JAFFAC: Dark Messiah

While the picture certainly demonstrates dark, nothing about it says "Messiah", nothing at all.

edited 5th Jul '11 12:18:50 PM by Archereon

Fixed the link; looks like you got the page link and the complaint backwards.

Motion to pull

Pic says nothing about the "Messiah" part of the trope.

edited 5th Jul '11 11:19:44 AM by Willbyr

I also vote to pull. No sign of being a messiah.

Pull. It just says "bad guy" to me.

Yeah agree pull... Lets see we can pull the Hitler card?

Tried GIS-ing "satanic messiah" and all the other combo, and they yielded pictures of some Extreme Metal band taking the name.

This miiiight be a bad idea since it's a real person, but these two pictures of David◊ Koresh◊ might work.

If not, Light Yagami embodies this trope—although he's already the poster boy for a few tropes (like A God Am I). Still, he's pretty fitting.

Wouldn't that be JAFAAC to some ext—okay, I like the newspaper one.

@Raso It's almost too easy to use the Hitler Card for images of this. To quote one Cracked article,somehow the dude ended up with an ego.

edited 15th Jul '11 8:51:52 AM by Crowley

Erm, seems it's a little harder to find more pictures in the same vein.

Any comments on the one I posted already?

Maybe one of Griffith with Hellish Pupils while looking suitably White Knight-esque?

The Hitler pic would work pretty well.

That second one is fantastic, I just wish that Hitler was a little more obvious.

Except Hitler isn't a Dark Messiah... although I guess many Germans saw him as one.

What happened to the old image of Klaus?

The top half of this page

Here's that at 350:

It's the "And it worked" combined with the aggressive leading of armies that to me makes it work so well.

Suggested Caption: "Don't make me come over there."

edited 22nd Aug '11 9:08:55 PM by Sackett

I wonder if we could get it without the text bubbles or cleaner ones at least. Let me take a crack at it.

I'm not seeing "messiah" in that pic yet.

Good resize on the text, bad font (the second bubble's almost illegible because everything's so crammed together).

I'm not really happy with any of the images posted so far

@Sackett Actually, the determining factor of the trope isn't actually what you do, it's how you present yourself. Both Wulfenbach and Hitler are Dark Messiahs; Wulfenbach is just a more honest one.

edited 7th Sep '11 2:53:35 PM by Crowley

Justin Crowe from Carnivale is a great example of this, but it's always near impossible to find good image from that series. The best I could come up with is a crop of the season 2 cover.◊ I think it might work, though.

edited 15th Jul '14 3:30:10 PM by ArtisticPlatypus

^I like that