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3	''Rapture-Palooza'' is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Paul Middleditch, starring Creator/CraigRobinson and Creator/AnnaKendrick. Also in the cast are Creator/JohnFrancisDaley, Creator/KenJeong, Creator/RobCorddry, Thomas Lennon, Creator/TylerLabine, Creator/PaulScheer, Creator/CalumWorthy, Creator/JohnMichaelHiggins, and Creator/AnaGasteyer.
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5	When the [[CaughtUpInTheRapture biblical Rapture]] occurs and the faithful are taken up to {{Heaven}}, Lindsey (Kendrick) and her boyfriend Ben (Daley) are among those left behind to deal with all sorts of hellish phenomena, like rocks falling out of the sky, creepy wraiths wandering the streets, foul-mouthed crows... and Earl Gundy (Robinson), aka TheAntiChrist, who sets up residence in the couple's home city of Seattle. When Gundy sets his eyes on Lindsey and desires to make her his bride, Ben hatches a plan to defeat Gundy and save Lindsey.
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8	!!This film contains examples of the following tropes:
9	* AbusiveDad:
10	** Gundy is an absolute asshole to Little Beast.
11	** Ben's dad is emotionally abusive to his son.
12	* TheAntiChrist: Earl Gundy, aka "Beast."
13	* AssholeVictim: Believe it or not, [[spoiler:{{God}} (portrayed in this film as a total {{Jerkass}}) winds up dead along with Gundy/{{Satan}} at the end]].
14	* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:By the film's end, Lindsey is pregnant with her and Ben's child, and they seem to have taken Little Beast under their wing.]]
15	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After being shot many times by Lindsey, Gundy comes back to life...as {{Satan}}. Only to then be killed permanently along with {{God}} when they fall into a Jacuzzi and end up getting electrocuted.]]
16	* BadassBookworm: Ben, a skinny and nerdy guy who manages to [[spoiler:wallop TheAntiChrist with a shovel]].
17	* BadassNormal: Ben, again. He goes up against Gundy with nothing but his unlikely plan [[spoiler:and a shovel]].
18	* BadBoss: Gundy apparently rapes his own guards.
19	* BigBad: Earl Gundy, TheAntiChrist.
20	* BigDamnHeroes: Averted. [[spoiler:Near the movie's end, UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} appears on a horse in the sky, about to do battle with {{Satan}} (recently [[DemonicPossession incarnated in Gundy]]). Unfortunately, Ben doesn't realize what's going on and instead ends up blasting Jesus out of the sky, much to {{God}}'s [[WhatTheHellHero great annoyance]].]]
21	* BumblingDad: Ben's father.
22	* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Averted with Gundy. He routinely makes lewd remarks and gestures about all the sexual things he wants to do to/with Lindsey.
23	* CaughtUpInTheRapture: Occurs at the start of the movie.
24	* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: The beginning of the movie points out how even with things like zombies, angry locusts, meteors and raining blood happening on a daily basis, humans can grow used to ''anything.''
25	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Oh so much. [[spoiler:Ben kills Jesus with a military laser, Lindsey shoots Gundy more than seven times with many different guns before he goes down for good...only for him to come back to life as {{Satan}}, then {{God}} shows up and, in the ensuing battle, both He and Satan fall into a pool and are electrocuted by a stereo.]]
26	* DoNotCallMePaul: Gundy insists that everyone call him "The Beast."
27	* EtherealWhiteDress: [[spoiler:{{God}}, when he shows up near the end to [[WhatTheHellHero give Ben and Lindsey grief]] about [[NiceJobBreakingItHero blasting Jesus out of the sky]] and thereby ruining His plan, is at least wearing a snazzy white suit.]]
28	* FatBastard: Gundy is a fat dude who just happens to be TheAntiChrist.
29	* FauxAffablyEvil: Gundy can play nice, but he's a total asshole.
30	* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks:
31	-->'''Ben:''' Who are we rooting for?
32	-->'''Lindsey:''' They both wanna kill us.
33	* HollywoodAtheist: Averted with Ben and Lindsay, the two most decent characters in the movie. Ben even wonders if they should have just gone to church while they had a chance, although Lindsay points out that it wouldn't have changed anything if they still didn't believe.
34	%%* HowWeGotHere
35	%%* IHaveYouNowMyPretty
36	* {{Jerkass}}:
37	** Gundy is as unpleasant as anyone can get.
38	** Ben's dad, as well.
39	* JerkassGod: [[spoiler:God is portrayed as such when He shows up at the end, cussing out the heroes for messing up His perfectly detailed plan. And laser-frying His son.]]
40	* JerkassHasAPoint:
41	** Yes, Ben's dad is an asshole, but if he hadn't stopped Ben when Gundy decided to make Lindsey his bride, he probably would have gotten the three of them killed, [[spoiler:and they wouldn't have been able to kill the Anti-Christ]].
42	** As big a stoner asshole as Lindsey's brother is, he's the first to suggest Lindsey go with the Beast so she can kill him.
43	* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:{{God}}, of all people, gets this treatment in this movie.]]
44	* MsFanservice: Lindsey in a short, tight white number for her date with Gundy.
45	* NiceGuy: Ben, contrasting nicely with [[{{Jerkass}} Gundy]].
46	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Ben ends up shooting UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} with Gundy's laser beam, thinking he's another falling rock. {{God}} is NOT happy with this development.]]
47	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: The Beast propositions Lindsey, which she turns down immediately. He says that's fine, but he'll now kill everyone she knows, so Lindsey agrees to sleep with him. Rather than go through with it though she plots with her boyfriend to kill him.
48	* PunchClockVillain: Everyone "evil" but the Beast, including, oddly, the Wraiths.
49	* SharpDressedMan: Gundy, despite being a FatBastard.
50	* ShowSomeLeg: Lindsey dons a tight, short white dress to try and seduce Gundy in order to get him to drink spiked eggnog as part of Ben's plan to [[spoiler:trap him in a kennel]].
51	* SpoiledBrat: Little Beast. To be fair, his dad is the Anti-Christ and a major {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:By the end of the film, he's seen in Ben and Lindsey's new restaurant with it being implied that they have adopted him, so he's probably chilled down some.]]
52	* TheStoner:
53	** Lindsey's brother.
54	** Also the Wraiths.
55	* ThinkingOutLoud: The Beast does this because he clearly just doesn't care what others think, and openly speaks horrifically about them to their faces. [[NoSell Lindsey is unimpressed]].
56	* TheUnfavorite:
57	** Little Beast is this to Gundy, who treats him like crap and desires more ideal offspring.
58	** Lindsey's mother is this to God, [[spoiler:explaining why she got sent back to Earth after being raptured]].
59	* UnfazedEveryman: While a lot of the comedy comes from [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight the character's reluctant apathy to the apocalyptic horrors around them]], the protagonist Lindsey gives the least amount of shits to all of the madness happening around her.
60	* WhatTheHellHero:
61	** [[spoiler:God gives this kind of speech to Ben and Lindsey after the former accidentally roasts UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} coming down from the sky.]]
62	** Lindsey sends one right back to [[spoiler:{{God}}]] for his jerkass behavior.

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