D&D 5E Best on screen adaptations of the D&D cleric

[Arilyn]

Well actually, Thor is a deity..

 

[ad_hoc]

Well actually, Thor is a deity..

Not in D&D terms.

And in the MCU he is only a deity to humans hundreds of years ago. He is either an avenger or an Asgardian to everyone else.

 

[Sacrosanct]

His primary concern is whether he is judged to be worthy. Sounds like a cleric to me.

Man, I know a lot of clerics then

 

[Minigiant]

In the MCU, Thor is an alien with tech that is basically magic. He was just a special version of that race that had storm powers but needed a magic weapon to get those powers to work well. But that weapon had a code restriction.

So Thor is either a Asgardian cleric of Thor or a Asgardian paladin of Mjolnir. Closer to the former to me.

 

[Tonguez]

In the MCU, Thor is an alien with tech that is basically magic. He was just a special version of that race that had storm powers but needed a magic weapon to get those powers to work well. But that weapon had a code restriction.

So Thor is either a Asgardian cleric of Thor or a Asgardian paladin of Mjolnir. Closer to the former to me.

After Odins death Thor and Heimdall both pray to the “Allfathers” so it appears that Asgardians practice ancestor worship (or more likely King worship). Thor is/was the future Allfather of the Asgardians but I’m not sure what his abdication to Valkyrie might mean.

 

[Minigiant]

After Odins death Thor and Heimdall both pray to the “Allfathers” so it appears that Asgardians practice ancestor worship (or more likely King worship). Thor is/was the future Allfather of the Asgardians but I’m not sure what his abdication to Valkyrie might mean.

It's most likely that Asgardians practice worship of all their kings. Odin reveres his father and grandfather and takes Thor's hammer away in their name. And one could say Mjolnir's code of worthiness was just Odin's way of making sure Thor acted like a proper king.

Kinda want a Kings Domain now.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If you aren't allowed on screen depictions of people from real Earth religions, then I say that Melisandre or Thoros from Game of Thrones are some of the best depictions of a D&D cleric on a screen in the last 10 years.

Add int your favorite religious vampire hunter and you have 2 of your picks right there.

Yup, I would say Melisandre is the only truly D&Dish cleric.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Oooh, good call. In the Director's Cut, he even (maybe) does some healing/raise dead.

I like David Thewlis’s Templar from kingdom of God!

I remember being so excited that Mike McShane from Who's Line Is It Anyway? was in the movie. For an adventuring cleric, you could do a lot worse than this worldly and garrulous friar.

Friar Tuck, specifically from the Kevin Costner version of Robin Hood.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Yup, I would say Melisandre is the only truly D&Dish cleric.

Thoros with its flaming sword and the dudes from the Faceless temple where Arya was trained can both be good cleric (light or forge for the first, trickery for the others)

 

[Krachek]

MCU Thanos