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2[[caption-width-right:300:''"A house divided against itself cannot stand."''[[note]]The above photograph has been digitally recolored, as despite being invented during his lifetime, color photography was not widely available (or accurate) until some decades after the subject's death. All untouched photographs of Abraham Lincoln are in monochrome (usually black-and-white).[[/note]]]]
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4->''"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."''
5-->-- '''Abraham Lincoln''', '''''The Gettysburg Address'''''
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7Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States between [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar 1861 and 1865]]. That guy who won the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, proclaimed the slaves free, delivered the Gettysburg Address, and was [[CommonKnowledge born in a log cabin]] which he [[FolkHero built with his own two hands]] [old joke].
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9He immediately followed UsefulNotes/JamesBuchanan and preceded UsefulNotes/AndrewJohnson. He's also known for wearing a top hat and being impressively tall (tied with UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson for tallest president ever, at 6'4"). When he took direct control of the Union army for a brief time, he showed himself to be a talented military strategist as well.
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11A [[TheCharmer genial and charming]] speaker, Lincoln had an uncanny ability to [[TheSocialExpert explain complex issues in layman's terms]], and his speeches are among the most famous in American history. Considered an untested and possibly radical figure, he is famous for growing a beard while in office, in addition to a distinctively shaped LanternJawOfJustice, which was depicted as clean-shaven in his earlier years. He grew the beard at the insistence of an 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell who wrote him a letter. In many ways he's the only president who served between the Founding Fathers and UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt who's thought of ''at all''. He is also almost universally considered to be one of the greatest presidents (if not ''the'' greatest) in American history.
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13Despite his childhood education consisting of barely a year in total due to the scarcity of schools in pioneer territories, since he attended school for a few months at a time, he still managed to avidly enjoy reading such literary classics as ''Literature/AesopsFables'', ''Literature/ThePilgrimsProgress'', ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', the works of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, and [[Literature/TheBible the King James Bible]]. Later, he hired a tutor, Mentor Graham, to help him become more proficient in the "three R's", and Lincoln borrowed a grammar book from a neighbor six miles away. Using borrowed law books and learning how to speak by watching courtroom proceedings[[note]]Lawyers and paralegals are still encouraged to learn procedure by going to court and watching.[[/note]] and never having attended law school, he confidently stated "I studied with nobody" when given his license to practice law before the state bar; during the earlier years, a person didn't need to graduate from law school if they could pass the bar exam.[[note]]This was called "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_law reading law]]", and was the way most lawyers did it including Clarence Darrow. [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]] is probably the most famous fictional example.[[/note]]
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15It is also relevant, if somewhat uncomfortable to admit, that Lincoln was ''technically'' a ''racist'', even by today's standards. He casually used the n-word in conversation, regularly attended and enjoyed {{minstrel shows}} (these facts wouldn't become more widely publicized until after the success of ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' in 2012, which historians accused of presenting an overly narrow and sugarcoated view of the president) and still allowed encroachment onto the lands of most Native American nations, even allowing the largest mass execution in history in the aftermath of a war in the Dakotas (although he also pardoned hundreds more of the condemned warriors). Though he was an abolitionist, he was willing at least in principle to allow slavery to continue, if only because it was constitutionally protected in established states, believing that it would end on its own if it could be kept from spreading. At one point in time, he supported the American Colonization Society program, which would have enabled the freed slaves to emigrate to UsefulNotes/{{Liberia}} and start new lives. He once remarked in 1837, while speaking of his "Free Soil" stance opposing both slavery and radical abolitionism: "The institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation (legal enactment) of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils." Early in his presidency he said that he would back any solution to the slavery question that preserved the Union, whether it was freeing all the slaves, freeing none of them, or freeing some and leaving others enslaved, but by then he had already chosen option one, though border states had exemption initially. His anti-slavery views became stronger over time, however, eventually crystallizing in two famous quotes: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free," and "Whenever I hear anyone arguing over slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
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17His memorial in DC is a very popular spot for "inspirational" moments in media, and [[MonumentalDamageResistance is much hardier than most other memorials]] (but don't tell that to [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Megatron]]). He is also the only non-[[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire British Empire]] citizen/subject to have a statue in Parliament Square in UsefulNotes/{{London}}. His death inspired [[CelebrityElegy many elegies]], perhaps most famously "O Captain! My Captain!" by Creator/WaltWhitman.
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19Was famously born in a log cabin, but not the one you can get tours of (despite what the guides will tell you); that one was built eight years after he was born. As [[Series/{{QI}} Stephen Fry]] once put it, it is dangerously close to the legendary schoolboy gaffe quoted above.
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21More dubiously, Lincoln is also notorious for being the first president to be successfully assassinated, having been fatally shot by actor and Confederate sympathizer UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth while attending a production of ''Our American Cousin'' at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC. Booth had been part of a large-scale conspiracy among disgruntled former Confederates to undermine the United States and revive the pro-slavery white supremacist movement that the Confederacy represented. Incidentally though, killing Lincoln wasn't the original plan-- the conspiracy's first plot was to kidnap the president, but they shifted gears to murder because of a last-minute change in Lincoln's schedule that day that prevented Booth from reaching him. However, Booth’s ''own'' murder two weeks later by a religious sergeant named Boston Corbett destroyed any hope of avenging and saving the South, but still posthumously succeeded in undermining Reconstruction, thanks to Lincoln's authoritative successor being an overt southern sympathizer (and considering how effectively the South pushed a false [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy "Lost Cause" narrative]] in the century-and-a-half since, some others say that the Confederacy ended up getting the last laugh in the end partly because of Booth's actions, but was himself murdered before he could be tried) and their deaths led to several unanswered questions about what really happened in regards to the deaths of Lincoln and Booth. Thus, the efficacy of a Lincoln-led Reconstruction remains a huge case of WhatCouldHaveBeen for speculative historians.
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23Because of how high-profile Lincoln's murder is even today, it's often claimed that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_ghost his ghost]] haunts TheWhiteHouse. His presence is sometimes made clear by appearing, if briefly, before some presidents and other guests during times of great crisis (such as a [[Film/BlackDynamite kung fu fight against]] UsefulNotes/RichardNixon).
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25Incidentally, in contrast to most modern-day baritone depictions, Lincoln's voice was actually [[RealityIsUnrealistic somewhat high-pitched and nasal]]. For something approaching what's considered to be more accurate, consider [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQueA6ackmk this feature]], filmed for Time Magazine. Benjamin Walker became the first actor to break away from the deep-voiced tradition with his portrayal of the 16th President in, of all things, 2012's ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'', though he pretty much just used the higher register of his normal speaking voice. The theatrical group With Lincoln, whose 1994 re-enactments were broadcast on C-SPAN, had Michael Krebs portray him with a strong Southern Illinois-accented tenor voice and a good declamatory style for public speaking, especially in the Lincoln Douglas debates (you can see several of these videos on [=YouTube=]). Creator/DanielDayLewis became the first actor to give a nearly-true representation of the "thin, high pitched" tone that Lincoln is recorded to have possessed, in 2012's ''Film/{{Lincoln}}''; this alone was considered a ''huge'' expose, never mind that pesky "obstruction of justice" stuff.
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27The last living person to witness Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater was Samuel J. Seymour, who sat in the balcony box across from the Lincolns at age five, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5yzJ-Dk&NR=1 appeared]] on the game show ''I've Got a Secret'' to relate his story 91 years later in 1956. Despite being introduced with a caption stating that he witnessed the shooting firsthand, he actually didn't see the shot when it was fired and initially sympathized with ''Booth'' as a kid because he didn't realize that he was the man who pulled the trigger until after the assassination entered the mainstream news cycle. Seymour died several months later.
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29One of the things which allegedly mellowed Lincoln out on the issue of race was his [[OddCouple unlikely friendship]] with escaped slave and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass, along with the extreme polarization of the public on the issue, as hundreds of thousands died DuringTheWar. After unexpectedly winning re-election in a stunning turnaround, in his Second Inaugural Address (only slightly longer than the one at Gettysburg) Lincoln famously delivered one of the greatest speeches of all time.
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31[[folder:Lincoln's Speech (excerpt)]]
32-->[[WarWasBeginning And the war came.]]
33-->All knew that (slavery) was somehow the cause of the war... It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, [[DeadpanSnarker but let us judge not, that we be not judged]]. The prayers of both could not be answered. ...''"Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."'' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come... and that He gives to (us) this terrible war as [[LaserGuidedKarma the woe due]]... Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. '''Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword,]]''' [[AsTheGoodBookSays as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said]] ''[[BadassBoast "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether!"]]''
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35Note that he went on to say:
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37-->''[[MartialPacifist With malice toward none, with charity for all]], ''(let us)'' [[SecondVerseCurse bind up the nation's wounds]]''...
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39The war was won weeks later. Coincidence? Probably.[[/folder]]
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41Fact: Abraham Lincoln can and, if needed, will, beat you in a fight. Even if you're Franchise/{{Batman}}. Or [[http://www.glarkware.com/adult/bigfoot-vs-abe-lincoln Bigfoot]]. In some ways, Abraham Lincoln is almost as much a MemeticBadass as Creator/ChuckNorris. In fact, this is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2Zf9tlg2Y where you can go to watch them have a rap battle.]] Some would count him as the only president to be more badass than UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt (and maybe UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson, if you [[ValuesDissonance ignore the politics]]). On the other hand, Website/{{Cracked}} [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time_p2.html doesn't even count him among the top five,]] though the same author later acknowledged the oversight and wrote an article devoted strictly to Lincoln called [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/abraham-lincoln-portrait-crazy-badass/ "Abraham Lincoln: Portrait of a Crazy Badass."]] It really depends on how much weight you give the ManlyFacialHair.
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43Also Fact: In 1842 Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel by a political rival, state auditor James Shields. In dueling, the challenged party selects the place of the duel, and the weapons to be used. Since Lincoln felt the situation was ridiculous, he stated that he wanted to use "Cavalry Broadswords of the [[{{BFS}} largest size]]". He also added that he wanted the duel to be carried out in a pit 10 feet wide by 12 feet deep with a large wooden plank dividing the square which no man was allowed to set foot over. Shields was going to go through with it, but then saw Lincoln clearing branches with a broadsword and realized how insane the situation had become and backed down.[[note]]This story may not reflect particularly well on Shields, but he himself was neither a coward nor a fool; he later led the troops who handed "Stonewall" Jackson his ''only'' clear defeat of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, in the first battle of Kernstown.[[/note]]
44* NB: The fencing treatise "By the Sword" notes that Lincoln's apparently ridiculous rules for the duel [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome belie a cunning tactician's mind]]: By choosing long, heavy weapons and dividing the dueling ground to prevent his opponent from closing distance, the much taller Lincoln ensured that he--with his nearly six-inch-longer reach--could attack with impunity and/or (more likely) [[UsefulNotes/PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower effectively stalemate the duel without drawing blood]].
45* NBB: Lincoln felt the situation was ''so'' ridiculous that, when Shields first challenged Lincoln to choose the duelling weapons, Lincoln initially chose "cow pies." Lincoln only switched to broadswords when Shields rejected this idea.
46* This has been called one of the most bizarre episodes in Lincoln's life, involving his using a female persona (with input from Mary and a friend) to write a witty letter for a widely read Illinois paper, mocking Shields' personal appearance and reputation with the ladies along with his policies. A followup letter -- actually by the women -- caused Shields to challenge.
47-->"Dear girls, it is distressing, but I cannot marry you all. Too well I know how much you suffer, but do, do remember, [[SoBeautifulItsACurse it is not my fault that I am so handsome and so interesting]]."
48* Some historians think that Lincoln and Shields set this up to get publicity.
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50[[RuleOfThree Also Also Fact]]: Abraham Lincoln, 140 years before its first usage in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, frickin' '''invented the chokeslam'''. During his youth as a "wrassler", one of Lincoln's opponents made the mistake of stomping on Lincoln's instep with the heel of his boot. As recounted by noted Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, "This exasperated Lincoln so that he lost his temper, lifted Armstrong up by the throat and off the ground, shook him like a rag, and then slammed him to a hard fall, flat on his back."[[note]]Another account of the match can be read [[http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln48.html here]].[[/note]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship Both men would become good friends.]] Lincoln was honored by the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame for this feat.
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52Lincoln was also the other kind of inventor, holding a patent for a device intended to help boats navigate shallows, making him the only president in American history ever to have held a patent. He was also a licensed bartender and co-owned a pub for a while before entering politics. Thus, when Lincoln quipped that he wished he could serve all his generals what his skilled general UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant was drinking, he was in a position where he could have done that legally and ''literally''. Additionally, he was a crack target shot with a rifle, and in one recorded instance, joined a group of soldiers who were trying out a new model near the White House; when one remarked that the weapon needed a better sight, Lincoln produced one that he'd whittled out of wood (having tried the rifle beforehand and being similarly unimpressed by its standard sight).
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54Lincoln is also one of the few presidents to have an [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks aircraft]] [[CoolBoat carrier]] named after him. As well as the capital of Nebraska, the official outlet for ''Franchise/StarTrek'' merchandise,[[note]]Creator/GeneRoddenberry was a lifelong admirer and named many things after him, and Lincoln [[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain played a role in one of the third season's many]] {{Bizarro Episode}}s.[[/note]], a make of luxury car, and toy logs. Oh, and also many, many, many parks, including (indirectly) [[Music/LinkinPark a musical one]].
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56He was a Republican. It should be noted, though, that contrary to how this fact is most commonly used in political discourse nowadays, being a Republican in Lincoln's time didn't mean being a conservative, as it wasn't until roughly a century after Lincoln's death that Republicans and Democrats became the right-wing and left-wing parties we know them today. Before then, the Republican and Democratic parties did not have precise ideological alignments. Each had wings we would call "liberal" and "conservative", and were better described as coalitions of cross-cutting regional, cultural, and class-based interests. The Republicans gave up Lincoln-Roosevelt progressivism in the 1930s; it was another 30 years before the Democrats abandoned Southern segregation and (hesitantly) embraced the progressive cause. Republicans of the late 20th century would sometimes describe theirs as "the party of Lincoln"; this was usually decried by opponents as a cynical attempt to court African-American support. The whole matter became moot by the 21st century, with "party of Lincoln" comments mostly confined to the context of ironic comedy.
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58{{Trope Namer|s}} for AFoolForAClient, after an aphorism of his.
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62!!Honest Abe in fiction:
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66[[folder:Advertising]]
67* A series of Geico ads use the trope IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes. One of the questions is "Was Abe Lincoln honest?" Lincoln's wife is shown asking him [[DoesThisMakeMeLookFat "Does this dress make my backside look big?"]]. Lincoln, after struggling with himself for a while answers "[[BrutalHonesty Perhaps]]."
68** The producers went to commendable effort to make that clip [[{{Retraux}} look like a period film]] , if they'd had film in the 1860s. (He'd have had to live another thirty-some years to be in the first silent films.)
69* A new Diet Mountain Dew ad has Lincoln as a [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]].
70** He ''was'' an amateur in RealLife.
71* And of course he shows up every Presidents' Day for the big sales.
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75* One of Creator/BobNewhart's early routines, "Abraham Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue", satirically juxtaposes the cynical marketing of modern political candidates with Lincoln's honesty.
76* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfzf9seMBMs Negativland's Lincoln Robot]] -- a satire on the Disney Animatronic version.
77* The Conception Corporation had a skit where Edward R. Murrow did on-the-spot reports from Heaven. When he came upon Lincoln, he asked him what he thought of the current (circa 1970) U.S. situation.
78-->'''Lincoln.''' I think it's a mess. The niggers are --
79-->'''Murrow.''' [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Thank you, Abe]].
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83* In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingScrewOnHead'', Lincoln is the president who gives the title character his orders.
84* Lincoln was one of the former identities of The Immortal in ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}''.
85* A TwistEnding in an issue of Creator/{{EC Comics}}' ''Weird Fantasy'' describes an AlternateHistory where the assassination of Lincoln failed, and he ended up leading America to a [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld world takeover,]] which turns the world into a utopia of equality and prosperity, with Lincoln having a Jesus-like cult centuries after his death.
86* A painting of Lincoln--with the word "Nigger" scrawled across it--is the source of much controversy in the first arc of ''ComicBook/ExMachina''.
87* The "Statue of Lincoln comes to life" subtrope even has an AnimalSuperheroes version; in one issue of ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew!'', a villain animates a statue of [[PunnyName "Abraham Linkidd"]] (who is a goat, in case you were wondering).
88* In ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', wizard John Constantine meets Lincoln [[spoiler: who is the plot's villain.]]
89* In Creator/ScottMcCloud's ''The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln'', he is, unsurprisingly, a major character.
90* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' once [[ProfessionalWrestling wrestled]] a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombie]] Abe Lincoln.
91* Creator/AlternaComics ''ComicBook/JesusHatesZombiesFeaturingAbeLincolnHatesWarewolves''
92* The Kyle Baker ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'' story "Continuity Bandit: Abraham Lincoln Must Die!", of course. A time-traveling villain [[GrievousHarmWithABody throws Lincoln]] [[spoiler: (actually John Wilkes Booth in a disguise, though the real Lincoln appears once the gang goes to the past)]] at Plas to facilitate an escape, which somehow [[BadFuture caused]] the [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement civil rights movement]] to never happen, Wonder Woman to become a [[{{Housewife}} housewife]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Green Lantern to beat the Flash in a sack race]]. Eventually, a reluctant [[BumblingSidekick Woozy]] tries to shoot him. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown It doesn't go well.]]
93* In a ''Franchise/{{Doctor Who|ExpandedUniverse}}'' comic the Third Doctor gave Abe Lincoln advice on how to win the Battle of Gettysburg.
94* In a particularly [[BizarroEpisode weird]] ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' comic it was revealed that president Lincoln sent Homer to Fords theater in his place so he could pose for the five dollar bill then Professor Frink went back in time to prevent his assassination.
95* An even weirder ''Creator/{{Elseworlds}}'' story had ''ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'' as President Lincoln.
96* An Abe Lincoln version of ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'' was featured as part of the [[AlternateSelf Darkwings]] [[MesACrowd of the]] {{Multiverse}}.
97* In an issue of ''[[ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers Avengers West Coast]],'' [[ConquerorFromTheFuture Immortus]] watched and then destroyed an AlternateTimeline where Abe Lincoln overpowered John Wilkes Booth.
98* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' once fought a robot Abe Lincoln created by the Mad Thinker.
99* ''ComicBook/TheSentry'' once ran into Abraham Lincoln on his way to Fords theater while chasing a time traveling villain luckily the president mistakes him for an actor.
100* In an early issue of ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}'' [[MonsterOfTheWeek The Eternal Enemy]] claimed that he hypnotized John Wilkes Booth into killing Abraham Lincoln.
101* It was revealed in an issue of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'' that in [[MirrorUniverse Earth Three]] Abe Lincoln was an actor who shot president John Wilkes Booth.
102* A superhero modeled after him called Honest Abe appeared in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''.
103** There is also Abraham Lincoln Carlyle from the[[CaptainPatriotic "Force]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist of July"]] although the similarities end at the name.
104* Abe Lincoln's [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Spirit]] appears to ''ComicBook/KidEternity'' in his first appearance and again in the second issue of his main series.
105* There are ''Creator/{{Elseworlds}}'' that put Batman and Superman in the Civil War, usually ending with them saving him from assassination. One particular example: After being saved by [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Atticus Kent]] Lincoln was provided a secret service organized by Kent to ensure his safety. On May 23, 1864, Lincoln recruited Kent's help in overseeing his Reconstruction Program in the American South. On March 4, 1865, Lincoln was sworn into his second term under the completed Capitol Dome.
106** ''The Blue, the Grey and the Bat'' has Batman protecting a vital gold shipment for President Lincoln in 1863.
107* He appeared in ''ComicBook/IZombie'' as a zombie but unlike the Deadpool example above seems to be [[CreepyGood more benevolent]] leading an army of dead soldiers.
108* The opening to the second volume of ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' features the kids fighting the Lincoln memorial, which has come to life [[NoodleIncident for some reason.]] They fend it off by summoning an equally large statue of John Wilkes Booth to assassinate him. The Booth statue is last seen making a run for it.
109* Shows up in ''ComicBook/TexWiller'' in the "Pinkerton Lady" storyline, in which a young Tex (then an outlaw) and [[PinkertonDetective Kate Warne of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency]] join forces to protect Lincoln, then a presidential candidate, from an assassination attempt.
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112[[folder:Fan Works]]
113* Abe makes a very brief BackFromTheDead appearance in FanFic/GarfieldInAlongCameASplut, but he is killed off just as soon as he appears, getting impaled by a shard of glass from Garfield's broken TV, since the story says [[InsaneTrollLogic he's supposed to be dead in the first place.]] The author claimed this mean-spirited bit was a big reason why he eventually disowned the story.
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117* Lincoln is one of Bill and Ted's collection of historical figures in ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''.
118* The whacked-out Chinese movie ''Film/FantasyMissionForce'' opens with several UsefulNotes/WorldWarII generals being captured. One of them is Lincoln. And he clearly identifies himself as such - ''even in the original Chinese''.
119* In 1935's ''Film/TheLittlestRebel'', Virgie (Creator/ShirleyTemple) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTMTfM_aZ-c visits Lincoln]] (Frank Mc_Glynn Sr.) asking him to pardon her dad and a sympathetic Union colonel, who are falsely accused of spying and sentenced to death.
120* In the 1939 film by Creator/JohnFord, ''[[Film/YoungMrLincoln Young Mr. Lincoln]]'', he's portrayed by Creator/HenryFonda.
121* The 1954 ''The Tall Target'' by Creator/AnthonyMann deals with a Private Detective (played by Creator/DickPowell) trying to stop an assassination attempt on Lincoln on his journey to the White House for his inauguration in 1860. He's mentioned throughout the film and [[spoiler:appears in the very last shot, weary and tired at having dodged the bullet, with the obvious {{Futureshadowing}} by the film's mise-en-scene underlying that [[TheHeroDies one day his luck]] would run out]].
122* Tyler Durden of ''Film/FightClub'' wants to fight him, because he's a big guy, with big reach. And besides, skinny guys fight 'til they're burger.[[note]]Since Lincoln was a wrestler and a genuine tough guy, he would have undoubtedly decked the floor with him and other members of Fight Club[[/note]] He becomes an unlockable character in the [[VideoGame/FightClub video game version]].
123* In ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', an actor portrays him in a production of ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' and he is greeted with jeers, food throwing, and shouts of "Down with the Union!" This is a [[TruthInTelevision pretty good reflection]] of how - ''white'' - working-class New Yorkers actually felt about President Lincoln; New York City mayor Fernando Wood even proposed that the city [[DividedStatesOfAmerica secede]] from the Union and become an [[TruceZone independent country]].
124* Creator/LanceHenriksen plays Lincoln in the tv movie ''Film/TheDayLincolnWasShot'', is a reenactment of the assassinations of both President Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, as well as the events before and after with Creator/RobMorrow playing John Wilkes Booth.
125* A major character, and a surprisingly sympathetic one, in the outrageously racist 1915 film ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}''. This fit with the views, in the South, that Lincoln would have gone easier on the South than the Radical Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens (who are outright demonized here and in later films).[[note]]Lincoln was not radical at all but by the start of his second term came to realize that JerkassHasAPoint and in a speech just before his death expressed support for black suffrage. John Wilkes Booth was in the audience for that, and that served as one of many triggers for Lincoln's death[[/note]]
126* In ''Film/NightAtTheMuseumBattleOfTheSmithsonian'' the statue from the Lincoln Memorial comes to life.
127* In the 2011 remake of ''Film/{{Arthur 2011}}'', one of Abraham Lincoln's suits is bought by Arthur at an auction, and Arthur quotes Lincoln near the end of the film, but is punched in the face before he can say his actual quote.
128* In the ''Film/WildWildWest'' movie, Dr. Loveless makes a grand appearance at his party by hiding inside a statue of Lincoln, whose head explodes.
129* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' his picture appears in a list of [[Funny/TheDarkKnight suspects for the identity of Batman]]
130* In ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', he [[AlternateHistory loses the Civil War]]. He attempts to flee to [[CanadaEh Canada]] with Harriet Tubman disguised as a black man, but is captured by Confederate forces. After a two year imprisonment, Jefferson Davis, hoping to ease tension in the newly conquered North, pardons him and exiles him to Canada, where he dies a lonely man in the early 1900s. All history remembers him for is being the man that lost "the War of Northern Agression".
131* At the climax of ''Film/BlackDynamite'', when UsefulNotes/RichardNixon grabs John Wilkes Booth's pistol to shoot [=BD=], the ghost of Lincoln appears and kung-fus the gun out of Nixon's hand.
132* In ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'', Pistachio's grandfather tells about how the Disguisey family made impact on history. Abraham Lincoln was such a boring speaker, so a disguised Lincoln helped him become elected president by partying and dancing while ''I Like to Move It'' by Reel to Real is played.
133* It is revealed in ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' that John Wilkes Booth was a brainwashed male model who was made to assassinate Abe Lincoln so slavery won't be abolished [[EvilIsPetty (because then they won't be able to make designer clothes)]].
134* An unnamed Abe Lincoln impersonator appears in ''Film/MisterLonely''.
135* He is one of the historical figures who appears in Creator/DreamWorksAnimation' ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' and one of the presidents who supports Mr. Peabody's right to raise a human child.
136* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' he is one of the master builders who is unimpressed with Emmett reacting with “A house divided against itself... would be better than this!” before riding his rocket chair out of the "Dog" in Cloud Cuckoo Land much to the dismay of Emmet. He later joined in the battle against Lord Business and his forces in Bricksburg.
137* ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'', based on the book of the same name, portrays him as a secret vampire hunter. The film's events wind their way through actual events in the life of Abraham Lincoln. He's played by Creator/BenjaminWalker.
138* ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVsZombies'' is a {{Mockbuster}} made by Creator/TheAsylum about a secret mission where Abe hunts the undead.
139* He's played by Creator/DanielDayLewis in Creator/StevenSpielberg's [[DevelopmentHell long-gestating]] biopic ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', opposite Creator/TommyLeeJones as Thaddeus Stevens, Creator/JosephGordonLevitt as Lincoln's son, Robert, and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. Day-Lewis won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for his performance.
140* In ''Film/KissKissBangBang'', Lincoln appears with a variety of other dead characters when the narrator snidely suggests that the film just resurrect ''everyone''.
141* At the end of ''Film/HappyGilmore'', he's seen alongside the alligator that ate Chubbs' hand and [[spoiler:Chubbs himself]] waving at Happy from Heaven.
142* In the 1994 film ''Film/QuizShow'', University professor Charles Lincoln Van Doren achieves fame by winning a quiz show but secretly was getting the answers in advance. A journalist asks Van Doren how would Honest Abe (sic.) fare in a quiz show - which disturbs Van Doren, because Van Doren was being dishonest.
143* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': The Klingon Chancellor Gorkon was written as a cross between Lincoln and UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev. [[note]] The name Gorkon is, according to WordOfGod, a portmanteau of Gorbachev and Lincoln. [[/note]] Lincoln's portrait also appears in the Officers' Mess.
144* Creator/DWGriffith's next-to-last film was the {{Biopic}} ''Film/AbrahamLincoln1930''. Pretty stagey overall, and heavily fictionalized, but it has its moments. Lincoln was played by Creator/WalterHuston.
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148* In a few of the ''Literature/{{Flashman}}'' books, Lincoln appears as a GuileHero, who also has some similarity with the "[[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]]" "simple country lawyer" type. He is notable as one of the few characters who sees right through Flashman.
149* Creator/GoreVidal's bestselling historical novel ''Lincoln'' takes place over the span of the Civil War. The book doesn't presume to know what Lincoln is thinking, instead switching between the perspectives of his advisers (plus John Wilkes Booth's accomplice). The author caught the ire of historians for including third-party anecdotes regarding Abe's bout with syphilis, among other things. Vidal's rebuttal was that U.S. historians tend to gloss over the imperfections of their idols, leaving us with only a faint impression of the men they really were.
150* William Safire's ''Freedom'' depicts Lincoln's Civil War leadership from Fort Sumter through the Emancipation Proclamation. Unlike Vidal, Safire does show much of the story through Lincoln's perspective.
151* One of the plots in the Literature/DirkPittAdventures book ''Sahara'' concerns Lincoln.
152* In the AlternateHistory novel ''How Few Remain'' by Creator/HarryTurtledove, Lincoln is a main character (having been a one-term president after losing the Civil War). Inspired by the writings of Marx, Lincoln becomes a travelling speaker lecturing about the rights of man and the benefits of socialism. Lincoln also leads a faction of the splintering Republican Party into defecting to the Socialist Party, causing the Socialists to eventually eclipse the Republicans as one of the nation's two major political parties.
153** Lincoln plays a smaller part in Turtledove's ''Literature/TheGunsOfTheSouth'', where he surrenders after the Confederates, equipped with AK-47s by time travelers, win the war. The next (and last) time we see him is April 15, 1865, where he delivers a speech trying to convince Kentucky to stay with the United States; this date is, as pointed out later in the book, the day he was assassinated in the regular timeline.
154* ''Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter''.
155* ''Literature/LincolnsDreams'', a novel by Connie Willis, has Lincoln's dreams of his own assassination as a major plot point.
156* Oscar Lewis' novella ''The Lost Years'' portrays a never-named president known affectionately by his staff as "The Shogun", who is badly wounded at Ford's Theater but recovers. He completes his second term, returns to Illinois and later visits California (which in real life he planned on doing once the Civil War and the transcontinental railroad were finished). An encounter with a little girl who is being ostracized because her father fought for the South turns heartwarming and his gently understated action on her behalf is finally the thing he is most remembered for. (Lincoln was actually known by his staff as "Taikun", the polite term of address for a real ''shogun''.)
157* Creator/WaltWhitman wrote his famous poem "O Captain! My Captain!" about Lincoln's death.
158* Likewise, Creator/HenrikIbsen made a poem called ''The Murder of Abraham Lincoln'', commenting on exactly that. Possibly the angriest poem Ibsen ever wrote.
159* In the ''Literature/PresidentsVampire'' series, the bullet that killed Lincoln is used by Marie Laveau in the voodoo ritual that binds [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Nathaniel Cade]] to the service of the office of the President.
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163* In one episode of Supernews, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_EmJHH78H8 an animated sketch]] involved President Obama, after running out of ideas on how to fix the economy, having his entire cabinet dig up Abe's body, insert all the stem cells they could find, and see what happened. He beat up the head of AIG.
164* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain The Savage Curtain]]", Abraham Lincoln is summoned to take part in a duel to the death between good and bad factions. When he is beamed aboard the ''Enterprise'', he's given a welcome befitting a head of state. Played by Lee Bergere, he speaks in a pleasant low tenor or high baritone voice, avoiding the booming stereotype. Sadly, he's among the first to die.
165* From the opening of ''Series/PoliceSquad'': "...And Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln!", which leads to a brief shot of Lincoln firing back at John Wilkes Booth.
166* Lincoln appears briefly in two episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' set during the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E13BackThere Back There]]" and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E4ThePassersby The Passersby]]".
167* A whole episode of ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' features his assassination, with Monica and Tess working as his seamstresses and Andrew meeting up with and trying to redeem John Wilkes Booth.
168* Creator/HalHolbrook won an Emmy for his performance as Lincoln in the miniseries ''Sandburg's Lincoln'', and later reprised the part for the miniseries ''North and South'' and ''North and South: Book II''.
169* Creator/GregoryPeck played Lincoln in the miniseries ''Series/TheBlueAndTheGray''.
170* [[Series/LawAndOrder Sam Waterston]] earned considerable acclaim for his performance as Lincoln in the 1988 miniseries ''Gore Vidal's Lincoln'', based on the abovementioned novel.
171* Waterston was also the voice of Lincoln in Creator/KenBurns' ''The Civil War.''
172* One of Creator/JohnnyCarson's monologues on ''Series/TheTonightShow'' essentially involved puns based on "Lincoln".
173--> "Every Lincoln's Birthday reminds me of my old girlfriend back in Nebraska...Gina Statutory. She went to Lincoln High, and was voted Miss Lincoln...because every guy in school took a shot at her in the balcony."
174* A common skit in ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'' involves Conan checking out wacky (and obviously fake) channels from all around the world. One of the most memorable of these channels is the Abraham Lincoln Money Shot Channel, which is an entire channel devoted to, you guessed it, shots of Honest Abe, a-hem, finishing his business. It should be noted that Conan is a professed Lincoln fanboy and has featured Abe in a number of sketches, including one in which [[BigDamnHeroes he rides a zipline over the studio audience and knocks out John Wilkes Booth before he can shoot Lincoln]].
175* ''Series/Manhunt2024'' follows manhunt for UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth following his assassination of Lincoln in the first episode.
176* In an episode of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' [[ButtMonkey Gabe]] is mistaken for an Abe Lincoln impersonator, at first he tries to correct them but eventually he goes along with it and does a pretty decent impression.
177* The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVMeltdown Meltdown]]" features waxwork creations representing various famous people from history; one of these is Lincoln.
178* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
179** When Centauri [[DefectorFromDecadence Vir Cotto]] sets up an "underground railway" of sorts to smuggle Narns off their occupied homeworld, he creates a fake Centauri noble named "Abrahamo Lincolni" to expedite matters. The name fools the other Centauri (most of whom don't know anything about Earth history), but the humans who run across it burst out laughing. [[spoiler: This doesn't stop them, however, from using the fake identity themselves to smuggle Narns and to expedite other matters involving the Centauri, although they never expose Vir's ruse.]]
180** Sheridan's "good luck speech", which he gave to his men each time he assumed a new command, contained a quote from a noted speech given by President Lincoln to Congress in 1862.
181** In season 5, an assassin who is embittered by [[spoiler:the overthrow of the Clark government at the end of Earth's Civil War, warns Sheridan that like Lincoln, he will pay the price for the death and destruction "his war" cost.]] Unlike Booth however [[note]]who never fought against the Union during the Civil War neither was guilty of war crimes in the aforementioned war[[/note]], [[ANaziByAnyOtherName said assassin]] was complicit [[spoiler: with the Clark administration and had committed war crimes]] thus suffering from MoralMyopia.
182** After a very turbulent time in [=EarthGov=] when the previous administration was corrupt, newly inaugurated President Susanna Luchenko asks that they listen to "the better angels of our nature" in reference to Lincoln's first inaugural address when sorting through the corruption and previous administration's crimes.
183* In a skit on the SketchComedy ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'', Lincoln is presented as having been very loud and obnoxious at Ford's Theatre. When John Wilkes Boothe asks him to be quiet, Abe begins mercilessly taunting him. Boothe finally snaps and beats his ass with a hammer.
184* In ''Literature/{{Englishman}}'' it transpires that the Lincoln who was assassinated was a decoy, to cover up for the fact that he had been abducted by aliens. He makes his return and resumes his second term as President.
185* In one episode of ''Series/FatherTed'', Dougal, in a delusional state due to extreme hunger, sees Ted in a Lincoln costume.
186* A letter from Lincoln to Thomas's grandfather goes missing in the ''Series/MagnumPI'' episode "Going Home".
187* In the final episode of ''Series/TheColbertReport'', [[spoiler:after killing Death, thereby becoming immortal,]] Creator/StephenColbert rides away with [[spoiler:fellow immortals]] Abraham Lincoln, who reveals he's a unicorn with his horn hidden under his stovepipe hat, Santa Claus, and Creator/AlexTrebek.
188* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the ending of "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E17Gettysburg Gettysburg]]", the Confederate Colonel Angus Devine accidentally gets transported to the year 2013 in the middle of a parade featuring the President. Angus sees a man dressed up like Lincoln and shoots him. As he is being taken down by the Secret Service, his gun discharges and hits the President.
189* In ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', Michael mentions to Eleanor that Lincoln was the only U.S. President who got into the Good Place, as freeing the slaves earned him a ''lot'' of points.
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193* Naturally, he is the "Abraham" from Dick Holler's 1968 [[CelebrityElegy song]] "Abraham, Martin, and John" about the three slain leaders. In the final chorus, the three [[CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven are seen together "walking up over the hill"]] welcoming [[UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy Bobby Kennedy]].
194* The video for the Electric Six song "Gay Bar."
195** Because [[MemeticMutation he's gonna take you to the gay bar]].
196* In ''Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny'', he popped out of his grave, took an AK-47 out from under his hat, and blew Franchise/{{Batman}} away with a rat-a-tat-tat, but he ran out of bullets and ran away 'cause [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] [[BigDamnHeroes arrived to save the day]].
197** He soon came back with a machete, but got tripped by Franchise/IndianaJones with his whip. Later, he tried to pole-vault onto Optimus Prime, but collided with Creator/JackieChan in the air. Then they both got hit by a [[Franchise/CareBears Care Bear]] Stare.
198* Music/AaronCopland's "Lincoln Portrait" is a short orchestral work that features a narrator reciting Lincoln quotations (with the final quote naturally being the conclusion of the Gettysburg Address) over solemn accompanying music.
199-->"Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of these United States, is everlasting in the memory of his countrymen."
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203* One series of ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' strips has Rat and Pig bringing Abe Lincoln into the present day. He is ''not'' happy to learn his fate.
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207* ''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'' has a mode wherein you control a HumongousMecha version of him and fight a Big-O Martian.
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211* ''Podcast/EighteenSixtyFive'' begins shortly after Lincoln’s assassination. Lincoln also appears via flashbacks.
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215* Lincoln is a badass CursedWithAwesome [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Harrowed]] [[TheMenInBlack MIB]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}''.
216* The backstory of [[TheMenInBlack Task Force: VALKYRIE]] in ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' starts with the abduction of Abraham Lincoln by supernatural creatures in 1864. He was killed during the retrieval, and it was a substitute that took the bullet to the head in Ford's Theatre.
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220* Since the musical ''Theatre/{{Assassins}}'' deals with presidential assassinations, the Lincoln assassination is brought up, and Booth happens to be the main character of the play. Productions tend to have Lincoln's assassination scene brought up differently, like all the others- sometimes they have an actor portray him, sometimes they have the Proprietor take the role, sometimes Booth fires at a prop, and sometimes Booth just fires at the fourth wall.
221* Creator/RaymondMassey starred in the 1938 play ''Theatre/AbeLincolnInIllinois'', which was made into a popular film in 1940, with Massey reprising the role. If you ever see Massey in anything and think "that guy sounds like Abraham Lincoln", that's because the popular conception of Lincoln's molasses-like voice stems from Massey's performance.
222** Massey later reprised his role in a TV version of ''The Day Lincoln Was Shot'' and ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon''.
223* In ''Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged'', by the RuleOfFunny, the biblical Abraham comes on in a Lincoln costume and says, "Thank you, Lord, for delivering me into the Land of Canaan four score and seventeen seconds ago."
224* ''The Last Days of Lincoln'' by Mark Van Doren has Lincoln debating the future of the country, as the Civil War draws to a close, with such figures as Charles Sumner and Benjamin Franklin Wade.
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228* A giant statue of Abraham Lincoln, actually from the Memorial to said man, is the Antagonist in one of the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episodes. He appears later as merely a giant head and falls in love with one of Sam and Max's neighbours, Sybil Pandemik. [[spoiler: They later marry and have a child.]] A running gag in the series is that he claims not to be one good for speeches; he had absolutely nothing prepared when he made the Gettysburg Address, and was just winging it at the time. At one point in the second season the real Lincoln appears as a zombie.
229* ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'':
230** Lincoln is the leader of America in the first three games. He is added as a leader in an ExpansionPack for ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} 4''.
231** In the ''Beyond The Sword'' expansion pack to 4, the intro cinematic shows him briefly giving the Gettysburg Address. This then {{Match Cut}}s to the Lincoln Memorial, where UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era spies are going about their business.
232* One of the subplots of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' is the struggle between slavers and freedmen to control Lincoln's legacy. Several of his artifacts, including his hat and rifle, can be found and equipped in the game.
233* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', he was the original Pyro. And he also invented stairs, so people don't need to rocket jump to the upper floor anymore.
234* He is a playable character in ''VideoGame/TheLEGOMovieVideogame'' where he can throw a copy of the Gettysburg Address, destroying enemies and objects.
235** He also has a cameo in a picture in ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'' 3 Beyond Gotham.
236* He was added to ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsTappedOut'' to celebrate the fourth of July.
237* According to the backstory of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', Booth was killed off by the Assassin Order, implying that Lincoln may have affiliations with the Assassins himself.
238* ''VideoGame/DealtInLead'' takes place in a ''very'' [[AlternateHistory strange]] world, where the [[OurLichesAreDifferent Lich]]-[[GodEmperor Emperor]] Abraham Lincoln has risen from the dead to continue the war against the south.
239* The ending of ''VideoGame/{{Conduit 2}}'' has [[spoiler:Abe Lincoln and George Washington in PoweredArmor showing up as reinforcements for the protagonist.]]
240* In ''Videogame/BioshockInfinite'', Abraham Lincoln is demonized by the citizens of Columbia for the Emancipation Proclamation while Booth is revered as a hero for assassinating him by the Order of the Raven, a Klan-like society. In turn the opposing faction, the Vox Populi, revere Lincoln, albeit for the wrong reasons, such as seeing him as a role model for ''glorifying'' violence and conflict.
241** The most noticeable result of all this is that the Vox field [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot gatling-wielding clockwork robot Lincolns]] as EliteMooks. Which can [[CoolVsAwesome face off against the Founder's mechanical]] UsefulNotes/{{George Washington}}s.
242* In ''VideoGame/CodeNameSteam'', Lincoln had faked his death and gone underground to found S.T.E.A.M. (Strike Team Eliminating the Alien Menace), a {{steampunk}} squadron designed to repel a lovecraftian alien invasion. He also pilots a HumongousMecha called A.B.E.
243* When Mii Fighters were revealed to be playable in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'', one of the Miis used in the trailer was Abraham Lincoln.
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247* The webcomic ''[[http://www.thinkin-lincoln.com/ Thinkin' Lincoln.]]''
248* A reassembled and reanimated Lincoln puts in an appearance as the dreaded dictatorial leader of the land of Monstru, Lincolnstein, in the webcomic [[http://www.monstercommute.com/ Monster Commute]].
249* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', a FunnyBackgroundEvent is [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p28 Lincoln fighting a woolly mammoth with a chainsaw.]]
250* [[WebComic/AxeCop Abraham Lincoln:]] '''[[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_24/ EXPLOSION GOD]]'''
251* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', when Dan tries blaming the existence of [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2006-02-20 a Monday filler strip]] (instead of a story comic) on it being President's Day, Lincoln appears and berates Dan for dragging presidents into it.
252* Lincoln is an extremely powerful ghost in ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed''. And [[http://agirlandherfed.com/1.1425.html a Troper]]
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256* In ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'', Lincoln's family moved from Kentucky to New England soon after his birth, and he eventually becomes President of the Republic of New England, though the fact he is limited to a single four-year term means he doesn't achieve all he wanted in office. In an AllohistoricalAllusion, while he is in power, the rump United States is governed by President Jefferson Davis, and the two men are rivals. However, when Davis is assassinated, [[AntagonistInMourning Lincoln attends his funeral]].
257* He goes up against Creator/ChuckNorris in the ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''.
258** [[spoiler:He makes a return during the Mitt Romney vs UsefulNotes/BarackObama battle, and schools them both. "OF THE PEOPLE! BY THE PEOPLE! FOR THE PEOPLE! EAGLE!"]]
259** [[spoiler:Four years later, he returns during the UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump vs UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton battle to school both of them, appearing more serious compared to his previous appearances.]]
260* Lincoln's profile makes a brief appearance in the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' dance mix [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNcStdF_Ok Come On Fhqwhgads]].
261* The web cartoon ''[[http://icebox.com/index.php?id=show=s3 Hard Drinkin' Lincoln]]'' has a drunken Lincoln causing ridiculous amounts of trouble in office.
262* In the ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'' episode "How to Cook a VAMPIRE!", Abraham Lincoln blows off the head of Ian's vampire after he says he doesn't want it.
263* In ''Literature/UntilEveryDropOfBloodIsPaid'', Lincoln is elected to the Senate in 1854 after a pro-slavery advocate murders Lyman Trumbull. While he still becomes President in 1861, his experience with the political scene causes him to become more radicalized in his beliefs, and turns the American Civil War into a much bloodier and more radical conflict.
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267* ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Bebeskids Bebe's Kids]]'': Lincoln is one of three historical figures during a trial deciding whether Bebe's Kids are awful enough to be executed via electric chair. Lincoln is their defense attorney, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is their prosecutor, and a robot Terminator is their judge.
268* A clone of Abraham Lincoln is the main protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh''. Due to the circumstances of the series, he's best friends with Gandhi and Joan of Arc and dates Cleopatra.
269* He has a [[http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/jedi-master-george-w.html lightsaber duel with George W. Bush]] in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. He's also voiced by ''Wrestling/HulkHogan''.
270* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', in a robot mental hospital:
271-->''(Fry and another robot come upon a robotic Abraham Lincoln.)''\
272'''Fry''': Lemme guess. He thinks he's Lincoln.\
273'''Robot''': Well he's supposed to. The problem is he's got multiple personalities, ''all of them Lincoln''.\
274'''Robo-Lincoln''': I was born in 200 log cabins.
275** Not to mention Evil Holographic Lincoln, as seen when the Holoshed on the Nimbus goes on the fritz again.
276** Also, his head in a jar (and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington's) appear in a President's Day commercial for Malfunctioning Eddie's Used Cars.
277* One episode of the ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' had KidSideKick's [[TotallyRadical Wendy]], [[TheLoad Marvin]] and [[TeamPet Wonder Dog]] watching a computerized maths lesson, when the computer started malfunctioning it merged with a history lesson about Lincoln giving the equation "16 - 2 = 4 scores and 7 years ago...."
278* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has Dexter animate Lincoln's head from the Mount Rushmore memorial into a [[HumongousMecha Humongous Golem]], to do battle with the giant UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington his rival Mandark created. To make a long story short...
279--->'''Statue Lincoln:''' ''(speaking for the first time)'' "It appears we are evenly matched."
280* Appears in the ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' episode where he got fed up for being so honest and starts joining prankster gangs while calling himself [[TitleDrop 'Dishonest Abe']]. He got better.
281** Also mentioned in the Buffalo Bill episode as having apparently won the election by using the third eye he apparently hid under his hat to hypnotize his opponent.
282* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Starfire]] tells her own version of the story of Abe Lincoln [[WideEyedIdealist which ends with him and John Wilkes Booth becoming best friends and still being alive today]].
283* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. {{Cult}} leader David Blaine brought the Lincoln statue to life. Jesus and friends defeated it by building and animating a John Wilkes Boothe statue.
284** In "The List" Kyle is [[spoiler:supposedly]] voted the ugliest boy in class by the girls, and Craig (voted the handsomest) consoles him that Abraham Lincoln was ugly too. Later Abe's ghost appears to Kyle and tries to convince him that [[MiseryBuildsCharacter ugliness will make him a more competent adult]], but fails.
285* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. There was this [[Literature/TheBible Biblical joke]] about "Abraham (Lincoln) killing Isaac (the bartender from ''Series/TheLoveBoat'')."
286** Another episode showed that Booth killed him for talking on his cellphone during the play.
287*** And in another it was because he was in the seat behind him and he couldn't see the through his hat.
288** A parody of Mentos ads involved Booth shooting through his hat. Cut to the Griffins watching it, and most of them question whether the ad even ''had'' a message. Peter then stands up, and walks off while saying (as if hypnotized), "Must... kill... Lincoln...."
289** In the episode "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater", Peter finds a bunch of photos that show Lincoln, (among with other 19th century politicians) visiting a brothel. Apparently he had jungle fever.
290** In "The Man with Two Brians", he notices neighbor Dale's lawn is overgrown. Dale is pissed off at Lincoln because he freed the slave that used to mow the lawn for him.
291** Stewie refers to the Amish as "Abraham Lincoln people" in "Amish Guy".
292** Brian worries that he'll stick out while posing as Meg in "Our Idiot Brian", like the one guy in Lincoln's cabinet without a beard.
293** His body appears in a cutaway parodying ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' where Jack decides to take over the fourth of July instead of Christmas.
294** He appeared in "Yug Ylimaf" when Brian took a date to Ford's Theatre during the assassination. afterwards [[Franchise/TheMuppets Statler and Waldorf]] appeared but when Statler cracks one of his remarks, he is also shot in the head.
295* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
296** In [[Recap/AdventureTimePilot the pilot]], Abraham Lincoln transports Finn/Pen's mind back in time. And to Mars.
297** Lincoln appears in the series as a MythologyGag. In "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS4E15SonsOfMars Sons of Mars]]", Abraham Lincoln is the King of Mars, whom [[KidHero Finn]] refers to as "the wisest, most honest superbeing of all time." [[spoiler:He accidentally kills [[NonHumanSidekick Jake]], mistaking him for [[ForTheEvulz Magic Man]], and then revives him by [[HeroicSacrifice surrendering his immortality]] to [[TheGrimReaper Death]], which [[TakenForGranite turns him into the Lincoln Memorial]].]]
298* He is indirectly the center of two ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episodes.
299** "Black Mystery Month" revealed he invented peanut butter and there is an [[TheIlluminati Illuminatiesque]] organisation dedicated to covering it up, to keep the myth that George Washington Carver invented it alive.
300** In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS3E4LincolnLover Lincoln Lover]]", Stan creates the eponymous play based on the relationship between Lincoln and his bodyguard Captain David Derikson. Missing the obvious homoerotic undertones of his own work (and that the sold out audiences consist entirely of gay men), Stan is shocked to discover the Log Cabin Republicans[[note]] a real life group that pushes for gay inclusion within the GOP[[/note]] believe Lincoln was gay and that they want Stan's help in getting accepted into the Republican National Convention.
301* In the first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', it's revealed that Rick combined the DNA of Lincoln and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in an attempt to create a morally neutral super leader. The result is named Abradolf Lincler and he is an awkward being of ambiguous moral standings.
302** In [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E10TheRickchurianMortydate The Rickchurian Mortydate]], it's revealed that [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Lincoln kept a slave colosseum]] underneath the White House, with President Curtis (a black man) bitterly noting that he ''didn't'' free them all.
303** In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS4E5RattlestarRicklactica Rattlestar Ricklactica]]", we visit a snake planet where snake Lincoln dodges his assassination by getting a hint from a time traveler.
304* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
305** The HalloweenEpisode "How To Succeed In Dead-vertising" implied he was gay.
306** "Bart to the Future" is based around a vision Bart has where, thirty years down the road, Lisa is president. Living with her in the White House, Homer becomes obsessed with finding the treasure Lincoln supposedly buried on the grounds.
307** In "Mountain of Madness", Homer and Mr. Burns are trapped in a snowed-in cabin, succumbing to CabinFever. Before fighting, Homer asks "{{You and what army}}?", before imagining an army of snowmen behind Burns, prompting him to say "Stay back, I have powers! Uh, political powers!", imagining various political leaders including Lincoln, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt and UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi behind him.
308-->'''Lincoln:''' (''swinging a chain'') IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT'S SHOWTIME!
309** Bart once saw him in an ImagineSpot where he was [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer sailing down the Mississippi River on a raft with Huckleberry Finn]] when Bart asked what Abe Lincoln was doing there he replied, "I dunno, your daydream."
310** In a later episode Homer had an imagine spot where he saved his life by knocking out John Wilkes Booth then later they teamed up to save Kennedy.
311-->'''Homer:''' You hit him high, I'll hit him low.
312** A rapping animatronic Abe Lincoln appeared at "Duff Gardens."
313** In "The Color Yellow" he appeared to help an escaped black slave [[spoiler:who was a direct ancestor of the Simpsons]] escape to Canada, he eventually named his son after him who's name was passed on to [[spoiler:Abe "Grampa" Simpson.]]
314** Homer once claimed he thought there was a midget in his hat.
315* Lincoln appeared in a picture in every single ending credits for ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', inexplicably lighting a wooden rocket that the protagonists are riding in. This is expanded in the fictitious backstory that Shake provided for the group in TheMovie, where this incarnation of Lincoln is known as "Time Lincoln," who aided the heroes after they escaped from Egypt.
316* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' meet Lincoln's ghost, who then helps them thwart a [[Literature/TheManchurianCandidate Manchurian Candidate-style]] assassination plot against the current president.
317* Peter Renaday has voiced Lincoln in several different cartoons as well as Ride/DisneyThemeParks:
318** In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' where, after he signed their autograph book, the Warner siblings helped him to compose the Gettysburg Address.
319** He is still the President in both ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.
320** The SeriesFinale of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', whose ColdOpening has Batman and a parallel universe's Lincoln teaming up to defeat a steampunk cyborg John Wilkes Booth.
321* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipujWRYUjS4 A Brief History of the United States of America]]'' by Flickerlab's Harold Moss, when the Union wins the Civil War, the freed slaves give Lincoln a blanket toss in celebration.
322* Stalemated UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch.''
323* ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' once got a talking sword that had the power of TimeTravel. The sword ordered Jim to test it by going back into Lincoln's time and shave his beard. The sword believed the only change it'd cause would be the beard disappearing from the coins bearing Lincoln's face. Instead, it destroyed Lincoln's credibility and created a timeline where the Confederacy won. The sword angrily told Jim to get back and restore Lincoln's beard.
324* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', the Brain, knowing that Americans crave an honest politician, devises a scheme that involves using a mechanism to speak through the Lincoln Memorial and convince everyone that Lincoln's spirit has returned and is living inside it. His plan works until the oldest living American, who heard Lincoln make a speech when he was five years old, hears the Brain talk, and realizes [[SpotTheImposter that it isn't Lincoln's voice]]. (The man claims that "the real Lincoln had a raspy voice... well, more like Creator/TonyDanza".) It should be noted Lincoln's voice was described as being a little shrill and high, so it is slightly accurate.
325* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': In "I Am Abraham Lincoln", the gang visits Abe when he was a kid and learn about the value of honesty. The plot has a book that Abe borrowed get ruined by the rain. He tells the truth about it to Mr. Crawford, who makes him strip corn for three days. This actually happened in real life.
326* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'', Scratch encounters Lincoln's ghost at one point to help Molly when she almost flounders a school presentation on him. He's voiced by Creator/KelseyGrammer.
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329''[[{{WebAnimation/Oversimplified}} You're about to get a roundhouse to the face]]''

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