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{{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.

* [[Family-Friendly Firearms]]: Bibleman and his sidekicks wield variants of lightsabers while his enemies generally have ray guns. Probably for the "ray guns don't really exist" reason.

* [[Final Battle]]: Every episode ends with a duel between Bibleman and a villain of the week, but on several occasions they seem to cut to a last lightsaber fight for no reason other than because it's a dramatic way to cap off the episode. ''Shattering the Prince of Pride'' is a particularly bad example where they plan to set a trap for the villain, then seem to realize there wasn't enough time left in the show to do that and just had Bibleman stomp into the villain's hideout and have a sword fight. Without, of course, removing the footage of Bibleman talking about setting a trap for the villain.

* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: The villains in this show are apparently demons or at least backed directly by [[the Devil]] himself, explaining how they can repeatedly come back from being blown the hell to smithereens and call Satan or his legions of demons on their phones. On the other hand there's like one time in all the years they've been doing this that Bibleman and his buddies have gotten direct aid from their divine patron.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: In Willie's era, the show went to pains to show how it was the villain's own fault he was being blown to smithereens, usually in the form of Bibleman merely using his lightsaber to bounce back the villain's own shot or some such. The new series has actually shown Bibleman going on the offensive and taking them out with a thrust from the Sword of the Spirit a couple times.

* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Played with in ''Conquering the Wrath of Rage'' where the current incarnation of Luxor Spawndroth, El Furioso, seems to be trying to maneuver Bibleman into striking him down in hatred. Lucky for him that's the one episode mentioned above where God decides to send Bibleman some direct help.

* [[Invincible Hero]]: Averted when Willie was still in charge of everything. The show went out of its way to make sure Bibleman suffered from the same thing as the current [[Victim of the Week|kid in trouble]] to illustrate his humanity. Nowadays if any of the heroes catch the villain's bad ju-ju it's usually the sidekicks, and even then it's gotten pretty rare.

* [[Large Ham]]: All the villains, but Luxor Spawndroth in particular. Being evil looks so much fun when he's onscreen.

* [[Serious Business]]: It's a silly, campy, tongue-in-cheek and self-aware superhero show that teaches kids Christian values, life lessons, and Bible verses. Yet quite a lot of people have got a lot of serious issues with it and it's supposed "brainwashing" of children. Though to be fair, sometimes it's brought on itself (See [[Unfortunate Implications]].)

** Justified somewhat in the stuff they've been making since they replaced Willie, which is a lot closer to your standard superhero fare. The villains are a lot like they've always been, over the top and non-threatening, but a lot of the other silly stuff (the constant fourth wall breaking, the song and dance numbers, the overall off-the-wall goofiness) has been done away with. Bibleman's even taken out a few bad guys with a swing of his sword, whereas the Sword of the Spirit was purely a defensive/coolness-increasing implement in Willie's era.

* [[Tsundere]]: The computer UNICE sometimes, oddly enough. Particularly around Coats when he was around.

* [[Viewers are Morons]]: In the new show, the end credits seriously display Melody's name as "Melody/Mel." As if even children couldn't grasp that the one character whose name starts with "Mel" would be the one they're talking about when using the abbreviation. Particularly when the only name she has is her real one.