History Main / LooksLikeJesus

** 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.

* ''LetsPlay/{{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.

* 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 ShadowArchetype of the protagonist, who not only has "Messiah" as his ultimate Persona ability but performs a HeroicSacrifice to save the world despite its sins.]]

* 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 branded a blasphemer and sentenced to hard labor.

* The Thief in ''Film/TheHolyMountain'' deliberately Looks Like Jesus.

* When [[spoiler: Ezra Bridger]] is introduced in [[Recap/AhsokaS1E6Chapter6FarFarAway Episode 6]] of ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', he's got a beard, longer hair, and wears a layered set of robes. Because he's 28 and played by a Middle Eastern actor, 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.

* When [[spoiler: Ezra Bridger]] is introduced in S1E6 of ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', he's got a beard, longer hair, and wears a layered set of robes. Because he's 28 and played by a Middle Eastern actor, 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.

* 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.]]

* 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 saviour who is popularly (if probably incorrectly) believed to have died on the cross, the symbolism was almost certainly intentional.
* [[http://www.lostfanatic.net/userimages/user2724_1161664335.jpg Desmond]] from ''Series/{{Lost}}''. He does shave the beard off later, though. Henry Ian Cusick actually ''did'' play UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, in ''The Gospel of John''.

* Ironically, Jesus himself most likely would [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] the trope. Not only did 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.

** Elendil himself looks like the typical Catholic interpretation of Jesus, being a long haired man with deep blue eyes.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': 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]].

* [[http://hokuto-no-ken.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ewtrey.JPG Toki]] in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''. [[{{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.

* 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).

** 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 - though the idea of Jesus as ancient Jerusalem's Creator/DannyDeVito ''is'' admittedly very amusing.

* Cesare Borgia (1476 - 1507) was a very beautiful man, probably [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the most beautiful son of a Pope]] that ever lived. There are suggestions that portraits of him from the Renaissance influenced contemporary and subsequent portrayals of Jesus of Nazareth. So now if you look at a painting of Cesare Borgia, he may look a bit like Jesus... or vice versa.
** [[http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/salvator-small.jpg Cesare Borgia as Jesus]]
*** Given Cesare's um... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia#Church_office track record]], that qualifies for [[ControversyProofImage any]] [[BelievingTheirOwnLies number]] [[PropagandaMachine of]] [[ValuesDissonance tropes]] [[BlatantLies ...]]

** 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 He does[=/=]did ''not'' look like them in-universe: