Line #36 Characters/OzChristians


1	[[foldercontrol]]
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3	!The Christians
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5	[[folder:In General]]
6	* ButtMonkey: Every member except Timmy Kirk.
7	* CorruptChurch: Subverted; the vast majority have questionable morals, but are led by Cloutier, who is unquestionably a good man underneath his sense of entitlement.
8	* CovertPervert: Despite their saintly veneer, nearly all of the Christians are sex offenders, save for Cloutier and Gougeon.
9	* DeathSeeker: Probably not intentionally, but they tend to have a disregard for their own lives that can only be called suicidal.
10	* EverybodysDeadDave: At the end of the series, only two Christians are confirmed to still be alive; Samuel Gougeon and Harden.
11	* GoldfishPoopGang: Even less violent than the Muslims and considered the weakest of all the gangs.
12	* HolierThanThou: A largely unjustified attitude, given most of their crimes.
13	* {{Hypocrite}}: Most take a strong stance on sexual immorality and violence despite being populated mostly by sex offenders and murderers.
14	* NonActionGuy: They never participate in the boxing tournament, the only gang not to do so.
15	* LethalJokeCharacter: Timmy Kirk upon joining the Christians. He's the only member to actually kill other inmates, and is the most violent of them all. William Cudney is a close second in this regard, as he is a psychopathic and fanatical child murderer, but never gets to kill anyone on the inside.
16	* LightIsNotGood: Despite their saintly appearance, they are one of the most psycho of all the gangs. Most of their members are guilty of the worst crimes, generally sex crimes and violent crimes against children, and the creepiest thing of them all is that most have no sense of self-preservation. At all.
17	* PedophilePriest: Robert Sippel. The gang as a whole could be considered the layman equivalent of this.
18	* TokenGoodTeammate: Jeremiah Cloutier and Samuel Gougeon are the only ones in the Christians who are not child murderers or rapists. Jonathan Coushaine has elements of this, seeing as he is a kindly and calm man with no violent tendencies whatsoever, but he is implied to be a sex offender of some kind.
19	* WouldHurtAChild: All but two are either child murderers or sexual perverts of all kinds, including pedophiles.
20	[[/folder]]
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22	[[folder:Rev. Cloutier]]
23	!!Rev. Jeremiah Cloutier
24	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a7292a1d_5169_43a7_9315_d50b9e56f368.jpeg]]
25	->'''Played By:''' Creator/LukePerry
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27	->''Prisoner #00C966. Convicted December 27, 2000 - Embezzlement and petty larceny. Sentence: nine years, up for parole in five.''
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29	A charismatic TV evangelist caught embezzling from the church.
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31	* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Is sealed behind a wall by Timmy Kirk. Twice.]]
32	* AntiVillain: He's your standard sleazy televangelist, at least at first. But he does good work with the other inmates.
33	* TheAtoner: Trying to make up for embezzling money from his church.
34	* ButtMonkey: Once he gets on the bad side of Timmy Kirk.
35	* DoingInTheWizard: His mystical, unexplained disappearance from the hospital in Season 5 [[spoiler:was actually the bikers finishing the exact same job they started, sealing him back inside a wall to die]]
36	* EgocentricallyReligious: Admits to Father Mukada that he's been like that most of his life, having performed his first miracle at a very young age. In fact, it's why he commits his crime: he thought he was entitled to the money. Fortunately, he seems to outgrow it during his time in Oz.
37	* FateWorseThanDeath: [[ExploitedTrope Exploited]]. When Luke Perry first joined the show, everyone was assuming that he would be subjected to a prison rape storyline for maximum shock value. What his character got was so gruesome and grotesque, that being raped would have been a kinder fate for the character.
38	* LooksLikeJesus: With his long hair and beard. Probably a deliberate style choice on his part.
39	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: There are times where he does seem to have genuine spiritual powers (such as seeming to exorcise demons from Jim Burns), but which might just be explained by a charismatic presence.
40	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He casts Timmy Kirk out of his congregation when Kirk becomes a violent zealot. He also sincerely tries to help Schillinger become a better person and find a little happiness in his life. The latter earns him the enmity of Jazz Hoyt and the reason of the bikers, who don't want the leadership of the Aryan-Biker alliance to weaken before the Muslims and other rivals. Kirk and Hoyt conspire to humiliate and ultimately murder Cloutier in horrific fashion.
41	* GoodShepherd: He's a much better minister in Oz than he ever was on the outside. His greatest achievement by far is getting Vern Schillinger the closest he ever gets to a HeelFaceTurn.
42	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Immediately after he resolves to become a better minister by working alongside his congregation as an equal [[spoiler: he is sealed behind a wall by Kirk and Hoyt. This doesn't kill him, but does lead to a series of events that eventually lead to his death.]]
43	* TheRival: To Mukada, but they eventually put their differences behind them and become friends.
44	[[/folder]]
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46	[[folder:Timmy Kirk]]
47	!!Timmy Kirk
48	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Timmy_Kirk_6357.jpg]]
49	[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[CatchPhrase How'd you like a blowjob?]]"'']]
50	->'''Played By:''' Creator/SeanDugan
51
52	->''Prisoner #96K423. Convicted April 16, 1996 - Manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child. Sentence: 12 years, up for parole in seven. [[spoiler: Convicted of Conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree in 2002 and sentenced to death.]]''
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54	Arrested and convicted for putting his baby in a rat-infested dumpster, he was part of Ryan O'Reily's Irish prison gang and colluded with O'Reily on several occasions regarding possible friction between both the Irish and the Homeboys, as well as in the aftermath of the prison riot. He for a while worked on janitor duty in Death Row, and delivered messages between Simon Adebisi and Shirley Bellinger.
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57	Originally an Irish Catholic, he later joins the Christians under the leadership of Rev. Cloutier but then usurps power from him, become the new leader of the gang.
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59	* AscendedExtra: Pretty much existed as an O'Reily subordinate who saw Shirley Bellinger's vagina before getting a major role in the last two seasons.
60	* AxCrazy: He will kill without hesitation or remorse for the most minor of reasons.
61	* ChurchMilitant: Hoo boy, is he a dark example. His temporary brush with religion turns him into a psychopath willing to kill anyone who apostatizes.
62	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Electrocuted to death when Hoyt jams a light fixture in his mouth. A fitting end for one of the most morally repugnant and truly evil characters on the show.]]
63	* DepravedBisexual: He'll offer a blowjob to anyone who'll listen, but he's also shown to be attracted to Shirley Bellinger.
64	* DevilComplex: When he goes of the deep end, he becomes convinced that he is Satan himself.
65	* EvilRedhead: The evilest ginger in Oz.
66	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: He may look like a choir boy, but that's not even ''close'' to being accurate.
67	* FauxAffablyEvil: He's pure evil with a smile.
68	* {{From Nobody to Nightmare}}: He starts off as an errand boy for Ryan O'Reily. He later becomes one of the most dangerous prisoners in Oz.
69	* TheFundamentalist: A violent version. He's repeatedly beats Catholics to force them to convert to Protestants, and is completely bewildered as to why Cloutier thinks this is a bad thing.
70	* [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Heel Faith Revolving Door]] First Catholic, then Protestant, then...Satanist. Then proclaiming to be Satan himself. He's nothing if not willing to change.
71	* HateSink: One of the few major characters to not get any PetTheDog or JerkAssWoobie moments. This guy is just pure evil.
72	* HidingBehindReligion: Kirk uses religion so he can excuse his crimes. One of his defining moments is when he lectures about how even the most brutal of crimes can be excused.
73	* InTheBlood: Kirk's mother has a brief story arc. She... turns out not to be much more in touch with reality than her son.
74	* {{Jerkass}}: He's a self-righteous, smug little bastard with ''absolutely zero'' redeeming qualities.
75	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Kirk is one of the few inmates to get absolutely no redeeming qualities or sympathetic moments. Even his turn to religion is shown to be shallow and self-indulgent.
76	* KnightTemplar: He maims and murders for the lord. When Cloutier tries to get him to back off, he takes over his leadership of the Christians and [[spoiler: seals the good reverend behind a wall.]]
77	* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Hoyt murders him in one of the most gruesome ways possible on Death Row, and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving bastard.]]
78	* ManipulativeBastard: He loves to play innocent to get ahead. Rev. Cloutier and Father Mukada get it the worst, both temporarily losing their positions to his machinations.
79	* SanitySlippage: He goes from not all there to psychopathic killer to declaring himself to be Satan in the flesh.
80	* SmugSnake: Without someone under his control, he's pretty pathetic.
81	* TheSociopath: He places absolutely zero value on human life.
82	* TheUnfettered: Treats the MoralEventHorizon like a jump rope in his quest to destroy both Cloutier and Mukada.
83	* TheVamp: As indicated by his quote above, a RareMaleExample. His go-to method of payment for favors is oral sex.
84	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: When he gains control of the Christians, he loses his tenuous grasp on sanity.
85	* WouldHurtAChild: His own child, who he dropped in a dumpster to be eaten alive by rats.
86	[[/folder]]
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88	[[folder:Cudney]]
89	!!William Cudney
90	->'''Played By:''' Creator/WillCote
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92	->''Prisoner #99C124. Convicted February 10, 1999 - Murder in the first degree. Sentence: Life imprisonment without the possibly of parole.''
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94	A fanatical Christian inmate.
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96	* AssholeVictim: Absolutely no one cares when he is found in bed with his neck slashed.
97	* ColdSniper: How he killed his victim.
98	* EvenEvilHadLovedOnes: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]; his grief over his unborn child being aborted leads to him killing the child of the doctor who performed the abortion.
99	* EvenEvilHasStandards: On the receiving end; O'Reily is sickened by him.
100	* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears spectacles and is an unrepentant child killer.
101	* HateSink: An obnoxious, undeservedly self-righteous jerk who lectures other inmates about morality when he is an unrepentant about murdering a child in cold blood. Yeah, it's fair to say he qualifies as this.
102	* HolierThanThou: Of all the Christians, he is by far the most obnoxiously self-righteous.
103	* {{Hypocrite}}: He's supposedly opposed to abortion because he considers it the murder of children. This from a remorseless child killer.
104	* KnightTemplar: He's a hero in his own mind for evening the score with his wife's doctor. No one else agrees.
105	* {{Jerkass}}: Doesn't even begin to describe him. He is a repulsive HolierThanThou hypocrite who revels in the fact that he shot a child dead.
106	* MoralMyopia:
107	** He takes his holier-than-thou attitude much farther than the other Christian inmates, lecturing the O'Reilly brothers on the immorality of violence and theft with a straight face in spite of the fact that he's a murderer.
108	** He takes pride in having murdered a child in cold blood - motivated by the fact that the child's father was the abortionist who provided service to Cudney's wife.
109	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech; He gets an unintentional one from Cyril, who asks him what he's going to say to his victim when he gets to Heaven. Cudney has no response and it's clear that he hasn't even thought about it.
110	* RevengeByProxy: He killed the child of the doctor who performed his wife's abortion, so in his mind he's 'paying him back'.
111	* TheSociopath: Guns down a child without even blinking and gloats about it to O'Reily.
112	* TruthInTelevision: Like [[spoiler:Malcolm Coyle]] he is proof that Child Killers do not last very long in maximum security prisons.
113	* TooDumbToLive: He decides to brag about shooting a kid in a maximum security prison. Ironically, however, that's not what kills him. What kills him is betraying [[MagnificentBastard Ryan O'Reily]] to his face, which was an even stupider decision to make.
114	* WouldHurtAChild: Kill one, actually, and feel absolutely no remorse over doing so.
115	[[/folder]]
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117	[[folder:Gougeon]]
118	!!Samuel Gougeon
119	->'''Played By:''' Creator/BlaynePerry
120
121	->''Prisoner 97G141. Convicted August 5, 1997 for manslaughter in the first degree. Sentence: 19 years, up for parole in 10.''
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123	A kind-hearted and benign Christian inmate imprisoned after a fatal hunting accident.
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125	* {{Keet}}: A milder version of this trope, keeps a relatively optimistic demeanor despite his surroundings and is a very devout Christian.
126	* NiceGuy: Arguably one of the kindest inmates in Oz.
127	* NerdGlasses: A harmless, bespectacled man.
128	* TokenGoodTeammate: One of the only Christian inmates who is not a sex offender or child murderer, and the only one who is confirmed to have survived the series. In a show where AnyoneCanDie, doubly so for good-natured characters, that's rather remarkable for a minor character.
129	[[/folder]]
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131	[[folder:Sippel]]
132	!!Robert Sippel
133	->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidLansbury
134
135	->''Prisoner 88S510. Convicted March 10, 1988, for sexual abuse in 2nd degree. Sentence: 15 years, up for parole in 10.''
136
137	A guilt-ridden ex-priest and child molestor.
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139	* TheAtoner: He turned himself in, and continues to feel deep guilt about his crime even after his time is up.
140	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The Aryans crucify him to the floor, and leave him to bleed to death.]]
141	* PedophilePriest: He molested a young boy.
142	* TooDumbToLive: Why would a child molester willingly come back to his old cell just for a place to sleep? Sure enough, [[spoiler:the Aryans crucify him on the gym floor just hours later.]]
143	[[/folder]]
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145	[[folder:Coushaine]]
146	!!Jonathan Coushaine
147	->'''Played By''': Creator/BryanCallen
148
149	An easy-going Christian inmate and initial leader of the Christians. Was once a high school teacher and as a result, teaches the GED classes in OZ.
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151	* AffablyEvil: He's never much of a plotter or schemer, and is easy to get along with.
152	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappears without explanation in Season 3.
153	* NiceGuy: You need to be to teach the bastards imprisoned in Oz.
154	* NoodleIncident: It's never revealed how he entered OZ. It's implied he may be a sex offender by Hill and Wangler, though the two are amused by the likelihood of such, considering Coushaine's passionate diatribe on the sex offender registry.
155	* PutOnABus: After the graduation of the GED class, he just sort of disappears.
156	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: His long rant about the sex offender registry heavily implies that the crime he was convicted for was sexual harassment or battery. Considering that he used to be a [[FridgeHorror high school teacher...]]
157	[[/folder]]
158
159	[[folder:Harden]]
160	!!Harden
161	->'''Played By:'''
162
163	One of the more mysterious Christian inmates, often seen in the flock of William Cudney and Jeremiah Cloutier. When Timmy Kirk becomes head of the Christians, Harden acts as one of Kirk's mooks. One of only two Christian inmates to survive the end of the series.
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165	* BitPartBadGuy: A thug with no real characterization or plot relevance who isn't onscreen for long.
166	* ChekhovsGunman: Helps Augustus Hill bring down Supreme Allah.
167	* EliteMook: Acts as this to Timmy Kirk
168	* FlatCharacter: Harden is a Christian inmate who is quiet, obedient to whoever is in charge of the Christians, and often appears in the background. That's really it.
169	* NoodleIncident: It is never revealed how he got into Oz.
170	[[/folder]]
171
172	[[folder:Burns]]
173	!!Jim Burns
174	-> '''Played By:''' Creator/PeterJamesKelsch
175	A former biker inmate who becomes Born Again Christian under Cloutier.
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177	* CainAndAbel: Maybe. He's in prison for killing his brother but insists he is innocent and since he's never given a crime flashback might be the only prisoner in Oz who really is innocent.
178	* EvenEvilHasStandards: He refuses to kill Cloutier as Cloutier brought him to God.
179	* ReligiousBruiser: First played a bit darkly when he beats up several non-Christians to convert them then more positively when he won't kill Cloutier for Hoyt and Timmy, instead attacking them.

Context Characters / OzChristians