That movie where Russell Crowe plays an exorcist might have mixed up the Spanish and Dragon Age Inquisitions

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The Pope's Exorcist starring Russell Crowe is another one of those ambient movies for me, something whose ads I'll see on Instagram in between lifting videos, ads for nootropics, pictures of modded Game Boys, and ads for meal prep services. Seriously, like a lot of the stuff on streaming these days, it looks like a fake movie from the Simpsons or 30 Rock, though it does look like they've got a Dragon Age fan or two on the crew.

Can we talk about how «The Pope's Exorcist» (yeah that film with Russell Crowe) uses the inquisition symbol from DRAGON AGE INQUISITION as the real-world-spanish-inquisition symbol?(which was spotted by @DesFleursBleues ) pic.twitter.com/FubVAvNdsCMay 11, 2023

I first noticed the swap by way of Kelgrid(opens in new tab) and Fleur Bleue(opens in new tab) on Twitter, though WhyNow Gaming(opens in new tab) points out that xMoonxCakex(opens in new tab) on the Dragon Age subreddit clocked this even earlier. It looks like, in the course of his regular exorcising, Russell Crowe exercises his right to check out a spooky crypt tied to the Spanish Inquisition. You can tell it's the Spanish Inquisition because that's their symbol chiselled on the wall, only they actually put the symbol of the Dragon Age Inquisition up there.

Although the names may sound the same, the Dragon Age Inquisition was an (arguably) heroic organization that saved Thedas from the predations of the evil Corypheus, a primeval Tevinter magister who attempted to seize the throne of God. The Spanish Inquisition was an outgrowth of a long-standing Papal institution that was hijacked by the famous monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, to ethnically cleanse their newly reconquista-d nation and consolidate their power. It mostly persecuted Spain's