Crucified Hero Shot: Difference between revisions

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** Actually, more like the Jesus from ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]'', as he was at first in doubt about whether or not humans and Pokemon can survive together (due to a bad experience with his creator and Giovanni) before [[Disney Death|a very touching scene]] [[Heel Face Turn|caused him to change his views]] at the end of ''[[Pokémon the First Movie (Anime)|Pokémon the First Movie]]''.

*** Hmmm, son of the Pokémon Adam/Eve genetic predecessor to all Pokemon Mew, gifted with amazing powers, speaks actively of the corrupt relationship between man and Pokemon, hmm. Yeah, why not?

* In the manga version of ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', upon storming Michel's mountain lair, the mermaids are suddenly trapped upon crosses. {{spoiler|Kaito and Rihito run in to free them after the latter convinces the former to stop [[Achilles in His Tent|sulking]] about [[~~Its~~ All My Fault|not having been able]] to save Michal.}} Like most of [[Erotic Dream|the]] [[First Blood|manga's]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|objectionable]] [[Naked First Impression|scenes]], this is nowhere in the anime.

* In the manga version of ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', upon storming Michel's mountain lair, the mermaids are suddenly trapped upon crosses. {{spoiler|Kaito and Rihito run in to free them after the latter convinces the former to stop [[Achilles in His Tent|sulking]] about [[It's All My Fault|not having been able]] to save Michal.}} Like most of [[Erotic Dream|the]] [[First Blood|manga's]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|objectionable]] [[Naked First Impression|scenes]], this is nowhere in the anime.

* In the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' anime, Dante is briefly crucified by the [[Big Bad]] in the [[Bonus Level of Hell|demon world]]. However, he is too [[Badass]] to stay there for long.

* Parodied in ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]'', Poemi finds her parents crucified and manages to actually knock down the crosses, leading her to repeat the shot, with über-dramatic sound effects to boot. Extra points for the scene taking place [[Against the Setting Sun]].

** Nabeshin is the [[Mary Sue|Mary-Sue Messiah]]. He died for the sins of your transparent self-insertion fanfic.

* No fewer than three characters in ''[[D Gray Man]]'' have been crucified by the villains, although one might have just been tied up in that position, and one was nailed to a clock. General [[Spell My Name With an S|Yeeger]] was crucified as a message to the heroes.

* No fewer than three characters in ''[[D Gray Man]]'' have been crucified by the villains, although one might have just been tied up in that position, and one was nailed to a clock. General [[Spell My Name With an "S"|Yeeger]] was crucified as a message to the heroes.

** Considering [[Church Militant|the nature of the group they belong to]], it's probably intended as mockery.

* Nao does this to {{spoiler|Natsuki}} in ''[[Mai-HiME (Anime)|Mai-HiME]]'', tying her up in an arms-outstretched pose within her CHILD to use as bait for {{spoiler|Shizuru}}.

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* ''[[Last Exile]]'', the last episode, Alex Rowe. Tortured to death (sort of, basically), he ends up looking more-or-less crucified. Held in place by thorns.

** And in the sequel, ''[[Last Exile Fam the Silver Wing]]", Princess Liliana is shown crucified in the OP, but whether it's symbolic or representative of a later scene isn't clear yet.

* ''[[Akagi]]'' gets subjected to one of these. It's symbolic for a game of [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome|mahjong]].

* ''[[Akagi]]'' gets subjected to one of these. It's symbolic for a game of [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|mahjong]].

* Vita in Episode 9 of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'' is suspended in mid-air in this position when she's {{spoiler|captured by the [[Mysterious Protector|Mysterious Protectors]] and [[Break the Cutie|executed in front of Hayate]]}}.

* A scene in the ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' anime had Satoshi in a feathery transformation scene, hanging from nothing in this postion.

* One of the rare cases where it's explicitly used as [[Cold Blooded Torture]], the Meakashi-hen chapter of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' sees {{spoiler|Shion put Satoko up on a cross and then repeatedly stab her in the arms}}. Remind you of anything?

* One of the rare cases where it's explicitly used as [[Cold-Blooded Torture]], the Meakashi-hen chapter of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' sees {{spoiler|Shion put Satoko up on a cross and then repeatedly stab her in the arms}}. Remind you of anything?

* At one point in the ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' anime, Chrono charges at the [[Big Bad]] but an explosion sends him flying backwards, in slow motion, with his arms outspread. When he lands on the ground, he's buried under rubble from the building he was in--including a steel, cross-shaped beam marking the spot where he's buried.

** There's also a promo art piece for the anime that shows Joshua bound to a cross, and a scene in the manga where Chrono is kept in a cross-like restraining device {{spoiler|when the Order imprisons him}}.

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*** Plus, Wolverine got crucified by the Reavers at one point.

* [[Superman]]'s first appearance in ''[[Kingdom Come]]'' is obviously an homage to the cover of ''Superman'' #1, but it's also a bit of a [[Crucified Hero Shot]], especially if you note the nails in his pocket. [[Word of God]] from [[Alex Ross]] is that this was intentional.

* The classic [[Green Lantern]]/[[Green Arrow]] #89 features an [[Green Aesop|environmental activist]] named [[The Messiah|Joshua]] who is trying to stop an [[Evil Inc|evil corporation]]. And just in case that's [[Anvilicious|too subtle]], '''[http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image_cover/GreenLantern_Arrow_Jesus.jpg this]''' is the cover.

* The classic [[Green Lantern]]/[[Green Arrow]] #89 features an [[Green Aesop|environmental activist]] named [[The Messiah|Joshua]] who is trying to stop an [[Evil, Inc.|evil corporation]]. And just in case that's [[Anvilicious|too subtle]], '''[http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image_cover/GreenLantern_Arrow_Jesus.jpg this]''' is the cover.

* ''[[The Invisibles (Comic Book)|The Invisibles]]'' has plenty of these, but a particularly significant one occurs when [[Dane Mc Gowan]] (aka "Jack Frost") is floating in space during his "alien abduction" (contact w/Barbelith). A disembodied voice comments that this imagery was chosen for Dane because of his lapsed-Catholic background.

* Jon Osterman has this pose as he is being disintegrated in ''[[Watchmen (Comic Book)|Watchmen]]'', then pulls a similar pose when reborn as Dr. Manhattan.

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* ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'' has the title character assume one of these at the conclusion of the egg-eating contest.

* ''[[The Matrix]]'', [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|naturally]].

* ''[[Goldeneye (Film)|Goldeneye]]'': Curiously, the evil [[Combat Sadomasochist]] ends up dying stuck in a tree in this manner. [[Bond One Liner|Though the heroes' reaction quickly destroys any thought of comparison.]]

* ''[[Goldeneye (Film)|Goldeneye]]'': Curiously, the evil [[Combat Sadomasochist]] ends up dying stuck in a tree in this manner. [[Bond One-Liner|Though the heroes' reaction quickly destroys any thought of comparison.]]

* The main character from the film ''[[Three Hundred|300]]''. Crucifixion was popular back then. According to Herodotus, Xerxes was so angry that he had old Leo's corpse beheaded and nailed to a piece of wood.

* ''[[Gladiator (Film)|Gladiator]]'' has Commodus subjecting the protagonist's wife and little boy to this horrible fate (and after having the wife gangraped, no less), making him a [[Complete Monster]] even by Roman standards.

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* ''[[Superman Returns]]'': The falling-from-orbit scene. Further driving the Christ metaphor is his also getting ''stabbed in his side'' with a piece of Kryptonite in a prior scene. While one of Lex Luthor's [[Mooks]] ''holds him up with his arms outstretched'', even. The movie doesn't specify that he convalesces for three days in the hospital afterwards before reviving, but it can easily be inferred.

** Richard Donner started it in the [[Superman (Film)|first movie]], way back in '78:

{{quote| '''Jor-El''': They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... [[Does This Remind You of Anything|my only son.]]}}

{{quote| '''Jor-El''': They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|my only son.]]}}

* In ''[[Blood Lust]]'' (featured in an episode of [[MST3K]]), the evil man-hunting [[Big Bad]] gets impaled (through the hands) on a spiked rack (with arms outstretched) by one of his dying henchmen. Which inspires this comment from Tom Servo:

{{quote| '''Servo:''' So, why ''this'' symbolism? Did Christ hunt people on deserted islands?}}

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* ''[[The Lawnmower Man]]'' had this; Pierce Brosnan's character shows up in cyberspace, and Job first says "I am God here", and then handwaves Brosnan's avatar into a crucifixion pose. [[Take That|Rather a pity they couldn't have done the same to the film's director.]]

* In ''[[Terminator (Film)|Terminator Salvation]]'', Sam Worthington's character is suspended on cross-shaped devices ''twice''.

* ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'': In the Al Pacino film version, during the court scene, Antonio repeatedly consigns himself to death, and then is stripped of his clothes, strapped down with his arms outstretched, and then waits helplessly while Shylock, a Jew, is about to kill him. For bonus points, Antonio is wearing a large crucifix around his neck. Real subtle, director. So much for modern interpretations of the play making Shylock less of a [[Card Carrying Villain]].

* ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'': In the Al Pacino film version, during the court scene, Antonio repeatedly consigns himself to death, and then is stripped of his clothes, strapped down with his arms outstretched, and then waits helplessly while Shylock, a Jew, is about to kill him. For bonus points, Antonio is wearing a large crucifix around his neck. Real subtle, director. So much for modern interpretations of the play making Shylock less of a [[Card-Carrying Villain]].

* The 2000 ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' has Judas, of all people, strike this pose shortly before hanging himself.

* 2009's ''[[Solomon Kane]]'' movie has Solomon literally crucified... and then he forces himself dramatically off it in the most ridiculous fashion.

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** And in the Japanese version of ''Origins'', after {{spoiler|turning into an afterling and being captured by the Machina Vanguard}} Sagi is attached to a cross. In the American version it was changed to a rectangle, but he's still hanging in a crucified position.

* In one of the later levels of ''[[Second Sight]],'' Pieter, one of the Zener Children, takes this pose when fighting off the Russian mercenaries with his telekinetic powers. [[Power Floats|He's also levitating.]]

* ''[[Wild Arms 2 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 2]]'': Ashley's friends are bound to crosses and would have been [[The Scapegoat|executed as terrorists]] had [[Deus Ex Machina]] not happened and Ashley's [[Super Powered Evil Side]] decided to come out to play.

* ''[[Wild Arms 2 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 2]]'': Ashley's friends are bound to crosses and would have been [[The Scapegoat|executed as terrorists]] had [[Deus Ex Machina]] not happened and Ashley's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] decided to come out to play.

* In ''[[.hack|.hack//Infection]]'', Skeith pins his victims up to his staff before Data Draining them. This is better seen when Skeith Data Drains Orca in the very beginning of the game. Played totally straight in the Japanese version, and some of the anime where Skeith's staff is in the shape of a Celtic cross instead of the "Q" shape.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]],'' Squall gets chained to a wall in this pose and subjected to [[Electric Torture]] during the disc 2 prison sequence.