Church Militant: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|Recent events reveal that Justin has apparently turned his allegiance to the other side. Oh, and his new boss has kidnapped the Jesus of his religion.}}

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': Prussia's origins as the Monastic State of [[The Teutonic Knights]] are acknowledged in his bio and some strips. Though God doesn't really seem to like him.

* Meg from ''[[Tetragrammaton Labyrinth]]'' is a nun who fights against demons with guns both [[Small Girl, Big Gun|big]] and small.

* ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]''. Necessarius and most of the Church Organizations in Necessarius are a group of battle-priest/mages that protects England and the Puritan Church from any magical and scientific threat by using the one thing they tried to destroy in the past: Magic. They're also responsible for the compilation of Index-Librorium-Prohibitrum in Index's mind. There are three notorious Churches:

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Warrior Nun Areala]]'' by Ben Dunn, an [[Animesque]] comic focusing on a Catholic order of monster hunters. Before anime/manga (like [[Chrono Crusade]]) or western comics, this series was the first to focus on such a topic.

** In an at-best utterly forgettable storyline, Nightcrawler takes steps to become a priest.<ref>- click to reveal:It turns out he's been mentally controlled into thinking he's becoming a priest by an extremely militant vaguely Catholic organization that plans to make him pope, and then use some sort of explosive-laced communion wafer that disintegrates people. This will then be the sign that the rapture has come and Nightcrawler's image inducer will be short-circuited, revealing his demonic appearance and leading everyone to believe the anti-Christ has taken over the church. Of course, Catholics don't actually believe in the Rapture, but still... anyway, it features a very militant church attempting to effectively take over the world. In the most badly-written way imaginable.</ref>

* The ''[[Evangeline]]'' comics.

* The ''[[Cyber Europe]]'' expansion to Iron Crown's ''[[Cyberspace]]'' RPG introduces some hotshot special forces of the Vatican, such as the ''Apostolic Carabiniers'' SWAT unit and a Mission-Impossible-ish intelligence service, of course managed by Jesuits. And, BTW, these organizations are consistently portrayed as (reasonably) [[Good Guys]], which is surprising since the authors are all Swedes.

* ''[[Exalted]]'''s Immaculate Order is what happens when you take this trope, add [[Warrior Monk]], [[Supernatural Martial Arts]], and [[Elemental Powers]], and stir vigorously.

* The Boros Legion from ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'''s Ravnica setting.

** Additionally, the Cathars of the Church of Avacyn on Innistrad, [[Gothic Horror|by]] [[Crapsack World|necessity]]. In fact, the angels in Innistrad are also divided into several groups, and one of them, the Goldnight, is a Church Militant group.

* The Vatican church of ''[[Cry Havoc]]'' employs teams of vampire and deamon hunters. They're preferred weapons are automatic air burst grenade launchers, broadswords, helicopter gunships and strike bombers. The only competing religion, the Norse based Aesir church, is implied to be even more aggressive with its methods.

* Remember how it's mentioned in ''[[Hellsing]]'' above that Protestants and Catholics each do this when not fighting each other? [[Stephen Colbert]] used to be among the Catholic numbers in ''[[And Shine Heaven Now]]'' (though most of the details are in the pseudo-sequel ''[[The Eagle of Hermes]]''.

* The Veiled in ''[[Digger]]'', a military organization devoted to defending [[All Myths Are True|all gods]]. Murai puts it nicely:

{{quote|'''Murai:''' Our specialties are hand-to-hand combat and comparative theology.}}

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has Corbettite Monk Order, devoted to a modest and admirable task of keeping travel safe and making trains run on time. Of course, they get to do it across the Europa, pieces of which are owned by [[Mad Scientist]]s and mundane (but [[Royally Screwed-Up|often no less crazy]], and sneaky enough to compete with them) nobles... and most places that are ''not'' heavily policed are swarming with their runaway monsters, including [[Spider Tank|huge and mechanical]] ones... On the upside, the less-deranged mad scientists understand benefits of having around someone dedicated to keep communications running. And some even join them. So the monks are ready to [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140625 clear the path with fire] - and if a train is attacked, brothers [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140829 whip out] ray guns, and [[Powered Armor]], and some [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140905 field artillery]. The monastery depots, in addition to their own manufacturing capabilities, store both things donated to the monks and trophies, so these are much better protected, of course.