Basic Trope: Jesus is portrayed as a laid-back, friendly, all-round Nice Guy who just wants everyone to be friends.
- Straight: God is shown to be a vengeful, jealous patriarchal figure, but Jesus disapproves of his methods and is best friends with all mankind.
- Exaggerated:
- Jesus is a skateboarding, skydiving, kung-fu fighting badass.
- Jesus raps, wears sunglasses and a backwards baseball cap, is a Jive Turkey, and spreads the gospel by going around Judea on a skateboard.
- Downplayed: Jesus has a fairly calm, agreeable demeanor.
- Justified: The work illustrates the trope using only genuine quotes from the New Testament.
- Inverted:
- All the other mythological characters are more-or-less decent and well-meaning, but Jesus is a cruel and judgmental figure.
- The Devil Is a Loser
- Subverted: Jesus seems to be Way Cool on first appearance, but it soon turns out he's got his Old Testament side as well.
- Doubly Subverted: ...however, that's just a show to impress the clergy, and it kind of embarrasses him to have to keep it up.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Jesus is bipolar.
- Averted: Jesus is an aloof and reverent figure, preaching goodwill but remaining clearly detached from humanity.
- Enforced: "Kids these days don't empathise with the paternalistic view of Christ, we should make him Totally Radical!"
- Lampshaded: "I never thought Jesus Christ would be this much fun!"
- Invoked: The church uses a happy-clappy modern reinterpretation of "Buddy Christ" to gain followers.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The church considers depicting Jesus this way, but decides against it.
- Discussed: "You think because I preach brotherly love I don't believe in self-restraint and following the rules?"
- Conversed: "Another Way Cool Jesus? I mean I know the guy was nice, but it seems like everything that portrays him nowadays has him as some ridiculous cool-dude figure"
- Deconstructed:
- Jesus turns out to be an overly easy-to-please slacker, and as his followers come to realise this they leave the church in droves for faiths with more authoritative and dignified figureheads.
- Jesus ends up acting like an Extreme Doormat who keeps preaching peace and love even when actively being harassed and even assaulted. His followers starts questioning him heavily.
- Reconstructed:
- ...but still others are attracted to his genuine nature and evident love of the world and humanity, and he gains a whole new set of followers, inspiring people to take an interest in religion they'd never had before.
- Played For Laughs: As a Running Gag, everyone gives the rapping, skate boarding slang-using Jesus weird looks.
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