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[[File:bibleshirt.jpg|thumb|350px|Yeah, it's kinda like that.<ref>Tiny text: It's all fun and games until someone loses an eternity.</ref>]]
 
'''Bibleman''', as he's known to his friends, is a live-action show originally starring Willie Aames of ''[[Charles in Charge]]'' and ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' as a superhero who [[The Bible|teaches our kids about the Good Book]] without sacrificing [[Rule of Cool|the excitement of pulse-bounding lightsaber battles]]. In its original incarnation, the series lasted from 1996 to 2004.
 
Aames played Miles Peterson, "who had everything: money, power, fame, until he lost it!" Throwing himself to the ground during a thunderstorm, he found a Holy Bible lying in the mud and was inspired to become Bibleman, an approachable superhero garbed in a suit of armor based on the one from the book of Ephesians. (Although the look of the suit seems to have been inspired by ''[[Batman Forever]]''.) Over several years he pitted his faith against <s>costumed losers who had nothing better to do than pick on grade school kids</s> the legions of Hell and surrounded himself with a group of politically correct sidekicks.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: There were a lot of jokes aimed at Willie's acting career when he was around.
{{quote| '''Bibleman''': Set up a meeting for 8'clock.<br />
'''Cypher''': Will eight be enough?<br />
'''Bibleman''': Don't get cheeky.<br />
'''<Rimshot>''' }}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Rapscallion P. Sinister from the ''Fight For Faith'' live show. The "P" stands for polite.
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** This happened in early episodes, but later episodes had the villains ultimately doing themselves in somehow. By the ''Power Source'' series, it's gone right back to the old ways.
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Let's just say Willie could be a little too fond of slipping sly references to his acting career into scripts.
{{quote| '''El Furioso to his bungling sidekick''': I'm about two seconds away from replacing you with Scott Baio!}}
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: The villains have no higher purpose than picking on grade schoolers and are proud of it.
** The only one to subvert this would be Primordius Drool, who tried to make masses of people lose faith in both Jesus and Bibleman. But then he becomes the Wacky Protestor and his targets are all kids.
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