History Trivia / Civilization

* NoExportForYou: The UsefulNotes/PlayStation port of ''Civ I'' is only available in Japan.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: A highly popular fan rumor claims that Gandhi's AI was subject to an overflow glitch in the original ''Civilization'', where his Aggressiveness rating accidentally spikes from the lowest possible level to the highest once the player progresses far enough for the rest of the world to become more peaceful by two points. The rumor's first documented appearance was on this very wiki, where a user added a mention of it in 2012 without providing any proof, and it snowballed from there throughout the rest of TheNewTens, resulting in Sid Meier himself having to refute it multiple times. The game has a hard cap for aggression that prevents aggression from going below 1, and Gandhi's tendency to unlock nuclear weaponry earlier than other nations is just a side effect of his nation having a focus on technological development. Despite this, it became a popular enough meme to gain its own Website/{{Wikipedia}} [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi article]], and both ''Civilization V'' and ''Civilization VI'' would [[AscendedMeme include references to it]] as {{Easter egg}}s.

* BannedInChina:
** Due to the political controversy with the status of Tibet, none of the games have Tibetans as a playable civilization to avoid this trope. However, starting at ''V'', Tibet is portrayed as a separate city-state as Lhasa, and the official Path of the Nirvana scenario in ''Civilization VI'' has the Tibetans as a playable civilization, under the name of [[IstanbulNotConstantinople Tufan Empire]] to avoid Chinese censorship laws.
** Due to the Chinese government's aversion of depicting Communist Party leaders in fiction, the Chinese version of ''IV'' replaced UsefulNotes/MaoZedong with Tang Taizong, a 7th century Tang Dynasty emperor. Furthermore, from ''V'' onward, Mao has been completely dropped from all versions of the game.
** Also due to Germany's [[NoSwastikas laws prohibiting displays of Nazi symbolism]], UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler has never been included as a playable leader to avoid this trope. It's worth noting that Germany is also a significant market for PC strategy games, and for the sole series reference to Hitler, a quote for the Fascism tech in ''IV'', he is simply referred to as "[[{{Bowdlerise}} a German dictator]]" in the localized version.

** Firaxis was originally [[http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=491586 planning]] on including the Pueblo as a playable civilization in ''Brave New World'', and had picked out a unique unit, a unique tile improvement, and a leader in the form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popay Popé]]. However, when it came time to find a Pueblo-speaking voice actor to portray Popé, they ran into stiff opposition from the Pueblo Council, who took offense at the idea of one of their cultural heroes being portrayed in the game. (Pueblo culture has strong taboos concerning photography and other visual representations of people, feeling that improper displays disturb the spirit world.) The Pueblo were eventually switched out for the Shoshone as a result.

** Due to the Chinese government's aversion of depicting Communist Party leaders in fiction, the Chinese version of ''IV'' replaced UsefulNotes/MaoZedong with Tang Taizong, a 7th century Tang Dynasty emperor.

* ColbertBump: This series, particularly in the later instalments, brought many obscure historical leaders into the limelight.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Civilization_Games_Wiki The Civilization Wiki]].

** The "Nuclear Gandhi Integer Overflow" story apparently originated as an example of this, conflating the stock "[[SuddenlyShouting OUR WORDS ARE BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS!]]" message appended incongruously to every diplomatic response with an apparent tendency for Gandhi to suddenly become extremely aggressive during the modern age. Sid Meier himself and Brian Reynolds have since debunked the claim that it was caused by a coding error and confirmed that Gandhi's AI was working as intended, as even the "peaceful" civs would use nukes if backed into a corner; they suggested that it was just the memory of being nuked by Gandhi of all people stood out more in people's minds just because of how out-of-character it seemed. Future versions of the game, of course, [[AscendedMeme took the idea and ran with it]].

* NamesTheSame: There are a couple of in-game examples in ''Civ V''. Gold is both a game concept and a luxury resource. Camps are both improvements and the Barbarian's counterpart to cities.