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* The first part is probably fictional: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes The Prophecy of the Popes] claims to predict the Popes from the 12th century to the present, although the list didn't show up until the 16th century and everything prior to then is unusually accurate (TOW says it was a forgery to help get someone elected pope, but it didn't work). Nonetheless, it's fascinating to see the coincidences pile up; it's also interesting [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Benedict XVI seems to be the penultimate pope, and the last one will guide the church through [[The End of the World As We Know It]] (live long and prosper Benedict... ''please'').
** Technically, it only says it'd be the end of Rome as we know it. But let's face it, if any world city such as Rome were to "end" or be outright destroyed, it probably wouldn't mean anything good.
* Bennedict appears as the [[Big Good]] mentor figure in [[The Legend of Koizumi]], organizing a [[Five
* Several dead Popes appear in Dante's ''[[Divine Comedy]]'', both in Heaven and Hell.
* Sylvester appears in a short story by Richard Garnett called "The Demon Pope". The story posits that he made a [[Deal With the Devil]] as a student in order to become Pope, [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu|but manages to frame the bargain so he comes out on top and avoids losing his soul.]] The story also focuses on his great secular knowledge and contrasts him with the rest of the Vatican, which is portrayed as venal and ignorant.
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* After Rome is captured by the Seljuks in the [[Chaos Timeline (Literature)|Chaos Timeline]], he moves to France. Then, in the 18th century, when France becomes a secular republic, he has to flee to Spain, then to Britain when France conquers Spain... and finally to Antipodia (our ''Australia'') when Britain becomes Socialist.
* ''[[The Black Adder]]'' parodies the ... complex religious politics of the medieval period, by having Edmund excommunicated by "all three Popes".
** This is actually a [[Historical
** In ''Blackadder II'' we're told that a horse has become Pope in undisclosed circumstances, and in ''Blackadder The Third'' that a previous Pope, somewhat unexpectedly, married a milkmaid and became Amy Hardwood's Uncle Isaiah.
* In ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'', the Pope is referred to as "her". In ''[[Crusade (TV)|Crusade]]'', she is given the name Bernadette.
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* In ''Armageddon: The Musical'' by [[Robert Rankin]], Pope Joan is one of the three religious leaders who control the world through television. The others are Dalai Dan and L. Ron Hubbard the 23rd.
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' has the reptilian [[In Space|Space]] Pope, ''Crocodylus Pontifex''.
* The ''[[Dragon Age]]'' series has the Pope-in-all-but-name of the Chantry dubbed "the Divine". In a twist, though, all Divines are female. There is also the "Black Divine" ([[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]) of the Imperial Chantry.
* An automobile version of the Pope can be seen in the Italy scenes from the Pixar film [[Cars|''Cars 2'']], complete with an anthoropomorphic Popemobile.
** "Is the Popemobile Catholic?"
* The short-lived animated series ''Popetown'' features a Pope bordering on [[Psychopathic Manchild]] and Father Nicholas, the priest [[Badly
* Surprisingly enough, considering the role of the Roman Catholic Church as a primary antagonist during much of ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'', the Pope himself is actually somewhat of a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]. {{spoiler|When he learns of [[Man Behind the Man|Fiamma of the Right's]] plans to plunge the world into war to obtain the Holy Right, he tries but fails to stop him. Later on, he retakes control of the Catholic Church from God's Right Seat and cooperates with the Anglican and Russian churches to bring down the Star of Bethlehem, knowing full well that Fiamma's defeat would signal the end of God's Right Seat and the era of Catholic supremacy over Christianity.}}
* Pope John Paul II briefly appears as [[The Faceless]] in ''[[Father Ted]]''. Bishop Brennan has an audience with him and is catatonic up until the moment he is introduced to the Pope, where he exclaims "He ''did'' kick me up the arse!" and knocks the Pope over before screaming into a mobile phone, "Get my on the first plane back to Ireland! NOW, GOD DAMN IT!"
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