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== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==

* I love one piece of Fridge Brilliance in ''[[Dogma]]''. The Metatron expresses himself as a Seraphim, being the highest choir of angels. In angelology, one of the defining features of seraphim is that they cannot tell a lie -- ever. And that's ''exactly'' what the Metatron does. He almost compulsively answers with the truth to every question. Watch the film again; not once does he ever lie or fail to tell the truth to Bethany. When he's asked an inconvenient question, he always tells the truth -- but usually in a literal way. When Bethany asks him why God wants her to handle it: "Because of who you are." Bethany asks him, "And who am I?" The absolutely truthful answer would be, "Jesus Christ's descendant", but the Metatron's quick -- and strictly speaking, truthful -- reply is "The girl in the [[P Js]]! Stop asking so many questions!" -Saintheart

** The ending provides a quite literal example of [[Deus Ex Machina]] when Bethany pulls God off life support. God out of the machine indeed.

** {{spoiler|Asrael spends over a million years in hell because he can't think of a way to get himself out but promptly locks onto a plan to get Loki and Bartlby back into heaven, and Serendipidy goes from inspiring 9/10ths of the top grossing movies to being stranded in a strip club because she has writers block. As muses they were meant to inspire others, [[Creative Sterility|not themselves.]]}}

** [[Fridge Brilliance|What do you think]] {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|brought Norman to life in the first place]]?}}

** And let's go ahead and say it... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Holy Shit!]]

 

== [[Fridge Logic]] ==