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* ''[[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. |
* ''[[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. |
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* Inverted in ''[[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters]]''. Messiah is the name of the [[Big Bad]]. |
* Inverted in ''[[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters]]''. Messiah is the name of the [[Big Bad]]. |
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== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends == |
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* The [[Trope Namer]] is [[Jesus]] of Nazareth, from the [[Flanderized]] portrayal focusing on his exhortations to give and to forgive after time stripped them of their apocalyptic context. |
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* Rama, in ''[[Ramayana]]''. When a plot causes his rightful throne to go to his brother Bharata, Rama is delighted for his brother's good fortune, without any concern for his own loss of status. When he's exiled by this same plot, he has to talk ''the entire country'' (including Bharata) out of coming with him. He collects allies everywhere he goes, just by dint of his goodness. Rama and Sita are supposed to be the great lovers beyond time and space, but the effect is more that Rama loves everyone, everyone loves Rama, and Sita is a member of "everyone". |
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== [[Tabletop Games]] == |
== [[Tabletop Games]] == |
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