Line #16 Main/HistoricalRapSheet


1	-> ''"The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance."''
2	-->-- '''Ra's al Ghul''', ''Film/BatmanBegins''
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4	The crimes of the villain(s) date back long before our grandfathers were born. Historical events that hurt many people are attributed to a single organization or person, usually [[RuleOfThree more than one]]. Even if there isn't technically a law against causing earthquakes or eruptions, the events are used to show how dangerous the criminal is by placing wars, economic struggles, assassinations, and other pivotal events in their past. StockUnsolvedMysteries are particularly useful for this.
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6	These crimes can be committed by a group, like the AncientConspiracy, or a single person, like WeDidntStartTheFuhrer. Those tropes cover the actual villains, this trope is about the "crimes". Therefore, it can involve ReminiscingAboutYourVictims.
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8	Note that this doesn't necessarily have to apply to a villain: an IdiotHero RealityWarper or MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds could have caused a natural disaster through clumsiness.
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10	Subtrope of HistoricalInJoke and RealEventFictionalCause, and essentially the evil twin of BeenThereShapedHistory. Compare BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy, JuliusBeethovenDaVinci and HistoricalVillainUpgrade. Often a form of ListOfTransgressions or OffstageVillainy.
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12	!!Examples:
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16	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
17	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/BlackButler'''s anime, where before being tortured, Sebastian says in a light-hearted manner, "I admit it, I started the Black Plague." Considering [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld his age]] and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent what he is]], he probably wasn't kidding.
18	** The Titanic was sunk by [[spoiler: zombies attacking the crew and a grim reaper slicing the ship in half with his sythe]].
19	* It's implied in ''Manga/HanappeBazooka'' that Nero had Dance and Bazooka start the Great Fire of Rome.
20	* ''Anime/LupinTheThird'':
21	** ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'': the Cagliostro family's centuries-old counterfeiting operation of (allegedly) untraceable "Goat Bills" were used to cause the collapse of the Bourbon dynasty, financed Napoleon's campaigns, and caused TheGreatDepression.
22	** ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'': The titular Mamo has personally claimed credit to all of the worst tragedies of humanity over the last 10,000 years. Everything from wars to plagues all in his pursuit of immortality. He also has a collection of clones, among them UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and UsefulNotes/MaoZedong.
23	** ''Anime/LupinIIIAlcatrazConnection'': The Lupin gang obtains evidence that TheMafia group that is their target of the film was involved in [[WhoShotJFK the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy]]. They also discover an abandoned city beneath [[TheAlcatraz Alcatraz Island]] -- turns out that the Mafia had turned Alcatraz into the ultimate LuxuryPrisonSuite and they got a bit ticked off when Kennedy discovered their secret and ordered Alcatraz to be shut down.
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27	* In ''ComicBook/SupermanFamily'' #165 we learn that Franchise/{{Superman}}'s dog [[ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog Krypto]] accidentally caused the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire Great Chicago Fire]] of 1871. You can [[http://www.comicbooktidbits.com/Krypto%27s%20Time%20Trip.htm read it here.]]
28	* Franchise/TheDCU's Immortal criminal ComicBook/VandalSavage claims to have been many historical figures including UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. He was also an advisor to many famous conquering and may have either been Julius Caesar or participated in Caesar's murder, depending on which version of the story you believe. He is known to make some of it up, but being around before the discovery of fire he has a pretty big rap sheet.
29	* Batman villain [=KGBeast=], a Soviet super-assassin, has been described by the CIA as a participant in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.
30	* ''ComicBook/DoctorZero'' clashes with Anubis, an immortal PlagueMaster who was worshipped as the Egyptian god. He's responsible for the Black Death sweeping across Europe.
31	* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': Orlando has a long history of causing massive problems through his/her stupidity, starting with telling other Trojans they should drag that giant wooden horse inside the city walls to get a better look at it.
32	* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''
33	** Red Skull assassinated John F. Kennedy, took part in the Vietnam War, worked for two of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century (Pol Pot of Cambodia and Idi Amin of Uganda), worked for the Russians in Afghanistan, and has trained and fought alongside terrorist groups across the entire globe.
34	** Nick Fury is giving a debrief to the Ultimates, that contains top-secret information. There are 11 alien species living on the planet (at least, that SHIELD knows of). One of those species are the Chitauri, shape-shifter aliens that arrived in 1977. They infiltrated Germany in the 1920s, helping National Socialism and Hitler. WWII was actually a war meant to eradicate those aliens, and it ended with the destruction of their training camps in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
35	* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': It turns out that Bombie the Zombie is responsible for sinking the ''Titanic''. Back in 1909, Scrooge ran into Bombie at the North Pole, who then fell into an ice crevasse. Three years later, Foola Zoola's curse draws Bombie back to Scrooge during one of his travels across the North Atlantic, dragging the iceberg with him.
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39	* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'' heavily hints that [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls Haiji Towa]] was a regular participant in child sexual abuse overran by infamous American billionaire and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
40	* ''FanFic/DayOfTheBarneyTrilogy'' has Barney responsible for, among others, the extinction of the dinosaurs, Caligula's depravity, the Black Death, the rise of Hitler, and betraying [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]].
41	* ''Fanfic/ReimaginedEnterprise'' repurposes several real-world wars of the 1990s as the Eugenics Wars. For example, Khan Noonien Singh's people were the real reason the UN sent a military expedition into Somalia in 1992.
42	* In ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Norlock]] has acted as an EvilMentor to most of history's most famous warlords, conquerors, dictators, and criminals.
43	* ''Fanfic/AGoodCompromise'': According to Lord Protector Julyeen, Kilana (possibly an earlier incarnation of her) originally gave the order to deploy the Teplan blight.
44	* [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyubey]] in ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'' is the reason that Neanderthals and Denisovans went extinct. They were less efficient sources of emotional energies than modern, extant humans, and it was simply better for Kyubey's purposes to guide humanity to not have the less effective stock continue to use resources.
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47	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
48	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'': UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin was responsible for UsefulNotes/RedOctober via a DealWithTheDevil as vengeance against the Romanovs for trying to assassinate him.
49	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'' shows that the villain Merlock was responsible for the sinking of Atlantis and the destruction of Pompeii. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow The really scary part]]? [[DisproportionateRetribution He did all of it]] [[EvilIsPetty because he was having a crappy vacation.]]
50	-->'''Genie:''' Mount Vesuvius would never have blown its top if Merlock hadn't blown ''[[HairTriggerTemper his]]''!
51	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', after the babies end up rolling down the street in the Reptar Wagon when Angelica kicks it, causing them to eventually end up in the woods, this occurred while they were under Grandpa Lou's watch and he had fallen asleep like usual. After finding out about this, Didi mentioned that he slept through the attack on Pearl Harbor.
52	-->'''Grandpa Lou:''' I sounded the alarm as soon as I could!
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55	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
56	* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', the League of Shadows claims to have sacked Rome and Constantinople, engineered (or at least spread) plagues, and caused the Great Fire of London. Whether there is any truth to these claims is never answered.
57	* In ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', brainwashed male models set in motion by an evil council of fashion designers have had a hand in every major assassination attempt, beginning with Lincoln and [[WhoShotJFK on up through JFK]]. ItMakesSenseInContext. Kind of.
58	* ''Film/CaptainAmerica1990'' has the NebulousEvilOrganization that ComicBook/RedSkull works for being responsible for such things as the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations.
59	* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' features [[spoiler:the resurrected ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} as having been responsible for pretty much most (if not ''every'') major terrorist event done since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, as part of their "convince people to give up their freedoms" EvilPlan.]]
60	* ''Film/SmokinAces2AssassinsBall'' implies that the [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]] Tremor family was the ''real'' perpetrator of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11,_2004_Madrid_attacks March 11, 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid,]] as part of a worldwide campaign of terror orchestrated by BigBad "Hal Leuco".
61	* In ''Film/NearDark'', two vampires in a small pack roaming the Southwestern US committing bloody massacres, Jesse and Severen, reminisce how they started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
62	* ''Film/MenInBlack'': A small HyperDestructiveBouncingBall located within MIB headquarters was the trigger of the 1977 New York blackout.
63	-->'''K:''' A practical joke from the Great Attractor. He thought it was funny as hell.
64	* ''Film/DejaVu2006'' mentions that the last time that the TimeMachine that is central to the plot was used to actually try to ''send'' something into the past instead of just viewing it, the power necessities accidentally caused the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003 Northeast blackout of 2003.]]
65	* ''Film/Wishmaster3BeyondTheGatesOfHell'': During a course on Greek history, the immortal JackassGenie (wearing the skin of a college professor) describes how the Trojan war and the destruction of the entire civilization was caused by the Djinn.
66	* ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned'': M has a framed photograph displayed on his desk in his office where he's shown buddying up with Adolf Hitler, and another implying that he was behind the accident that killed Princess Diana.
67	* ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance'': Roarke is {{Satan}} in human form and he requires an host to walk on Earth. Among his previous hosts were UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, UsefulNotes/IdiAmin, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, [[MonsterClown John Wayne Gacy]]... [[TakeThat and]] Creator/JerrySpringer.
68	* The BigBad of ''Film/AGoodDayToDieHard'', Komarov, is revealed to be at least partially responsible for the Chernobyl disaster - he was using the plant to manufacture weapons-grade plutonium and [[spoiler:his grand plan, in pure ''Die Hard'' style, is to swindle the CIA with false proof that his rival Chagarin was responsible for this so they wll release him so he can go back to the plant and steal the plutonium he stored there during the chaos of the meltdown to sell to terrorists.]]
69	* Film/JamesBond:
70	** In ''Film/DrNo'', Bond does a DoubleTake when he sees Creator/FranciscoDeGoya's ''Art/PortraitOfTheDukeOfWellington'' in Dr. No's lair. In 1961, the portrait was stolen in a high-profile story and was still missing at the time the movie was produced, thus implying that the title villain was the culprit.
71	** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' opens with a meeting of [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]] operatives detailing their latest plots, with a British agent stating that the organization received £250,000 of the stolen loot from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963) the Great Train Robbery of 1963]] in the UK as a consultation fee.
72	** ''Film/LicenceToKill'': In a deleted scene, Pam Bouvier tells Bond that Sanchez's [[TheConsigliere financial advisor and accountant]] [[{{Yuppie}} Truman-Lodge]] is wanted in the United States for insider trading on Wall Street, strongly suggesting that he was involved in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) the 1987 Stock Market crash]].
73	** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' attributes to primary villain Le Chiffre some of the financing of the 9/11 attacks. He's said to have made a pretty penny using al-Qa'ida funds to short-sell airline stocks in the days leading up to the attack.
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77	* In ''Literature/ThePariah'' by Creator/GrahamMasterton, the death of the Toltecs, the atrocities of Caligula, the Black Death, and the Salem witch trials are all attributed to the demonic antagonist.
78	* ''Literature/ForLoveOfEvil'': Satan engineered the Black Plague by tricking Gaia. He later regretted how far it went, and the experience taught him his responsibility as the [[GodJob Incarnation of Evil]]. Inverted later as he tricks Chronos into averting the holocaust and World War II as a favor to [=YHWH=], though this costs him his friendship with subsequent Incarnations of Time, who till then were the only ones friendly to him.
79	* Creator/SpiderRobinson's ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' short story "Unnatural Causes". A team of alien Krundai are responsible for many harmful acts in Earth's history, including: starting riots, wars and revolutions, causing the downfall of the Roman Empire, assassinations, promoting drug use, and the Holocaust. Their ultimate aim is to cause humanity to destroy itself so they can feast on our bodies.
80	* A RunningGag in ''Literature/GoodOmens'' involves Crowley, the demon who ''was'' responsible for the original Temptation in the Garden of Eden, frequently receiving the congratulations of Hell whenever they notice something like the Spanish Inquisition has popped up in the human world. They inevitably leap to the conclusion that Crowley was responsible for getting it started. He frequently protests to the sympathetic Angel Aziraphale that he had nothing to do with it whatsoever: the human race thought of new ideas to be beastly to each other ''all on their own''.
81	--> "Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success."
82	* ''Literature/TheHypnotists'': Dozens of famous historical events, both good and bad, have been caused by hypnotists (often Jax's ancestors) doing things like making UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus make a wrong turn so he'd reach America or mesmerizing Napoleon into losing the Battle of Waterloo.
83	* Croup and Vandemar have one in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' that [[NoodleIncident isn't particularly specific]] but apparently includes assassinating kings, heroes, and ''gods''.
84	* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Fallen Angels Anduriel and Imariel (and their hosts, husband and wife Nicodemus Archleone and Polonius Lartessa) have only collaborated a few times in history. The last time they did, they caused the Black Plague. Tessa is also stated to have caused the Rwanda Genocide and Killing Fields of Cambodia (as well as the War of the Roses and the Drug Cartels of Columbia) essentially for shits and giggles.
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88	* At the start of season two of ''Series/{{Utopia}}'', it is revealed that [[TheConspiracy The Network]] is behind the assassinations of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Moro Aldo Moro,]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine_Pecorelli Mino Pecorelli,]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Richard_Sykes_(British_diplomat) Richard Sykes,]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave Airey Neave]] and the bombing of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_841_(1974) TWA Flight 841.]]
89	* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E14WolfInTheFold Wolf in the Fold]]", it is discovered that [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Redjac Redjac]] is a noncorporeal lifeform which has been a serial killer on several planets, including Earth where it was UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper as well as a few other unnamed killers (in China in 1952 and Kiev in 1974).
90	* In the 1996 ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV movie]], the Master attributes an invented historical rap sheet to the Doctor while recruiting Chang Lee. The Doctor himself has been responsible for inspiring the Great Fire of Rome and starting the Great Fire of London (both accidents) as well as bringing about the destruction of Pompeii (by stopping it and then triggering it again as a crossing of the GodzillaThreshold), among other historical encounters.
91	* ''Series/TheXFiles'': According to the DayInTheLimelight episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E07MusingsOfACigaretteSmokingMan Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man]]", the CSM was personally responsible for the [[WhoShotJFK assassinations of JFK]] and MLK, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking made sure that the Buffalo Bills never won]] the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl.
92	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
93	** The demon lord and TortureTechnician Alastair implies that he had a hand in the concentration camps, noting how he hasn't been on Earth since "Poland, '43".
94	** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E06NoExit No Exit]]", the ghost that Sam, Dean, and Jo are hunting turns out to be H. H. Holmes.
95	** The [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Horsemen War]] claims that he has been responsible for most of the conflicts throughout human history, specifically citing both World Wars, the Middle East, and the Sudan for the past century.
96	* ''Series/BabylonFive'': In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E21ComesTheInquisitor Comes the Inquisitor]]", Sebastian, a [[TouchedByVorlons Vorlon]] "inquisitor"-slash-TortureTechnician sent to test the resolve of Delenn and Sheridan, mentions that he was [[AlienAbduction abducted]] back in the Victorian age... and it's revealed at the end that he was UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
97	* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'': Bumbling Aunt Clara causes the Northeast Blackout of 1965 when she tries to use magic on some candles.
98	* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': In one of the show's Kisses with History, Sam causes the Northeast Blackout of 1965 during an attempt to leap home.
99	* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': One of the Grimm diaries reveals that the burning of Rome was accidental, caused by Emperor Nero sending an Excandesco to burn the homes of the Christians.
100	* ''Series/{{Timecop}}'': Ian Pascoe is said to have caused the Chernobyl, Titanic, and Hindenburg disasters, but we don't see it in the show outside of historical records.
101	* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' Back & Forth had [[ThePigpen Baldrick]] kill all the dinosaurs with his dirty underwear.
102	* During a TimeTravel trip, [[TalkingAnimal Professor]] [[TheDitz Bobo]] from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' burnt down Ancient Rome [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds when he accidentally knocked over a candle]] [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext trying to steal a cheese wheel.]]
103	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
104	** Anya was responsible for the 1905 Bloody Sunday Massacre in St Petersburg, which was a precursor to the Russian Revolution.
105	** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, With Feeling]]", Sweet sings "Something's cooking, I'm at the griddle/I gave Nero his very first fiddle!"
106	* ''Series/Millennium1996'': In "[[Recap/MillenniumE21Maranatha Maranatha]]", the bad guy is introduced when he causes the Chernobyl disaster before the episode flashes to the present.
107	* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' has Vandal Savage, similar to his comic book counterpart.
108	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E5TheHowlingMan The Howling Man]]", Brother Jerome tells David Ellington that the Devil is responsible for the great wars, the overwhelming pestilences, and the wholesale sinning that is regularly inflicted on the world. After Ellington releases him, he causes UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, and the development of atomic weapons.
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112	* Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}' "SympathyForTheDevil" lists many atrocities that the titular Devil has been part of, such as being the one who convinced Pilate to crucify UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, being a German general during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, being accomplice of the [[WhoShotJFK assassination of both Kennedys]], and the [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution French]] and [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolutions]].
113	* In Music/{{Chumbawamba}}'s "Everything You Know is Wrong", the singer declares himself to be connected to various conspiratorial events from the JFK Assassination to the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Iraq War]].
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117	* ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' averted this for one and ''only'' one specific instance: anything and everything else was free to be the result of a supernatural plot, but the Third Reich had to remain ''purely'' human in its origins.
118	** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition'': One example that is more recent (and incredibly controversial, almost to the point of CreatorKiller) was that the SettingUpdate made mention of the vampires influencing the current (as of 2018/2019) anti-gay policies of Chechnya. The Anarchs are also mentioned to have claimed responsibility for both 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, but there is a heavy InUniverse discussion of them being an UnreliableNarrator.
119	%%%%* ''TabletopGame/InNomineSatanisMagnaVeritas''.
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123	* Criminal mastermind Lord Kane in ''Videogame/EvilGenius'' is alleged to have had a hand in every major crime of the 20th century, from starting the fire that crashed UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg to the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]]. He insists that his greatest atrocity was the result of a minion mishearing his statement "A bit of light panic, I think eh?" as "That ship, the ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]'', sink her". And yet you can recruit him to be your henchman.
124	* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': In a purely fictional example, the PlayerCharacter discovers in the Starfleet mission "Taris" and the Romulan mission "Revelation" that the [[StateSec Tal Shiar]], particularly Hakeev and Taris, caused [[Film/StarTrek2009 the supernova that destroyed Romulus in 2387]].
125	* Kane from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' claims to be the [[NameOfCain biblical Cain]], who has led the [[NGOSuperpower Brotherhood of Nod]] throughout human history. Given his fondness for Sarajevo and the fact that his elites are called the Black Hand, Kane probably helped instigate UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, and in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert one timeline]]'s version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII he was [[PiggybackingOnHitler a shadowy adviser to]] UsefulNotes/JosefStalin.
126	* In the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' franchise, both the [[UsefulNotes/TheHashshashin Assassins]] and the [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Templars]], as a result of their endless war and infiltration tactics, have become responsible for countless well-known (and unknown) crimes and major acts throughout history, with well-known historic figures on both sides of the conflict. As revealed mostly in the Glyphs found in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' and ExpandedUniverse publications, these acts include the assassinations of [[WhoShotJFK John F. Kennedy]], UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler(!), TheTunguskaEvent and many of the acts of terrorism that led up to UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' also has the protagonist being directly responsible for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake 1755 Lisbon earthquake,]] and almost getting killed by it.
127	* In ''VideoGame/InFamous'', undercover federal agent John White infiltrated the First Sons (a secret society run by superhuman "[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals Conduits]]"), which claims to have been founded in Colonial America or even Medieval Europe, when their superpowers were mistaken for witchcraft, and led to subsequent {{witch hunt}}s such as the Salem witch trials.
128	* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'': Countess Elizabeth Bartley kickstarted the events that led to WWI. She hoped that with all the death and destruction brought up by such a large-scale conflict, there would be enough souls to be sacrificed to resurrect her uncle, Count Dracula.
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132	* In ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'', HABIT, a malevolent entity who [[DemonicPossession possesses people]], claims to have a very long historical rap sheet including the likes of [[ThoseWackyNazis Josef Mengele]] and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. This leads to some FridgeHorror when you start wondering just how many of them were actually good people who had been [[AndIMustScream forced to watch as their own bodies committed horrible crimes]]. Knowing HABIT, that may have even been the entire ''purpose'' of the crimes.
133	* ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'': Over the course of the show, the Phantom of the Office has taken responsibility for the Black Plague, the extinction of the dodo bird, and most shockingly, the death of Jesus Christ.
134	* ''WebVideo/TheTimeGuys'': Doc assassinated Julius Caesar, and it's heavily implied that he was the one who convinced John Wilkes Booth to kill Abraham Lincoln.
135	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
136	** One SCP is heavily implied to be the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
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139	[[folder:Western Animation]]
140	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
141	** In an early episode it's revealed that once every few millennia fairies have to be evil for 24 hours. During Wanda's stint, she killed the dinosaurs.
142	** Through [[HanlonsRazor sheer ignorance rather than malevolence]], Cosmo burned down Pompeii, sunk Atlantis nine times, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking turned Xanadu into Pittsburgh.]]
143	** [[ButtMonkey Binky]] apparently brought TheBlackDeath to Europe because he thought it was a band.
144	** Cosmo and Wanda had a former godchild who wished for Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination and the start of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
145	** Amelia Earhart disappeared after aggravating Wanda's father [[TheDon Big Daddy]].
146	* In ''WesternAnimation/YoohooAndFriends'', Father Time was responsible for starting the Salem Witch Trials after trying to help three women carrying heavy buckets of water... by enchanting brooms to carry them. Thankfully he managed to save their skins shortly afterward.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
148	** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Charles Montgomery Burns]] has done many atrocities during his long life, including such monstrosities as being [[StockUnsolvedMysteries the one who made]] UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart disappear, collaborating with the Nazis (even boasting of being better at manufacturing munitions than ''[[Film/SchindlersList Oskar Schindler]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint himself]]''), and stealing a [[ZillionDollarBill Trillion Dollar Bill]] that would have helped fund reparations on Europe after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (and thus made [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys the French]] hate America from then on).
149	** Abe Simpson, as part of a group confessing to various deeds of ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, claims that he was the one who canceled ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
150	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' has Dojo turn evil for a day (apparently it happens naturally once every couple thousand years). Master Fung mentions in passing that the last time around was the last time anybody ever heard of {{Atlantis}}. (This is contradicted in a later episode, where the cast visits the abandoned city.)
151	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' it was the Big Brain that killed the dinosaurs.
152	** In [[Recap/FuturamaM1BendersBigScore "Bender's Big Score"]], Bender, {{Brainwashed}} by Nudar and the scammers, [[TimeTravel time travels to the past]] and steals all kinds of priceless items (Art/TheMonaLisa, Art/{{David}}, The Ten Commandments, [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen's]] guitar, the [[UsefulNotes/JohannesGutenberg Gutenberg Bible]], and the 2308 Nobel Prize, among other things).
153	* A FreezeFrameBonus in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has [[GreaterScopeVillain Bill]] [[EldritchAbomination Cipher]] suggest he may have had something to do with [[WhoShotJFK JFK's assassination]]. Then again, this is [[TheTrickster Bill]] we're talking about.
154	** [[spoiler: Ford]] has a set of MindControl neckties which he apparently made for [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan's]] masters. [[NoodleIncident This is never elaborated upon.]]
155	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
156	** When Roger is about to get hit by a bus and his life flashes before his eyes, it's shown that he apparently caused the Exxon Valdez disaster, participated in segregation, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking came up with the idea for]] [[Franchise/StarWars Jar-Jar]] [[TheScrappy Binks]].
157	** In two other episodes, it's mentioned that the CIA invented crack cocaine and the FBI invented AIDS.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Kwamis need bearers to act as PowerLimiters. If they try to use their powers without the miraculous, they kick off unintended disasters. Plagg is responsible for the sinking of Atlantis and [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs the extinction of the dinosaurs]] and dragons. Less seriously, Trixx is responsible for the Loch Ness Monster myth.
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