The Messiah: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Nausicaa is the thread that joins us all together. Us, the Doroks, even Kushana and the wormhandlers. Without Nausicaa, we would only quarrel and splinter."''

 

The main character, simply put, [[Love You and Everybody|loves everyone]]. Loves them with a deep, spiritual love that means they will shake heaven and earth, destroy gods and planets, bring nations to their knees, etc. [[The Dulcinea Effect|for the person they just met yesterday]]. They will [[Horrible Judge of Character|believe the best]] of [[The Ingenue|everyone]], and constantly give someone [[Last Second Chance|a second chance]] (though they ''will'' defeat the [[Big Bad]]). They repay [[Turn the Other Cheek|cruelty with kindness and anger with calm]], as long as the attacks are only against them—they're ''not'' forgiving of harm done to others. They are the ones who will suffer for the sins of their loved ones. Most people think they're insane, but somehow they pull it off. Even [[Mary Sue]] and [[Marty Stu]] are impressed.

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Usagi Tsukino from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', though she started as [[The Fool]]. Not only that, she actually gets ''called'' the Messiah later.

*** And if you want to know how much of a Messiah Usagi is in the live-action ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'', look for signs from ''the second episode''. You've definitely got a Messiah in play when, in the middle of a fight, she's hanging by one arm off a balcony and trying to convince the next senshi-to-be ''[[Screw Destiny|not to become a senshi if she doesn't want to]]'', using lines like "Don't worry, it'll work out somehow!"

** Mistress 9 is [[The Antichrist]] to Usagi's Messiah, unless of course you want to be comprehensive and cover the other seasons, and then it's Chaos.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Bobby from the ''Pendragon'' series. He seems to be able to make friends with all of travelers in every world in a matter of minutes of meeting them. And, it was said on more then one occasion he would be the only one to beat Saint Dane. {{spoiler|He does.}}

* Andy Dufresne, the main character of [[Stephen King]]'s story ''Rita Hayworth and [[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' is The Messiah of the story, which is remarkable considering the near hopeless circumstances that he finds himself in (one might even interpret him as [[The Woobie]]). There are several symbolic parallels between him and Jesus Christ which shape the entire message of the book, that "hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies".

* The titular character of ''[[Harry Potter]]''.

* Also by Dostoevsky: Sofya from ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'', anyone?

* Again from Dostoevsky: Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin from ''[[The Idiot]]'' is a much darker interpretation of this character type. Myshkin himself is, of course, kind and full of love for humanity—which leads most everyone he meets to assume he's a fool and try to take advantage of him. {{spoiler|Then Myshkin himself ends up hurting Aglaya when a climactic [[Moral Dilemma]] forces him to choose between his love for Agalya and his pity for the fallen Nastasya.}}

* Eriond in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' and ''[[The Malloreon]]''. He's a small child in the former, although he is very trusting and generous. (He's been raised to be a complete innocent, so that he can handle The Orb, which tends to destroy anyone who touches it with less than completely pure motives.) By ''The Malloreon'' he's grown into the position. He's very mild in temperament, and even when he gets very angry (at one point they're in a Temple of Torak and a major sacrifice ritual (human, of course) is going on all he does is put out the temple fires—since if the hearts can't be burned, there's no way to continue the sacrifices.)

* Finny in ''[[A Separate Peace]]'', who never sees anyone as an enemy, and believes that "when you really love something, then it has to love you back, in whatever way it has to love." Many readers (and English teachers) see him as a [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|Christ figure]].

* ''[[Les Misérables (novel)|Les Misérables]]'': Jean Valjean, who in turn learned forgiveness from the Bishop of Digne after 19 years of prison made Valjean bitter and hateful.

* Samuel Pickwick, Esq. from ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''. It's the main reason he's funny.

* ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'': Leslie Knope is such a generous, thoughtful, hardworking person, and so beloved by her friends and co-workers, that she might as well be characterized as the Messiah from Pawnee.

* Inverted in ''[[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters]]''. Messiah is the name of the [[Big Bad]].

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Mithra from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', who has shown no contempt for her imprisonment and immediately forgives her Uncle Yasha for going along with the plot of the Seven Deities.

 

* Mary in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]'', who will even cry for the monsters trying to kill her and beg M not to kill them. She's pretty tough when it comes down to it, though, but that attitude only strengthens with time.

* Masayuki in ''[[A Profile]]'' ''refuses'' to see the bad in people and places. People don't really know how to treat him because of it. One the one hand, it's kind of admirable, but on the other it's very difficult to understand or, in some cases, to tolerate.

 

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