Category:Dark Priests

"Dark Priests" are a type of villain that is popular in many media and despite its name does not require the character to be an actual priest - any member of any clergy is appliable for this position: unlike the Fanatic a "Dark Priest" uses his position to knowingly commit crimes that are deeply at odds with his religion, often they will try to convince themselves they are doing good but other times they may simply not care at all.

What makes a "Dark Priest" so dangerous is that despite his obvious evil he can still hold great power in others and due to his status as a "man of the cloth" he is often hard for a protagonist to counter without risking public backlash (especially if the setting is in the past, when the clergy had greater control than they do today).