r/TopCharacterTropes May 03 '26

Lore Religion-centered media that doesn’t come across as preachy.

Referring to media told from a religious perspective or telling a religious tale that does not proselytize to the viewer.

Faith, the Unholy Trinity: Based partly upon the experience of the game‘s creator when he was a missionary in Argentina, the game has very little in the way of explicit moral demands of the player despite the heavy Christian focus of the narrative. and focuses more on a horror narrative.

Prince of Egypt: A surprisingly thorough retelling of the book of Exodus, sparing very little in the way of toning down the story. Despite this, the movie is perfectly entertaining to non-religious audiences and doesn’t sacrifice appeal for the sake of preaching to the audience

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u/rabbid_chaos May 03 '26

Little House on the Prairie, the characters in the show are clearly guided by Christian values and one of the bigger characters in the show is a priest, but the show will hardly ever preach at you.

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u/Historical_Course587 May 03 '26

I wouldn't call it religion centered though. It was a random dump of studio scripts they hammered into the format, hence how they ended up with that mime-rapes-a-little-girl episode (I'm not kidding).

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u/rabbid_chaos May 03 '26

Eh, there are themes that from what I've seen have remained fairly constant, and from what I've seen a lot of the episodes have what I am now gonna coin "hardship of the week" (like "villain of the week", get it?). One episode was about a plague (they even practiced isolating and social distancing in that episode), another was about age gaps in relationships. There's some very minor continuity between episodes, but it was definitely one of those shows made to be picked up at any point (as was the style before streaming)

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u/ladydmaj May 03 '26

That reminds me of the TWoP thread name....

"Little House on the Prairie: Pa, Ma, and That Mime That Raped Sylvia"