-is-the-way-to-getting-signed-out/65967/ This]] story. The manager who fits the trope winds up getting nicknamed "Jesus". |
| 158 | * Paul from WebVideo/TheTRYChannel looks like if Warner Sallman's famous painting of Jesus were Irish. Thus the inevitable nickname, "Irish Jesus." |
| 159 | * Scion of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' looks like Jesus, aside from the fact that his skin and hair are gold rather than Caucasian and brown. [[spoiler:He deliberately chose this appearance to play on human religious tendencies and went with gold to avoid difficulties with racial divides]]. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 163 | * The ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Gee Whiz" focuses part of its plot on news reports of people seeing a face bearing Jesus' likeness in the butt of a rifle on a highway billboard advertisement for a pawn shop, only the face turns out to be Ted Nugent's. |
| 164 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 165 | ** From episode "She of Little Faith": |
| 166 | --->'''Jimbo:''' Hey, Simpson, I hear your sister dumped Christianity.\ |
| 167 | '''Bart:''' Who cares?\ |
| 168 | '''Dolph:''' I'll tell you someone who cares. He's got long hair, works as a carpenter, has a lot of crazy ideas about love and brotherhood.\ |
| 169 | '''Jimbo:''' His name's Gunnar and he's dating my mom. Sometimes he buys us beer. |
| 170 | ** And from "Homer the Heretic": |
| 171 | --->'''Homer:''' Kids, let me tell you about another so-called "wicked" guy. He had long hair and some wild ideas. He didn't always do what other people thought was right. And that man's name was... I forget. But the point is... I forget that, too. Marge, you know what I'm talking about. He used to drive that blue car? |
| 172 | ** And "Looking For Mr. Goodbart": |
| 173 | --->'''Flanders:''' ''[compares a [[SerialNumbersFiledOff Peekimon]] to Vishnu statue]'' I'll be darned if this little critter doesn't look like your god.\ |
| 174 | '''Apu:''' ''[points at homeless man with long hair and beard]'' And I'll be darned if this sad wino doesn't look like ''your'' god!\ |
| 175 | '''Wino:''' Do unto Snickers as you would have Snickers do unto you. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 179 | * Ironically, Jesus himself most likely would [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] the trope. Not only do we not know definitively what he looked like, he most likely look far more mediteranean than most art would have you believe; furthermore long hair was not common for men at his time. He probably ''did'' have a beard, but both historical texts and artwork from the era confirm that men in that time and place wore their hair and beards cut ''short'' to protect against lice. The Bible does not give any details about Jesus' appearance, but the fact that the people sent to arrest him needed Judas to point him out suggests that Jesus was completely average-looking. Meaning he certainly did not have long hair, which would be extremely atypical of the era. |
| 180 | ** The Old Testament prophesies also hint at this on the few occasions they comment on the Messiah's appearance. Isaiah 53, for example, describes him as having "no beauty of majesty to attract us to him; nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." |
| 181 | ** The only thing close to an eyewitness description of Jesus anyone has been able to find thus far is attributed to the Jewish historian Josephus, who described Jesus as not only short-haired but also four feet tall, with terrible posture, and a ''mono-brow''. Whether Josephus is a reliable source is up for debate, as he was entangled in the controversies of his own time, a few decades after Jesus. But the idea of Jesus as ancient Jerusalem's Creator/DannyDeVito ''is'' admittedly very amusing. |
| 182 | * UsefulNotes/CharlesI of England, whose similarity in appearance to conventional depictions of Jesus was exaggerated by Monarchist partisans in 17th century art, as in the page image. |
| 183 | ** Three centuries later this would happen with UsefulNotes/CheGuevara. A C.I.A. agent who was present when he was killed even had an OhCrap moment when he saw the corpse and the resemblance, and realized how that would be exploited to make Che a Jesus-like icon by his admirers. |
| 184 | * On the Parliamentarian side of the English Civil War, there was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nayler James Nayler]], a radical Quaker preacher who in 1656 decided to re-enact Christ's entry into Jerusalem by riding a horse into Bristol with a group of followers. While the Interregnum was known as a time of political and religious experimentation, neither Nayler's mentor George Fox nor Cromwell's Parliament were impressed by the display; he was [[MarkOfShame branded a blasphemer]] and sentenced to hard labor. |
| 185 | * Cesare Borgia (1475 - 1507) was a very beautiful man, probably [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the most beautiful son of a Pope]] that ever lived. Some 19th-century authors noticed the resemblance and suggested that [[UsefulNotes/PopeAlexanderVI his father]] ''ordered'' artists to base their Messiahs on him. In actuality, the standard depiction of Jesus goes back much further than that (Byzantine mosaics from over 500 years earlier, for example). Cesare did hold a ridiculous number of church offices, but like the other {{Nepotism}} cardinals, of whom there were many ([[OneSteveLimit two Juan Borgias]] were elevated at the same time as Cesare), he made no claim to holiness (and at the age of 23, he resigned, and he is still, to this day, the only cardinal to ever do so). |
| 186 | * As noted above, Creator/EwanMcGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi drew a ''lot'' of Jesus comparisons, both because of the hair and the beard, and because of the kind of character he played, right down to wearing brownish robes. There's even been a number of anecdotal incidents where pictures from Star Wars Episode II have been mistaken for pictures of Jesus and used at shrines. |
| 187 | * Johnny Damon, baseball player, back in his Boston Red Sox days. |
| 188 | ** After he [[TurnCoat defected to the Yankees]], you could buy T-shirts in Boston with his picture that said, "Looks like Jesus. Acts like Judas. Throws like Mary." |
| 189 | * Also Creator/LeonardoDaVinci. Some scientists even believe that the shroud of Turin was in fact painted by him and that he used his own face as the model. If that were true, this would be the most epic {{easter egg}} in history. |
| 190 | * Creator/AlanMoore, although his wild-eyed MadArtist shtick and the really long beard sort of push it into Looks Like Rasputin territory, which might deserve its own trope. For that matter, UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk himself. |
| 191 | * [[http://runninginheels.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/albrecht-durer-self-portrait-at-28-15002.jpg This self-portrait]] by Albrecht Dürer, about which Website/TheOtherWiki says: |
| 192 | -->Dürer presents himself monumentally in a style that unmistakably recalls depictions of Christ -- the implications of which have been debated among art critics. A conservative interpretation suggests that Durer is responding to the tradition of the Imitation of Christ. The more controversial view reads the painting as a proclamation of the artist's individual identity and his role as creator. |
| 193 | * TabletopGame/{{Poker}} player [[http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=82 Chris Ferguson]]. |
| 194 | * Creator/ChristianBale, although only when he has his beard/moustache. |
| 195 | ** This could be said for any actor who has played Jesus. Jim Caviezel for example. |
| 196 | * When young, the English actor Robert Powell. Hence why he was handpicked to play Jesus by the Catholic Church itself, in the Church-sponsored miniseries [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_of_Nazareth_%28miniseries%29 Jesus of Nazareth]]: they wanted a handsome guy who could act well ''and'' fit in the archetype, thus [[TropeCodifier codifying a new Jesus-like archetype]], and there he was. |
| 197 | * This definitely applied to [[http://i.imgur.com/6MvwM.jpg Robin Thicke]] around the time his first album was released. |
| 198 | * Nash, host of Radio Dead Air and WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou? Bonus points for getting so drunk once that he stood on a bench and "proclaimed [him]self the Lord Jesus Christ." |
| 199 | * Creator/JimHenson. |
| 200 | * UsefulNotes/CharlesManson at times. [[https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/140807135340-01-manson-murderds---restricted-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg For example]]. |
| 201 | * Creator/ZachGalifianakis lampshaded this in a visual stand-up routine where he showed funny text on an easel while an a capella group sang (ItMakesSenseInContext). Two of the pages were "I look like fat Jesus." "Not phat Jesus." |
| 202 | * Music/BillBailey, a fact not lost on him -- see the Series/BlackBooks example above. |
| 203 | * Creator/RussellBrand, whenever he grows out his stubble a bit. |
| 204 | * [[http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02938/pirlo_2938884b.jpg Andrea]] [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Pirlo]], when he has a beard. |
| 205 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9zj11gf9Qk Mike Rutherford]] of Music/{{Genesis|Band}}. His puppet in Music/LandOfConfusion was even reused as that of Jesus in Series/SpittingImage. |
| 206 | * Creator/RikMayall, of all unlikely messiahs commented on his looking like Jesus in the commentary for the DVD collection of ''Series/TheYoungOnes''. |
| 207 | * One famous photograph taken by a war correspondent in Central American in TheEighties had guerilla soldiers carrying a wounded man who fit this trope, right down to the spread arms (because he was being held by the arms), the naked chest and the beard. |
| 208 | * Brazilian revolutionary leader Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, also known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiradentes Tiradentes]], was often depicted with long hair and a beard in paintings, which the real Tiradentes never wore. It was done intentionally to cement his reputation as a martyr for the republican cause after the Portuguese crown sentenced him to death by hanging. |
| 209 | * Music/GeorgeHarrison with the long beard and long hair. |
| 210 | * Ian [=McCollum=] of ''WebVideo/ForgottenWeapons'' fame normally wears his hair long in a ponytail to keep hair out of the guns he examines, but often lets it down in the field. Combined with his rough yet dignified Imperial/Van Dyke facial hair and a generally pleasant and inoffensively educational demeanor, Ian was quickly christened Gun Jesus by fans. This got to the point that even [[https://twitter.com/hecklerandkoch/status/1128722987694211072 gun manufacturer Heckler and Koch got in on the joke]]. This isn't a new development at all; one of ''Forgotten Weapons''' most popular videos is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI3x30iamHc Ian on the gun range at Halloween, dressed in the stereotypical garb of the Lord]].[[labelnote:Extra joke]]Ian is also firing the Chiappa "Holy Trinity" triple-barreled shotgun just to stick to the theme.[[/labelnote]] |
| 211 | --> '''Ian:''' I am the way and the light. [[MuzzleFlashlight Except occasionally the light is muzzle flash]]. |
| 212 | * WebVideo/{{Critikal}}, of all people, has stereotypical Jesus look (the long hair and the beard) during the early half of 2020, especially while the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing (with non-essential businesses, including barber shops, have been closed down as a result). This, combined with his signature DeadpanSnarker monotone, gives the guy an AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance. He has had his hair cut around the latter half of May 2020, however. |
| 213 | * Creator/JaredLeto favors this look when he's not in character. |
| 214 | * Creator/KeanuReeves has adopted this look in recent times, as seen in [[https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/20b1ed84a85590f6ef2ef8ec4e083ededcbcb75a/445_367_3662_4578/master/3662.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=8a2103531232140b03bf2e873d625406 this photo]]. |
| 215 | * Steve Burke of the [=YouTube=] tech review channel ''[=GamersNexus=]'' has had his appearance compared to Jesus Christ. |
| 216 | * Polish automotive youtuber Motobieda. He occasionally lampshades it. |
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