King Herod

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**King Herod** is the opening antagonist of *The New Testament*. Although real people cannot be on the wiki, this is a fictionalized version of Herod, as a classical historian states that unlike most of the Christian scripture, this tale specifically is not history but myth. He is a tyrant who is determined to kill Jesus Christ as a baby out of paranoia of having to end his reign early.

## What Makes Him Pathetic?

* It is heavily implied that he only successfully obtained his power because his father had a successful life.
* When the wise men visit him, he becomes horrified since he never indicated he was retiring and because he jealously wishes he has a giant star of his own too. So he manipulatively tells them he would love to meet this tiny king face to face.
* When the wise men go home another way, he becomes unimaginably salty. So he orders Jesus be killed so he can't grow up and challenge him. To make sure, he kills every baby in Bethlehem and its vicinity. He doesn't know which one is Jesus, and he doesn't care. This becomes known as the Massacre of the Innocents.
* He eventually goes crazy and dies without accomplishing anything.
* He has absolutely nothing to gain from his crimes. If Jesus grows up and wants to conquer his own hometown for some reason, then Herod still has two decades to rule. And Jesus has not actually threatened his authority in the slightest and the prophecy said nothing about earthly kings losing their power because of the coming of the Messiah.

## What Makes Him A Pinhead?

* He is an incredibly deluded and destructive king. He irrationally believes Jesus will supplant him as the King of the Jews, and that this baby will threaten his regime, because babies grow up to be men and he bears no interest in competition. Jesus' reign is by no means a hegemonic uprising, and he becomes more of a protective guardian over the human race in the end, and all the earthly kings will keep their power which he would know if he only did his research. But he must have skimmed something because he knew he would be born in Bethlehem, hence his reason for having everyone in the city brutally murdered if they were less than two years of age.
* While he seemed to have duped the three Wise Men, they quickly decided to head home the other way since they could see right through him.
* He cannot locate a baby surrounded by admirers rich and poor alike all gathered under a giant star, leaving people skeptical about how he was even a king in the first place.
* Everything he did to secure his fist around his kingdom only fractured it. Bethlehem could not have possibly recovered anytime soon and women will dread having children, given that nothing indicates that his reasoning for the massacre even became public knowledge. And with the birth rate declining to probably zero, and with everyone wondering if they can possibly trust each other anymore, Bethlehem will be in grave jeopardy, all because of the outrageous delusions of their impossibly moronic ruler.

## Trivia

* He is one of two kings on the wiki, along with Runeard. Interestingly, both of them mass-murdered a bunch of innocent people out of paranoia of having their dictatorial authority questioned.

## External Links

* King Herod at the Villains wiki
* King Herod at the Hate Sink wiki