Russell Crowe horror The Pope’s Exorcist contains an unexpected cameo: a symbol last seen in Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Here’s an odd thing. Twitter user Kelgrid’s Rancid Vibes has pointed out that the Russell Crowe movie The Pope’s Exorcist features a symbol that’s found in the BioWare game Dragon Age: Inquisition. It seems the film is using the symbol as a stand in for the real-life symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.
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/FubVAvNdsC— Kelgrid's Rancid Vibes (@Kelgrid) May 11, 2023
Kelgrid notes that Twitter user Fleur Bleue spotted the cheeky appropriation, although it seems it was first noticed around a week ago by Reddit user MoonxCakex.
The real symbol of the Spanish Inquisition – or the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition to give it its full name – is quite different, and features a cross with an olive branch on one side and a sword on the other, all contained in an oval. In the Dragon Age game, however, the symbol of the Inquisition features a sword behind an eye which has tendrils or flames emanating from it, depending on how you interpret them. The symbol in The Pope’s Exorcist is almost exactly the same. I guess someone on the film’s production team is a Dragon Age fan.
It’s not the first time BioWare has made the news recently: last week, the lead writer of the Dragon Age series said that writers had become “quietly resented” at the company by the time he left.
