History Main / PreachersKid

* {{XTC}}'s song "No Thugs in Our House" is about a judge's son who, unbeknown to his parents, is a neo-Nazi.

* Patrick in ''{{Saved}}''.

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* OlderThanFeudalism: [[TheBible Eli]] was a renowned priest and judge. His two sons by birth were [[SinisterMinister corrupt ministers]] who had respect "neither for the Lord; nor for the priests' duties for the people; they treated the offerings to the Lord with disdain" (1 Samuel 2:12b,13a,17b). The priesthood eventually went to the [[HappilyAdopted adopted]] son for whom the book is named.

* The diciple Levi-Matthew in TheBible. He was a member of the all-peachers Levite tribe who turned to tax collecting, a desipsed job. Yes, this trope [[OlderThanTheyThink predates Christianity.]]

* [[{{Sankara}} Chihiro Furuya]] ( son of a Buddhist priest) might not be a hell-raiser, but he is obsessed with zombies, and has even created two: a cat (intentionally) and a human (unintentionally).

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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': The son of [[DaChief the Chief of Police]] secretly becomes a mass murderer.

* Martin Luther King Jr was one. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a minister himself. His children were of course Preacher's Kids as well and some of them also became ministers.

->-- '''[[Main/ptitlenswzn65z 3 Inches Of Blood]]''', ''The Preacher's Daughter''

->-- '''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlenswzn65z 3 Inches Of Blood]]''', ''The Preacher's Daughter''

* On another tack, FriedrichNietzsche's father and maternal grandfather were both Lutheran ministers. [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes Naturally]], he grew up to be a harsh critic of Christianity, more or less painting it as the worst thing ever to happen to Western civilization. [[hottip:*:This is a bit of an exaggeration, but not too much, and in any case [[TheGadfly Nietzsche would probably approve]].]]

* George Michael's girlfriend Ann Veal in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' is a Type 1, although she makes the occasional foray into Type 2 (PlayedForLaughs, of course, as her conception of Type 2 is still through Type 1 glasses).

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': The son of [[DaChief the Chief of Police]] secretly becomes a mass murderer.

* Holly in ''KeepingMum'' is a minister's daughter who has casual premarital sex and has a new boyfriend every time she enters a scene.

* In old Russian novels, you can sometimes find "you son of a priest" as an insult -- see possible explanation under RealLife below. [[hottip:*:Russian Orthodox priests are allowed to marry and have kids, unlike Catholic priests.]] In Greece there's a proverb that translates into: "Priest's kids, devil's grandchildren".

* In the WilhelmBusch story about Saint Anthony of Padova. The bishop has to decide whether Anthony is worthy to be a saint. Anthony asks a boy who's supposed to be mute who his parents are. The boy starts: "The bishop Rusticus is -" and is instantly interrupted by the bishop who decides that Anthony is indeed worthy.

* In ''Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature'', one of Mena's nemeses is the preacher's daughter.

* Martin Luther King Jr was one. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a minister himself. His children were of course Preacher's Kids as well and some of them also became ministers.

* The protagonists of ''{{The Night of the Hunter}}'' are Preacher's stepchildren.

* Both Steve Ellerby ''and'' Mark Brittain in ''StayingFatForSarahByrnes''. [[spoiler:Each of them ultimately subverts one of the extremes: Steve, while clearly a good guy from the start, is not nearly as irreverent as he seems to be; and Mark's nowhere ''near'' [[{{Hypocrite}} as pure as he'd like everyone to believe]].]]

* George Michael's girlfriend Ann Veal in ''ArrestedDevelopment'' is a Type 1, although she makes the occasional foray into Type 2 (PlayedForLaughs, of course, as her conception of Type 2 is still through Type 1 glasses).

* ''Neil Hannon'' of The Divine Comedy is the son of a bishop. Would you guess that from listening to ''Casanova'', an album about... well, look at the title? (He did also write the theme music to FatherTed, mind you).

* Jessica Lovejoy on ''TheSimpsons'', a juvenile delinquent. Does it count if Lovejoy is a really, really, awful Reverend?

Of course, in actuality preacher's kids run the gamut in personality traits, but their screw ups tend to be far more public. Think about it: If you're the child of say, a chef, and you're caught doing something morally ambiguous or even downright illegal how many people in your town would really care? But if you're a preacher's kid? I hope you [[BillClinton didn't inhale]]. From the kid's perspecive, it might be because everything is ForbiddenFruit. Making something morally off-limits only makes it more tempting for many kids to do.

* In TsaristRussia, children of Orthodox clergy were ''very'' disproportionately represented in the fields of revolutionary movement, materialist philosophy and natural sciences (one explanation of this fact is that they transposed religious attitude to secular ideologies). From a conservative standpoint, "priest's son" was pretty much synonymous with "iconoclast and troublemaker". In addition, many noblemen's sons who went to universities found it humiliating to be taught by professors of such lowly origins, and mocked science and university education as a bunch of TechnoBabble invented by bearded priest's sons.

* ToriAmos. One of her songs, "Icicle", is about [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]] while her father conducts a service downstairs.

* OlderThanDirt: [[TheBible Eli]] was a renowned Priest and Judge. His two sons by birth were [[SinisterMinister corrupt ministers]] who had respect "neither for the Lord; nor for the priests' duties for the people; they treated the offerings to the Lord with disdain" (1 Samuel 2:12b,13a,17b). The priesthood eventually went to the [[HappilyAdopted adopted]] son for whom the book is named.

* [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyoko Sakura]] was Type 1 until her father committed PaterFamilicide and she becomes cynical, but nowhere near as mind-blowingly diabolical as Type 2. She goes back to Type 1 (or rather, the Type 1 she was between making her wish and the wish going awry) after [[spoiler:Kyubey lets slip the AwfulTruth about Puella Magi.]]

* Kyoko Sakura is Type 1 until her father commits PaterFamilicide and she goes cynical, but nowhere near as mind-blowingly diabolical as Type 2. She goes back to Type 1 (or rather, the Type 1 she was between making her wish and the wish going awry) after [[spoiler:Kyubey lets slip the AwfulTruth about Puella Magi.]]

Subtrope of TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes (for the beastly kind). In that case, you may wonder whether the [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholic church]] had a point when they forbad priests to father children.

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