History Quotes / HistoricalVillainUpgrade

[[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] and [[SalieriSyndrome Salieri]] were friends.\\

-->--''Graveyard Shift,'' by Michael F. Haspil

->"But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakespeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at embodying them, has turned history upside down, or rather inside out".

->"Excellent! As soon as I release this biological toxin into world's water supply, I will rule the world! I'll call it 'Lou Gherig's Disease'! I just have to remember to make sure this cap is screwed on tight-"

->"...Well, I guess the joke's on ''me''."

-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman''', ''The Sandman Companion'', page 146, discussing his story "Thermidor" from ''Distant Mirrors''.

->'''Star''': I am fine ! I talked to [[[BlackSheep Eclipsa]]] like two seconds, and she was really nice! No big deal!\\

-> ''"As I continued reading, I was fascinated by how a counterrevolution sprung up and, in a period of about two days, the previous revolution just fell apart. I also remember the joy of leafing through my old Encyclopedia Britannica, the eleventh edition, and reading an article on the French revolution by someone who hated [[UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre Robespierre]]; and then reading [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade the biographical entry, which was written by someone who idealized Robespierre]]. I loved the [[FlipFlopOfGod cognitive dissonance]]. After the story was published, one reader sent me his high school thesis pointing out [[CriticalResearchFailure how Robespierre was a great man]] and so on...I [[ShownTheirWork could have written something]] about how Robespierre was a great man too, but that wasn't the tale that I was telling; I needed a story in which he wasn't."''

'''Moon''': To a ''[[FantasticRacism monster]]''! And that’s not all! She didn’t respect the natural order! She meddled in TheDarkArts and created her own chapter of dangerous evil magic!\\

'''Star''': Well [[ContinuityNod I have]], and it really wasn’t that big of a deal!\\

->''History obliterates. In every picture it paints, it paints me in all my mistakes.\\
When Alexander aimed at the sky, he may have been the first one to die. But I'm the one who paid for it.\\
I survived, but I paid for it. Now I'm the villain in your history.''

'''Haillie Flanagan''': ,And yet this [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] has written [[Theatre/RichardIII a play]] that is still performed while Mr. Grunwald's books gather dust.

-->--'''Louis MacNeice'''

'''Omnitraxus:''' [[DiggingYourSelfDeeper I'm pretty sure Eclipsa was a pescetarian]].

'''Star''': ...[[BluntYes Yes]].

'''Star''': ...[[BluntYes Yes]].\\
'''Rhombulus''': Oh yeah, she totally used to [[EatsBabies eat babies]]!\\
'''Hekapoo''': No, no, that wasn't Eclipsa. That was Bubipsa, the Barbarian Baby-Eater.\\
'''Rhombulus''': ''Are you calling me a liar''?!\\
'''Omnitraxus''': [[DiggingYourselfDeeper I'm pretty sure Eclipsa was a pescetarian.]]

'''Rhombulus''': Oh yeah, she totally used to EatBabies!\\

'''Star''': ... [[BluntYes Yes]].\\

[[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] and [[SalieriSyndrome Salieri]] were friends.\\

->''Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.

->''In RealLife, [[Film/{{Gladiator}} Commodus]] was actually a pretty decent emperor wo ruled for a healthy thirteen years before a wrestler took him out in a nude bathhouse. [[SarcasmMode Yum]].\\

->'''Haillie Flanagan''': Mr. O'Hara, who was Richard III?\\
'''Mr. O'Hara''': A humpback and a killer.\\

'''Mr. Dr Rohan''': Michael Grunwald would say that Richard llI was a great ruler and much maligned.\\
'''Haillie Flanagan''': ,And yet this Shakespeare has written a play that is still performed while Mr. Grunwald's books gather dust.

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->-'''Haillie Flanagan''': Mr. O'Hara, who was Richard III?\\

'''Haillie Flanagan''': And yet this Shakespeare has written a play which is still performed,

-> ''"As I continued reading, I was fascinated by how a counterrevolution sprung up and, in a period of about two days, the previous revolution just fell apart. I also remember the joy of leafing through my old Encyclopedia Britannica, the eleventh edition, and reading an article on the French revolution [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade by someone who hated Robespierre]]; and then reading [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade the biographical entry, which was written by someone who idealized Robespierre]]. I loved the [[FlipFlopOfGod cognitive dissonance]]. After the story was published, one reader sent me his high school thesis pointing out [[CriticalResearchFailure how Robespierre was a great man]] and so on...I [[ShownTheirWork could have written something]] about how Robespierre was a great man too, but that wasn't the tale that I was telling; I needed a story in which he wasn't."''

-->--'''Website/{{Cracked}}''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/video_18745_8-famous-movies-that-are-saved-by-historical-inaccuracies.html 8 Famous Movies That Are Saved by Historical Inaccuracies]]''