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== Deborah ==
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* [[Action Girl]]: She got her job as judge/ruler by acting when the men would not.
* [[Animal Theme Naming]]: Her name means bee.
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Deborah is the brains to Barak's Brawn; Without her at his side guiding him every step of the way, he wouldn't have gone to war.
* [[Iron Lady]]: She was nearly unstoppable in battle
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== Yael ==
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* [[Guile Hero
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Tent pegs!
* [[More Deadly Than the Male]]: Tricks Sisera into trusting her, lulls him to sleep with warm milk, and then brutally drives a tent stake through his temples.
* [[Spell My Name
== Barak ==
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: His name means "lightning".
* [[Brains and Brawn]]
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== Gideon ==
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* [[Offered the Crown]]: After the big battle he won with only 300 men.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Initially was skeptical and wanted God to prove He is who He says he is by "putting out a fleece".
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== Samson ==
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* [[Achilles' Heel]]: His hair.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]]
* [[Badass]]
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* [[Cherry Tapping]]: 1,000 kill count.....with a jawbone of an donkey.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: And God helps him.
* [[Explaining Your Power to
* [[Eye Scream]]: The Philistines stab out his eyes.
* [[Fake Weakness]]: He made up several of these to tell Delilah, after she asked the secret of his strength. Somehow he never figured out why, whenever he told her one, some Philistines would always try to use it on him...
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* [[MacGuffin]]: His hair. If his head is ever shaved, he loses his strength. This is perhaps a case of divine irony since not getting a haircut is the only Nazirite vow Samson has kept, the other two being not drinking and not touching a dead thing. [[Fridge Brilliance|He lost his strength not because he cut his hair but because he disobeyed God for the last time. He was also drunk when his hair was cut.]]
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: The subversion of the type. His birth is announced by an angel and raised a Nazirite (puritan Hebrew) yet broke its traditions simply because he was the [[Chosen One]], his battles are more like the antics of a super powered college prankster and his motivation to finally beat the Philistines was personal revenge.
* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: Well, he sure wasn't [[The Cape (trope)]].
* [[One-Man Army]]
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Kinda. He did smash the two pillars of the Philistine temple, killing over 3000.
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* [[Stellar Name]]: Means "Sun".
* [[Super Strength]]: The Jewish Archetype
* [[Taking You
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: He eventually gives in to Delilah and tells her the secret of his strength, leading to his capture by the Philistines.
* [[Touched
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Everyone knows about his hair.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: God blessing Samson was all part of the plan.
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