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''He's got the saints and apostles backin' up from behind''
''Black-eyed looks from those Bible books''
''He's a man with a mission, got a serious mind''|'''The [[Eurythmics]]''', ''Missionary Man''}}
 
To go with the more simple definition, a missionary is someone who travels far away from home on a religious expedition to another culture. The vast majority of the time, it is making efforts to convert the locals to their faith. While, obviously, dedicated to his religion, he can be anywhere on the range from [[Sinister Minister]] to [[Good Shepherd]].
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Modern variants include [[Hollywood Jehovah's Witness]] and [[Knocking on Heathens' Door]].
{{examples|Examples of Missionaries in Fiction}}
 
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* ''[[Rambo]]'': In the fourth film a bunch of Christian missionaries were pretty much the [[MacGuffin]] for Rambo to go do his thing.
* The movie ''Black Robe'' and...
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