History Characters / OverSimplified

* RageBreakingPoint: A spectacular one in the Pig War. After negotiating with the British to jointly occupy the San Juan Islands, he firmly orders General Harney, who has had a history of bucking Scott's orders, to not put Captain Pickett on the island again. Harney agrees to this...for all of five seconds when he orders Pickett back onto the island when he thinks Scott is out of earshot. Scott is unamused.

* DivideAndConquer: He uses this method to save the Tsarist rule from a complete collapse during the 1905 Revolution, exploiting the fact that the revolutionaries are divided into several groups that aren't cooperating. He fulfils the demands of the Russian liberals, weakening the revolution enough to allow the Tsar to reinstate order with the use of the military.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Accidentally leaks nuclear secrets to Stalin by sending them through unsecured coffee-shop Wi-fi. This turns out to be an excuse to segue into a [=NordVPN=] ad.

* AdiposeRex: A lot of jokes are made about his weight. He is known as a fat ill-bred boy, a revolutionary demands him to lose some weight, and Jean-Baptiste Drouet even calls him "the fat one" when he's initially fooled that he's not the king.
* ButtMonkey: Inherited a poverty-stricked nation, aided a revolution that didn't pay back, had his role in society defied and collapsed. Many scenes are dedicated to his failings.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He first made a pact with Nazi Germany at the beginning of WWII, then switched to the Allies [[NiceJobFixingItVillain after Hitler started invading the Soviet Union]], and after the war ended, he turned against the other allied nations, kickstarting the Cold War.

* TemptingFate: As shown in his caption quote, he said this after resolving a crisis at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961. [[UsefulNotes/BayOfPigsInvasion It]] [[UsefulNotes/CubanMissileCrisis wasn't]]. And when he resolved the latter, he said it again. [[WhoShotJFK It also wasn't]].

* TailorMadePrison: His second exile is a prison comparable to [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Tai Lung's]]. It's one of the most remote island in the middle of nowhere, his letters and visitors are screened, and for good measure, ''2,000'' British soldiers[[labelnote:*]]Note that Tai Lung has 1,000 guards stationed at all times[[/labelnote]] plus 2 warships stand guard to make sure he never leaves.

* OldMaster: He had a lifetime of battles all over Europe behind him by the time king Edward died.