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* ''[[Open Blue]]'' has the [[Church Militant|Three Inquisitional Orders]], which served as the Avelian Empire's Spanish Inquisition. When the inquisition ended, they continued to train their priests (and nuns) in the art of [[Warrior Monk|swinging swords around]] as they were frequently assigned as chaplains aboard Avelian warships, which usually went off hunting [[Pirates]]. Additionally, these priests and nuns are responsible for ''training'' the [[Cloak and Dagger|spies]] and [[State Sec]] agents working for the Empire's intelligence service.
* Spanish series of novels ''The Adventures of Captain [[Alatriste]]'' (and the movie, simply ''Alatriste'') feature the Inquisition as an antagonistic organization, represented mostly in Fray Emilio [[Meaningful Name|Bocanegra ("Black-Mouth")]] and his conspiracies.
* The ''[[
* Mentioned in the early books of [[Eric Flint]] and [[David Weber]]'s ''1632'' series, but comes to the fore in ''1634: The Galileo Affair''.
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has the Inquisition, a [[Church Militant|religious]] [[State Sec|paramilitary security force]] that protects the Imperium from its enemies within and enemies without. One branch (Ordo Malleus) deals with [[The Legions of Hell|daemons of Chaos]], another (Ordo Hereticus) with [[Superpower Meltdown|rogue psykers]] or [[The Heretic|outbreaks of heresy]], and a third (Ordo Xenos) from [[Fantastic Racism|alien corruption]]. The Inqusition's members have a fondness for [[Nice Hat|broad-brimmed hats]] (when they're not in full-blown [[Power Armor]]), and helped provide most of the ''40K'' contributions on the [[Quotes Wiki]] on the subject of [[Hanging Judge]].
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* While [[Requiem Chevalier Vampire]] doesn't have an actual Inquisition, some of the more notorious members show up as werewolves (including torquemada himself), the transformation for religious fanatics.
* Features prominently in any of [[Jack Chick]]'s comics about the Catholic Church and, like the life of Jesus is treated [[Artistic License History|as if almost noone has ever heard of it]].
* [[Don Quixote]]: The only contemporary example by an Spanish author (Cervantes) shows [[The Spanish Inquisition]] as an Institution responsible for ensuring that the Spanish captives by the Moors who returned to Spain did not present traces of having converted to Islam,and as a [[Moral Guardian]] full of [[Pitying Perversion]] for the masses at their charge when [[The Prankster|a noble]] makes a [[Practical Joke]] with an [[Deceptively
{{quote| ...this marvellous contrivance stood for some ten or twelve days; but that, as it became noised abroad through the city that he had in his house an enchanted head that answered all who asked questions of it, Don Antonio, fearing it might come to the ears of the [[The Spanish Inquisition|watchful sentinels of our faith, explained the matter to the inquisitors]], who commanded him to break it up and have done with it, [[Pitying Perversion|lest the ignorant vulgar should be scandalized]].}}
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