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Excessive-Menace
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26th Apr, 2023 09:25:39 PM
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THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!
In Urusei Yatsura, one of the antagonistic characters is an itinerant Buddhist monk named Sakuranbo (who prefers to go by Cherry because the characters of his name can mean either "Cherry Fruit" or "Deranged Priest"), whose primary source of comedy is that he's a shameless mooch who regularly tries to blackmail food from people in need of his services or outright steals food from people. Obviously, this is pretty unfitting behavior for a priest, especially paired with Cherry's bungling efforts at "saving" people (like deliberately pushing Ataru off a bridge and under a falling power line), but is there a trope for this kind of "fallen priest"? My first thought was Nun Too Holy, as that trope's name suggests, to me, a catch-all for "non-evil but clearly improperly behaving clergy". But that's specifically for female clergy, with the male counterparty being Dirty Old Monk, and both are focused on lustful or sex-focused "holy" characters, and Cherry's failing is gluttony rather than lust (outside of that episode in the 1981 anime that implies he's a furry). Is there an appropriate trope here to cover Cherry's status as a holy man who really doesn't act very holy?