Line #99 UsefulNotes/Boudica


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:A statue of Boudica [[{{Irony}} surveying a city whose ancient settlement she burnt to the ground]].]]
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4	->''When in London next, take a trip to the London Museum and have a look at the striped piece of rock that represents a geological section of the ground beneath the city. Running through it is a stripe of blackness a half-inch thick, this being the result of Boudica's burning rage. In my experience, when men get cross, they may at worst leave a dent in the side of the fridge. Heed and take note.''
5	-->-- '''Creator/AlanMoore''', ''ComicBook/FromHell''
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7	''Boudica'' (or Boudicca, Boadicea, or Buddug) was a queen of the Iceni, a tribe resident somewhere around modern [[UsefulNotes/HomeCounties Essex]] (or [[UsefulNotes/EastAnglia Norfolk]]) in [[UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom Britannia]], at the time of the early [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Empire]], and is most famous for leading a rebellion during UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}'s reign, razing Colchester and UsefulNotes/{{Lond\|on}}inium and making Nero briefly think twice about the whole "Roman Britain" thing, until she was defeated in about 60-61AD somewhere along the Roman road now called Watling Street, whereupon she either died of illness or committed suicide, DependingOnTheWriter.
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9	Her motivations for her uprising originate from the politics of the Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Claudius}}'s time, where her husband, Prasutagus the king of the Iceni, nominally retained his independence in a period where Rome was trying to consolidate his rule over Britain. Prasutagus decided to placate Rome by naming the Emperor heir to his lands (he had two daughters and no son.) This spectacularly backfired, as the Romans ignored his will and instead ordered the local governor Catus Decianus to invade the Iceni lands, confiscate their property, then [[ATasteOfTheLash flog Boudica]] and [[RapeAsDrama rape her daughters]]. It seems that even Roman chroniclers are unsure of what moved Rome to act like that, with several versions floating around; it is traditionally claimed that Creator/{{Seneca}} was the originator, as he supposedly had loaned the Iceni 300,000,000 sesterces that they did not even want and then had them recalled with interests, [[note]]Take this with a grain of salt, though, as much of what we know about Seneca's shenanigans comes from enemies that had all the reasons to try to paint him as a Roman [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mr. Burns]]. Even if it was true, Seneca never set foot in Britannia, so it is definitely possible that his orders to recall the loan were twisted and exploited by Decianus or the local Roman elite to take over the land.[[/note]] but it was also claimed that it was rather Emperor Claudius himself who had loaned the money, and other sources imply Decianus was too greedy and did the misdeed because he could.
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11	In any case, this did not end well for Roman Britain.
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13	What followed was a RoaringRampageOfRevenge comparable to UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan's ravage of the Khwarezmid Empire (because the latter killed his messengers). Boudica was elected leader of a massive coalition of British tribes and first headed to Camulodunum (modern Colchester, and commonly cited candidate for [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Camelot]]). The city's defenders asked for reinforcements... [[CavalryBetrayal and got about 200 auxiliaries]]. The rebels stormed the city and methodically destroyed the entire place; killing every [[VulnerableCivilians man]], [[DisposableWoman woman]], [[WouldHurtAChild child]], and slave in the city before burning it to the ground (a large layer of ash is buried beneath the city even to this day). Other reinforcements (an entire legion, IX "Hispania") were also wiped off the face of the Earth, contributing to the legend of the "Lost Legion". The rebels next turned to Londinium (modern London). The Roman Governor Suetonius raced back there from Wales before its fall but judged he lacked the strength to defend it. [[ShootTheDog He and his men left the city]], [[WarRefugees but not before evacuating as many of the civilians as they could]]. When the Iceni reached Londinium, they destroyed it, whereupon another great massacre (of both the Romans and Romanised Britons who remained in the city) ensued. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Verulamium (modern St. Albans) was destroyed, too.]]
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15	According to Cassius Dio and Tacitus, people were [[DeadGuyOnDisplay carved up and displayed]] in a variety of incredibly creative fashions - the noblewomen in particular were [[DecapitationPresentation beheaded]] with [[BreastAttack their breasts cut off]] and [[BodyHorror sewn to their mouths]]. While historians agree that the three massacres took place, there is debate as to whether or not torture of this nature was present. Additionally, it is unknown whether or not Boudica ordered these atrocities, refused to prevent them, or was simply unable to keep her soldiers in line. Though most modern documentaries and fictional depictions of Boudica's Rebellion assume that she directly ordered them. [[note]]It is also worth noting that in the ancient world actions of this nature were more common. While that doesn't excuse them, or mean that people in the past weren't upset by them, it does mean they weren't abnormal.[[/note]]
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17	As per the accounts by [[UnreliableNarrator Cassius Dio and Tacitus]] [[note]] We unfortunately only have Roman accounts for what happened. This is due to the Britons not having written language at this time[[/note]], the Romans started to take this threat seriously. The Roman Governor UsefulNotes/SuetoniusPaulinus rallied his remaining troops to HoldTheLine somewhere along Watling Street and foiled Boudica's AttackAttackAttack tactics by methodically forming a shield-wall [[GeoEffects with a forest behind them and a gorge at their sides]] and killing the first to charge with thrown javelins, then pressing on the British lines with a wedge-shaped charge. They apparently outnumbered the Romans 200 to 1, but even taking into account how Romans loved to exaggerate their numbers to make their defenses and victories look even more impressive, most agree that the Romans defeated a numerically superior army with their standard discipline and shield wall formation. The Iceni were broke and routed, and when the Britons attempted to flee, they got trapped by their own logistics train, and the rebellion was slaughtered there and then. As mentioned above, Boudica died shortly afterwards in unclear circumstances (she might have been DrivenToSuicide or she might have been killed in the fighting). Following the rebellion, Suetonius and pretty much every Roman politician stationed in Britain were recalled to Rome, stripped of their positions to prevent them from provoking another revolt, and replaced by [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure more diplomatic]] politicians who got the remaining natives to submit by [[PetTheDog treating them better]]. All told, her rebellion left between 70,000 and 80,000 Romans and Britons dead.
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19	She was forgotten by Main/TheMiddleAges, but the rediscovery of Roman histories during the Renaissance led to her fame rising, surging massively in the reign of UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, who was her apparent namesake in meaning ("Boudica" is said to derive from *''boudā'' (victor)). She benefited greatly from the Romantic revival where the drive for folklore and native traditions led many to revisit their Celtic past and reclaim Boudica as a founder-precursor for British might and resolve. The Romantics naturally saw her as a female ByronicHero, proud, fierce, driven to violence by an unjust society, and doomed by a tragic fate. The emerging suffragette and feminist movement saw her as a victim of appalling abuse striking back against her oppressors, and they and later writers claimed her as a hero and an icon of women, proof that the latter can be MoreDeadlyThanTheMale. This undoubtedly says more about the recent past than it does about Ancient Britain, and the victims of the three massacres tend to either be forgotten or ignored.
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21	Likewise, at the time, the British had become an empire far vaster and wealthier than the Romans could ever fathom, and modern historians comment on the irony of a bronze statue of a victim and opponent of Roman Imperialism such as the statue of her and her daughters in Neoclassical style that now overlooks Westminster -- slap bang in the middle of the city she and her forces razed and burned to the ground -- erected by her latter-day descendants and SpiritualSuccessor who had themselves become oppressors and colonizers. Many note that Queen Boudica would have had far more in common with Rani of Jhansi of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 than she would with her namesake Victoria. Victorians however felt that they, as Boudicca's descendants had avenged her death and defeat. The inscription on her plinth is: ''Regions Caesar never knew /Thy posterity shall sway.''
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23	!!Tropes as portrayed in fiction:
24	* ActionGirl: Usually portrayed as one, although there's no evidence she was personally involved in combat.
25	* AttackAttackAttack: Sadly (for her), Boudica's forces were short on tactics and were defeated once Rome stopped to consolidate its forces logically.
26	* BittersweetEnding: In the long run. Boudica and her fellow rebels (and their families) got slaughtered, her culture got subsumed, foreigners would rule her country up until the present day (the current rulers being the descendants of a combination of Angles, Saxons, and Normans), and she would be used as a symbol of the things she hated (she became popular in Britain when it was becoming an oppressive Empire in its own right). However, the men who provoked the rebellion in the first place (along with the governor who suppressed it) were recalled to Rome and stripped of their positions [[PragmaticVillainy to keep them from provoking another rebellion.]] They were then replaced by two [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure more diplomatic governors]] who rebuilt the cities that Boudica destroyed and got the remaining natives to submit and assimilate [[PetTheDog by treating them better.]]
27	* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While Boudica was right to rebel against the Romans (some soldiers tortured her and her daughters), the Romans also had every right to fear her because of her total destruction of three Romano-British cities via RevengeByProxy.
28	* ByronicHero: The Romantics and the Victorians saw her as a rare female example of this.
29	* CategoryTraitor: According to Dio, the rebels didn't differentiate between Romans and Britons living in Roman settlements, or even between slaves and free people. They killed them all.
30	* CrackDefeat: Roman sources ''claimed'' Boudica pretty much suffered one, though it's pretty likely that the numerical disparity was definitely exaggerated to some sort of degree, and along with [[GeoEffects the stated terrain]] and that the Iceni were [[WithThisHerring said to be poorly-equipped]], it's more explainable why the rebellion lost then and there.
31	* CreateYourOwnHero / CreateYourOwnVillain: Regardless of the actions Boudica committed, this doesn't change the fact that the Romans directly provoked her to take action against them. Even Tacitus and Dio acknowledge this.
32	* CycleOfRevenge: First Roman Soldiers flogged Boudica and raped her daughters, so, in response, she took revenge by leading a rebellion that destroyed three Roman cities. The Romans then took revenge by wiping out her Rebel Army at Watling Street and launching punitive actions against the rebel tribes. Before this cycle could continue further, the Roman Governor was removed from his post and replaced with a more diplomatic one.
33	* DrivenToSuicide: One possible cause of her death.
34	* FieryRedhead: Often depicted as one, possibly even being the Trope Codifier
35	* FinalSolution: What her army did to Camulodunum, Londinium, and Verulamium. Whether or not she ordered or permitted this is unknown.
36	* FutureImperfect: Very little is known about her, most of it having been lost to history. We don't know how she felt about the massacres her armies committed (whether she ordered them, permitted them, or was powerless to prevent them), nor do we know how she died (it might have been suicide, it might have been death in battle, it might even have been illness), nor do we know anything about her life before the rebellion other than that she was married to the Iceni King and that she had two daughters. The only sources we have are archeological records of her rebellion (such as the destruction layers under the cities her army massacred) and writings by Tacitus and Cassius Dio (whose reliability is somewhat debated). The location of the Battle of Watling Street isn't even sure - the name for it is just one, though prevalent, guess to the whereabouts of it from a very long road.
37	* GeoEffects: With a forest behind the Romans to slow approaches to their rear, the sides of a gorge to protect their flanks, and an open plain before them forcing Boudica's army to approach them in clear view, Boudica's numbers wouldn't have been able to be effectively exploited in the climatic Battle of Watling Street.
38	* HereWeGoAgain: Boudica's Rebellion is actually the second time the Iceni revolted against Roman Rule. The first time was in 43 AD, when Governor Publius Ostorius Scapula threatened to take their weapons away. [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Emperor Claudius]] prevented any punitive measures from being conducted after the revolt was suppressed, having decided that Scapula was to blame.
39	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: At least after her 16th-century re-emergence.
40	* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Most stories following Boudica's rebellion paint her as a freedom-fighting RebelLeader. That her army mass-murdered three cities is usually either glossed over or otherwise treated as a heroic and glorious action of an underdog. Usually paired with a HistoricalVillainUpgrade for her opponent, the Roman Governor who ultimately defeated her.
41	* HollywoodTactics: Charging ''en masse'' and surrounding the rear of the army with the baggage train were typical British practices, which didn't work too well against Rome's MightyGlacier turtle formation. That being said, [[GeoEffects the terrain rather prevented anything more elegant]].
42	* {{Irony}}: She became a symbol of British nationalism by the time the country was irreversibly shaped by Roman influence and when it was expanding to rule a quarter of the world's surface (becoming a bigger Empire than Rome ever was), and her statue overlooks London, the city she massacred.
43	* LadyOfWar: The modern codifier in Britain, at least.
44	* LesCollaborateurs: Prior to the rebellion, the Iceni were a Client Kingdom of the Romans. She and her husband Prasutagus were both technically Roman Citizens, and the latter might have even been installed by the Romans.
45	* LongHairIsFeminine: Cassius Dio makes a point of noting her hair reached down to her waist. It should be noted that most Celtic and Gaelic cultures tended to grow their hair long, regardless of gender, (to the point that, before all of Gaul was conquered, the unconquered parts were called Gallia Comata, meaning "long-haired Gaul") making this description of her not improbable in absence of other sources.
46	* MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat: Part of the reason why she and her army targeted Camulodunum first; the Romans living there built a Temple to Emperor Claudius (the Emperor who first conquered Britain) and forced the local natives to build and defend it. After her defeat the Roman Emperor would build one to honor in Rome the person who defeated her, and the one in Camulodunum would be rebuilt (along with the cities her army destroyed).
47	* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: The ultimate goal of the Iceni rebellion. They failed miserably, to the point where these occupiers would stay in their country for centuries to come before being replaced by [[UsefulNotes/AngloSaxons more occupiers]], and [[Literature/RagnarLodbrokAndHisSons more occupiers]], and [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy even more occupiers]].
48	* RapeAndRevenge: Her daughters being raped is the main cause of her rebellion.
49	* RapeAsDrama: Not her, but her daughters. Nonetheless, it was one of many motivations of the rebellion.
50	* RevengeByProxy: The civilians in the Camulodunum, Londinium, and Verulamium had nothing to do with Boudica being flogged or her daughters being raped, yet her army (possibly on her orders or permission) mass-murdered them all anyway. On the other end of it, after the Roman Soldiers defeated her army at Watling Street they killed the families of the Iceni Warriors despite said families having nothing to do with the massacres.
51	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: See above about the whole boob-sewing thing, and the massacres that her army carried out. Also, see WouldHurtAChild below.
52	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: One of the most defining examples in history. There's a reason why the Romantics loved her since elaborate self-destructive revenge schemes fit their aesthetic well.
53	* RousingSpeech: The one attributed to her by Tacitus before the final battle at Watling Bridge.
54	-->'''Boudica''': ''But now, it is not as a woman descended from noble ancestry, but as one of the people that I am avenging lost freedom, my scourged, and marked body, the outraged chastity of my daughters. Roman lust has gone so far that not our very person, nor even age or virginity, are left unpolluted. But heaven is on the side of a righteous vengeance; a legion which dared to fight has perished; the rest are hiding themselves in their camp, or are thinking anxiously of flight. They will not sustain even the din and the shout of so many thousands, much less our charge and our blows. If you weigh well the strength of the armies, and the causes of the war, you will see that in this battle you must conquer or die. This is a woman's resolve; as for men, they may live and be slaves, and captive.''
55	* SoldierVsWarrior: Boudica and her Iceni and Trinovante Tribal Warriors vs Suetonius and his Roman Legionary Soldiers. The soldiers won.
56	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name has been Romanised and Anglicised in a number of fashions, and her first reappearance in literature has her name rendered as [[VampireVords Voadicea]].
57	* SpikedWheels: TropeNamer in Britain, although there's no evidence that her chariots used Scythian-style spikes.
58	* ATasteOfTheLash: Dealt unto her by Romans. She got off slightly easier than her daughters (see below).
59	* UnreliableNarrator: Apart from archaeological remains, the primary sources on Boudica are Cassius Dio and Tacitus. On one hand they were far from Imperial lapdogs and in fact were often critical of both the Roman government and Roman society as a whole, but on the other hands being Roman must have at least partially biased their view of the matters. Additionally, both of them were known to exaggerate details to make their writing more popular, and neither were actually present in the rebellion. It should also be noted that one of the Roman commanders at Watling Street, Julius Agricola (who would become Governor of Britain) was Tacitus's father-in-law, so he had both a first-hand account to draw on and reason to boost Agricola's reputation.
60	** To make matters worse with Dio's account, we don't actually have a full copy of it anymore. All we know about it comes from an epitome, or condensed version, written by a later author, so we have to deal with both Dio's bias and the later author's bias.
61	* WouldHurtAChild: When Boudica's army massacred the three Roman Cities in Britain, they killed '''EVERY''' civilian in those cities, including the children. To repeat, Boudica's soldiers '''killed children'''.
62	* WouldNotShootACivilian: Averted. Boudica's rebels would and did shoot civilians. Tens of thousands of them, in fact.
63	* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Was Boudica a heroic Queen leading LaResistance in a noble cause, or was she an AxCrazy murderer on a quest to sate her own bloodlust? Virtually all historians agree that her army massacred three large cities, though it is unknown if she ordered or permitted this. Even historians who believe that she did order these massacres still argue as to whether or not they can be justified.
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70	* The Franchise/GreenLantern Corpswoman [[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps Boodikka]], who appears in ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'', is named after her.
71	* She briefly appears in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. In ''The Black Dossier'', Orlando has a section narrating his past in Roman Britain, which includes being a witness to Boudicca's uprising. Later, when he arrives at King's Cross, he remarks that more than a thousand plus years ago, it was the site of the Battle of Watling Street.
72	* ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Queen Boudica is a major character in the first arc that details her war against Rome, although both the Britons and the Romans have access to sorcerous powers. She's undefeated up until the massacres happen and dies requesting Aquila say her name when he kills Nero. [[spoiler:Aquila grants her wish.]]
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76	* ''Boadicea'' (1927), portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry.
77	* ''The Viking Queen'' (1967), a BroadStrokes adaptation.
78	* ''Boudica'' (2003), portrayed by Creator/AlexKingston.
79	* ''Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen'' (2019), portrayed by Ella Peel.
80	* ''Boudica: Queen of War'' (2023), portrayed by Creator/OlgaKurylenko.
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84	* ''Literature/KellyTheRomanWarrior II - The Plauges of Gaul'' features Boudica as one of the main characters, forming an unlikely alliance ([[spoiler: and queer romance]]) with Kelly, the daughter of "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Ceaser]]", to deal with the threat of the plague, which threatens both of their peoples.
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88	* Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco, the protagonist of Lindsey Davis's novels, served in the Legio II Augusta during the rebellion.
89	* ''Literature/SongForADarkQueen'', a historical novel by Creator/RosemarySutcliff.
90	* In ''Boudicca: Guilty or Innocent? (The Timewarp Trials)'', Boudica is made to stand trial for the massacre of Camulodunum. A prosecutor presents evidence and witnesses against her, then she makes a defence. The reader is a member of the jury.
91	* The ''Boudica Quadrilogy'', a series of novels by Manda Scott.
92	* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/RuledBritannia'', none other than Creator/WilliamShakespeare writes a highly-sympathetic version of her story, in hopes of inspiring Englishmen to [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry rally against their latest occupiers]], the Spanish.
93	* ''A Year of Ravens'' (2015), a RoundRobin novel centered around the revolt, composed by a series of British historical fiction authors.
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97	* The examination of her tomb is the focus of an infamous ''Series/{{Bonekickers}}'' episode.
98	* Appeared on ''Series/HorribleHistories'' where she was played Martha Howe Douglas and had her own episode titled "Bolshy Boudica" while being played by Lorna Watson.
99	* She appeared in the episode [[Recap/XenaS03E04TheDeliverer "The Deliverer"]] of ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', complete with BreastPlate. Her conflict with Rome is [[ArtisticLicenceHistory backdated by over 100 years]] to UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar and ''[[LandmarkOfLore Stonehenge]]'' [[HistoricalInJoke is formed as a result of that episode's events]].
100	* She appeared in Creator/TheHistoryChannel's ''Series/BarbariansRising'', played by Kirsty Mitchell. The reenactment portions of the episode have her and her daughters slain at Watling Street; however, the website for the series notes Tacitus' account that [[CyanidePill she took poison to avoid capture]]. The series also acknowledges a few of her own atrocities, though it doesn't dwell on this very long.
101	* In ''Series/HistoryBites'', her story is depicted as a parody of ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', thus reinterpreting Boudica as turning violence against women into [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale violence]] ''[[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale by]]'' [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale women]].
102	* In ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode set during the time of Ancient Rome, the RunningGag of Tim Brooke-Taylor's enthusiasm for the Royal Family continues, only this time the Queen he's referring to is Boudica.
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107	* Music/{{Enya}} recorded the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O_yPWBn5Hw "Boadicea"]] about her.
108	* Indie Folk singer Karliene recorded the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea1Tw4mwX7s "Boudica"]] about her.
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112	* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' made an audio play ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoFDAS1E3TheWrathOfTheIceni The Wrath of the Iceni]]'', with Creator/TomBaker as the Doctor.
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116	* She appears as the leader of the Celtic tribe in some of the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' entries.
117	* She appears in a [[ArtisticLicenceHistory heavily fictionalised version]] of her rebellion which somehow is as far north as Eboracum (York) and also somehow employs WarElephants in ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome''. The rebellion also somehow makes it all the way to ''Italy'' to threaten ''Rome'' even though her actual rebellion couldn't even get past the governor's army in Britain.
118	* A tutorial level in ''VideoGame/RiseOfNations'' has the player playing as Boudica during the early part of her rebellion.
119	* ''VideoGame/{{Imperivm}} III'' includes a mission protagonized by Boudica (here called Boadicea).
120	* She appears as a Rider-class Servant in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' and is a direct ally in the Rome Singularity. Curiously, this depiction of Boudica paints her less as a wrathful queen and more like a CoolBigSis, explicitly stated to be her before the whole RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Her Noble Phantasm, her chariot, doesn't damage the enemy but provides [[StatusBuff defense and offense buffs to the party]]. She even spends the Rome Singularity fighting as a general in ''Rome's'' army, and this contrast is commented by both the protagonists and her leader UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, who still remembers her but years earlier as TheDreaded ([[GenderFlip Nero]] doesn't realize she's actually dead and a Servant for most of the arc). Boudica herself states that her grudge remains, but [[EnemyMine the United Roman Empire they're fighting is much worse]]. She even possesses a skill [[SituationalSword that lets her do more damage to enemies that have the "Roman" trait]], particularly useful considering most of the enemy Servants in the Singularity are former [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman Roman emperors]].
121	* In ''Franchise/DragonAge'', the local [[CrystalDragonJesus Christ equivalent figure]] and basis of the main religion, has a life and history that is clearly modeled in part on Boudica (with a bit of UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc as well): she united the Ferelden clans (a FantasyCounterpartCulture for pre-Norman Britain, both Saxon and Celtic) against [[TheEmpire The Tevinter Imperium]] (who bear a close resemblance to Rome), but was betrayed by her most trusted ally and burned at the stake (the Joan of Arc connection). To make the Boudica connection clear, her name, Andraste, comes from the Iceni war goddess that, according to Roman historians, Boudica herself invoked before the battle.
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125	* She appears in animated form in Series/AdamRuinsEverything "Reanimated History" episodes. Much like other examples, her less savory acts go almost completely unmentioned, and the episode goes the route of the "heroic freedom fighter" depiction. It goes so far as to frame her attacks on the Roman cities liberations.
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