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* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]:
** While watching this movie, it's too disturbing and depressing to notice this trope. It's darkly comical in hindsight though, just the sheer amount of violence [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]] puts Jesus through.
** He is beaten up by Jewish guards, slapped around by the Sanhedrin priests, beaten up by the people in the Temple, scourged so bad by Roman soldiers that his ribs are bared, has a crown of thorns put on his head (and pushed into his eyes), whipped through the streets while carrying a cross, beaten up and pelted with stones by Jewish mobs, and - after they dislocate his arm to fit the cross - he is finally nailed to the cross. It [[Crosses the Line Twice]] when the Roman officer orders his men to put the dying Jesus out of his misery by [[What an Idiot!|breaking his legs with a sledgehammer.]]<ref> Though, of course, the Bible says that when the soldiers saw that Jesus was already dead, they didn't break his legs.</ref>
*** Hey! That was intentional in crucifixions: break legs, and they can't push up to breathe, so they die of asphyxiation relatively quickly instead of ''days later''.
*** Yep. Breaking the legs was considered a "kindness" to not leave them suffering for days until they died of exposure or starvation.
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* [[Mis Blamed]]: The Anti-Semitic claims in particular and certain historical variances. Whatever Gibson's personal views this film is largely no better/no worse then [[The Bible|the work]] its based on. It enjoyed broad support from Church leaders across denominations precisely because it was felt to be a [[Just for Pun|faithful]] adaptation, and most support includes the note that they did ''not'' feel it promoted anti-Semitism, nor did they think it should have.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The entire film is this, but Satan and the demon children are especially disturbing.
** [[What Do You Mean
** Honorable mention goes to the monster beneath the bridge and the face-morphing children who harass Judas, too.
* [[No Such Thing As Bad Publicity]]: Part of why the film was a hit in the first place.
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*** This was how he was portrayed in [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s "[[Jesus Christ Superstar (Music)|Jesus Christ Superstar]]" musical. Guess Gibson liked that one.
** This may be just nitpicking but did it really look glorifying? It looked like it was trying to do the opposite and deconstruct the traditional portrayal of Jesus' death. Also, the title IS ''[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|The Passion of the Christ]]'': it was precisely about that most tragic and horrifying (if still heroic) climax of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
* [[What Do You Mean
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