YMMV / Bibleman

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is The Wacky Protestor really the exact same person as the almost victorious and more dangerous Primordious Drool, downgraded presumably by Satan? Or was Biblegirl's statement of having gotten rid of the Protestor "when he was Primordious" just another one of the many fourth wall jokes the show has always had?
  • Ludicrous was played by 4 actors throughout the Luxor Spawndroth episodes. Is it a fourth wall joke, an upgrade each time, or are there more than just one henchman with that name?
• Audience-Alienating Era: Most people agree that the Powersource videos or 'Third season' of Bibleman weren't all that great, mainly thanks to the new younger but much stiffer and less engaging hero, and an assortment of weaker villains.
• Confirmation Bias: Part of the reason the show's survived for fifteen years is its instant appeal to the parents of Christian children.
• Cult Classic: As noted in So Bad, It's Good, the Christian messages are supposed to be taken seriously while the campy superhero stuff is more tongue-in-cheek. Thus, the show has a (mostly ironic) cult following.
• Don't Shoot the Message: As is typical with this sort of show, many Christians don't exactly like how this show presents their faith.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • Luxor Spawndroth is considered the best and most well known of Bibleman's enemies. He plays more than one role to represent a multitude of sins, all of them which Brian Lemmons does a spectacular and hammy job playing.
  • Primordious Drool is the closest thing the show had to a Knight of Cerebus with still enough entertaining traits, who's threat level and plan is go big that it took a two parter (two videos) to defeat him.
• Growing the Beard: Regardless of the actual quality, the series really started getting entertaining upon "Defeating The Shadow Of Doubt", where the Christian Barney format of "The Bibleman Show" was dropped and the series got revamped to be more of a real superhero spoof.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The fact that Luxor Spawndroth's, an enemy in league with Satan opposed to the Adam West-ish Superhero Bibleman, name contains the word "Spawn" in it is likely not intended as a Shout-Out to that comic book series. Even funnier when you remember that Batman and Spawn had a few crossovers.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: A PC game based on the Fight For Faith episode was made, but let's just say it was easy to tell it was the company's first game. The announced console versions never appeared and Covenant Studios appears to have gone under after releasing that game and that game only.
• Replacement Scrappy:
  • The Wacky Protestor. Luxor Spawndroth he ain't (Though this was averted back when he was the more threatening Primordious Drool).
  • Josh Carpenter, the second Bibleman, is essentially the first Bibleman only Totally Radical and without any of the aspects that made the first one likable or fun. No wonder the show didn't last with him.
• So Bad, It's Good: Pretty much the whole point. The Christian messages are supposed to be taken seriously; the campy superhero stuff is not.
• Special Effects Failure: The animated series has some pretty bad animation, even for a Christian video series. One of the more obvious errors in the episode "Clobbering the Crusher" has Cypher's arm clipping through a boy's entire body at the end of the episode.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Both Bibleman's team and his nemeses' have robots—fully sentient A.I.s—to help them out. The problem is that UNICE (Universal Networking Intelligence Computing Entity) happily spreads the word of the Lord while LUCI (Link to Underhanded Computer Influences) is quite against it. Now, when only humans are involved this is no problem, but LUCI quite understandably isn't terribly happy about following God's will because robots don't have souls! So whenever they face off UNICE, chipper as can be, tries to convince LUCI that it is a worthless pile of scrap with no higher purpose in life than to teach humans to accept Christ into their lives, and that its dreams of living independently of humans are evil.
  • The villain of the episode "A Light in the Darkness", the Wacky Protestor, looks and behaves like an over the top caricature of a nerdy-Jewish stereotype, with monstrous traits added on like blue skin and an overbite. His motives in the episode is to cast the world in darkness and destroy the joy of Christians minding their own business (which, being a Bibleman villain, means turning people away from Jesus). Given that the show was made to proselytize Christianity, it comes across as deliberately anti-Semitic.

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