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Tends to provoke the joke "[character] died for your sins!"
 
A [[Sub -Trope]] of [[Rule of Symbolism]] (unless an example is [[Faux Symbolism]]).
 
Compare [[Pieta Plagiarism|Pietà Plagiarism]], [[Creepy Cool Crosses]], [[Background Halo]].
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* Charlton Heston in ''[[The Omega Man]]'' pulls a crucifixion death pose in the final scene of the film, and Vincent Price is speared to death at the foot of a cross in ''The Last Man on Earth.'' Despite both being adaptations of ''[[I Am Legend]]'', which does not employ this trope, the two films share little else in common.
* ''[[Uncle Toms Cabin]]'', the movie version, uses this trope to show Tom's heroic sacrifice.
* For some completely inexplicable reason, the villain Bullseye gets this in the movie ''[[Daredevil]]''. It comes complete with wounds on the hands that resemble stigmata, and the entire fight scene [[Bloodstained -Glass Windows|takes place in a church]].
** He's Irish, isn't he? To Brits, that tends to imply Catholicism- not sure if the director was aware of that.
* In ''[[Fantastic Four (Film)|Fantastic Four]]: Rise of the Silver Surfer'', this is the Silver Surfer's pose during {{spoiler|the sacrifice made to defeat (or possibly repel) Galactus}}.
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** And in the pilot episode, when he's Kryptonited and strung up as the "scarecrow".
** And then again in the episode 'Salvation' after being stabbed by Blue Kryptonite whilst falling from a great height.
* This is subverted in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', where it's Gaius Baltar, the villain, who's seen at least once a season in a Christlike pose. In the third season, it's even somewhat of an inside joke, as actor James Callis was playing Pilate in a movie and had grown a full beard and long hair (explained in the show by throwing Baltar in prison).
** And in the very next season, his side is pierced by a <s> lance</s> piece of shrapnel.
* Captain Jack from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' strikes a Jesus Christ Pose when it's time for him to die. Later, after being resurrected, he gets shot again (he's ''[[Immune to Bullets]]'', so he survives) and strikes another Jesus Christ Pose. He has no real need to the second time, perhaps he just enjoys it.
** The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''/''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' team love this. Jack casts his arms wide and screams in agony as the Abaddon (yep, "Hell", or "Death" or "The Devil") drains the life force out of him leaving him apparently dead for days before he gets up and says "''I forgive you''" to the man who betrayed him. He also pulled this pose the first time he died and on several times since, and may just be found of using it. Martha Jones gets strapped to a cross-shaped bed while being medically tortured... it goes on and on and on and on, and unbelievably on.
** In the ''Doctor Who'' [[Made for TV Movie]], the Master straps the Doctor into a regeneration-syphoning machine in the Jesus pose. Then he drives a nasty looking circle of electrodes into his head, which may or may not have been intended to resemble the Crown of Thorns. Ironically, this all occurred ''after'' he'd woken up in the morgue and cast off his burial shroud...
* Spike does this in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Restless" during a photo-shoot. It's just one of many 'badass' poses he does, but it's significant in terms of Whedon's crazy long foreshadowing. He makes his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] three seasons later!
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