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10[[caption-width-right:267:What history ''didn't'' tell you about [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Honest Abe]].]]
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12->''"Historians still argue as to whether [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] was gay, a front for the Earl of Oxford and/or Sir Francis Bacon, or a cyborg from the future sent back in time to found Western civilization, thereby hastening the creation of the [=McRib=] sandwich."''
13-->-- [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15014_11-movies-saved-by-historical-inaccuracy_p4.html "11 Movies Saved by Historical Inaccuracy"]], by Michael Swaim, on {{Website/Cracked}}.com[[note]]Actually, historians are fairly united, [[RuleOfFun but that won't stop us]].[[/note]]
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15The "revelation" that a famous RealLife historical figure actually had a secret life far more fantastic (figuratively or literally) and/or magical than history records. A historical {{retcon}}, if you will. Artists and writers tend to be the most common examples, followed by American Presidents. (At times, per the ''Film/MenInBlackII'' example below, a ''current'' figure also can be a subject of this trope, as can ''groups'', per the ''Film/NationalTreasure'' and Film/TransformersFilmSeries examples below.)
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17This is sometimes a way for a show to capitalize on sudden popular interest in some historical figure, or just to exercise a [[AuthorAppeal writer's pet interest]].
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19In such a story, PlausibleDeniability is almost always the order of the day; we have to be given this fantastic secret history in such a way that we can believe that the fantastic elements were kept out of public record.
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21In TimeTravel stories, this often involves RetroactivePrecognition, and one possible form it can take is YouWillBeBeethoven.
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23AncientAstronauts does this for entire ancient civilizations.
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25While the mixing of fantastic elements into historical texts is as old as mankind (see the Myth/{{Arthurian|Legend}} cycle for one example), the modern form of this trope probably originates with ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', essentially the incorporation of a fantastic secret life into the history of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler.
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27This trope can very effectively add an air of mystique to otherwise familiar historical material and personages, but it can become distracting if overused, to say nothing of the unpleasant implications of having ''everyone'' remotely skilled at anything in history be nonhuman or relying on superhuman powers.
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29Commonly results in a WeirdHistoricalWar or leads to a HistoricalBadassUpgrade. May involve {{Gender Flip}}ping (see HistoricalGenderFlip), in which case expect a SamusIsAGirl reaction (or "Samus Is a Guy", if "Samus" was originally a girl in the first place) when the character's true identity is revealed. If the historical figure in question has superpowers or supernatural abilities, then it's HistoricalDomainSuperperson. If an alien spy initially appears to be a fictional character, and only late in the story is revealed to be a historical figure, it's a HistoricalPersonPunchline.
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31WeDidntStartTheFuhrer is a subtrope of this. For a specific {{Biopic}} example, check out BiographyAClef. Contrast NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus. Compare LiteraryWorkOfMagic (when a RealLife fictional work has an agenda [[InUniverse in the universe]] of another), RealEventFictionalCause (with real events instead of people), and BeenThereShapedHistory (when a fictional character helped shape real-life history).
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33See also JuliusBeethovenDaVinci and, for one of a few particularly popular alien spies, see ElvisHasLeftThePlanet, ElvishPresley, UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk or — in Japanese media — DemonKingNobunaga.
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45* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'':
46** Garaku Utagawa is an ayakashi created from the effort "a famous painter" put into his brush. That painter is very heavily implied to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi Kuniyoshi Utagawa]]. Kuniyoshi often painted and made wood-prints of cats, which is why Garaku loves cats so much.
47** It's similarly implied one of the [[{{Reincarnation}} past lives]] of the ayakashi medium was the shaman [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_(queen) Toyo/Iyo]] or her mother [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himiko Himiko]]. The current ayakashi medium Suzu is partially an {{Expy}} of the heroine of Creator/KentaroYabuki's first manga, ''Yamato Gensouki'', who is [[HistoricalDomainCharacter a fictional version of Iyo]]. [[spoiler:Eventually, it's specified the power of worship made Himiko a GodInHumanForm, then she passed her power onto her daughter, making Iyo the first ayakashi medium.]]
48* ''Franchise/{{Beyblade}}'':
49** In ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'', [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] used alchemy to create Black Dranzer.
50** A particularly egregious example reaching near sacrilegious levels occurs in ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade''. In the official canon of the series (a series about battling ''spinning top toys'', mind you), ''[[{{Narm}} Moses actually used a bey to part the friggin Red Sea]]'', a fact which has reached [[MemeticMutation memetic]] levels even outside of the ''Beyblade'' community.
51* In ''Manga/BlackButler'', UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was [[spoiler:a female doctor and her {{Shinigami}} butler]].
52* UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin appears as one of Diva's Chevaliers in ''Anime/BloodPlus''.
53* ''Anime/LeChevalierDEon'' is built on this trope. At least two historical figures (including the titular character) share their bodies with the souls of their dead sisters and most others are involved in an arcane conspiracy and/or actual sorcerers themselves.
54* ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': In episode 32, it's said that UsefulNotes/NewZealand was devastated from a war at some point in the past, but thanks to the support of the Baam Peace Corps, the country was able to get back on its feet. To repay their kindness, New Zealand welcomed Baam refugees and allowed them to have their own colony, Utopia, where both humans and Baamites live in peace.
55* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': As part of the FreezeFrameBonus in Episode 10 when [[spoiler:Satan explains to Akira how long back the demons had it and how unconsciously woven they are into [[AllMythsAreTrue all human myths and legends]]]], an image of [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad III the Impaler]] comes up, signifying the legendary king of Wallacia was a devilman.
56* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': An alternate version of C.C.'s past in the ''Nightmare of Nunnally'' manga reveals that she is the [[spoiler: "Witch Of Britannia"]]. Since she was an Eden Vital, a witch, she didn't die. Her scar was cut into her by [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc]].
57* In ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' Creator/AmbroseBierce's mysterious disappearance is explained as him having been turned into a vampire, now allied with the Tepes clan. UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin also makes an appearance in [[spoiler:as Ivanovic, head of one of the three pure-blooded vampire clans. The woman he chased and originally lusted over, shown in the manga as 'Natasha', is also a case of this, being Anastasia Romanova]].
58* UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud and Carl-Gustav Jung were both Travellers in ''Manga/{{Dreamland}}'' it seems, and a pretty strong one for the former. Considering it's [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian Freud]], it's not all that surprising...
59* In ''Anime/FantasticChildren'', Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was an alien, sort of.
60* ''Manga/{{Jabberwocky}}'': Galileo, Helen of Troy, and maybe even [[Literature/TheBible Adam and Eve]] were actually ''[[spoiler: intelligent dinosaurs]]''.
61* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
62** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'', UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was turned into a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]] by [[BigBad Dio Brando]].
63** In a flashback in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', DIO and Pucci theorize that Creator/LeonardoDaVinci was a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] User.
64** This seems to be the case in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]''. It's pretty much all but stated that the Holy Corpse the characters are fighting over is [[spoiler:the corpse of UsefulNotes/JesusChrist, with the pretty clear implication that he was a Stand User (meaning it also averts NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus)]].
65** During ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'' a collage of women is shown to show how Rock Human women are indistinguishable from regular humans. In this collage, it's implied that Creator/AudreyHepburn, UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII, and several other famous women might have been Rock Humans.
66* In ''Manga/MasterOfMosquiton'', the mysterious BigBad is revealed to be an immortal -- most recently known as UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin -- who had manipulated most of human history so he could fight against a monster that had exiled him on Earth, and was planning to eat the world's souls.
67* In ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'', it is revealed that Jeanne d'Arc's military achievements were only a side thing -- her ''real'' mission was to cleanse the worlds of demons.
68* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[spoiler: historically powerful/influential/famous women like Cleopatra, Queen Himiko of Yamataikoku, Saint Joan of Arc and Anne Frank were Magical Girls, as well as some others from throughout other points in history, such as a Viking]]. One of them would get [[Manga/PuellaMagiTartMagica her own series]].
69* ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII is shown to be one of the past Queens Millennia and one of Yayoi's predecessors.
70* ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' - maybe. It contains "I-jin" which are clones of various historic characters, but with super-powers. It's a bit unclear exactly how powerful the original historical figures were supposed to have been - it's made clear that the I-jin have been "enhanced" during the cloning process. Most of the story revolves around [[ChekhovsGun a book]] written by [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] himself, suggesting that the original Beethoven was more special than generally known.
71* ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' takes Internet hoaxer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor "John Titor"]] and makes his claims of being a time-traveling soldier entirely true. [[spoiler:Her claims on her gender, on the other hand, are false.]]
72* ''Manga/TokimekiTonight'' seldom uses this as a nice little throwaway gag. Mori Eto (a vampire by birth)'s family tree shows that one of his relatives is... Christopher Lee. Also, one panel that shows a vampire village in Magic World has Vlad Tepes as one of the inhabitants (among other references such as Graf Orlok and... Frank N. Furter!?).
73* Karin Yuuki of ''Manga/UQHolder'' is actually revealed to be [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/TheBible Judas Iscariot]], Jesus' betrayer]].
74* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' strongly implies that its main villain is [[spoiler:Isaac Newton]].
75* In ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'''s Universe, the famous poet Basho Matsuo was actually a ruthless assassin whose goal was to TakeOverTheWorld with the power of [[MacGuffin Ryujin's Orb]].
76* In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', Alexander the Great had the Millennium Ring, which helped him conquer the world.
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80* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'':
81** [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho081TheKingmaker "The Kingmaker"]] paints Creator/WilliamShakespeare in rather a different light, revealing that he was, later in life, actually Richard III. (He'd traveled back in time to goad the pragmatic and unpleasant-but-not-actually-villainous Richard into following the version of history outlined in his play, and ended up victim of a case of mistaken identity at Bosworth thanks to a broken arm and wounded leg. The Doctor sent the real Richard back to Stratford with some play outlines.) Richard, for his part, had many experiences with aliens, having been visited regularly since his youth by time-tourists, who routinely pestered him about whether or not he was going to kill his nephews, and ran away if he mentioned doctors. And the Princes in the Tower? Well, they were actually girls, and following his relocation, Richard/Shakespeare raised them as his daughters.
82** The Eighth Doctor travels with Creator/MaryShelley, and she bases ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' on her experiences.
83** In [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho028InvadersFromMars "Invaders from Mars"]], the Doctor uses Creator/OrsonWelles' radio version of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' to persuade some not-especially-bright aliens that Earth has ''already'' been invaded, by a force far superior to their own, making it a poor choice of breeding ground.
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87* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
88** In the comic ''ComicBook/{{Necronauts}}'', Charles Fort, Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, Creator/HarryHoudini and Creator/HPLovecraft go up against the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
89** ''ComicBook/ALoveLikeBlood'': The [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Bathory family]] are descendants of the vampire king. At one point he resurrects some of his "daughters" (banshee-bat creatures) to hunt down his rebellious son Jacques.
90* ''ComicBook/ActionMan'': Apparently, Creator/VictorHugo was at one point head of the Action Man program.
91* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' never comes out and says it, but via some well-placed art, hints that figures like UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, Gandhi, and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein were previous Shamans. In addition, Einstein was apparently involved in at least one cross-dimensional adventure with Jenny Sparks.
92* ''ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron'' #50 reveals that UsefulNotes/WongFeiHung was an ComicBook/IronFist and UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi was a [[ComicBook/GhostRider Spirit of Vengeance]].
93* Creator/HowardChaykin's ''Barnum!: In Secret Service to the U.S.A.'' has [[TheBarnum P.T. Barnum]] and his menagerie of sideshow entertainers thwart an assassination of President Grover Cleveland, then get recruited to stop UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla's attempt to overthrow the United States.
94* ''ComicBook/CleopatraInSpace'': What if young UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII (albeit an obviously fictionalized version of her) was the savior of a galaxy far away?
95* ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'': In "Citadel at the Center of Time", the historical Babylonian king Shamash-shum-ukin is a sorcerer who avoided his recorded death via TimeTravel.
96* Uri Geller is implied to have superpowers in ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' #133 (1976), and to have fought the villain Mind-Wave.
97* Creator/MattFraction's graphic novel ''ComicBook/TheFiveFistsOfScience'' features UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla teaming up with Creator/MarkTwain and Baroness Bertha von Suttner to bring peace to the world using a [[HumongousMecha giant robot]], and is opposed by a [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] cult led by J.P. Morgan, with the assistance of UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, Guglielmo Marconi, and Andrew Carnegie. The [[spoiler:Morgan-financed cover-up of the comic's events]] is intended both to explain why Tesla, despite being a brilliant engineer, was later perceived as an unstable quack, and also to ground the story in true reality as a chapter of the main characters' lives that has been lost to history.
98* In the Italian comic book ''ComicBook/{{Gea}}'', the eponymous character is a member of a group of super-powered individuals who work to send intruders from parallel worlds back, under the orders of a mysterious man known just as "the uncle" whom she's never met, bringing them to a nexus dimension. Said dimension looks a lot like the surreal landscapes of Creator/RogerDean. Near the end of the series, Gea meets "uncle" and finds out he ''is'' Roger Dean--turns out his paintings were inspired by frequent visits in the nexus.
99* ''ComicBook/HelenKiller'' is the story of how Alexander Graham Bell gives an adult Helen Keller a device that allows her to see and hear, and she becomes a super-ninja, trying to stop the assassination of President [=McKinley=] and an attempt to turn all of the world's gold into lead to get revenge for losing out on the telephone patent. Seriously.
100* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' extrapolates Hitler's real life fascination with the occult to astronomical proportions, up to and including an attempt to hire out the vampire Count Giurescu and funding a project to create artificial vampires to ravage Europe should the war's tide turn against him.
101** Rasputin wasn't merely a mad mystic--he was also friends with the Baba Yaga and a servant of the Cthuloid Ogdru Jahad. He hired himself out to Hitler in an attempt to use Nazi resources to cause the end of the world.
102** Earlier in Russian history than that, Peter the Great had three demons summoned to aid him in seizing Swedish land. As payment, they ensured that his sons would die young and that his heart would be cold and unfeeling.
103* In the Image comic ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'', the superhero known as "The Immortal" looks very familiar to students of U.S. history -- one of his previous identities in his long life was UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. Interestingly, this wasn't intended. Rather, it was AscendedFanon on the part of the author when fans pointed out how much The Immortal looked like Honest Abe.
104* In the Italian satiric webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Jenus}}'' Music/RonnieJamesDio, who had come to Earth to spread music and left in disgust at the Church shortly before the Second Coming. Incidentally, [[SueDonym "Dio" is Italian for "God"]].
105* Spanish webcomic-turned-comic-book ''Webcomic/ElJovenLovecraft'' ("Young [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]]") features young Howie summoning the monsters he'd later write about (a pet Ghoul, someone?), meeting [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Poe's]] ghost and overall having a boring pre-teenage life. The initial strip says that other works have fictionalized Lovecraft's history by either presenting him as a forced transvestite child or as an Franchise/IndianaJones-like adventurer fighting sectarian minions, but ''El Joven Lovecraft'' was to show, for the very first time, The Truth.
106* In the French comic ''ComicBook/LaLicorne'', Ambroise Paré, Andreas Vesalius and other Renaissance scientists (including Paracelsus and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci) are members of a secret sect controlling the "Primordials", monstrous creatures that mimic legendary beasts such as griffins or dragons.
107* In the WeirdWest flavored DystopianOz series ''Legend of Oz: The Wicked West'', it is explained that the office of Witch of the East has been stuck in a YouKillItYouBoughtIt cycle, with Amelia Earhart having crashed into Oz onto the previous Wicked Witch of the East, taking her place and being gradually corrupted by the Wicked Witch of the West's influence before Dorothy's house ended up landing on her.
108* The comic book series ''ComicBook/{{Lovecraft}}'' featured Creator/HPLovecraft as its main character, revealing his stories were all based on actual adventures involving monstrous god-like extraterrestrial horrors he encountered and personally did battle with.
109** The aforementioned ''Literature/WarOfTheWorldsGlobalDispatches'' makes nearly the same claim, but with a twist: [[spoiler:Lovecraft's writing was inspired by his own suppressed memory that ''he is one of the godlike horrors the Martians had invaded Earth to escape'']].
110** The ComicBook/AtomicRobo story arc "The Shadow from Beyond Time" starts out with two issues where Lovecraft [[spoiler:turns out to be possessed by a true Lovecraftian monster that breaks out and rampages through the streets of [[BigApplesauce New York]]]].
111* ''ComicBook/TheMagdalena'', from the same universe as ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'', is descended from a long line of women warriors sworn to protect the Catholic Church (and supposedly descended from the offspring of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdelene). She also wields TheSpearOfDestiny as a weapon.
112* ''ComicBook/TheManhattanProjects'' has this as its central premise -- almost everything you've heard about the scientists who shaped the latter half of the 20th century is a lie. Fermi? A man-eating, shapeshifting alien. Einstein? [[spoiler:The real Einstein's less intelligent EvilTwin from an alternate universe]]. von Braun? Had a giant robotic left arm. And they're all [[spoiler:working together to take over the world, and thereafter the entire galaxy]]. Mentions are made here and there of other noted figures in science, industry, and politics and what they're "really" up to in the same period; for instance, Soichiro Honda, founder of the car company that bears his name, designed samurai MechaMooks for the Japanese military.
113* ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'':
114** Virginia Dare, the first colonist born in the United States, is a mutant with the uncontrollable ability to change into animals native to the New World.
115** ''Witch Hunter ComicBook/{{Angela|AsgardsAssassin}}'', James VI of Scotland and I of England turns out not to be [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfStuart James Stuart]] but [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} James Howlett]].
116* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has the VoluntaryShapeshifting race of Skrulls.
117** Deep Throat was really a Skrull spy living as a government official, who had come to love the United States.
118** Music/TheBeatles aren't Skrulls, but they did have Skrull impersonators who went native.
119* ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger, he of the MultipleChoicePast, was revealed to be a penitent [[spoiler:Judas Iscariot]].
120* ''ComicBook/RoughRiders'': In the case of poor Colonel George Armstrong Custer, [[spoiler:driven insane by an alien brain parasite only to be shot to death by an alien spaceship]]. At the end of the first volume, [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk]] is possessed by a similar parasite. [[spoiler:Annie Oakley]] has an arguably kinder fate as a [[spoiler:immortal zombie brought back to life by Thomas Edison]].
121* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', some of the historical figures who have had encounters with Dream include Emperor Norton, Harun al-Rashid, Emperor Augustus and Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
122* In ''ComicBook/TheSecretHistory'', this is the natural result of the Archons' conspiracies. A number of historical figures are aware of who and what the Archons are, and are able to assist them in their plots, sometimes using lesser forms of the runestones. Once tarot cards are developed as mini-runestones, they become known as "players." The players include Moses, Renaud de Chatillon, UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}}, Benvenuto Cellini, John Dee, William Sidney Smith, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, T.E. Lawrence, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, St. John Philby and his son Kim, just to name a few. Many real-life painters are employed to paint the tarot card sets, including Marc Chagall and Creator/PabloPicasso.
123* In Howard Chaykin's ''ComicBook/TheShadow'' miniseries, Lamont Cranston is made into an ambassador of Shangri-La, like others before him. Including Creator/ClarkGable and Veronica Lake.
124* Marvel's 2010 ''ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'' series has Creator/LeonardoDaVinci: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. In fact, ''all'' [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist polymath geniuses]], from Zhang Heng to Galileo to UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton, were agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Which was founded by Imhotep.
125* One ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' comic showed Creator/HarryHoudini as a powerful sorcerer who uses his stage act to cover himself. He teaches the title character a few more tricks he can do with his hell-born powers. He even got a mini-series [[{{Spinoff}} spin-off]] [[http://www.comicvine.com/daring-escapes/4050-10981/ Daring]] [[http://www.comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=3861 Escapes]] and yes it is the same one as Spawn makes a cameo and the bust Spawn made is the {{MacGuffin}}. Houdini also figured prominently in a DC Creator/{{Elseworlds}} special, "ComicBook/{{Batman}}: The Devil's Workshop", where a 1920s Batman teamed up with Houdini to fight vampires. Other Elseworlds books had historical appearances; "Dark Allegiences"(1930s) featured a plot [[spoiler: to assassinate both Hitler and Roosevelt, and install a fascist leader in the White House, who would ally the US with the Axis during WWII]], while "Detective 27" also featured FDR and Babe Ruth (talk about your Bat-Man!)
126* In ''ComicBook/StanleyAndHisMonster'', Creator/AmbroseBierce appears as a card-carrying member of the TrenchcoatBrigade. (Literally. At one point he shows his membership card from the D.U.M.S.U. (Disreputable Urban Magicians and Sorcerers Union) to prove his identity.) Believed killed in 1914 while in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, Bierce in fact found himself on the run. Not from Mexican rebels but from the demons and devils of Hell. Bierce was forced to turn to the occult to protect himself from his pursuers. Over time, he has become quite skilled at it. Whether his youthful appearance after nearly 80 years is due to gaining some form of immortality, being cursed to never age, or some other effect is unrevealed. Bierce won’t talk about it.
127* ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheBullyPulpit'' has UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt stealing Creator/HGWells's TimeMachine and going on an adventure with the ghost of UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison.
128* In ''[[ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose Tarot Witch Of The Black Rose]]'' '''every''' President we've had, including [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama the then current one]] was a parody of ComicBook/IronMan. Turns out it was [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington Washington's]] '''PoweredArmor''' that was wood, not his teeth.
129* The ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' committed UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's murders in order to stop evil witch ghosts from claiming mortal hosts.
130* The Creator/IDWPublishing ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics:
131** Issue 3 of IDW's comic book prequel to ''Film/Transformers2007'' establishes that scientists Robert Oppenheimer, William Hayward Pickering, Frederick Sanger and Jack Kilby were secretly working for the secret government organisation Sector Seven (as an EasterEgg, artist Don Figueroa added himself as another member). The movie includes other such information, but not as openly.
132** In ''[[AlternateContinuity Hearts of]] [[SteamPunk Steel]]'', Creator/MarkTwain and John Henry supposedly fought Decepticons. Jules Verne also makes an appearance for a HistoricalInJoke.
133* Also in Marvel, immortal monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone once went by "Captain Ahab" in the 19th century while on the hunt for a colossal whale-like monster; this fact bears the clear implication that he inspired Creator/HermanMelville to write ''Literature/MobyDick''.
134* In ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel Tower) was apparently a MadScientist [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie-Robot]].
135-->'''Luther:''' And just as I expected? Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel!\
136'''Ben:''' Alive! After all these years--!!
137* Vertigo's ''ComicBook/TheUnwritten'' shows that several authors of world history have been secret agents of a conspiracy or were troubled by said conspiracy in giving life to the things they wrote (literally), e.g. Kipling.
138* In DC comics history, more than a few of history's conquerors and despots were actually personae used by the millennia-old immortal villain ComicBook/VandalSavage. At one point it was even suggested he was Cain, although that was later retconned to be that he'd ''taken'' the Mark of Cain at some point.
139* The basic premise of ''ComicBook/VoidIndigo'' was that Music/MickJagger [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot was a resurrected alien prince out for incredibly violent revenge]].
140* ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'' has implied that, in its universe, a number of equivalents of historical celebrities in our universe were Pantheon members. An early issue suggested that Creator/LordByron was an incarnation of Lucifer. Instead, the gods of each Pantheon take inspiration from influential figures of the era in which they appear. Just as the modern Lucifer isn’t actually David Bowie or Sakhmet isn’t Rihanna. In-universe, the historical figures still exist.
141* In the Creator/{{Wildstorm}} universe, Napoleon was really an alien warlord named Lord Emp, and many other historical figures were actually one of four alien warlords.
142** The ''ComicBook/{{Backlash}}'' series reveals that Atlantis was a Kherubim colony.
143* ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' reveals UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc as one of the keepers of a mystical weapon (quite a few other historical warrior-women including Cleopatra and Mulan were wielders as well).
144* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
145** In the Marvel mini-series ''[[ComicBook/{{Colossus}}: Bloodlines]]'', it was revealed that Rasputin was an ally of Mister Sinister, as well as an ancestor of Piotr "/[[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]]" Rasputin. Piotr is not proud of that fact.
146** Princess Diana almost became a member of the X-Men splinter group ''ComicBook/XStatix'', as depicted [[https://screenrant.com/marvel-weirdest-mutant-princess-diana/ here]].
147** In another X-Men related example, this one InUniverse, [[Characters/MarvelComicsExodus Exodus]] has kit-bashed his Christian faith and belief in mutant sanctity into belief that Jesus was a mutant. He also much prefers Hope Summers as a messiah because she's willing to shoot people. There's no confirmation of this either way (though it wouldn't be the weirdest thing to happen in the Marvel Universe), but Hope, along with pretty much everyone else, thinks he's completely nuts.
148* ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'': In Franchise/TheDCU, Creator/LeonardoDaVinci was a member of the magic-wielding Homo Magi sub-species, [[HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative and the ancestor of]] John Zatara and his daughter Zatanna.
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152* In ''Fanfic/AvengerOfSteel'', when discussing how the Ancient One has a system for monitoring world leaders and influential figures to make sure that they're not possessed or magically influenced, and thus cannot be manipulated to cause wars or risk damaging the Sanctums by magical means, Clark reveals that apparently many of the crazier kings and emperors of antiquity were driven mad or possessed by magical beings, and that the Ancient One stepped up on surveillance due the existence of nuclear weapons and the like to ensure that they didn't do too much damage.
153* In ''Fanfic/AWEArcadiaBayRogueDemon'', it's implied that the [[UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} Chernobyl Disaster]] was an altered world event, either have been caused by or resulted in the creation of an EldritchAbomination called The Monolith.
154* In ''Fanfic/BeforeTheDawn'', the Oracle of Pythia was a vampire who is still alive in the present, with characters debating whether she actually has visions from the gods or just has a really strange ability.
155* Apparently, in ''FanFic/TheBestSevenYears'', Creator/LewisCarroll was a wizard. And so is Creator/ChuckNorris.
156* In ''Fanfic/BloodSisters'', it’s mentioned that one of Creator/VincentVanGogh’s friends was a leanan sidhe, accounting for his artistic talent and his mental decline.
157* Invoked in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''/''Series/StargateSG1'' crossover fic "[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-3138/Tassos+Bridges.htm Bridges]]"; when circumstances prompt the Scoobies to summon the vengeance demon responsible for oppressed constituencies to deal with Vice-President-Elect Robert Kinsey, D'Hoffryn reveals that the demon's current name is Norman, but he was originally Charles Guiteau, the man responsible for assassinating President UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield.
158* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
159** A considerable amount of the devastation of Berlin towards the end of WWII was actually caused by a brutal duel between Doctor Strange and a godlike Grindelwald, empowered by multiple [[DealWithTheDevil deals with devils]].
160** The Winter Soldier assassinated JFK, and the Black Widow set up Oswald as a patsy, seducing Jack Ruby into killing him.
161** As per Harry Potter canon, Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel were wizards and immortal alchemists, though they gave up the Philosopher's Stone. Unlike canon, however, they were scooped up by Nick Fury, who offered them the Infinity Formula in exchange for their service as SHIELD Agents.
162** Loki spent an undisclosed amount of time on Earth in the mid 20th century, during which he dated the future Queen Elizabeth II, and took a liking to Creator/JRRTolkien, and took him on a tour of the Nine Realms. Since Tolkien happened to be a talented [[{{Seers}} Seer]], it's repeatedly implied that he picked up on much more than he should have been able to, with WordOfGod implying that InUniverse his Legendarium is fiction based on fact - as shown in the third book when a time-travelling Harry [[spoiler: is given the name 'Earendil' by a group of elves. He finds it rather amusing]].
163** As in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' Professor X and Magneto brought a peaceful end to the Cuban Missile Crisis with the First Class of X-Men, which was actually a plot by the megalomaniacal Sebastian Shaw to start WorldWarIII. They were also aided in that by Howard Stark and Peggy Carter, and Namor was apparently involved in some capacity (it's unclear, but it apparently involved a tidal wave).
164** The sequel reveals in passing that [[HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative Lady Jane Grey a.k.a. 'The Nine Days Queen']] is a distant relative, via another branch of the family, to Lily Potter, ComicBook/JeanGrey, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor]], and, of course, Harry.
165** ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'' reveals that the Lady Knight was UsefulNotes/JulieDAubigny in one of her many guises over the millennia, and notes it as one of her favourite aliases. Given that's she's acting as TheChanteuse at her GoodGuyBar and promptly beats up a [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Scarab]] with nothing but an impossibly sharp sword, this isn't entirely surprising.
166* In chapter 17 of ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndNoire'', Plagg confirms to Marinette that Creator/WilliamShakespeare was the previous Black Cat, while his wife Anne Hathaway was his Ladybug. Though given the dark tone Plagg had when mentioning her, it's clear they didn't have the same comradery compared to Lady Noir and Crimson Beetle. WordOfGod confirmed that Anne had distrusted the Black Cat as [[HeroWithBadPublicity modern Paris does with Lady Noir]].
167* In one episode of ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'', UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla uses [[Series/DoctorWho matter from Cardiff's temporal Rift]] to power a machine and [[ProfessorGuineaPig tests it out on himself]]. Naturally, things [[GoneHorriblyRight go horribly right]], and the machine ''technically'' provides longevity, but at the price of enormous psychic abilities, among other things.
168* ''FanFic/{{crawlersout}}'': Several historical figures are outright stated to be wizards, including two of America's founding fathers, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, the sitting President in the 1930s (presumably Franklin D. Roosevelt), Austrian symbolist painter Creator/GustavKlimt, and Czech artist Creator/AlphonseMucha. One of Tom's friends, Washy, is even a direct descendant of Washington, making him Pureblood royalty.
169* In ''Fanfic/DoctorWhoAndTheRambaldiEnigma'', the Third Doctor and Sydney Bristow learn that Milo Rambaldi’s genius is due to him being linked to an alien life form.
170* In ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'', Murasaki Shikibu, Vlad Tepes, Elizabeth Bathory, Rasputin, and Joshua Norton were all members of the [[TheChosenOne Ben Shui]] reincarnation cycle.
171* ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'': It's revealed in the seventh edition's StoryArc that George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, and [[spoiler: J. Edgar Hoover]] were all members of [[ThoseWackyNazis PURITY]]. And they engineered the whole Watergate scandal in order to ruin Richard Nixon when he wouldn't play along with their plans.
172* In ''James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing'', they reveal that the headmaster of the American version of Hogwarts (or one of several, it is not clear how many wizarding institutions America has) is ''Creator/BenjaminFranklin.'' Yeah, apparently the coolest Founding Father was also a wizard, and has a machine that has slowed his aging so much he's still alive.
173* ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'' offers up that both Creator/WilliamShakespeare and Creator/BramStoker were actually Wizards, with the latter coining the term "[[TheRenfield Renfield]]" that Wizards' use to refer to humans mind-controlled by Vampires. [[spoiler:It is also believed that Discord actually '''''IS''''' Poseidon in another form.]]
174* ''Fanfic/MiraculousCity'': Tomoe Gozen is revealed [[spoiler:in the final battle]] to be a previous Dragon Miraculous user. During said battle, [[spoiler:Kagami tells her mother Tomoe that for all her claims of honoring her namesake's path, the real Tomoe would be disgusted in her part of imprisoning her partner Lonng]].
175* ''Fanfic/NihonversePocketville'' has the Moon Queen, a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent lunar angel]] who helps Queen Ami and her sister Emi. It is revealed that she was in fact [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Queen Elizabeth II]] herself, who was apparently the Sixth Folklorist for the Queendom of Onmyou.
176* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'':
177** It's briefly mentioned that Abraham Lincoln was a vampire hunter.
178** PlayedWith in ''A Game Of Cat And Cat''. The Creator/StephenHawking of Kazuya's original reality was the genius programmer who created the Demon Summoning Program, but the Hawking in the world where the fic takes places is the same as the Real Life one. The characters are trying to figure out if the version of Stephen Hawking they know knows anything about demons by looking up his fields of study, which are different from the alternate universe ones, but nothing in particular pops out.
179* ''Fanfic/ThePeaceNotPromised'' mentions that Saint Nicholas was a wizard who "gained notoriety through his seasonal flaunting of the Statute of Secrecy." Snape reflects that the only real problem he created was the disappointment of children afterward, which is something Snape isn't too troubled by.
180* ''[[Creator/DetsniyOffSkiword Professor Layton Vs Jack The Raper]]'' has the big reveal be that [[spoiler:Jack The Raper is the [[SamusIsAGirl princess]] of the [[Anime/DeathNote Shinigami]]]].
181* The fanfic ''Fanfic/PoisonedBlood'' offers several instances of famous (and infamous) historical figures being demigods.
182** [[Creator/BenjaminFranklin Benjamin Franklin]] was a child of Hades who invented the lightning rod to protect people from his uncle Zeus's wrath.
183** [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Abraham Lincoln]] was another child of Hades, but unfortunately demigod historians have marked him as a child of Zeus, which bothers him immensely. As he told the trio that there were children of Zeus in the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]], but they were Confederate generals.
184** And in World War Two, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] and [[UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill Winston Churchill]] were sons of Hades and Poseidon while Adolf Hitler and [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Joseph Stalin]] were sons of Zeus.
185* In ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'', it's revealed through flashbacks that the famed samurai [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Tametomo Minamoto Tametomo]] made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Oni]] for the power to defeat his family's enemies, and upon his death was [[DemonOfHumanOrigin transformed into an Oni himself]], becoming [[PredecessorVillain Tarakudo]].
186* It is fairly common on ''Sentinel'' fanfiction to speculate that this or that historical figure may have been a Sentinel or a Guide.
187* In the rebooted version of ''Fanfic/SupperSmashBrosMishonhFromGod'', the reality-warping Franchise/{{Kirby}} villain Marx takes the place of Creator/KarlMarx as the writer of the Communist Manifesto.
188* In ''Fanfic/VariantStrain'', [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Grigoriy Rasputin]] is revealed to have been infected by the Hydra virus, which is why he was so [[RasputinianDeath hard to kill]].
189* Chapter 36 of the ''VideoGame/Persona4'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6813246/1/Persona_4_Welcome_to_Tokyo_Act_II_End Welcome to Tokyo]]'' implies that UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga, UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, and UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy may have been Wild Cards, much like the main characters of the ''Persona'' games.
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192[[folder:Films — Animation]]
193* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin was apparently an EvilWizard who [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul]] for an [[SoulJar unholy reliquary]] — becoming a {{lich}} in the process — in order to place a {{curse}} on the Romanovs for banishing him. Oh, and that curse was apparently what [[RealEventFictionalCause caused]] the ''Russian Revolution!''
194* ''WesternAnimation/TheGuardiansOfTheLostCode'' reveals that the fall of great ancient civilizations and ancient wars of conquest were driven by [[BigBad The Dark]] to eliminate the brijes and obtain the synchronicity. The last instance of this was the conquest of the Americas, in which we see UsefulNotes/HernanCortes under orders of The Dark torturing the last Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc for the secret of the synchronicity.
195* ''Anime/Interstella5555'' implies through flashbacks that [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]], Music/EllaFitzgerald, and Music/JanisJoplin among others were previous alien victims of the Earl de Darkwood, kidnapped from their worlds in a sinister plot to acquire gold records.
196* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDark'':
197-->'''[[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} Jason Blood]]:''' Are they implying that Creator/DavidCopperfield, ''television'' magician, has true [magic] power?\
198'''ComicBook/JohnConstantine:''' Owns a chain of islands and dated Creator/ClaudiaSchiffer. What do ''you'' think?
199[[/folder]]
200
201[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
202* ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' claims fighting vampires was why the Civil War happened.
203* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'' claims that Creator/OrsonWelles' radio version of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' was part of a cover-up of a real alien invasion.
204* According to ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'', UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was actually... the Loch Ness Monster!
205* ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]'': The main historical figure behind UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, UsefulNotes/TomasDeTorquemada, also happens to be a Templar seeking to eradicate the Assassins in Spain and trying to get his hands on an [[ArtifactOfDoom Apple of Eden]], which is guarded by the last Sultan of Granada, Muhammad XII "Boadbdil". The artifact ends up entrusted to UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus.
206* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' suggests Chuck Berry invented rock and roll through a secondhand account from a time traveller from the future.
207* The BigBad of ''Film/BordelloOfBlood'' apparently fed on Ivan the Terrible.
208* ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'' portrays [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm the eponymous brothers]] as traveling con-artists in French-occupied Germany, during the early 19th century. However, the brothers eventually encounter a genuine fairy tale curse which requires real courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
209* ''Film/BubbaHoTep'' posits that Music/ElvisPresley and UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy (who has been turned into an African-American to disguise his identity) are secretly still alive in a Texas retirement home. Fighting mummies.
210* Invoked in-universe in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. When the returnees come home, one of the scientists notes that they haven't aged one bit even after being gone decades. He remarks that Einstein was right. Another scientist replies, "Einstein was probably one of them".
211* 2023's ''El Conde'' posits that UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet was a centuries-old [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] who lived during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution.
212* The lyrics to the ''Conehead Love'' song in the credits of ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'' say "[[UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower Eisenhower]], [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]], [[UsefulNotes/HarryTruman Truman]]. None of them were really human".
213* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'' involves a secret society of the world's rich and famous who have been given an ancient elixir that gives them eternal life and youth. Their members are shown to include Creator/GretaGarbo, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Creator/JamesDean, Creator/AndyWarhol, and Creator/MarilynMonroe.
214* ''Film/Dracula2000'' postulates that Dracula was Judas Iscariot, who was turned into a vampire when he hanged himself after betraying Jesus. It also explains that he fears silver because of the thirty pieces he was paid for the job, and crosses since they're a reminder for him of what he did.
215* ''Film/EdgeOfSanity'' reveals that UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper (played by Creator/AnthonyPerkins, [[Film/{{Psycho}} appropriately enough]]) was actually [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Edward Hyde]].
216* ''Film/FrightNight2NewBlood'': Gerri is strongly implied to be none other than UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory.
217* Creator/AmbroseBierce had a run-in with vampires in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn3TheHangmansDaughter''.
218* ''Film/GentlemenExplorers'' reveals that Creator/TheBrothersGrimm were actually {{Adventurer Archaeologist}}s who used collecting fol stories as a cover for locating and acquiring the magical artifacts described in those stories to keep them out of the wrong hands.
219* In ''Film/HighwayToHell'', Satan says that many historical nasties like Attila the Hun and Hitler were his (implied to be adopted) sons. Royce was a disappointment, while Adam is the latest who will be sent to Earth when ready.
220* ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'' suggests that UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill was a founding member of Kingsman.
221** The prequel film ''Film/TheKingsMan'' reveals that King Edward V was a founding Kingsman, taking the codename "Bedivere". Meanwhile, it's shown that World War I was engineered by a secret society known as the Flock, composed of such notables as Rasputin, Lenin, Gavrilo Princip, Erik Jan Hanussen, and Mata Hari [[spoiler: with Hitler joining in TheStinger's SequelHook]].
222* ''Film/{{Lisztomania}}'', Music/FranzLiszt used [[ThePowerofRock his music]] to stop [[CommieNazis Richard Wagner]], the Antichrist who later becomes Frankenstein Hitler.
223* In ''Film/TheManFromEarth'', the protagonist is immortal, [[spoiler: and was the person history remembered as Jesus]].
224* ''Film/MenInBlack'' does this multiple times. At one point in the movie there is a screen showing numerous people who are really aliens with most of them being celebrities, including Al Roker, Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/StevenSpielberg ([[CreatorCameo who produced the film; the film's director is also in the monitor]]), Creator/NewtGingrich, and Creator/DannyDeVito. Later on, while listening to an 8-track tape of Music/ElvisPresley songs, Agent J remarks that Elvis (as in, the popularity of his music) is dead, which prompts K to remark that "[[ElvisHasLeftThePlanet Elvis is not dead, he just went home]]", implying that Elvis is an alien who left the Earth. Also included: a TakeThat at Dennis Rodman's expense.
225* ''Film/MenInBlackII'' has Music/MichaelJackson begging Z to let him be an Agent. It also implies that Martha Stewart ([[CatsAreMean or possibly her cat]]) is actually an evil alien overlord.
226* ''Film/MenInBlack3'' reveals that Andy Warhol was actually "Agent W" and that his identity as an artist was merely to attract aliens to monitor. He was also completely faking his persona and actually had his death faked by K by his request. In the beginning, one of the screens showing disguised aliens briefly shows Music/LadyGaga as well.
227* In ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'', Music/JohannSebastianBach is stated to have been a Shadowhunter and wrote chords that repel demons into his music.
228* ''Film/NationalTreasure'' depicts the founding fathers of America as the most recent safekeepers of a massive treasure trove. And the sequel does the same, proposing an alliance between UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria and the South, with assistance from Edouard de Laboulaye, in order to find funds for the Civil War via the 'real' El Dorado. Oh, and [[GovernmentConspiracy a secret book belonging to the President, detailing...''things'' about the government]].
229* ''Film/NetherbeastIncorporated'' reveals that President James Garfield was one of the titular netherbeasts.
230* In ''Film/{{Paul}}'', Paul's advanced knowledge appears to negate Christian beliefs, while his powers, including healing and resurrection, appear similar to those in the Biblical stories, implying extraterrestrial visitors utilized such abilities in the past, that were then recorded as miracles by witnesses, being the basis of the Biblical stories that became religious beliefs. Paul himself, working with the U.S. government, helped proliferate the notion of aliens in modern media in an effort to prepare humanity for a proper first contact. His most notable contributions include the character of [[Series/TheXFiles Fox Mulder]] and [[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial ET's]] healing powers ([[ItWillNeverCatchOn though he was a bit iffy on having his finger glow]]).
231* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'', Blackbeard is a voodoo sorcerer, and survived for many years past the battle that history records as his death.
232* A key plot point of ''Film/ThePrestige'' is the fact that UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla [[spoiler:was able to invent a device that created copies of whatever was put in it]]. He's also Music/DavidBowie, although that doesn't have anything to do with the plot (apart from being awesome).
233* In ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', the opening scene shows around ten Engineers in robes, like a group of disciples talking to one figure. In an interview, Ridley Scott reveals an Engineer appeared in Earth's past and was crucified by humans, inspiring the myths of Jesus.
234* In ''Film/TheRaven2012'', Creator/EdgarAllanPoe is recruited by the police to solve a series of murders based on his stories.
235* The premise of ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'' is that Max Schrek, the actor playing Count Orlok in ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' really was a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]].
236* ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' explains the great pyramids
237* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'':
238** General Chang claims that you haven't heard [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] unless it's in the original Klingon. Shakespeare Was A Klingon Spy?
239** Spock uses the quote that "if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains – however improbable – must be the truth." and attributes it to his ancestor but it's entirely vague if his ancestor is Sherlock Holmes or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
240* ''Film/TimeAfterTime'' had H.G. Wells build a time machine and travel to the future in pursuit of Jack the Ripper, who happened to have been a friend of his. He meets a woman there and brings her back to his time and marries her. His girlfriend makes a quip about becoming [[spoiler:Susan B. Anthony]] although she probably wasn't being completely serious. The girlfriend's name was Amy Robbins. Historically, Wells' second wife's name was Amy Katherine Robbins.
241* ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'', in which Gustave Eiffel, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, Creator/JulesVerne and Creator/MarkTwain established a SecretCircleOfSecrets known as Plus Ultra at the 1889 Universal Exposition of Paris that found a way to enter another dimension, find an unlimited power source, and establish a technological/creative think tank called Tomorrowland. Later members would include UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, Creator/RayBradbury and Creator/WaltDisney himself, who used the area in his theme parks as equal parts cover story and a way to prepare people for the real Tomorrowland.
242* Film/TransformersFilmSeries:
243** ''Film/Transformers2007'' showed that five US presidents knew about Megatron and the Cube. [[spoiler: Hoover Dam]] was constructed to hide and store the Cube.
244** In the sequel ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', the Great Pyramids are a cover-up for [[spoiler: an alien portal generator]]. In a more joking manner, according to the semi-senile Jetfire, his father was "The wheel! The ''first'' wheel!" And what did he turn into? "Nothing! But he did it with honor! Dignity, dammit!"
245** And in the third film ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the Moon [[spoiler: to explore the ruins of a Cybertronian starship. Also, the stopping of both the American and Soviet space programs was engineered by the Decepticons so that the ship remains undiscovered. The Chernobyl disaster is also revealed to be the result of an experiment with a power cell from the same ship]].
246* A DoorstopBaby, apparently delivered by alien spaceship, in the beginning of Todd Haynes' film ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'', is... Creator/OscarWilde. (It could make ''The Star-Child'' semi-autobiographic...)
247* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': In the opening credits it is vaguely implied that the Comedian may have killed Kennedy.
248* In ''Film/Wishmaster4TheProphecyFulfilled'', the [[JackassGenie Djinn]] implies he once served Caligula.
249* ''Film/TheWolfman2010'':
250** Years after failing to catch UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper in London, Inspector Abberline was sent to the Moors to investigate a werewolf's killings [[spoiler:and became a werewolf himself]].
251** Creator/{{Max Von Sydow}}'s DeletedRole (still present in the director's cut) implies that the Beast of Gêvaudan (a legendary beast alleged to have terrorized the former province of Gêvaudan between 1764 and 1767) was a werewolf.
252* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
253** One comment in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' has a student comment on the theory of evolution only for Professor X to reveal that the reason Charles Darwin learned about the theory is because Darwin was a mutant himself. (Actually, the student was commenting about a theory Einstein had that criticised ethics, with the Professor responding "Einstein wasn't a mutant. At least as far as we know".)
254** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' reveals that Professor X and Magneto brought a peaceful end to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was actually a plot by the megalomaniacal Sebastian Shaw to start WorldWarIII.
255** In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Magneto is imprisoned because intelligence agencies believe [[WhoShotJFK he assassinated JFK]], using his powers to curve the bullet. Magneto claims he was actually trying to ''save'' him, because Kennedy ''himself'' is a mutant. According to the writer, Magneto is telling the truth, and JFK's mutant power was probably some form of {{telepathy}} for [[CharmPerson persuasion]].
256** ''Film/XmenApocalypse'' posits that the biblical myths about the four horseman of the apocalypse comes from the mutant himself
257* ''Film/YoungEinstein'', the most famous scientist in history was actually from Australia, created Rock and Roll, and dated UsefulNotes/MarieCurie.
258[[/folder]]
259
260[[folder:Literature]]
261!!!'''By Author:'''
262* Creator/DanBrown:
263** The book ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' provides silly, entirely fictional, insights into Leonardo da Vinci's motivations in his artwork. Leonardo may have been insane.
264** His earlier book, ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'', includes similar fictional insights into the lives of Galileo and [[Art/TheRapeOfProserpinaBernini Bernini]].
265* Creator/CliveCussler:
266** In ''[[Literature/DirkPittAdventures Sahara]]'', UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln is captured by the South (a double is killed by Booth in the theatre) and is held captive on an ironclad, which runs the Union blockade and escapes to Africa, where it ends up trapped in the Sahara Desert after a river it followed dries up.
267** ''Atlantis Found'' reveals that Hitler and Eva Braun were actually cremated and interred in the same urn [[spoiler:until Dirk flushes their ashes down the White House toilet]].
268* Creator/TimPowers gives secret, supernatural histories to real-life figures in a lot of his works.
269** ''Literature/LastCall'' has Bugsy Siegel serving as the uncrowned emperor of Las Vegas while channeling the archetype of the FisherKing.
270** ''Literature/OnStrangerTides'' has Blackbeard following a voodoo ritual to claim power.
271** ''Literature/ThreeDaysToNever'' has a truly unconventional [[TimeTravel time machine]] created by UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein as a result of his exploration into astral projection and the Sephirot, with Creator/CharlieChaplin lending a hand at some point.
272** UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison appears (as a ghost) in ''Literature/ExpirationDate''.
273** ''Literature/TheStressOfHerRegard'' and ''Literature/HideMeAmongTheGraves'' posit immortal creatures who act as muses to chosen humans, for a price. In the former book, the chosen humans include [[Creator/LordByron Byron]], [[Creator/JohnKeats Keats]], [[Creator/PercyByssheShelley Shelley]], and [[Literature/TheVampyre Polidori]]. The latter adds [[Literature/GoblinMarket Christina Rossetti]] (Polidori's niece), Lizzie Siddal Rossetti, and [[Creator/AlgernonCharlesSwinburne Swinburne]].
274** Byron also appears in ''Literature/TheAnubisGates'', as does Coleridge.
275** Film/LawrenceOfArabia and TheMole Kim Philby in ''Literature/{{Declare}}''.
276** In ''Literature/MedusasWeb'', the art deco artist Aubrey Beardsley is said to have been responsible for reviving the Medusa in the modern world, creating a secret subculture revolving around the "spiders". It was big in 1920s Hollywood, involving Rudolph Valentino, the making of ''Film/Salome1923'', and the mysterious deaths of Thomas H. Ince and William Desmond Taylor.
277** In ''Literature/ForcedPerspectives'', the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518 dancing plague of 1518]], the destruction of the standing sets for ''Film/TheTenCommandments1923'', and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunken_City Sunken City catastrophe]] were all fallout from earlier failed attempts at the same kind of AssimilationPlot the villain is about to pull off.
278* There is a series of novels by Michael Thomas that have Jane Austen as a vampire.
279
280!!!'''By Work:'''
281* Scholastic's ''Literature/The39Clues'' claims that every single influential person in the world is a member of the AncientConspiracy family, the Cahills. And that they're all part of four branches reminiscent of Literature/HarryPotter. Well, not ''every single'' influential person in the world. Anyone born before the 16th century is out, for starters, and while the Cahills try to get people to marry into the family, it doesn't always work; Creator/{{Rembrandt|VanRijn}} is a canonical example.
282* The title premise of ''Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter''.
283* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' the alien Elfangor-Sirnial-Shamtul has taken on a human form to live among humans. Because his species is centuries ahead of humanity, it was easy for him to work as a computer programmer. He founded a company that was very successful, and keeps mentioning his friends Steve and Bill. Most likely are Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
284* Thomas Wheeler's ''The Arcanum'' is about how Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, Creator/HPLovecraft, Creator/HarryHoudini, and Marie Laveu are all members of a secret organization that protects the world from the occult.
285* ''Literature/Area51'': A ton of historical figures were actually aliens in disguise, such as Myth/KingArthur and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. Others were their minions or enemies in a secret war.
286* According to ''The Autobiography of Santa Claus'', Myth/KingArthur, UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun, and various other famous historical figures did not actually die, they decided to join in with old Saint Nick and the gang and gained immortality. UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart even staged her own "mysterious disappearance" instead of finishing her flight around the world so that she could head up to the North Pole.
287* In the ''Legions of Fire Trilogy'' (commonly known as the "Centauri Trilogy"), part of ''Series/BabylonFive'''s ExpandedUniverse, it is mentioned that there was a Drakh who once inhabited Earth--named [[{{Dracula}} Drak'hul]].
288* In Creator/KimNewman's ''Literature/BadDreams'' Joe [=McCarthy=], Roy Cohn and Creator/AynRand are all pawns of a vampire. In ''Literature/SomethingMoreThanNight'', which is kind of a prequel to ''Bad Dreams'', Creator/RaymondChandler had a run-in with a female vampire of the same kind, who was the inspiration for all the ''femmes fatale'' in his novels, and some of Creator/BorisKarloff's horror movies are based on real events he personally witnessed.
289* ''Literature/SongsOfEarthAndPower'': Numerous historical figures turn out to be gifted at magic. Artists, in particular, as they are prone of suffusing all sorts of magical effects into their masterpieces.
290* Information on the webpage for ''Literature/TheBigOne'' and its sequels indicates that certain figures helping run the United States in that AlternateHistory are extremely long-lived (but not immortal) mutants. Two of the women have been around since 1250 [=BCE=], and one of the men, Parmenio, was a general for UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Hannibal]], [[Literature/ArabianNights Scheherazade]] and Creator/WilliamShakespeare are also among the mutants.
291* ''Literature/BlackHouse'' features a demon named Mr. Munshun, who is possessing a grotesque child SerialKiller and cannibal named Charles Burnside. Much later in the story, Munshun is also revealed to be responsible for the likes of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish Albert Fish]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer Jeffrey Dahmer]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haarmann Fritz Haarmann]], among many, many others.
292* In Creator/TanyaHuff's ''Literature/BloodBooks'' series, vampire Henry Fitzroy is ''the'' Henry Fitzroy, illegitimate son of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII.
293* In Walter Jon Williams' ''The Boolean Gate'', UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla's inventions are the result of his occasional possession by an alien machine intelligence seeking to create a worldwide AI. He is prevented in this when his friend Creator/MarkTwain figures it out ([[UnwittingPawn Tesla himself is unaware of where his inspirations come from]]) and discredits him among his potential backers.
294* ''Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well On Ganymede'' has the title musician as the pawn of the Illuminati. Or aliens. Or Atlanteans. Or all three.
295* In a ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' story, Spider Robinson has an alien reveal that he was Hitler, among other historical people. Later in the Callahan's books, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla became a recurring character, having been made immortal by Lady Callahan and cured of his various phobias so that his scientific genius could aid Jake Stonebender and his friends in saving the world.
296* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' has throwaway lines that many figurespeople were demigods: George Washington (his mother was Athena), Creator/HarryHoudini (who successfully traveled to the Underworld and back), Underground Railroad operator UsefulNotes/HarrietTubman (daughter of Hermes), Secretary of State William H. Seward (son of Hebe), Alfred Hitchcock, the Beatles, and Union General UsefulNotes/WilliamTecumsehSherman (a son of Ares), etc.
297** One of the key plot points in the series is that the three chief gods (Zeus, Poseidon and Hades) aren't supposed to father any more demigods — in no small part because their recent offspring included almost every major player in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. ''[[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus The Son of Neptune]]'' later has Hazel note that Hades/Pluto bears a very strong resemblance to Adolf Hitler (though WordOfGod is that he was ''not'' a demigod).
298* Creator/JackMcDevitt and Creator/MikeResnick's ''Literature/TheCassandraProject'' reveals that [[spoiler: Jesus]] was actually a messenger sent by an alien race to humankind.
299* In ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheLamp'', it is stated that Creator/HarryHoudini was a djinn, possibly of the same tribe as the heroes.
300* James A. Owen's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfTheImaginariumGeographica'' is a series in which the main characters, John, Jack, and Charles are the protectors of an Atlas of a magical realm where all myths are true. John, Jack and Charles actually are: [[spoiler:Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, and Creator/CharlesWilliams]]. Oh, and [[spoiler:Creator/HGWells]] was their mentor.
301** Jack accidentally kills [[spoiler:Nemo]], [[spoiler:Creator/JulesVerne]] is running ThePlan, [[spoiler:Jamie Barrie]] is Peter Pan's greatest enemy after Captain Hook, also known as [[spoiler:Mordred, Mordred and Merlin are brothers, their father was Odysseus, who was six generations removed from Deucalion son of Prometheus, their mother was Calypso, Arthur is the son of Merlin and married to a descendant of the Jesus (the HolyGrail), an alternate version of Charles burned down the Library at Alexandria, Mark Twain had an agent (Hank Morgan) at the tournament where Arthur became the High King and Hank's banner was a]] Cubs pennant, which apparently used to mean Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes, [[spoiler:Jack is the Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk, the Pandora are a group of three witches, Mordred was the good guy until the fire of Alexandria and Merlin was the bad guy, "Aragorn" is a corruption of "Argo", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini were rogue Caretakers, Houdini had a pair of wardrobes that formed a passage between them and those were the inspiration for the wardrobe into Narnia, the Red Dragon ship was originally the Argo, the Yellow Dragon is the Nautilus, Pythagoras built Archimedes, a clockwork owl, Alexander the Great was descendant of the Argonauts, Verne was an apprentice of Twain, Caliburn (better known now as Excalibur) was the sword of Aeneas (a hero of UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar and one of the possible ancestors of the guy who founded London)]], etc. These books are ''full'' of nothing but plot and this trope. Any genius in history was a Caretaker. [[spoiler:Oh, and Da Vinci wasn't a genius, he was just a plagiarist. All of his sketches and paintings were originally by Bacon. ''Art/TheMonaLisa'' was smiling because Bacon was doing something rather obscene while he painted her.]]
302** Actually, not everyone was a Caretaker. It's revealed in Book 4 that several of the villains are the brilliant guys that were never given the proper chance to be Caretakers, and the fifth book in the series reveals that there's another society made of people that aren't Caretakers that includes [[spoiler: Benjamin Franklin]]. Oh, and villains include [[spoiler: John Dee and Nikola Tesla]].
303* According to Kage Baker's ''Literature/TheCompanyNovels'', William Randolph Hearst should have been a miscarried fetus before he was saved (very creatively) by a Company doctor. He later ends up an immortal and plays MyGrandsonMyself.
304* A recurring joke throughout John Hodgman's ''Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge'' trilogy. There are too many of instances to fully list here. Just go out and buy the book.
305** The big one in ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' is that President Hoover stole Tesla's inventions, built an army of robots, and tried to exterminate all the hoboes before they [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to a higher plane of existence]]. Throughout the book are more "Were You Aware Of It?" lists, containing various "fun facts" about assorted historical figures. And Nick Nolte was one of the hoboes.
306** ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'' has Thomas Jefferson influenced by mole-man philosophers (and Sally Hemmings ''was'' a mole-man). Also, Aaron Burr was an EvilOverlord who fought a frontier war against America and looked like Chewbacca. Oh, and Creator/JDSalinger was a sasquatch and UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt is referred to as some type of MemeticBadass. And Nick Nolte is one of the mole-men.
307** ''Literature/ThatIsAll'' has Ray Kurzweill and Stephen King fighting robots. And Nick Nolte is one of the [[EldritchAbomination Ancient and Unspeakable Ones.]]
308* The book and film ''Literature/ConfessionsOfADangerousMind'' reveal gameshow host Chuck Barris's past as a hitman working for the CIA. This is probably fictional - though Barris insists otherwise.
309* ''Constance Verity'' Trilogy:
310** Not only is Al Capone still alive, but he's a vampire that rules over a city underneath Chicago.
311** There are hundreds of instances where the prophecy of the "Great Engine" was relayed to prophets and seers throughout the years in one form or another. Such examples include: a chapter cut from later editions of ''Literature/LittleWomen'' that Creator/LouisaMayAlcott wrote while high on opium, a papyrus written by the Pharaoh Ptah relaying a message from the gods, a recording of UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison fortelling doom when played backwards, a machine that writes only "Chaos" (having been designed by Euclid, improved upon by UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton and built by Charles Babbage), and a journal detailing the final words of UsefulNotes/HelenKeller.
312** Creator/BenjaminFranklin was "America's greatest sorcerer", having written a book on magical theory that Connie keeps (a first edition, no less) in her personal library.
313** Author and Mathematician Ada Lovelace was the last known person to see The Engine in person.
314* In Laura Anne Gilman's ''Cosa Nostradamus'' universe the founder of the system of modern magic and, to a large extent, of modern magical society is Creator/BenjaminFranklin.
315* In Austin Grossman's ''Crooked'' both the Declaration of Independence and key parts of the Constitution hold mystical power which have been used by many, though not all, Presidents including Washington, Lincoln, Taft, Eisenhower and Nixon. Also several Russian Premiers have been the vessels of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
316* In Creator/DouglasAdams' ''Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'', Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge was possessed by the ghost of an alien bent on destroying mankind, and left coded messages in his poetry. In addition, the work of Music/JohannSebastianBach was actually produced by hyper-advanced extra-terrestrials observing all the natural phenomena on earth and translating them into music. This all led, eventually, to the title character [[spoiler:being the 'mysterious wanderer' who interrupted the writing of "Kubla Khan"]].
317* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': Three prominent Genoans are portrayed in the ''Inferno'' as traitors of such magnitude that their souls were immediately damned to Hell, while their historical lives after that point were carried out by demons who had taken their bodies.
318* ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]:
319** The books, much like the TV series, rather like this trope: Second meets Oliver Cromwell (''[[Literature/PastDoctorAdventures The Roundheads]]''), Fourth teams up with Creator/ArthurConanDoyle (''[[Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures Evolution]]''), Seventh helps Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight an alien cyborg (''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTimewyrmGenesys Timewyrm: Genesys]]'') and later learns the true identity of Jack the Ripper (''Matrix''), Eighth encounters a time-traveling Creator/NoelCoward (''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'') and helps Kim Philby battle a group of immortal "gamers" who caused the Cold War (''Endgame'')...
320** The ''Literature/FactionParadox'' spin-off has had, at various times, Creator/LordByron, Percy Shelley, King George III, and Music/JohannSebastianBach caught up in a GambitPileup involving the Time Lords and their quasi-{{Evil Counterpart}}s. Oh, and Queen Charlotte is secretly a [[SpaceshipGirl TARDIS]] -- Shhh...
321* In ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, the protagonist (Davis) contacts a man who has invented a time machine. It is blatantly implied that the only person ever to have used the machine (an engineer who would have found himself marooned in a time too backward to make use of his advanced technical knowledge) was Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.
322* Implied in the ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'': Miron admits that he once published his poetry under a false surname and after many years discovered that he became a classical English poet, but he refuses to say which surname he used, as he claims that if Dora ever found out, he'd [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten never hear the end of it]].
323* The {{Trope Maker|s}} is probably Bram Stoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', in which an obscure 14th Century nobleman is made into the most famous vampire in history. Also makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
324* In Dacre Stoker's ''[[Literature/DraculaTheUnDead2009 Dracula the Un-Dead]]'', UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is revealed to be... [[spoiler:Countess Elizabeth Bathory]].
325* In ''Dracula Unbound'' by Creator/BrianWAldiss, Creator/BramStoker and a time-traveling scientist from the modern day fight vampires. This was actually a sequel to Aldiss' earlier novel ''Frankenstein Unbound'', in which the same time-traveling scientist encounters Doctor Frankenstein and his monster in the late 1800s, along with Creator/LordByron, Percy Shelley and Creator/MaryShelley. He even ends up having an affair with Mary.
326* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
327** According to the author, several historical figures have been [[MissionFromGod Knights of the Cross]] at one point in their lives. Knights are men or women who take up a [[HolyHandGrenade Sword of the Cross]], one of three holy swords -- each of which contains a Nail that pierced Jesus Christ to the Cross -- and which each represents either Faith, Hope, or Love. It should be noted that one does not need to be a Christian to be a Knight; merely being [[NiceGuy a genuinely good person]] [[EmbodimentOfVirtue who represents the ideals of that Sword]][[note]]The in-universe Knights include a Japanese Baptist, an agnostic who was once possessed by a FallenAngel, a Jewish geek, a monster mother trying to rescue her daughter, and two different Roman Catholics[[/note]] is "enough" for God. Neither does being a Knight mean a lifetime commitment. Some Knights take the Sword for one mission and put it down.
328*** George Washington, during his time fighting in the French and Indian War, became a Knight of the Cross holding ''Esperacchius''/[[Literature/TheSongOfRoland Durendal]], the Sword of Hope.
329*** Saladin and UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc are also stated to have been Knights of the Cross at one point. Their blades have yet to be mentioned.
330** Some characters have dealings with TheFairFolk as well.
331*** [[invoked]] Serial killers [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais Gilles de Rais]] (the ''toned-down'' [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory inspiration]] behind ''Literature/{{Bluebeard}}''), [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haarmann Fritz Haarmann]] (a.k.a. ''Butcher of Hanover''), [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Haigh John Haigh]] (a.k.a. ''Acid Bath Murderer''), and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo Andrei Chikatilo]] (a.k.a. [[Film/CitizenX The Rostov Ripper]]) were all Winter Knights, a.k.a. the personal hitman to Queen Mab and the other Winter Queens. Additionally, WordOfGod has stated that UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson was one of the previous Summer Knights (the Winter Knight's counterpart among the Summer Court), as was UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington one of the previous Winter Knights.
332*** A famous but unnamed Austrian composer who died young is the father to Mab's twin daughters Maeve and Sarissa.
333*** [[invoked]] WordOfGod has also said the famous French statesman Cardinal Richeliu made deals with Winter Queen Mab, and his imprisonment in Mab's garden in ''Proven Guilty'' [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting in the form of a robin]] is because he "had to pay the piper at some point". Vlad Tepesh is also the founder of the Black Court of Vampires, and he also apparently made a deal with Mab at some point. Meanwhile, his father Vlad Drakul is a HumanoidAbomination from outside conventional reality who is so powerful that his fiefdom is recognized as its own supernatural country (admittedly a small one, but ''stil'').
334** The short story "A Fistful of Warlocks" reveals that the famous lawman of Dodge City, Wyatt Earp, was also a [[BadassBookworm Venator]] (as was his friend Doc Holliday).
335** ''Small Favor'' reveals that most of the ancient Oracles at Delphi were actually previous hosts of [[MagicalDatabase the Archive]], and their "prophecies" were actually them [[PrescienceByAnalysis using their vast knowledge to reason what the most likely future to happen was]].
336** According to ''The Paranet Papers'', [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manco_C%C3%A1pac Manco Cápac]] wasn't just a powerful wizard that went against [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the White Council's]] directives about not "meddling with mortal affairs"; he went and founded [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Empire the Inca Empire]] in Cusco around the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and ruled it for forty years by proclaiming himself the son of the sun god Inti and the moon goddess Mama Quilla.
337** ''Peace Talks'' reveals that Literature/{{Beowulf}} is one of the names of [[spoiler:Vadderung/Odin]], who fought one of [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the Forest People]] named Grendel.
338* ''Literature/EmperorMolluskVersusTheSinisterBrain'':
339** Gustave Eiffel had originally designed the Eiffel Tower to disable alien fleets invading Earth. He was written off as a crackpot and the Eiffel Tower was built from an incomplete version of the design, a design Mollusk corrected when he became Emperor and using it to stop the Saturnites.
340** The Mongol Hordes of UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, [[spoiler:revealed to be alive today as a BrainInAJar]], managed to fight off an invading alien invasion from Titan.
341** Creator/LeonardoDaVinci teamed up with a resurrected UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc and fought off a Comet Monster in 1499 with nothing but a sketchpad, a gyroscope and a harmonic resonator built from iron and bronze.
342** [[Literature/BookOfJudith The Assyrians]] stopped an incursion from Emirates of the Negative Dimension.
343** [[spoiler:The Council of Egos are a ShadowGovernment conspiring for world domination, all of them being made of the [[BrainInAJar preserved brains]] of various famous individuals, including the Creator/MarquisDeSade, P.T. Barnum, UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, Florence Nightingale, Pol Pot, UsefulNotes/MaoZedong, Creator/SoupySales, UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII, Susan B. Anthony, UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, Zu Ding, Creator/BuffaloBill, Creator/LeoTolstoy, UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Otani Kozui, Zabaia, Torquemada (which Torquemada is never expressly clarified), Creator/LRonHubbard, Martin Luther, UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, Archimedes and Linda Lovelace. UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler was also a member before he was "flushed" for being too argumentative, Creator/GretaGarbo, Creator/{{Confucius}} and Creator/OscarWilde didn't survive the complications from the conversion process, Creator/JaneAusten and UsefulNotes/MarieCurie went mad, and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein was offered a place among them, but declined out of moral objection.]]
344* In the first ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'' book, mutineers FROM SPAAAAAACE have been manipulating human civilization from the very beginning, and Hitler himself is singled out as being one of them. Evidently his enhanced body ([[VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D strong enough to wield Gatling guns akimbo]]) is how he survived the attempted bomb assassination.
345* ''Literature/TheEnchantedFiles'': More like "was at least half Elvish", actually, in ''Diary of a Mad Brownie'' / ''Cursed''. Angus remarks in his diary at one point that William Shakespeare is actually of Enchanted stock (Angus personally thinks he's part Elf), and the general belief in the Enchanted Realm is that he was half human at most.
346* In Laura Whitcomb's ''The Fetch'', Rasputin is a cover identity being used by a supernatural being. Only [[spoiler:Anastasia]] sees him as he truly is.
347* ''Galileo's Dream'' by Creator/KimStanleyRobinson has Galileo visited by time travelers who show him how life is doing on the colonies of the Galilean Moons.
348* In Amber Benson's ''The Ghosts of Albion'' series, the mystical Protectors of Albion are aided by the ghosts of Lord Byron, Admiral Horatio Nelson and Queen Boudicea, the last of whom was killed by a demon.
349* Jamie Simons' children's book series ''Goners'' revolves around a group of [[TimeTravel time-traveling]] aliens trying to find out ''which'' historical figures were alien spies and bringing them home.
350* In Patrick Graham's ''Literature/TheGospelOfEvil'', the Knight Templars were actually Satanists who knew the CosmicHorrorStory our universe is.
351* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'''
352** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', famed 14th century scholar Nicholas Flamel (whose fame as an alchemist is itself an example of this trope: The real Flamel was a scribe and there's no record of him dabbling in alchemy) is both a wizard and still alive, having successfully created the titular Philosopher's Stone to attain immortality. He also [[spoiler: dies shortly after the events of the book after he and his wife Perenelle agree to destroy the stone so it can't be misused]]. Notably, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the later books shy away from this trope]], at least when it comes to explicit mentions.
353** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' starts by showing that the Minister of Magic typically reveals himself to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and gives them regular updates about the state of the Ministry of Magic and the wizarding world. While the Prime Minister in question [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed remains nameless and does not allude to any specific real life politician]], this means that for an untold amount of time, every UK Prime Minister has been in on the existence of magic and wizards and has cooperated with the Ministry of Magic.
354** The expanded universe also provides a few examples.
355*** Famed Scottish rugby player [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Buchanan_(rugby) Angus Buchanan]] is [[https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/scottish-rugby revealed on Pottermore]] to have been a Squib (someone born to a wizarding family [[MuggleBornOfMages but with no magical powers to speak of]]), who was kicked out of his home when this fact was discovered. He ended up becoming a famous professional rugby player in the Muggle world and an activist for equal rights in the Wizarding world, making him one of the few people in the series to attain fame in both worlds.
356*** For an animal example, ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' reveals that dodos never went extinct--they were actually magical birds called "Diricawls" who have powers of teleportation. This ability allowed them to hide from {{Muggles}} when they realized they were being hunted. Apparently, the Ministry of Magic decided not to allow Muggles to become aware that the Diricawls still exist, as the belief that they had hunted them all to extinction led to them becoming more environmentally conscious.
357*** The notes on Beedle the Bard's ''Babbity Rabbity'' mention that Henry the VI, King of England, had a white rabbit which he called his advisor, which may or may not had been a French Animagus that escaped execution for being a witch. Either that or he was as insane as muggles believed he was.
358* In the novels ''Heretic'' and ''Prophecy'' Giordano Bruno is a spy working for Lord Walsingham, head of Elizabeth I's secret service.
359* The ''Hexer von Salem'' stories by German author Wolfgang Hohlbein, being grounded in his take on the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, quite naturally have [[Creator/HPLovecraft Howard P. Lovecraft]] himself as an important supporting character with actual if only occasionally used time travel powers who helps the main protagonist Robert Craven deal with the assorted horrors as best he can, especially early in the series. He's also a former high-ranking member of the actual (modern-day, which here means late 19th century) [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Knights Templar]], who'd still like a word with him about quitting on them... -- The series in general isn't at all shy about dragging famous historical or fictional characters into its plot, but Lovecraft is probably the most straightforward and prominent example of the trope.
360* ''Literature/HexHall'': Creator/LordByron turns up as a vampire.
361* In ''Literature/TheHistorian'', the titular character is a vampirized UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler. Against the norm, Vlad explicitly isn't {{Dracula}} (as in reality, the novel is just loosely inspired by him), and instead of becoming a vampire the usual way, he became so through some medieval magic supposed to confer immortality [[note]]gone horribly wrong, as some monks found out when they performed it on one of their brethren, who naturally ate them[[/note]]. The title refers to Vlad's hobby since becoming a vampire. [[spoiler: He created an immense library in his makeshift resting place with thousands upon thousands of books. Features to note are his first editions of Thomas Aquinias and one of the original Gutenburg printing presses.]]
362* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': The short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" has a younger Zaphod Beeblebrox investigating a wrecked ship said to carry the most dangerous cargo ever conceived by man, capable of wreaking havoc on all society with no chance of being stopped should it leak. The twist of the story is that the "cargo" is a faulty group of "Designer People"--faulty in the sense that they have no faults at all, they are utterly perfect people, and as such are capable of charming anyone into letting them wreak all the havoc they could ever wish. They were meant to be jettisoned into a black hole, but one managed to make it through an escape pod that ended up on Earth. Based on the clues provided and time of release, this is heavily implied (and later stated explicit) to be then-US President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, of whom author Creator/DouglasAdams was an outspoken critic.
363* The Western Galactic Empire presumes (but does not prove) this of Shakespeare and, to a lesser extent, Jesus, in Robert Zubrin's ''Literature/TheHolyLand''.
364* In ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'', a lot of historical figures as well as current famous people are said to be vampyres, including Shakespeare and UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII, just to name a few.
365* On a slightly larger scale, in the ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'' series, it is revealed that a entire astronomical phenomenon known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor the Great Attractor]] was constructed by the {{Precursors}} as a superweapon.
366* The ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy did this with a large number of real and [[ExternalRetcon fictional]] characters; John Dillinger as a set of quintuplet Zen masters, Jesus as the world's first Bingo caller, Billy Graham as the Devil, and the Beatles as anarcho-capitalist prophets, among many others. Perhaps most notably, [[spoiler: Marilyn Monroe]] was trained to become [[spoiler:an avatar of Eris]] (although her identity is only implied).
367* In Creator/CharlesStross's ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', UsefulNotes/AlanTuring discovered a way to use mathematics to do [[FormulaicMagic magic]], which was immediately [[GovernmentConspiracy covered up by the government]] by [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade killing Turing]].
368* The ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' novels reveal that many historical tyrants, including UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, were all guises adopted by a single alien spy - Gharlane of Eddore. A variant occurs when the protagonists ask the Arisians if they interfered with human history in a similar fashion. While no great human leaders were actually Arisians, the character of Bergenholm (a fictional scientist from earlier in the book who developed a truly ''efficient'' FTL drive) was in fact one of their agents - for their GambitRoulette to work, they needed humans to get proper FTL ''now''. Bergenholm may not be real, but the impact on the characters was similar.
369* In ''The List of Seven'' by Mark Frost, a young Arthur Conan Doyle gets swept up in a conspiracy against the British Government, working alongside a mysterious investigator named Jack Sparks. This adventure would inspire him to create Literature/SherlockHolmes.
370* Frank Beddor's ''Literature/TheLookingGlassWars''. Alice Liddell, according to the book series, is NOT who Creator/LewisCarroll made us think she was. [[spoiler:She was really Princess Alyss Heart, the daughter of the King and Queen of Wonderland who was exiled to the real world after her Aunt Redd staged a coup that killed her family.]]
371* Tom Holland's novel ''Lord of the Dead'' reveals that Lord Byron was a vampire. Mad, bad and dangerous to know indeed.
372* Though the main character of ''Literature/TheMadnessSeason'' was not historically significant, his father was an employee of the Library of Alexandria and his mother was worshipped in ancient times as a goddess (though we aren't told which goddess she may have been).
373* In the ''Literature/MagicExLibris'' series, UsefulNotes/JohannesGutenberg created the printing press to promote a kind of magic where you pull things out of books. He's also immortal thanks to creating the HolyGrail with this power. There's also Juan Ponce de Leon being a powerful Sorcerer who made himself immortal via the FountainOfYouth. Oh, and Creator/BruceLee has been turned into a vampire.
374* According to Quentin's studies in ''Literature/TheMagicians'', several historical figures popularly associated with the supernatural are revealed to have actually been magicians, including Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, Roger Bacon, UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}}, John Dee, and UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton. However, they were only of modest ability at best, and poorly regarded within the magical community for trying to go public.
375%%* This trope is the very essence of Creator/ThomasPynchon's ''Mason & Dixon''.
376* In ''Literature/TheMasterOfRagnarokAndBlesserOfEinherjar'', it is outright stated that protagonist Yuuto Suou is the likely source of Norse mythology, as the world Yggdrasil is supposedly around 1500 B.C., Yuuto's name translates to Surtr in Norse, and several of his more high-profile battles match Norse oral lore quite well...
377* The Lewis Padgett short story "Literature/MimsyWereTheBorogoves" sees a scientist millions of years in the future sending two boxes of educational toys into the past. One of the boxes ends up in the major setting of the story--a small family's home in 1942 England. Scott and Emma, the family's children, begin to play with the toys and, thanks to their futuristic influence, gradually develop strange intelligences [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior far beyond normal human capacity]]. The latter part of the story sees them trying to construct some sort of machine from the toys, but they can't complete or activate it. That gap is explained when, during a flashback, we see that the second box of toys ended up in the hands of an unnamed English girl in the late nineteenth century. She's unable to be fully influenced by the playthings due to her slightly higher age, but they still "talk" to her by telling her seemingly nonsensical stories and poetry. One day, she recites a few lines of one of those poems to a man who promises to write the whole thing, word for word, in the book he's writing based on her (supposedly) imaginary tales. She happily calls him "Uncle Charles," revealing that she's none other than [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice Liddell]]. The verse she's repeating is "Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}", and the apparently made-up words are actually an equation key to finish and power the time-space travel device. The story ends with Scott and Emma using "Jabberwocky" to complete their machine and vanish to parts unknown.
378* ''Literature/{{The Missing|Haddix}}'' series, by Creator/MargaretPetersonHaddix, involves a future where rich families pay a corporation to go back in time and kidnap certain famous children (usually famous missing children, such as Anastasia and Charles Lindbergh Jr.), while they are babies. The children are then taken back to the future for these families to raise as their own. [[spoiler:Except the ones that accidentally end up in our time.]]
379* In ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'', it's stated that Jeffrey Dahmer was a wight.
380* ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' shows several examples.
381** The Seelie Queen once met Thomas the Rhymer. She lured him into the fairy kingdom. And after releasing him, he mentioned her in his ballads.
382** The founder of the vampires was Vlad. The real Count Dracula was also the first vampire.
383** Magnus Bane keeps claiming that he met famous people. However, one does not know how much of it is the truth and how much of it was invented.
384*** A flashback shows, however, that he at least met UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette, and wanted to help her escape.
385** In ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'' we learn that Jack the Ripper , a serial killer who killed several women, was actually a demon child.
386* In Marie Brennan's ''Never Come Midnight'' Elizabeth I became queen due to a bargain with the local Fae queen who was also instrumental in foiling the Grand Armada.
387* The background of ''Literature/{{Newshound}}'' reveals that Theodore Roosevelt was secretly a werewolf.
388* In ''Literature/ANightInTheLonesomeOctober'', UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is a member of a group seeking to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Nobody knows who he really is, and there are rumors that he's something strange even by the standards of his colleagues, including one that he's the immortal Cain.
389* In the ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'' books, the mythological Tibetan hero Gesar is head of the Moscow Night Watch. Joan of Arc was a weak dark witch. Thomas the Rhymer is head of the Edinburgh Night Watch, and was also an ancestor of Mikhail Lermontov. UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin is a Dark Other and a prophet. Other examples include:
390** Certain historical figures (especially authors) are revealed to have either been Others (e.g. Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, Creator/AmbroseBierce), uninitiated Others (e.g. [[Literature/TheMasterAndMargarita Mikhail Bulgakov]], Creator/StephenKing), or influenced by Others (e.g. Creator/WilliamBlake, Creator/WilliamShakespeare).
391** Creator/BruceLee is alive and well. There was a crisis in Hong Kong in 1973, and he was recalled to active duty in the Night Watch, requiring the Watch to fake his death. His Twilight form is a small dragon.
392** Also, [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat]] is still alive and well, and is the one who secretly runs the European Bureau of Inquisition.
393** Creator/EdgarAllanPoe was an uninitiated Other whose works were influenced by the Twilight. It's speculated that his death was the result of him accidentally stepping into the Twilight and staying there too long, resulting in hypoglycemia (which humans attributed to alcoholism).
394** Creator/HPLovecraft was a low-level Dark Other, who lived the life of a recluse but somehow entered Twilight in his sleep, inspiring the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
395* ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' reveals that the various {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos were actually members of alien species who visited Earth incognito. One Nyarlathotepian befriended Creator/HPLovecraft and told him stories about these beings, which inspired Lovecraft to create the Mythos.
396* In the novel ''One Foot In The Grave'' the protagonist half-vampire encounters and enters into an uneasy team-up with the vampire that unintentionally transformed him into his partially converted state: [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes aka Dracula]]. Vlad relates the atrocities he had to commit to protect his tiny kingdom from being conquered and his recent abandoning leadership of the vampire enclave in NYC (enclaves being scattered locations where vampires and other supernatural creatures attempt to live in secret and relative peace with human society and lead by a vampire lord with greater powers than the standard) in order to lead a more trouble-free life (didn't quite work out that way for him).
397* Gyles Brandreth's ''Oscar Wilde Mysteries'' have Creator/OscarWilde, Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, and Robert Sherard fighting crime together. It's just as awesome as it sounds.
398* ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'' is set on an alternate Earth where several historical figures were supernaturals.
399** The vampire potentate for the first part of the series is Lord Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I.
400** It's mentioned that Boudicca was an Alpha werewolf.
401** More spoilery, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia Queen Zenobia of Palmyra]] was [[spoiler:a metanatural]].
402* In the universe of Alan Goldsher's ''Paul Is Undead'', The Beatles exist—but George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul [=McCartney=] are zombies and Ringo Starr is a ninja. The book is even subtitled ''The British Zombie Invasion''.
403* In Bruce Sterling's novella ''Pirate Utopia'', Harry Houdini is a spy for the American government using his act as cover, H. P. Lovecraft is his publicist and Robert E. Howard his teenage sidekick.
404* The ''Literature/PresidentsVampire'' series:
405** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Conrad_Dippel Johann Konrad]], the real-life basis for Mary Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]], was a real {{Necromancer}}, [[BlackMagic dark wizard]] and all-around MadDoctor, who perfected his Elixir of Youth, and has been using it to live for centuries and continue his obscene work.
406** Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, bound [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Cade]] to the service of the President, by order of UsefulNotes/AndrewJohnson.
407** Elliot Ness was a member of the task force that Cade led in destroying [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth Innsmouth]].
408** UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden was an agent of the Shadow Company, who Cade killed in Tora Bora (his survival and later "real" death both being faked by the government for political reasons). Oh, and he was an early test subject of [[TheVirus the Snakehead virus]], so he wasn't human anymore when Cade killed him.
409** John Wilkes Booth was a patsy of [[AncientConspiracy the Order]], who faked his own death in 1865 and went into hiding, until the guilt caught up with him decades later and he started drunkenly announcing the truth. So Cade hunted him down and killed him.
410** UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was a "[[EldritchAbomination starchild]]" created by Creator/AleisterCrowley, in the same sort of ritual that later created the Boogeyman.
411** Every SerialKiller in the 20th century has either been a host of the Boogeyman, or a member of the cult worshiping it.
412* In Creator/ElizabethBear's ''Literature/ThePrometheanAge'' novels, Christopher Marlowe, who may actually have been a secret agent, is taken into Faerie by Morgana after his "death". His place as a spy is taken by Creator/WilliamShakespeare and Ben Jonson. [[spoiler: Eventually he sells himself to the devil and becomes a warlock]]. The three of them along with others contend with the Promethean Society, a secret society of sorcerers whose ranks include the Earls of Essex, Southampton and Oxford (The latter of whom is one of the popular candidates for the role of the man who "really" wrote Shakespeare's plays. In here he does cowrite some of Shakespeare's earlier works but his "help" is more of a hindrance.)
413* In James P. Hogan's ''The Proteus Project'', UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, Edmund Teller and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, among others, work with time travelers to ensure a Nazi defeat (in the travelers' timeline they won).
414* ''Literature/TheRadix'': UsefulNotes/CarlJung was a leader of a cult that searched for the Radix, a miraculous plant that belonged to Jesus Christ.
415* ''Literature/RedMoonRisingMoore'': Several celebrities are either vampyres or, rarely, werewolves, in additional to the normal [[{{Muggles}} humans]]. They often have different names than in our timeline, such as vampyre rockstar [[Music/DavidBowie David-bo E]].
416* In ''Literature/RingShout'' by Creator/PDjeliClark, the Klan was born from an order of white supremacist wizards, and ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915'' was not just racist propaganda, but a spell that not only stoked racism higher (in RealLife, the film is indeed credited with the creation of the second KKK), but also turned most Klan members--including people who joined afterwards--into {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. The main character and her friends are part of a secret group that fights these creatures. [[spoiler: The AndTheAdventureContinues ending has Maryse's otherworldly patrons telling her about a writer in Providence, RI touched by the same beings, obviously meant to be H.P. Lovecraft.]]
417* In ''Literature/SacreBleu'' Creator/VincentVanGogh doesn't commit suicide; he's murdered by a millennia old shaman who works with the Muse of Painting. Other painters involved, past and present, with the duo are Creator/HenriDeToulouseLautrec, Camille Pissarro, Creator/ClaudeMonet, [[Art/LeDejeunerSurLHerbe Édouard Manet]], Pierre-August Renoir, Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti, [[Art/ASundayAfternoonOnTheIslandOfLaGrandeJatte Georges Seurat]] and Joseph Turner. The shaman, named The Colorman, is hinted to be the inspiration for [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]]. Later a drunken Lautrec gives his version of things to an equally drunken Creator/OscarWilde and it becomes the seed from which ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' grows.
418* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'', a surprising number of historical figures are still alive today, having gained {{immortality}} by various means. The entire human cast of the series except the two main characters consists of these immortals.
419* In Creator/DanielHandler's ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', the narrator and his comrades imply that V.F.D. dates back to UsefulNotes/AncientGreece, that UsefulNotes/{{Martin Luther King|Jr}}, Creator/EdithWharton, and Thomas Malthus were involved with it — although Malthus was on the evil side of the schism — and that Shakespeare may be alive. However, these may be the result of revisionism in accordance with V.F.D.'s own views.
420* In ''Shadow's Bend'' H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith learn that the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is real and get involved.
421* ''Literature/SigmaForce'' and ''Literature/TheOrderOfTheSanguines'', both by James Rollins, use this trope repeatedly. UsefulNotes/MarcoPolo, UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson, UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk, and even UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} have been featured as part of some kind of AncientConspiracy or other.
422%%* Creator/GregBear's ''Songs of Earth and Power'' does this with numerous personages to good effect.
423* ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'' have Bubba [[spoiler:Elvis, vamped a little too late, leaving him simple]]. Either that or [[spoiler:he's putting on an act]]. Later she meets the undead Tsarevitch Alexei Romanov, saved by the vampire who had been donating his blood to fight his hemophilia.
424* In ''Literature/TheStand'', Randall Flagg claims to have been Cinque/Donald [=DeFreeze=], one of the key figures in the Patty Hearst case and leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
425* Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker'' series has a subtle variant, since it takes place in an AlternateHistory version of 19th century America where folk magic and supernatural "knacks" are accepted parts of everyday life. Among other tidbits, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's military career is made possible because he has a knack that makes people trust and obey him, Creator/WilliamBlake becomes a great poet because he has a knack for prophetic visions, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenskwatawa Tenskwatawa]] becomes a revered Shawnee leader because he's a genuinely powerful prophet and Earth wizard.
426* Creator/DanSimmons' ''The Terror'' adds a supernatural arctic menace to the doomed Franklin Expedition, which allows a lone survivor, [[spoiler: Crozier]]. His ''Carrion Comfort'' blames many tragedies of the 20th century, such as Nazi atrocities and the assassination of John Lennon, on a lethal competition between sociopathic human mind-controllers.
427* This is one of the many theories surrounding the identity of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper in ''Literature/TimeScout''. It's surprisingly credible.
428* ''Touch the Dark'' has the Consul [[spoiler:Cleopatra]], not Shakespeare himself, but [[spoiler:Christopher Marlowe]], Raph [[spoiler:the Renaissance artist Raphael]], and Rasputin (which explains why he was so hard to kill).
429* This happened with Creator/HarryHoudini in what has to be the most awesome historical crossover ever, the short story "Under the Pyramids" by Creator/HPLovecraft. Houdini goes on vacation, crosses paths with a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets sinister cult]] and winds up facing down the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of ancient Egypt. While he doesn't exactly emerge victorious, he does end up in far better shape than the typical Lovecraft hero. Now if somebody would just make a video game about [[CoolVersusAwesome Harry Houdini versus the Old Ones]]...
430* In ''Unholy Night'' (by the same author as ''Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter''), the three wise men who visited Jesus Christ on the night of his birth are shown to be three ruthless thieves on the run from King Herod. Two of them, Melchyor and Gaspar, become the two thieves who are crucified alongside Jesus, while the third, Balthazar, is later shown to be the one who burned down Rome.
431* Another famous vampire; in Christopher Golden's ''Vampire Odyssey'' trilogy, one of the main protagonist vampires is Creator/BuffaloBill Cody.
432* In the book ''Vampyres of Hollywood'' and its sequel, ''Love Bites'', many Old Hollywood film stars and producers such as Creator/MaryPickford, Creator/ThedaBara, Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/CharlieChaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, etc. are actually vampires who used their abilities to mesmerize audiences on film. Many of them are actually responsible for popularizing false myths about vampires being vulnerable to garlic and holy symbols by depicting vampires that way in films so humans would underestimate them. Many of these old film stars faked their deaths and are trying to get back into the film business without being recognized as their old selves. Since the books were written by Adrienne Barbeau, they give a very detailed portrayal of Hollywood and the film industry from an insider's perspective, as well as a very detailed "what-if" scenario that shows Hollywood as being created and run by vampires from the beginning. There are a lot of humorous throwaway lines about various celebrities, such as a brief description of Joan Crawford as an out-of-control werewolf.
433* ''War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches'' is a collection of short stories revealing the involvement of many other historical figures (such as Creator/MarkTwain, Creator/EmilyDickinson and Creator/HenryJames) with the invasion described in ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
434* Creator/BentleyLittle's short story "The Washingtonians", which depicts George Washington as a murderous [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]].
435* In Gabriel King's ''The Wild Road'' (and its sequel, ''The Golden Cat''), The Alchemist (the series' BigBad) was actually UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton. Although this was never explicitly stated, enough hints were dropped to make it indisputably obvious. Including [[{{Anvilicious}} his surname being NEWTON, and his THEORY ON GRAVITY]].
436* According to Rebecca Young from ''Literature/{{Woodwalkers}}'', various gods like Zeus, Hera, Anubis, Thoth or Sekhmet were actually shapeshifters who just posed as gods.
437* In ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'' we learn that Jesus, da Vinci, Shakespeare, Einstein, Bach, Gandhi, and Euclid were all fighters in the interplanetary battle against the Dark Thing. They were presumably normal humans though, who found out about the fight in similar ways to the protagonists. Though one interpretation of the quote is that ''everyone'' is in the war unwittingly: and their actions either help the Dark Thing or help fight against it. But the protagonists have good reasons for not really caring about the details, so they are never revealed.
438* In the novel ''Yellow Blue Tibia'', [[spoiler:Stalin]] is revealed to have been an alien invader (on the grounds that no human could ever do what he did; c.f. WeDidntStartTheFuhrer).
439* In the backstory of ''Literature/LostTime'' many figures from history are mentioned as being Christeners in nature or who once worked with people like the Gray Forum as allies who upkept TheMasquerade.
440** Zvi Aharoni was actually a member of the Gray Forum's High Court, a Christener, and was actually born in Spain some time before 1492 when the Jews were expelled from the country. His exploits in taking down escaped Nazis after the war were during a time he took a momentary leave of absence from the High Court in order to not get them involved with mundane politics.
441** Aleister Crowley was a member of the villainous Red Council, a group of Christeners who wish to enforce their magical will on the world, rather than be among the mundanes (non-powered humans).
442** Jack Fiddler was a Wendigo working with his fellow were-beasts, but pretended to be fully human to dupe others until he was killed by the Gray Forum in a mission Blake participated in.
443** Sam Houston gifted the Gray Forum with Corpus Christi as their new headquarters thanks to their aid in an unspecified event during the Texas Revolution.
444** H. B. D. Woodcock was also a member of the High Court noted for his proficiency with plants, a HistoricalInJoke, as the real man was an amateur botanist.
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448* The Music/TheyMightBeGiants song "Ballad of UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett in Outer Space", performed to the tune of the original Davy Crockett song. "Messin' around with the fabric of time / He knows who's guilty before there's even a crime. / Davy Davy Crockett, the buckskin astronaut / Davy Davy Crockett, there's more than we were taught."
449* The closing lines of the song "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" by Music/WarrenZevon tell the audience that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst Patty Hearst]] was armed with the submachine gun that once belonged to the titular undead mercenary.
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453* ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'': Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, in his childhood, is a time traveler and also traveled to space with his family and friends in modern times. [[spoiler:He's also Samantha and Dave's grandson.]]
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457* In ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty'', Tommy Wiseau is a Sylvan exile. A mummy, to be exact.
458* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' has several:
459** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen Wilfred Owen]] encountered the Slaughter in WWI and it apparently provided him the inspiration for his war poems.
460** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smirke_(architect) Robert Smirke]] was apparently heavily involved with the supernatural and his buildings are noted as reacting to it in unique ways. [[spoiler:He also catalogued all of the Powers]].
461** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Kempelen Wolfgang von Kempelen]] were servants of [[spoiler: the Stranger]].
462** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley Edmond Halley]] (yes, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet THAT]] Halley) was not only [[spoiler:a servant of the Dark, but his body also served as the first host of the entity that later called itself Maxwell Rayner)]].
463** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer]] is a more vague case; one ArtifactOfDoom is a book called ''The Bone Turner's Tale'', which is written as if it were part of Chaucer's ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''. The incomplete nature of the collection is mentioned, and a character muses that Chaucer's begging for forgiveness at the end of the book for writing it may not be as sarcastic as it is usually interpreted to be, but unlike the names mentioned above, Chaucer and his potential connection to the Powers isn't examined in any detail, and so it remains ambiguous if ''The Bone Turner's Tale'' was written by him or some third party later on.
464* In the ''Podcast/SickSadWorld'' episode "The Aliens Made Me Do It", a murderer claimed that many big name political figures were secretly aliens. Martin Luther King Jr. was listed among them.
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468* In ''Roleplay/FateNuovoGuerra'', it was said that Archimedes was actually a magus, and the legend about him using mirrors to burn a Roman fleet was actually a heat beam spell that he created, the Heliocaminus.
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472* The TabletopGame/D20Modern supplement ''Menace Manual'' lists a number of organizations, both fictional and real, for use in games. One of the organizations is the Final Church,[[note]]originally from ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter1999''[[/note]] a satanic cult. The entry states that Hitler and the other high-ranking Nazis were members, and the Holocaust was actually a human sacrifice of vast proportions.
473* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' has some of these, including [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln (Harrowed following his assassination), Jefferson Davis (killed and replaced by a shapeshifter), and Edmond Hoyle (whose ''Book of Games'' is the coded grimoire of the hucksters)]].
474* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' has some examples:
475** The semi-historical Yellow Emperor of China, also known as the Yellow Dragon, may refer to some antediluvian immanentisation of a Great Old One.
476** The Genyosha is based on the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%27yōsha Black Ocean Society]], a Japanese secret society based on ultranationalism. In Delta Green they are an occultist organization that acts as the Japanese Empire's unofficial {{Ghostapo}} and had some encounters with Delta Green during [=WW2=].
477** The historical Skoptsi were a underground heretical Christian sect in the Russian Empire which preached [[GroinAttack self-castration]] in order to prevent sexual lust, having as many as 100,000 members in the early 20th century, but disappearing after heavy persecution from both Imperial and Soviet governments. In Delta Green, however, they are still active and actually worship Shub-Niggurath.
478* If this goes on for too long, you'd end up with something like ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_L._Rowland#Diana:_Warrior_Princess Diana, Warrior Princess]]''.
479* In the ''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'' setting's ''Atlas of Earth Prime'', it's revealed that the more ... unusual ... edicts from Turkmenistan president [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov Saparmurat Niyazov]] were the result of him being possessed by a prankster spirit.
480* The ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Who's Who'' sourcebooks cover realistic stats, personality, and recommended campaign usage of 104 historical figures. Also included is a "What if?" section for every person, suggesting possible deviations from accepted history. Some of the more fantastic suggestions that other works on this page haven't covered include Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart being assassinated for encoding Illuminati secrets in his music and UsefulNotes/MataHari being a {{time travel}}ing grad student studying Europe before and during UsefulNotes/{{W|orldWarI}}W1 with a SnowballLie alias.
481* ''TabletopGame/MasqueOfTheRedDeath'':
482** A somewhat meta example: In the spin-off from the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} campaign setting, we get an alternate Earth stalked by the usual cast of supernatural villains, Dracula etc. etc. Also the fictional James Moriarty is real, and for some reason a rakshasa.
483** A ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' article on using the Historic Sourcebooks to set a ''Red Death'' game prior to the 19th century was all over this. Heroic qabalists included Plotinus of Alexandra, Hypatia, Galileo, possibly Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, and Queen Christina of Sweden, with at least Hypatia and Christina having magic abilities. Monsters included doppelgangers in the Paetorian Guard (including Cassius Chaerea), Ganelon from ''Literature/TheSongOfRoland'' who is actually a pit fiend, and Cardinal Richlieu who is actually a lich. Creator/WilliamShakespeare gained his inspiration by being fey-touched and Nostradamus was empowered by the Red Death.
484* ''TabletopGame/{{Nephilim}}''. This French role-playing game's whole background was solely designed to allow game-masters to rewrite history and incorporate it in their scenarios in any way they liked. They give you a basic backstory about the world; then you are supposed to study your region's various historical details to build up various conspiracy theories. Even if that's not your thing, the way they rewrote the entire history is absolutely overwhelming; evil secret societies trying to take over the world galore! Then they explain very seriously to you that the myth of modern Santa Claus was solely created to put the actual Saint Claus back into the collective imagination, in order to liberate him from the parallel dimension he had been put into a millennium before. And don't get me started on Joan of Arc, {{Atlantis}}, or the Dinosaurs... This game just defines the trope and has exploited it further than everything else.
485* The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' mostly scraps the idea of supernatural string-pullers. Mostly.
486** ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', being a fan-made game, can get away with it. Only three of the world's great inventors were Geniuses: Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, and Enrico Fermi. Of them, the latter two were part of the Genius status quo while Leonardo rebelled against it. Notable in being justified, however, as Tesla in particular fits the mad science nature of Geniuses to a tee.
487*** ''Genius'' also downplays it, as it notes that most famous scientists ''couldn't'' be Inspired; the reason they ''became'' famous was that they were able to explain their ideas and integrate them with normal science-- something incredibly difficult for the Inspired, who mostly work with MagicPoweredPseudoScience.
488*** ''Genius'' also firmly defies this trope with everyone involved in the Manhattan Project. The Peerage and the Lemurians observed that one very carefully to make sure there was no Inspiration involved in it whatsoever, because absolutely '''[[EnemyMine no one]]''' wanted to find out what Havoc does to nuclear weapons.
489** The Halifax Explosion was caused by a battle between [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Pentacle Mages]] and a ChurchMilitant branch of the [[AncientConspiracy Seers of the Throne]], and [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil Task Force VALKYRIE]] first came into existence when they hired the actor who'd stand in for Lincoln during the infamous night at the theater... to cover up for some ''thing'' having already eaten the president.
490** Vlad Dracul became a vampire, founding his own covenant, the [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem Ordo Dracul]].
491** The "person from Porlock" who stopped Coleridge from finishing ''Kubla Khan'' was actually a [[TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated Promethean]] who sensed Coleridge was inspired by a ''qashmal'' and felt it necessary to disrupt its plans. A Promethean also caused TheTunguskaEvent by trying to summon one of said ''qashmallim'', despite [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil the Knights of St. George's]] best efforts to stop him.
492** ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' has Seattle's real life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Damnable Mother Damnable]] as a Cover assumed by a demon-- if off in one of Seattle's splinter timelines. The writers even included a sidebar saying that [[LampshadeHanging normally they wouldn't do this]], but they couldn't resist writing a figure named "Mother Damnable" into a game about demons.
493** In ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', the writeup of Ashwood Abbey implies that [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria Prince Albert]] was a member. The Abbey also recruited UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, but then hunted him down themselves when his continued murder of prostitutes threatened to expose them.
494* ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' 2nd ed. offers Isaac Newton as the Power of Motion and Johann Sebastian Bach as the former Power of the Fugue.
495** 3e's "A Diary of Deceivers" mentions that UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and several of his staffers were killed and resurrected by an Excrucian Deceiver.
496* The ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' used this all the time. Most every sourcebook includes at least one historical figure, and typically more than one, though not always a highly well-known one.
497** For just a few examples from ''Vampire'': Helen of Troy and Menelaus fought over Chicago for years. Louis Pasteur was Embraced and, in one early adventure of dubious canon, actually managed to devise a cure for fresh Embraces. Enkidu from ''The Epic of Gilgamesh'' was one of the earliest Gangrel, Embraced to serve as a steward of nature. John Dee was Embraced into the Tremere, whereas Aleister Crowley was Embraced into the Malkavians, mainly to troll the Tremere.
498** Averted with one historical group: Nazis. After a few missteps (including Heinrich Himmler as a vampire in ''Berlin by Night'') in First Edition, the creators came to believe that [[WeDidntStartTheFuhrer painting World War II as the product of supernatural influence]] would remove some of the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters banal horror]] from it and "cheapen" the events of the war, as well as be somewhat awkward since there are still people alive who were affected by the war. As a result, all horrific events within the past 100 years had been deemed off limits to writers. This rule was swiftly invoked following 9/11, when all sorts of [[EpilepticTrees crazy supernatural whodunnits]] started to pop up in "explanation."
499** The basic rulebook in TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade features a historical account of Vampire society through the ages, with annotations from a powerful Sabbat member. When World War II is addressed, in an interesting use of the "avoid awkwardness" rule, said Sabbat member muses upon how the Camarilla always tends to underestimate the capacity of humans to perpetrate great evils upon themselves, and that with the Kindred's loss of humanity a certain flavor of evil seems to have been lost as well.
500** The fifth edition Camarilla sourcebook was slated to include a chapter that, [[ExecutiveMeddling after editing was done messing with it]], ended up claiming the modern persecution of gay people in Chechnya was a vampire feeding plot, not as in-character conspiracy speculation as had originally been intended, but as objective in-setting fact. Heavy backlash from the audience and a literal international incident involving a pissed-off Chechen government caused the owners of the company, Paradox Interactive, to come down on this like a hammer and cut the chapter entirely.
501** ''TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion'' plays with this; being about ghosts, it can have various historical figures continue on in the Underworld without rewriting their established histories. The 2nd ed corebook even has in-character writings on the history of Stygia from Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, and Dante Alighieri. That said, historical importance is no guarantee of post-mortem importance. As with Vampire, above, it does address the Holocaust, but only in the context of what happened to the victims' souls after their deaths; the atrocities themselves were completely free of supernatural influence and the book that covers the Holocaust explicitly overrides anything that says otherwise, like the aforementioned "Himmler the vampire" idea from ''Berlin by Night''.
502** ''TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning'' is an aversion, with the imbued first showing up around 1999 (the year of the game's release), and none of them being well-known. There're theories about historical antecedents, but nothing solid.
503** One interesting twist: UsefulNotes/{{Rasputin|TheMadMonk}}. Several sourcebooks claim him as a supernatural, but each time a different sort of supernatural, suggesting... what? CanonDiscontinuity? That the World of Darkness is built on [[RashomonStyle multiple non-exclusive truths]]? {{Lampshad|eHanging}}ing the authors' own practices? That Rasputin is a NinjaPirateZombieRobot? The Malkavian source book has the insane clan claiming him as one of its members, and his slumbering place in Asia Minor being responsible for the turmoil in Russia ''and'' the Middle-East. Probably lampshades the tendency of all clans to claim a greater influence on human history than they actually have. The latest 'official' suggestion as of ''Beckett's Jyhad Diary'' is that [[spoiler: for some reason, there are ''multiple'' Rasputins extant across the supernatural realms, who see themselves as "brothers".]]
504* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin was in fact the estranged son of Literature/BabaYaga, living on Earth while his mother is on Golarion. The players can fight him in ''Rasputin Must Die!'' of the ''Reign of Winter'' adventure path. [[spoiler:Also, he's the real father of Anastasia, who was resurrected after her death. In Second Edition, she has in fact left Earth to become the queen of the nation of Irrisen.]]
505** Additionally, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla was an extremely talented wizard whose notes included the blueprints for a machine that could warp dimensions.
506* One of the more infamous bandit leaders in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' Texas goes by the name of Sundance. As in [[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid "Butch Cassidy and the Kid"]]. A freak time warp during that whole [[BolivianArmyEnding thing in Bolivia]] put him several centuries into the future.
507** ''Rifts: England'' revealed that Merlin is an evil immortal being that had been trying to take over the world when he was helping out Myth/KingArthur.
508* There's a TabletopGame/SavageWorlds setting entitled "The Day After Ragnarok," in which much of the Western Hemisphere has been destroyed in the aftermath of the Nazis' plan to summon [[Myth/NorseMythology Jormungand]], which was successful until an American plane flew through the World Serpent's pupil and ''detonated a nuclear bomb in his skull''.
509* The ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' game-setting was rife with this for a while, back when the writers were stuffing it with historical ties to ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}''. Figures such as Elizabeth I and (yet again) Leonardo da Vinci were revealed to have been immortal elves, left over from the Fourth World and killing time while awaiting the next Awakening of magic.
510* The small-press RPG ''Shattered Dreams'' claimed that Hitler wasn't initially evil, but was driven mad by Vacyge who'd invaded his nightmares.
511* In ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', any number of celebrities past and present are listed as Avatars (people who channel archetypes to gain god-like powers). This list includes Joe [=McCarthy=] as The Demagogue, UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart as The Flying Woman, and Neil Armstrong as The Pilgrim, amongst others. Albeit that the book states that it's possible to channel an Archetype ''unknowingly'' to a minor extent, so most of these historical figures weren't part of the Occult Underground and just lived their lives in a way that happened to correspond with an Archetype. On the other hand, the book ''also'' notes that most people suspect that Hitler was deliberately channeling the Demagogue to achieve his success.
512** In addition, a school of magic called Iconomancy allows its practitioners to channel the famous dead. Curiously, you can't channel Jim Morrison. One wonders why...
513*** Because the only person that can channel Jim Morrison is [[spoiler:Morrison himself, who is currently living in Los Angeles]].
514* ''{{TabletopGame/Warhammer 40000}}'''s major background character, the Emperor, is an immortal, incredibly powerful psyker who adopted various guises as he subtly guided mankind's evolution-- it's known that he was Saint George. It was only when subtlety failed that he stepped out of the shadows and emerged as the founder of the Imperium.
515* In ''TabletopGame/WitchGirlsAdventures'', Gilgamesh was not only genuinely the superhuman that ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' paints him as, but was the only son of the first witch, Lilith (not ''the'' Lilith, but almost certainly the inspiration for her in the game world); progenitor of a race of immortal superhumans which included King Arthur; and the father of Zephyr. Compared to that, the other examples are downright mundane: Vlad Dracula is actually an evil vampire and was a major player in the now-secret supernatural portion of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and Lovecraft (not referred to by name, but described in terms that leave little doubt) was an acolyte of a race of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s-- the book only briefly covers his involvement and doesn't make it clear whether he outright worshipped them, or just formed a belief system that integrated his knowledge of them.
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519* From the musical ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'': When John Adams complains about the difficulties he and other pro-freedom delegates at the Second Continental Congress are facing, Benjamin Franklin assures him that "the history books will sort it out." Adams has this to say:
520-->'''John Adams:''' [Ben] Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them -- Franklin, Washington, and the horse -- conducted the whole revolution by themselves.\
521'''Ben Franklin:''' ...I like it.
522** This is almost written word for word in one of Adams' letters. (The scriptwriter added the horse.) Adams is talking about [[FutureImperfect what later people will tell]]. It's probably safe to say Ben Franklin could not actually conjure generals on their horses.
523** The whole point of this musical was arguably to present a "realistic" version of this trope. Creators Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone wanted to deconstruct the popular myth of the Founding Fathers as near-deific, perfect figures who formed a unified body determined to free the United States from English rule, instead presenting them as a flawed, argumentative, very human group of men split by infighting and contrasting goals at the Second Continental Congress.
524* ''Theatre/MichaelJacksonONE'' presents the late musician as an embodiment of magic and wonder to the point that its misfit protagonists gain magical abilities when they find and use his iconic wardrobe pieces. An enforced example because this Creator/CirqueDuSoleil show is co-produced by Jackson's estate.
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528* ''VideoGame/NineteenSeventeenTheAlienInvasionDX'' reveals that the aliens who invaded earth has been observing humanity for a ''long'' time. For instance, ''Jesus Christ'' was an alien emissary.
529* In ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'', Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is found alive and trapped in an extremely aged shell of a body, kept alive by magic. An optional side-quest allows you to rescue him, and is required to be done for the 'good ending'. Johann Weyer is a character that's mentioned and heard, but never met in person, he's implied to have been a pupil of Agrippa.
530* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' gets a ton of mileage out of showing how nearly every historical figure was secretly a Templar, a group dedicated to controlling humanity from behind the scenes, or an Assassin, the opposing group who believes humans should be free to live however they want, or were somehow affiliated with the two groups. Most evil people were secretly Templars and most good people were secretly Assassins, but sometimes the games like to throw in a surprise.
531** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'': Takes place during the Crusades when the Templars were working openly, so naturally Robert de Sable was a Templar.
532** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' reveal that pretty much every member of Italian nobility was a Templar, including [[spoiler: Pope Alexander the Sixth and his entire family]]. On the flip side [[spoiler: Niccolò Machiavelli]] was an Assassin and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci worked with the Assassins, though he wasn't an Assassin himself.
533*** ''II'' has an even bigger surprise: [[spoiler: all polytheistic gods were based on AbusivePrecursors who enslaved humanity with [[AncientArtifact ancient artifacts and ''the'' Adam and Eve were the first to openly rebel against them]]]].
534*** Secret documents found in those games reveal that [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, and UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt]] were all Templars that orchestrated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Also, [[spoiler: Thomas Edison was a Templar who discredited UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla because Tesla found one of the [[AncientArtifact ancient artifacts]] ]].
535** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'', most of the Founding Fathers were neither Templar nor Assassin, except for Charles Lee, who was a Templar.
536** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'', [[spoiler: Benjamin Hornigold]] became a Templar, [[spoiler: Mary Read]] was an Assassin, and [[spoiler: Black Bart was a Sage, the "clone" of a precursor god who has reincarnated several times throughout History, always with the same physical appearance and memories of ancient times]].
537** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'', George Washington's half brother Lawrence Washington is a Templar. George is never made aware of this.
538** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'', Mirabeau was head of the Assassins in France during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre was a Templar.
539** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'', David Brewster, John Elliotson, and James Brudenell were Templars, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was [[spoiler: an Assassin who went insane]].
540** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'', UsefulNotes/AlfredTheGreat is the Grand Maegester of the Order of the Ancients.
541** Throughout the series and supplemental material, even objects have been given this. Notice how many famous [[http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Apples_of_Eden orbs]], [[http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Staff_of_Eden staffs]], [[http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Shroud_of_Eden pieces of cloth]], and [[http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sword swords]] there are in history?
542* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' plays with the story of the original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' novel, stating that Quincy Morris had a son, John Morris, and that the family was related to the Belmonts. The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series also does this with non-fictional characters. Aside from {{Dracula}} himself, Elizabeth Bathory (translated as "Bartley") is an antagonist in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'', and happens to be ''a different character from Carmilla''. Gilles de Rais is TheDragon in [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania 64}} the Nintendo 64 games]], and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'' casts the Count of St. Germain as a TricksterMentor.
543* In ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho'', many famous conquering leaders attempted to harness the power of the Firstborn under [[{{Qurac}} Al-Khalid]]. Of a more specific example, Creator/AleisterCrowley is said to have worked with the UsefulNotes/{{OSS}}.
544* [[BigBad Kane]], leader of the Brotherhood of Nod in the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' series, turns out to have a long and storied history. His most fanatical followers, the Black Hand, are implied to be the same Black Hand that assassinated Archduke Ferdinand, and fittingly his main Temple of Nod is erected in Sarajevo. He makes an appearance in the Soviet campaign of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'', [[PiggybackingOnHitler acting as Stalin's adviser even while furthering Nod's interests]]. He claims to be the biblical {{Cain|AndAbel}}, and indeed in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'' the Temple of Nod in Cairo features Abel's sarcophagus in a catacomb beneath it. When the alien Scrin arrive in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'' they're surprised to see him, and ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianTwilight'' confirms that Kane is in fact an immortal alien that just happens to look human, who has been manipulating human history in his efforts to leave Earth.
545* The ending of ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' reveals that [[spoiler:President UsefulNotes/JohnAdams is actually an alien mastermind who helped create the United States for his own purposes]]. The ending of ''VideoGame/{{Conduit 2}}'' has [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington and UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln alive and well and ready to help fight the upcoming alien invasion]].
546* Near the end of the game ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans 2'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev were either influenced by the Blisk, crablike aliens from Mars, or were themselves Blisk in disguise. It's also implied that the Blisk also mated with humans thousands of years ago, and that perhaps the Russians are the descendants of those matings]].
547* ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'''s main character is Frederic Francois Chopin. Yes, the famous pianist and composer. The whole game's set in the fever-induced deathbed dreams of Chopin himself...
548* ''Franchise/FateSeries'': Since this series is about summoning historical and mythological beings to fight each other, this would be necessary.
549** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'':
550*** Myth/KingArthur was actually [[spoiler:born [[HistoricalGenderFlip a girl named Arturia]] -- her gender was disguised from her subjects by [[AWizardDidIt Merlin]]]].
551*** Gilgamesh has an Ancient Indian spaceship in ''Literature/FateZero''.
552*** [[TheDevil Angra Mainyu]], on the other hand, turns out to be [[spoiler:a completely random person who his fellow villagers [[TheScapegoat decided to blame for all their problems]]. When he was summoned, he proved incapable of standing against a real Servant and was killed, but the LiteralGenie of the Grail interpreted his existence as a wish for there to be some ultimate evil, and corrupted itself in an attempt to grant it]].
553** ''Literature/FateApocrypha'': Subverted with Shakespeare. Despite being summoned as a Caster, in life he was exactly what history recorded him as: An excellent writer, but nothing more. He had no knowledge of magic or connection to that world. He is famous enough that he still qualifies as a Heroic Spirit, and the Grail gave him a large power boost when he was summoned. He is by far the weakest Servant and spends most of the War recording the events as a story, but he is at least theoretically capable of fighting another Servant.
554** ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'': It is revealed that [[spoiler:Altera]] was an alien superweapon sent to destroy human civilization long ago. She was defeated, but her remains transformed into a human girl. [[spoiler:The Huns took her in and raised her to be their leader, a HistoricalGenderFlip of UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun]].
555** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'':
556*** Mordred claims in an offhand comment that the Picts were in fact aliens.
557*** Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a member of a magical bloodline [[spoiler:destined to become vessels for a Demon Pillar. Mozart himself avoided this fate through either his love for Marie Antoinette or his dedication to music]].
558*** In proper human history, [[HistoricalGenderFlip Francis Drake]] reached Atlantis and stopped Poseidon from flooding the world. Her defeat of the Sea God earned her the true Holy Grail. [[spoiler:There are also rumors that she took the place of her companion, Queen Elizabeth I]].
559*** The Queen of Sheba was part djinn and commanded a number of them.
560*** The Romanov royal family were a family of mages who controlled a demon known as Literature/{{Viy}}, with Anastasia being the last in their line to form a contract just before her death.
561*** Yu Miaoyi/Consort Yu was a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent True Ancestor]] who faked her death and survived to the present day. Her spouse Xiang Yu was an automaton created from the remains of Nezha.
562*** Murasaki Shikibu was a practicing onmyoji who occasionally got dragged into misadventures with Abe-no-Seimei.
563*** Subverted with H.P. Lovecraft. The Outer Gods of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos are indeed real, but according to the Demon God Pillar Raum, Lovecraft had no knowledge of or connection to them, nor did he [[ArtInitiatesLife create them through his writing]]. Instead, he just managed to describe an existing eldritch pantheon in his stories out of ''sheer coincidence.''
564* The plot of the 2nd ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight''. Mad King UsefulNotes/LudwigIIOfBavaria was seduced by a charismatic male werewolf (Which actually indicates nothing about Ludwig's sexual preference; EvenTheGuysWantHim, and the same werewolf, it is all-but-explicitly-stated, seduces the otherwise straight Gabe), and that Ludwig and Music/RichardWagner had worked together to create an opera which, when performed under the acoustic conditions specially engineered into Neuschwanstein Castle, would trigger a werewolf's transformation involuntarily. Ludwig's purported "madness" was a cover for lycanthropy.
565* The not-well-known ''VideoGame/HercsAdventure'' for the Platform/{{P|layStation}}S1 reveals that Hades (the BigBad) was... A giant robot piloted by aliens.
566* ''VideoGame/Interstate76'' avoids this trope, but the sequel ''Videogame/Interstate82'' plays it straight. The game's BigBad is [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan]] and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] is [[spoiler:John Hinckley Jr. After Taurus shoots the former, the latter is set up to take the fall]].
567* In-universe example in ''Videogame/TheJourneymanProject'' series. Elliot Sinclair, inventor of time travel, is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 3000-year-old]] [[{{Atlantis}} Atlantean]] guardian of a piece of {{Precursor|s}} technology entrusted to his people,]] and his [[FantasticRacism distrust of Cyrollans]] is due to [[spoiler:their role in the Atlantean genocide.]]
568* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'':
569** In the Twilight of Edo chapter, [[spoiler:Sakamoto Ryoma]], together with shinobi sent to rescue him, fought clockwork robots, ghosts (including {{Historical Domain Character}}s), and a BlackMagic-wielding daimyo [[spoiler:who turned himself into a frog/snake demon]].
570** In the Wild West chapter, [[spoiler:the sole surviving horse of Custor's 7th Cavalry (named Comanche) has been turned into a violent outlaw by hateful ghosts of the slain cavalry members.]]
571* The ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' module "The Bastard of Kosigan" has an ancient civilization of primordial hyper-advanced humans playing god (or more specifically angels (the 'control' faction, led by Gabriel) and demons (the 'free will' faction, led by Elisa Than (geddit? Elisa Than? Satan?))) to use humans as proxies in their constant war with each other. Among other things, Jesus was sponsored by the demons (the apostles John (who you get to meet) and Judas were immortals, the rest were normal humans and actually believed it all), Gabriel did appear to Muhammad in a dream, the demons set off the barbarian invasions to destroy the corrupt Roman Empire the angels had set up, and the angels created Catholicism to use Jesus' message against those who sent him in the first place.
572* Seen in the arcade game, ''VideoGame/NinjaCommando''. Thanks to the villain, Spider escaping to the past using his TimeMachine, when you caught up with him you realize Spider had screwed with history so much that Tutankhamun is a KillerRobot Pharaoh, Lu Bu is a weredragon, and Oda Nobunaga a giant cyborg swordsman.
573* Though it's probably lost on anyone not familiar to Japanese history, ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' suggests and eventually confirms that historical figure Minamoto no Yoshitsune is a 200+ year old Moon-born celestial. For those wondering when Yoshitsune was ever shown or even mentioned in the game, just remember that his childhood nickname was [[spoiler:Ushi'''waka''']].
574* In the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' series, Igor mentions that Carl Jung, father of the Jungian psychology the series is based around, happened to be a Persona user.
575* Similar to the ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'' example above, the PSP game ''Jeanne d'Arc'' has [[UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc Jeanne]] as a magical girl fighting an invasion of demons spearheaded by a [[DemonicPossession demonically possessed]] King Henry and the Duke of Bedford, who used to be a demon-battling hero himself. Although this may not qualify, as it doesn't seem to take place in ''our'' 15th Century Europe.
576* UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk appears as this in ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' - as a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots lecherous android]] [[SummonMagic devil summoner]] sent from an [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII apocalyptic future]] to destroy an alternate timeline which should never have come into existence, with evil Matryoshkas and mysterious dimensional warping powers!
577* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'':
578** ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' reveals that BigBad GalacticConqueror Zinyak traveled back in time and kidnapped [[spoiler:Creator/JaneAusten]] because [[KlingonsLoveShakespeare he loves her literary works]]. Why is this relevant?Because in the GoldenEnding, [[spoiler:Jane Austen]] is identified as the NarratorAllAlong!
579** ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'' reveals that Aleister Crowley owned a magic Ouija board which opens a portal to Hell when used. The plot kicks off when [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Matt Miller]] finds the Ouija board on the Zin mothership and uses it as a party game for Kinzie's birthday, enabling {{Satan}} to kidnap the Boss and bring him to Hell so he can force the Boss into marrying his daughter. Also, WilliamShakespeare made a DealWithTheDevil to gain fame, and now he works as Hell's resident DJ. Blackbeard is raiding the cities of Hell with his magic pirate ship and a God's Hammer, and Vlad the Impaler is tortured by being forced to listen to "The Wheels On The Bus" forever.
580* The series ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' is full of varying degrees of this, from Creator/HPLovecraft being able to summon monsters, to Mata Hari being pulled into a quest to save the world from evil sorcerers.
581* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''[='s=] blogs detailing the Temporal Crisis of Season 11 onward continue the mention of Jack the Ripper being an alien by saying that he was actually one that possessed people. It got caught up in fights between Temporal Agents and the Na'khul.
582* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', it is revealed that there have been several generations of predecessors to the mercenaries we all know and love, and that the first generation was an... interesting bunch. For instance, the original ensemble included Billy the Kid (Scout), Stonewall Jackson (Soldier), UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln (Pyro), UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla (Engineer), John Henry (Heavy), Alfred Nobel (Demoman), UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud (Medic), Literature/FuManchu (Spy) and UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett (Sniper). UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln also invented stairs, before he was assassinated by John "Tower of Hats" Booth.
583** The rocket launcher, the two-story house, America and the stage play were all invented by Shakespearicles, 'the strongest writer who ever lived.'
584** UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington's greatest regret was not being permanently invisible. The Cloak and Dagger lets [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent the Spy]] do just that.
585* In the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series, King Arthur was a real figure and the Excalibur was an ancient superweapon that granted him much power.
586* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
587** ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight'' says that there was a war between Earth and the Moon sparked by the Apollo 11 lunar landing[[note]]Though the games are unclear on whether it was an actual war or if the Lunarians simply militarized after misinterpreting the landing as an invasion attempt[[/note]], with Neil Armstrong specifically getting name-dropped. MoonRabbit Reisen Udongein Inaba fled to Earth to get away from said war, and it's strongly implied that the Apollo 13 malfunction was caused by Reisen's future mentor Eirin Yagokoro shooting the oxygen tank with an arrow.
588** ''VideoGame/TouhouShinreibyouTenDesires'' features Toyosatomimi no Miko, a.k.a. [[http://www.japanesehistory.org/cgi-bin/people.pl?shotoku Prince Shoutoku]], except that spreading Buddhism across Japan was only used to control the people, while "he" secretly pursued immortality through Taoism. Oh, and "he" was actually a girl.
589* Various famous explorers and historical figures in ''{{VideoGame/Uncharted}}'' are revealed to have discovered famous hidden cities, searched for (and found) supposedly lost forever artifacts and treasure hordes, as well as belonged to the infamous secret societies of their day.
590* In ''VideoGame/{{Vampyr}}'', the famous 12th Century knight Sir William Marshall is revealed to have been an vampire, the oldest one in Britain who served as sire and mentor for London's CouncilOfVampires. Furthermore at the end of the game, Jonathan's sire (who is heavily implied to have been [[spoiler:Merlin]]) states that [[spoiler:King Arthur]] was also a vampire warrior himself. An annoyed Jonathan then rhetorically asks if Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Alfred the Great, Francis Drake, Thomas More and Guy Fawkes were vampires too. His sire replies that at least one of them was.
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594* From ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' there are a fair number of historical people that are made into extremely powerful warriors. Perhaps most notably the infamous man behind the Holocaust, Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, is the stories main BigBad and possesses powers so immense that he is a candidate for ascending to godhood.
595* UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi were an interesting enough group on their own, but in ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuouki}}'' they're secretly used by the shogunate as a testbed for a mysterious elixir which turns those who take it into nigh-unkillable but unstable and bloodthirsty superhumans. In addition to adding intrigue and a degree of uncertainty to the ForegoneConclusion, this also provides a convenient device to allow characters like Keisuke Sannan, Heisuke Toudou, and Souji Okita to remain involved in the plot well beyond the points at which their real-life counterparts died.
596* In ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'', 400-year-old vampire Liam de Lioncourt mentions that the Roman Emperor Caligula was a vampire who later became Jack the Ripper, and that Virginia Woolf was a demon.
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600* In ''WebAnimation/BigtopBurger'', Cesare offhandedly mentions [[spoiler:trying and failing to capture Creator/AndySerkis as part of his clown-hunting work ([[ClownSpecies clowns being an ancient interstellar species]] in this universe)]].
601* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', the Emperor claims that both [[Literature/TheBible Moses]] and [[Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} Chris Chandler]] were actually iterations of Him. Apparently, he penned the ''Sonichu'' series to teach mankind the error of its ways, [[MisaimedFandom but his messages were misinterpreted]].
602* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' offers a variant: Sarge recruits three historical figures and brings them to their present. One, [[UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat Private Alex]], just dies of a disease like he was supposed to. Another, [[Creator/JohnWayne Private John]], being an accomplished actor, is hired to star in a movie replacing [[YouJustRuinedTheShot a guy Sarge ended up killing]]. And the case most fitting of the trope, [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington Private George]], becomes an assistant director in said movie.
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606* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' implies that the Music/MichaelJackson we all know and love(?) is a phony, and that the ''real'' (read: ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' era) Wacko Jacko [[spoiler:lives on a secret Moon base, run by Literature/{{Dracula}}. And his flatmates include Music/PaulMcCartney, Music/TupacShakur, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Music/ElvisPresley, and Creator/BruceLee]]. Though, given the nature of the comic, fantastic scenarios like this [[QuirkyWork are standard operating procedure]]. Plus jet pack [[UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson Jefferson]].
607* In ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'', Grover Cleveland's wife is Satan. Not a euphemism.
608* In ''Webcomic/DraculaTheUnconquered'', it's revealed early on that "The Black Death" [[spoiler:was actually a euphemism for Dracula himself, and the millions of deaths were caused by vampires rampaging across Europe]].
609* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' has some interesting theories about notable scientists/psychologists/etc. One of the more notable examples suggests that Niels Bohr was a cat, and thusly, by Schroedinger's principles, is immortal, so long as he remains unobserved.
610* ''Webcomic/FakeNewsRumble'' has Dick Cheney - [[EvilOverlord Evil Alien Overlord.]]
611* Hilariously subverted in ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' when, after a time-travel-based encounter with robots and supernatural/alien life forms, Creator/HGWells remarks that he wanted to write about things that weren't real and ''utterly fails to write his books''. Even more hilariously, this leads to an AlternateUniverse where he instead draws on the real life KavorkaMan aspect of his personality (helped along by one of the fans deciding it would be a good idea to sleep with him) and becomes a romance novelist instead.
612* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Colonel Sassacre[[note]]a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Creator/MarkTwain[[/note]] raised [[spoiler: young Nanna Egbert]] and was killed by [[spoiler: a baby pistol-wielding Grandpa Harley]]. Oh, and [[spoiler: Betty Crocker, instead of being a brand image, is actually a ruthless alien empress]].
613** Andrew Hussie would release some concepts for the series that he later declared non-canon, further messing with history. Among other things: Albert Einstein, Lou Costello, and Adolf Hitler were raised as assassins by [[spoiler:the aforementioned Betty Crocker]], with most of their successes arranged by Skainet; Hitler and Einstein had a relationship that ended in a ''very'' nasty breakup, causing him to channel his feelings into the Third Reich while Einstein took the opposing side to avoid him; Costello was kept around as essentially a sex slave before he bailed. [[spoiler: Oh, and Calamity Jane was an alien stranded on earth that got into a fight with the Condesce.]] Is it any wonder he never went through with this?
614* ''Webcomic/JesusChristInTheNameOfTheGun'' is about Jesus getting fed up with God's "let's watch and see what happens" attitude towards all this suffering going on down on earth, so he kick-starts the Second Coming a little early so that he can go out in the middle of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and fuck up some Nazi shit. Creator/ErnestHemingway comes along to give him a hand, and he needs it, because Hitler is a ''werewolf''. [[Webcomic/AxeCop Ethan Nicolle]] drew it.
615* In ''Webcomic/MoringMarkTOHComics'', it's eventually revealed that Amelia Earhart's mysterious disappearance was actually a result of her ending up in the Demon Realm, where she would go on to be [[spoiler:an ancestor of the Blight Family]].
616-->'''Luz:''' I knew it!
617* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' revealed that Benjamin Franklin travelled forwards in time to the desk of Adolf Hitler, where an assassin from the future promptly arrived to kill Hitler, but Franklin, not knowing the implications of the action, stops him and is accidentally pulled into a sort of time travel warp-tunnel. The assassin drops him in the year 2002 and continues on his merry way. Because he hadn't discovered electricity (required for time travel) yet, he's effectively immortal and invincible (e.g.: it is impossible to land a blow or shot on him) until he gets back, in order to prevent a time paradox. Presumably, no one realized what had happened until he showed up in 2002.
618* In ''Webcomic/UnwindersTallComics'', Barbecue Sauce writes "Tesla fics", in which various heroes from history and fiction are revealed to actually be an immortal UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla in disguise. Supposedly, Tesla fics are popular enough to have entire websites devoted to them.
619* The entire ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game in ''Webcomic/TheWordWeary'' is based off of this idea- the characters play D&D characters in a version of the 1917 Russian Revolution in which Rasputin is a high-level cleric, the Tsar is a white dragon (and the Tsaritsa is a half-dragon) and most of the Tsar's supporters are Hobgoblins.
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623* ''[[http://escapepod.org/2018/12/13/escape-pod-658-beatrix-released/ Beatrix Released]]'' by Shaenon Garrity portrays Creator/BeatrixPotter as a ReluctantMadScientist who creates {{Uplifted Animal}}s [[spoiler: and was inadvertently responsible for the Tay Bridge Disaster]].
624* According to the Elias Material NewAge website, the being Elias is the essence of the simultaneous focuses known as Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, Creator/LordByron, [[Theatre/{{Carmen}} Don José]], [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]], explorer Vasco da Gama, Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Seymour Guado]], Creator/{{Homer}}, Creator/{{Laozi}}, [[Franchise/{{Dune}} God-Emperor Leto Atreides II]], [[Literature/TristanAndIseult Sir Palamedes]], Theatre/{{Salome}}, Creator/WilliamShakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway, Italian artist Francesco Squarcione, Creator/OscarWilde, and [[FamousFamousFictional Knar of Tüle]], a planet outside of the Milky Way Galaxy.
625* ''Website/TheFederalVampireAndZombieAgency'': Several parts in the history section mention that certain figures whether fought vampires or were vampires. Jesus cured a vampire in Capernaun, the Romans fought the vampire lord Qadrilla, there were vampire pirates and Jack the Ripper was a vampire. Zombies also have historical stories including a “Deadstock” concert, a Chernobyl-like disaster in the USSR and a ploy from Cuba to send zombies to the US.
626* WebOriginal/{{Inglip}} was once Henry VI, King of England. After the cult that arose following his death faded, it seems the late king... [[EldritchAbomination changed]].
627* ''TabletopGame/NewVindicators'' features an immortal UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton as a recurring character, as an Esper (normal person with psionic powers) able to listen to spirits who drank an elixir to make him immortal. He's also a genius even beyond his real world self, having built sophisticated androids, and is part of the world's Illuminati along other immortal types. Ambrosius Aurelianus, a real life historic Romano-British warlord, is also the mythical Myth/KingArthur and his time's own Aurelius-which is to say, master mage.
628* In ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'' Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'' is an accurate portrayal of Hell based on visions sent to him by demons.
629* According to the Website/SCPFoundation:
630** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1084 SCP-1084]] is the grave of [[spoiler:Creator/AmbroseBierce]], who cursed the town that had killed him and slew all but one of its citizens.
631** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1447 SCP-1447-2]] is [[spoiler:Creator/SteveJobs]], who apparently went to Tibet in 1985 and created his own {{Tulpa}}. Meanwhile, another [[spoiler:Steve Jobs]] replaced him in public.
632** Mountaineer George Mallory was killed on Mt. Everest by [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1529 a frostbite-causing monster]], one that later spared Lincoln Hall. It's also heavily implied to be responsible for at least half of all recorded deaths for climbing Everest.
633** Roman Emperor Septimius Severus was apparently [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1732 a talking lion.]]
634** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2090 Tim Duncan]] of the San Antonio Spurs would have become a world-conquering monster were it not for the intervention of the Foundation (which included [[spoiler: going back in time to ''invent the game of basketball'' and ''cause Hurricane Hugo'']]).
635** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2264/ SCP-2264]] heavily implies that [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-701/ "The Hanged King's Tragedy"]] was written by Christopher Marlowe.
636** UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, [[KillAndReplace or at least the one we're most familiar with]], is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2776 a powerful robot]].
637** UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla not only successfully built his planned DeathRay, but it worked a little TOO well, resulting in [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2700 SCP-2700]], a ticking time-bomb that will bring about the end of the universe as we know it in 2234. He finished the plans with the help of a universe-hopping traveler, who promptly sabotaged it to destroy our universe, viewing humans as flawed compared to their own.
638** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3477 SCP-3477]] is a collection of 34 men all claiming to be Harold Holt, former Prime Minister of Australia who supposedly died at sea in December 1967, all of whom have become biologically immortal in different ways.
639** According to [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3288 SCP-3822,]] Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire was an amateur [[LovecraftianSuperpower Sarkicist]] who used genetic engineering to make sure the Habsburgs would always have "pure blood" despite their inbreeding. It worked...[[GoneHorriblyRight very well.]]
640** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3817 SCP-3817]] is an immortal clone of Music/FelixMendelssohn with very extensive self-inflicted injuries. He maintains that his injuries are not out of suicidal intent, but rather so he could [[TrueArtIsAngsty use his suffering to create musical masterpieces]], just like the great composers before him.
641** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3872 SCP-3872]] is William Henry Seward, U.S. Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. He was made immortal through "forbidden molasses-based alchemy" in 1857, and has gone more than a little crazy both from his immortality and from [[GoMadFromTheIsolation being left alone in an abandoned ASCI containment facility]]. Part of this insanity takes the form of an irrational hatred of molasses and rum.
642** UsefulNotes/AlGore was coerced to run for the presidency in 2000 by [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4444 Garber Gore, the alien parasite embedded in the back of his skull.]] Additionally, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush died in 1998 and was immediately replaced by [[BodySurf Dr. Jack Bright]] in order to keep up appearances.
643* Syera of ''Website/{{Springhole}}'' strongly discourages to have important figures in human history be or have business with secret supernatural entities or concepts, as it takes away credit from humans to do such things and assumes normal humans are incapable of doing these things without the help of the supernatural or aliens.
644* ''TableTopGame/TechInfantry'', due to its early history as an expansion pack for the TableTopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness, kept much of that backstory about people like UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla and UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison being rival mages. Modred, a recurring BigBad, also qualifies.
645* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', Creator/HPLovecraft was writing stories that were largely accurate, because he had psychic powers.
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650* Inverted in "Bible Time" by Creator/TomSka - Jesus is implied to be an ordinary man, and all the supernatural parts of the bible are the result of Tom travelling back in time to demand the book be made more interesting.
651* In WebVideo/Jerma985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2c94cHcdI "Jerma Rumble"]], Benjamin Franklin used a time-travelling machine solely to compete in the Jerma Rumble so that he can beat Jerma's ass.
652* In ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'', Creator/AleisterCrowley was a founding member of a secret society which aimed to gain eternal life by draining the blood of the legendary descendants of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. That's actually probably the most likely thing mentioned on this page.
653* It's mentioned in ''WebVideo/TheOutCrowd'' that Music/DavidBowie is an interdimentional traveler.
654* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA George Washington]] "had a pocket full of horses, fucked the shit out of bears, threw a knife into heaven, and could kill with a stare!"
655* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo JFK]] was a telepathic, zebra healing, flying robot.
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659* ''WesternAnimation/AgentElvis'': As its teaser shows, the series will follow Music/ElvisPresley as he moonlights as a government secret agent.
660* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Mary Todd Lincoln invented peanut butter. [[TruthInTelevision It wasn't George Washington Carver, that's for sure.]]
661* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'': Music/WeirdAlYankovic is a horse.
662* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'' reveals that Music/MichaelJackson of Music/TheJacksonFive was really a half-human half-alien hybrid from the planet [[TheUnpronounceable Mamasaymamasamamakusa]] and that his "white" look towards the end of his life was actually his real alien appearance all along!
663* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': ''Prehysterical Pet'' sees the Rangers encounter a small, rodent sized stegosaurus who turns out to be a hyper-intelligent alien. He reveals that several million years ago, his people sent a colony ship to Earth and he's been sent to find out what happened to them. The Rangers discover that exposure to Earth's atmosphere and vegetation caused the colonists to grow to humongous size, but also destroyed their intelligence, turning them into the lumbering mega-fauna we know as dinosaurs.
664* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' reveals astronauts never landed on the Moon, they just thought they did. The KND hacked the transmission and sent them to a fake Moon so the adults wouldn't find out about their Moonbase. Also, according to a tie-in comic, the Great Wall of China was built to be the world's biggest water slide.
665* A few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' use this trope.
666** One episode sees Timmy shrinking down to enter Cosmo and Wanda's goldfish-bowl castle, where he discovers what he thinks is a "Hall of Fame" for their favorite godchildren. It turns out that they're actually the ''worst'' godkids they ever had, [[PhantomZonePicture magically sealed inside paintings]] to keep them from causing any more harm. The most evil of them is a little girl who ''caused World War I'' (and, by extension, World War II and the Cold War) by wishing for Cosmo and Wanda to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand!
667** "Beach Bummed" has Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands on the beach. While they're digging, Cosmo comes across "[[Music/ElvisPresley a guy with a big collar and peanut butter and banana sandwich!]]", who promptly asks the fairy not to tell anyone about his "secret underground rock 'n roll beach kingdom." Exactly ''how'' the King vanished into said kingdom is never explained.
668* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
669** Lou Gehrig created the disease bearing his name to take over the world.
670** Charles Lindbergh accidentally flushed away his son when he was teaching him how to use the toilet, then got rid of Amelia Earhart because she had seen too much.
671** Creator/MichaelMoore and Creator/RushLimbaugh are only two of many characters Creator/FredSavage invented and dressed up as to continue his love of acting. This one's justified; Fred Savage wanted fame.
672* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' does this a couple times.
673** A What If episode shows that if Fry had not been frozen, a universe-destroying TemporalParadox would happen (because [[spoiler:Fry's life is a StableTimeLoop that would not happen if he wasn't frozen]]). When the universe starts breaking down, he meets then-Vice President Al Gore. Gore leads the Vice Presidential Action Rangers, whose sole duty it is to prevent disruptions in the space-time continuum[-[[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway ... and cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate]]-]. The group includes Gore, Creator/StephenHawking, Creator/NichelleNichols, Creator/GaryGygax, and Deep Blue the chess-playing supercomputer.
674** "The Duh-Vinci Code" reveals that Creator/LeonardoDaVinci is still alive because he's from a race of long-lived HumanAliens and actually the dumbest person on his home planet, coming to Earth as he'd be far smarter in comparison.
675* There was a real Theatre/{{Macbeth}}, although he wasn't quite the power thirsty regicidal dude depicted by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', though, Macbeth is a ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}''-style Immortal, still alive today thanks to an immortality pact. WordOfGod states that he and Shakespeare were drinking buddies, and that he was amused by the play named for him.
676** In the Halloween special of the Dynamite comic continuation, Nashville (who spent most of his early life time-travelling with his parents and likely came by the knowledge firsthand) claims that the pirate UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} was not a human, but rather a particularly nasty gargoyle.
677* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
678** The founder of the titular Gravity Falls, according to the episode "Irrational Treasure", was Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III, the 8th & 1/2 president of the USA. He was [[CloudCuckoolander the most ridiculous president of the US]], and was kicked out of office [[UnPerson and erased from the history books]]. His term was replaced by UsefulNotes/WilliamHenryHarrison (the official 9th and thus why Trembley was 8th & 1/2), and the government claimed some waste shoveling village idiot was the founder of Gravity Falls. Also in the same episode, the following are mentioned, both in gags and on [[FreezeFrameBonus on-screen text]]:
679*** Creator/BenjaminFranklin was secretly a woman.
680*** UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln had a hand sticking out of his head, which he covered with his hat.
681*** UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson was really [[TotemPoleTrench two kids in a trenchcoat]].
682** In "The Stanchurian Candidate", it's mentioned that Ronald Reagan was mind controlled by his "masters" using a high-tech tie [[spoiler: made by Ford Pines. He thinks nothing of it.]]
683%%**[[Defictionalization/The special black light edition]] [[Literature/Journal3]] goes even farther. The Egyptians, George Washington, Stanley Kubrick, finish this later.
684* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1992 The Little Mermaid: The Series]]'' has Creator/HansChristianAndersen venture deep into the depths of the sea to verify the existence of Ariel's own species. Andersen's encounter with the mermaid then inspired him to write her story, by which the show's narrator tells the audience to go to the nearest library and find HCA's stories.
685* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' states that UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr, Music/JohnLennon, and Raffi were human mecha powered by the tiny, peace-loving Arquellians. Presumably, they haven't dabbled in Earth politics for quite a while.
686* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', several historical figures, including UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, Myth/SaintGeorge and the UsefulNotes/MarquisDeLaFayette are mentioned to have been past [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] holders.
687* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Alexandre Gustave Eiffel is discovered to be a 19th-century ghost hunter, and the prominent French landmark which bears his name turns out to be a primitive ecto-containment system.
688* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has a few examples, most notably Albert Einstein, who pretty much was his real life self, except for the part where he's inspired to write his famous Theory of Relativity out of spite for the TimePolice who beat him up because they mistook him for Rick ("[[StableTimeLoop I VILL mess vith time!]]"), and Ice-T, who's apparently an alien from a planet where everyone's an elemental letter, who was banished for not caring about anything.
689* A classic ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' arc involved the Kerwood Derby, a hat that made its wearer the smartest person in the world. Supposedly Einstein was wearing the Kerwood Derby when he developed his Theory of Relativity, and Archimedes wore the derby in his bathtub when he discovered his theory of water displacement (or at least remembered where he left the soap). According to the narrator, it was worn by UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat when he conquered the world, by Philip of Macedonia when ''he'' conquered the world, and by Music/ElvisPresley when ''he''...[[RuleOfThree well, you get the idea]].
690* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had an episode where Creator/BenjaminFranklin, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, and King George banded together to hunt for an ancient ruby and created the Revolutionary War as a cover-up for their search.
691* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
692** While investigating how he's able to appear at so many different gigs seemingly all at once, Craig and Clyde discover that Music/{{Slash|Musician}} is really a mythological character based on the Dutch legend of Vunter Slaush. Turns out it was just one of their parents that actually played at Cartman's party.
693---> '''Cartman:''' "But then, [[FridgeLogic who was the guitar player for]] Music/GunsNRoses?" \
694'''Clyde:''' "''One of our parents!''"
695* Promotional material for the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 version]] of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' detailing the history of [[AlienAmongUs the Utroms]] confirms that one of them took on the identity of Abraham Lincoln.
696* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' features several major historical figures transported through time to the present. When the historical figures are all captured and tied up by the bad guys, George Washington Carver (who is among them) utters the immortal words, "If only I could get my hands on those peanuts!" He eventually does, and turns them into weapons of mass destruction.
697* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' is all about secret historical weirdness, {{Hand Wave}}d by history becoming "unstable" as it "ages". This apparently leads to stuff like Music/LudwigVanBeethoven becoming a professional wrestler, Eli Whitney inventing flesh-eating robots instead of the cotton gin, and Albert Einstein giving up his work as a physicist to take on the identity of [[InsaneProprietor a boisterous, wacky used-car salesman]].
698* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' suggests that Creator/OscarWilde, Creator/AleisterCrowley, Samuel "Creator/MarkTwain" Clemens, Eugene Sandow & UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla (along with Fantomas and Dr Venture's ancestor) were members of a [[ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]-esque Guild that was meant to safeguard and research an artifact made by the greatest minds of the past (from Archimedes to Leonardo). The fracturing of this guild would give birth to the Guild Of Calamitous Intent (a name coined by Wilde), which would become a WeirdTradeUnion for {{Supervillain}}s.
699** This gets a little weird when Tesla joins forces with the Avon Ladies to fight the rest of them, despite the fact that Tesla and Twain were real-life HeterosexualLifePartners.
700** Two of the Guild's highest ranking members are implied to be Music/BuddyHolly and Music/TheBigBopper, with the plane crash that supposedly killed them both being a coverup. There is also Guild's leader, The Sovereign, who is a shapeshifter that everyone knows as Music/DavidBowie. [[spoiler:''Except it's not literally him'', since it's later revealed that The Sovereign is actually an anonymous shapeshifter impersonating Bowie, who is apparently a good friend of his. It's also rumored in-universe that said shapeshifter's true form is either "the creature on the cover of ''Diamond Dogs''" or the "woman beside Bowie on the cover of ''Pin Ups''".]]
701* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': Just as with his comics counterpart, ComicBook/VandalSavage has taken on many roles and identities over his fifty thousand years of life, including several real-world historical figures. Specifically confirmed on-screen are Creator/SunTzu and UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, the latter role in which he successfully forestalled an invasion of Earth by [[ComicBook/NewGods Apokolips]].
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