Talk:Bishop/@comment-2600:1702:1AD0:9480:10DB:8C32:B181:C423-20181105224550/@comment-1672596-20181109161814

Well, I can say ONE thing about the Bishop: He's pretty much Disney's version of Claude Frollo done right (I'll be honest, I was NOT impressed with how Disney turned him evil, not just for the fact that he wasn't even evil in the original book, but also viewing him as not even being evil enough in his acts. Despite what most Disney fans like to claim, he doesn't even hold a candle to Maleficent in sheer heinousness, if you ask me, she's closer to actually BEING the most evil villain in the franchise, most likely doing all his worst acts to a grander scale based on her title of "Mistress of All Evil".). Well, either him or Galenth Dysley/Barthandelus from Final Fantasy XIII or even Phillipe Augustine from Eternal Darkness (and the latter was literally a demon worshipper posing as a man of the church). Not to mention, at least Dracula actually WAS portrayed as ultimately redeemable (as he did make sure to avoid killing any wives and offspring of people who slighted him, prior to Lisa's death, anyway) compared to the Bishop and his actions, while Maleficent, her very first act in the film was cursing a baby to death, at best due to revenge for not being invited to a party by Stefan, and at worst simply for her own sick amusement, and made absolutely no attempt to undo the curse or even mitigate it (Frollo by contrast deliberately avoided killing Quasimodo as penance after he nearly did so and successfully did so to his mother).

Still, I have to admit, even though he is a truly disgusting individual, I do actually have to give him some chops for actually TRYING to adhere to God's teachings in the bible and enforce them (I have an aunt who loves her lesbian sister so much and wants her to experience marriage that she's supporting gay marriage, even though that's explicitly against God's laws and something He Himself explicitly stated had zero tolerance for, so I don't have much fondness for empathy especially when such leads to explicit violations on what God himself demands, especially not when said empathy is used in explicit violation of God's laws and what God himself wanted. Doesn't help either that a lot of people act like in order to have empathy for them, you have to support their acts despite God himself making clear they shouldn't be supported.). He's certainly better than his boss, who apparently doesn't even TRY to adhere to the church teachings due to being an overweight glutton and an implied pervert.