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Such a pattern will continue throughout the tale until the monster is out of sinful meat and will be forced to finally make an attack against the designated protagonists. By the end of the tale, the only people left standing will be those who comfortably fit into a mainstream, chaste, god-fearing ideal, and the monster has [[Lowered Monster Difficulty|run out of the "instant death" moves that allowed it to kill a normal human being before they even realized it.]] |
Such a pattern will continue throughout the tale until the monster is out of sinful meat and will be forced to finally make an attack against the designated protagonists. By the end of the tale, the only people left standing will be those who comfortably fit into a mainstream, chaste, god-fearing ideal, and the monster has [[Lowered Monster Difficulty|run out of the "instant death" moves that allowed it to kill a normal human being before they even realized it.]] |
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A close relative of [[Karmic Death]], except that victims of The Scourge |
A close relative of [[Karmic Death]], except that victims of '''The Scourge of God''' generally aren't [[Asshole Victim]]s, instead being "guilty" of comparatively minor foibles. One is left with the impression that the [[Big Bad]], whomever they are, is the arbiter of some decidedly twisted god's justice, and that those who perished are somehow supposed to have deserved their fate. Occasionally, though, the "guilt" of these crimes can spill over to the innocent as either a parable for these original sins being so bad that others suffer too, or to include an [[Anyone Can Die]] vibe. |
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The name comes from the Romans' [[sobriquet]] for [[Attila the Hun]], claiming that his success at pillaging half their empire was God's punishment on the wicked. |
The name comes from the Romans' [[sobriquet]] for [[Attila the Hun]], claiming that his success at pillaging half their empire was God's punishment on the wicked. |
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It is especially notable and ironic that even director [[John Carpenter]], who essentially caused the "boom" in the masked slasher genre by making the film ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'', was often mistaken to have been making a statement about promiscuity. Quite the opposite in fact, Carpenter has said on many occasions; the characters who were picked off during or after sex were only so treated because they were distracted and not concentrating on what was happening, not because he wanted to make any sort of moral statement. The main survivor of the teens in the film survived despite having partaken in illicit drugs earlier in the film, for example, but was collected enough to survive a run-in with a masked maniac (with a fortunate chance stop-in of a psychiatrist with a vendetta, armed with a gun, who ended the encounter and saved her life). Similarly, in the first ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13th]]'', the survivor partakes in illicit drugs and, in the original script, a premarital affair. The survivor being a chaste and pure character is something that has occurred with the [[Flanderization]] of the genre. |
It is especially notable and ironic that even director [[John Carpenter]], who essentially caused the "boom" in the masked slasher genre by making the film ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'', was often mistaken to have been making a statement about promiscuity. Quite the opposite in fact, Carpenter has said on many occasions; the characters who were picked off during or after sex were only so treated because they were distracted and not concentrating on what was happening, not because he wanted to make any sort of moral statement. The main survivor of the teens in the film survived despite having partaken in illicit drugs earlier in the film, for example, but was collected enough to survive a run-in with a masked maniac (with a fortunate chance stop-in of a psychiatrist with a vendetta, armed with a gun, who ended the encounter and saved her life). Similarly, in the first ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13th]]'', the survivor partakes in illicit drugs and, in the original script, a premarital affair. The survivor being a chaste and pure character is something that has occurred with the [[Flanderization]] of the genre. |
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See [[Death by Sex]], [[ |
See [[Death by Sex]], [[Promethean Punishment]]. If the "god" is implied to be the Earth itself in retaliation for environmental damage, this is [[Gaia's Vengeance]]. Unrelated to [[Word of God]] or [[Shrug of God]]. |
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