Weave these two things together:
the feature film Dragnet (1987), a spoof of the notoriously square TV police procedural
and
the video game Shin Megami Tensei IV, a well-regarded entry in the long-running JRPG franchise.
Dragnet posits a scenario wherein a Christian fundamentalist church and a Satanic temple are two faces of one scammy operation designed to keep the Vast Squishy Middle of the American public in a constant state of moral panic.
SMT IV puts the player into a sword-and-sorcery world divided between the Law of authoritarian angels and the Chaos of hyper-individualist devils with humanity as both the battlefield and the prize.
Both Dragnet and SMTIV seem to strongly encourage critical thinking and skepticism of bogus political and religious authorities on the part of the audience.
Humanity ought to be an end unto itself, and not the pawn of Heaven, Hell, religions, governments, etc.
Humans created governments, religions, gods, and devils-shouldn’t they work for us? If not . . . why permit them to exist? Why continue to submit to bullshit authority figures? It’s something worth thinking about.
I guess I’m imagining Dragnet DLC for SMTIV-a comedy module to enliven an otherwise serious, apocalyptic JRPG.
That could be something.
