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* Played with in ''Missionaries'' (by Lyubov and Yevgeny Lukin). Caravels show up in Oceania, and there's missionaries in addition to adventurers. [[The Dung Ages|Not quite nice or cool people]]. Only, there's a catch. A few nerdy guys found a portal into the past (turned out to be [[Alternate Universe]] instead) and tried to stop European colonization... via giving to-be-colonized [[Noble Savage|savages]] a "[[Bamboo Technology|better fighting chance]]"... but local development [[He Who Fights Monsters|overdid it]].
* The 1919 film ''[[Broken Blossoms]]'' features a Buddhist missionary working in a Western country... it [[Tear Jerker|does not end well.]]
* Mightily Oats, at the end of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', sets out to be this in Uberwald. In the [[Backstory]] of ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'', we learn that he succeeded.
** Sort of, he seems to be much more focused on fighting evil and righting wrongs then gaining converts.
*** In a place like Uberwald, what's the best way of gaining converts? Nutt was "born again" after meeting him.
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