Preacher: 8 Extreme Moments That Won't Happen On TV
1. The Messiah Is An Inbred Simpleton
Preacher's depiction of God isn't the only thing that got the Christian right-wingers up in arms, his son (or more accurately, his ancestors) came in for an even worse time.
In the comic, The Grail were an ancient organization charged with preserving the bloodline of Christ - who in this story was saved from the cross, sired a family, and then died at age 43 when he was run over by an offal cart - so that one day the Messiah could be unveiled to the world. The problem is, all that "preserving" resulted in a last scion with SEVERE mental disability. The poor wretch and his sister are usually kept locked in a cage from which they fling their own faeces at people.
Yeah... this ain't happening folks. Some of the other things on the list might make the cut with some alterations here and there, but how many different ways can you present an inbred, monobrowed messiah who's catchphrase is "suffer the little children! humperdumper-doo"?