History Trivia / Dogma

** Kevin Smith jokes that he originally wanted to end the film by God answering Bethany's "Why are we here?" question with "[[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife I've got one word for you, just one: plastics!]]," resulting in [[YourHeadAsplode everyone's head blowing up]].

** Azrael giving his take on {{Hell}} of being a place of eternal HeroicSelfDeprecation, making it a place of eternal suffering. This being bad for Fallen Angels, which is shown with Barneby, that being away from {{God}} is bad enough, but humanity's guilt in creating a hellhole drove them so insane that Azrael prefers oblivion than undergoing eternal SanitySlippage. It was cut for making him seem too sympathetic and making the main characters DesignatedHero|es for killing him.

** Azrael giving his take on {{Hell}} of being a place of eternal HeroicSelfDeprecation, making it a place of eternal suffering. This being bad for Fallen Angels, which is shown with Barneby, that being away from {{God}} is bad enough, but humanity's guilt in creating a hellhole drove them so insane that Azrael prefers oblivion than undergoing eternal SanitySlippage. It was cut for making him seem too sympathetic and making the main characters DesignatedHero|s for killing him.

** Azrael giving his take on {{Hell}} of being a place of eternal HeroicSelfDeprecation, making it a place of eternal suffering. This being bad for Fallen Angels, which is shown with Barneby, that being away from {{God}} is bad enough, but humanity's guilt in creating a hellhole drove them so insane that Azrael prefers oblivion than undergoing eternal SanitySlippage.
** However, it would've portrayed him as sympathetic and put the heroes into DesignatedHero categories for killing him.

* IronyAsSheCast: Staunchly atheist GeorgeCarlin as a priest (a corrupt one, so it's not ''that'' ironic).

** The funniest part was that the protest was slated to be a group of 500 people, of which there were... five. He went on to day that he was most disappointed that nobody had even gone to the effort of making a sign as nice and detailed as his.

*** At one point, Alanis Morissette (yes, God herself) was going to play Bethany, but declined because it would have conflicted with her touring schedule.

** Kevin Smith jokes that he originally wanted to end the film by God accidentally blowing up everyone's heads by answering Bethany's "Why are we here?" question with [[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife "I've got one word for you, just one: plastics!"]]

** Dante and Randal from ''{{Clerks}}'' as a reporter and a guy who works in a gun shop, respectively.

** Kevin Smith also originally wanted to do a sequel, but since he mentioned it would touch on a belief system much less forgiving to jokes (Islam), he gave up on it, at least for now.

** Imagine [[MyNameIsEarl Azrael with a moustache]].

* ShoutOut: The common Viewaskewverse shout outs to John Hughes films, here made simple and explicit by just talking about JohnHughes film.
** A fairly obscure one: The Golgothan's first line -- "Not born, ''shit'' into existence." -- is taken verbatim from GrantMorrison's ''ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''. It pertains to a very disgusting-looking Clayface in that, if you're wondering. The next line -- "No man of woman born" -- is an odd shout out to ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.
** Silent Bob throws the angels off the train, then points and says "[[Film/TheLastCrusade No ticket!]]".
** Bartleby gives a shout out to the Comicbook/{{Incredible Hulk}} before he kills a police officer.
--> '''Bartleby:''' Mister [=McGee=], don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
** Immediately after Rufus falls to Earth, Jay speaks up standing over the body.
-->'''Jay''': You think someone threw him out of a plane with a message written on him like in ''Film/ConAir''? Did you ever see that flick?
** After God revives Bethany at the end:
--> '''Metatron''': [[TheSixMillionDollarMan She can rebuild you. She has the technology. She can make you better... stronger... faster.]]

* CreatorBacklash : Mocked; when a group of people announced they were going to picket his film at a theater near where he lives, Smith himself showed up and picketed the film too with a "Dogma is dogshit" banner. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QepgKVOVfZ8 He ends up being filmed by a news crew as a protester, and the reporter recognized him.]]

** Dante and Randal from Clerks as a reporter and a guy who works in a gun shop, respectively.

** Kevin Smith found Linda Fiorentino so difficult to work with that he regretted not casting his first choice, JaneaneGarofalo.

* LifeImitatesArt: As if "Buddy Christ" had not been MemeticMutation enough on its own, [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/aug/26/jesus-macho-makeover along comes this to make things interesting.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: an earlier version of the script available [[http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/dogma-script-screenplay-kevin-smith.html here]] features scenes of Jay and Silent Bob singing, as well as the second fight against Noman the Golgothan.

** Kevin Smith found Linda Fiorentino so difficult to work with that he regretted not casting his first choice, JaneaneGarofalo.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: an earlier version of the script available [[http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/dogma-script-screenplay-kevin-smith.html here]] features scenes of Jay and Silent Bob singing, as well as the second fight against Noman the Golgothan.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Imagine [[MyNameIsEarl Azrael with a moustache]].

** [[MenInBlack Interesting job Bethany has.]]