History WebComic / FrederickTheGreat

* TakeThat: Napoleon, an avowed fan of TheEmpire from ''StarWars'', suffers a psychotic breakdown when he sees them defeated by the Ewoks.

* NiceHat: This is how Frederick, and the other Zeitgeschlaegers, travel through time.
* OnlySaneMan: Isaac Newton, or so he feels most of the time. But he too can succumb to megalomania.

** Joseph Campbell shows up wielding a lightsaber. This is a reference to his influence on Creator/GeorgeLucas during the writing of ''Film/StarWars''.

** After fixing the rockets on Frederick's robot, Wernher von Braun answers an American soldier's question of the robot's destination with [[Music/TomLehrer "Once the robot is up, who cares where it comes down? That's not my department."]]

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* VillainByDefault: Averted. For an historical comic, 'classic' historical baddies such as JosefStalin and ThoseWackyNazis have yet to show up, in favor of more bizarre antagonists like Ethan Allen and Pablo Picasso.

''Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy Breaching Time and Space'' is a webcomic about the 18th Century Prussian monarch UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat. Except he's a time traveler with the personality of a giggling schoolgirl. And he travels with IsaacNewton, UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat, and UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, fighting [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade just about everybody]].

** The same arc features a direct reference to ''EndersGame''.
** Joseph Campbell shows up wielding a lightsaber. This is a reference to his influence on GeorgeLucas during the writing of ''StarWars''.
** After fixing the rockets on Frederick's robot, Wernher von Braun answers an American soldier's question of the robot's destination with [[TomLehrer "Once the robot is up, who cares where it comes down? That's not my department."]]

* BadAss: Most of the cast

As you can tell, this is not exactly a ''sane'' comic. Much of the humour comes from [[HistoricalHilarity juxtaposing various historical figures into increasingly bizarre situations]], such as making Isaac Newton a literal math wizard, making Creator/SalvadorDali into a supervillain attempting to destroy all rationality, EmilyDickinson as a Goth ninja, and so on. There's a lot of very obscure jokes, but the 'Gentlemen Scholars' (as the comic's creators, one Count Dolby von Luckner and one Geoff like to call themselves) post lots of handy historical background in TheRant.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Abraham Lincoln learned how to talk to animals from the BabaYaga.

* Foreshadowing: A Leibnizbot standing over Sans Souci appeared briefly in a montage from 2010, four years before its formal introduction.

* AlternateHistory: The heroes' actions seem to be resulting in this

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The early arcs were even stranger than the current ones (UsefulNotes/FrederickDouglass creating a transcendentalist monster by sewing together Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, anyone?). Also, pigs make multiple appearances in the Loyola arc, but it has been hinted that the reason for this will be explained at some point in the future.
* EldritchAbomination: Picasso briefly becomes one. Also, it turns out that [[W. S. Gilbert]] worships these.

* BigBad: Either Ethan Allen, UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge, or [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Possibility]]. It's hard to tell at this point.

* EldritchAbomination: Picasso briefly becomes one

* JerkAss: Everyone, with the possible exception of Abe Lincoln

* NiceHat: This is how Frederick travels through time

* CrazyAwesome: Everyone

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Abraham Lincoln learned how to talk to animals from the BabaYaga

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Pretty much the point of the comic
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the massive changes done to the timeline, famous people still tend to be born at the right times

** The 'future' arc is admittedly inspired by ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
** The same arc features a direct reference to ''EndersGame''

* StableTimeLoop: The 'future' arc
* SuperpoweredAlterEgo: Abraham Lincoln can become ''Flaverham'' Lincoln, a mighty juggernaut powered by pure ''funk''

** The Gentlemen Scholars (or at least the Count) don't have a very favourable opinion on Carl Jung or his work. To their credit, this dislike doesn't really show that much in the comic (Jung's JerkAss tendencies aren't any worse than anyone else's in the comic), but TheRant for those strips was incredibly vitriolic.

* VillainByDefault: Averted. For an historical comic, 'classic' historical baddies such as JosefStalin and ThoseWackyNazis have yet to show up, in favour of more bizarre antagonists like Ethan Allen and Pablo Picasso.

* WorldOfBadass: Oh yes

''Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy Breaching Time and Space'' is a webcomic about the 18th Century Prussian monarch FrederickTheGreat. Except he's a time traveler with the personality of a giggling schoolgirl. And he travels with IsaacNewton, PeterTheGreat, and AbrahamLincoln, fighting [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade just about everybody]].

* BigBad: Either Ethan Allen, CalvinCoolidge, or [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Possibility]]. It's hard to tell at this point.

* KnightTemplar: CalvinCoolidge

** AbrahamLincoln is probably a staighter example of this being the most normal person on the team.

* SealedEvilInACan: CalvinCoolidge, almost literally.

* SealedEvilInACan: CalvinCoolidge. Seriously

As you can tell, this is not exactly a ''sane'' comic. Much of the humour comes from [[HistoricalHilarity juxtaposing various historical figures into increasingly bizarre situations]], such as making Isaac Newton a literal math wizard, making SalvadorDali into a supervillain attempting to destroy all rationality, EmilyDickinson as a Goth ninja, and so on. There's a lot of very obscure jokes, but the 'Gentlemen Scholars' (as the comic's creators, one Count Dolby von Luckner and one Geoff like to call themselves) post lots of handy historical background in TheRant.

** The 'future' arc is admittedly inspired by ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''