Line #23 Webcomic/FrederickTheGreat


1	''Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy Breaching Time and Space'' is a webcomic about the 18th Century Prussian monarch UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat. Except he's a time traveler with the personality of a giggling schoolgirl. And he travels with UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton, UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat, and UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, fighting [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade just about everybody]].
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3	As you can tell, this is not exactly a ''sane'' comic. Much of the humour comes from [[HistoricalHilarity juxtaposing various historical figures into increasingly bizarre situations]], such as making Isaac Newton a literal math wizard, making Creator/SalvadorDali into a supervillain attempting to destroy all rationality, Creator/EmilyDickinson as a Goth ninja, and so on. There's a lot of very obscure jokes, but the 'Gentlemen Scholars' (as the comic's creators, one Count Dolby von Luckner and one Geoff like to call themselves) post lots of handy historical background in TheRant.
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5	Highly recommended for history buffs and fans of absurd humour.
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7	Can be found [[http://www.ftg-comic.com here]].
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10	!! This webcomic provides examples of:
11	* AlternateHistory: The heroes' actions seem to be resulting in this.
12	* AMillionIsAStatistic: PlayedForLaughs with Peter the Great. His idea of enlightened rule is the mass slaughter of serfs.
13	* ArtEvolution: An extreme example. The current art, while still rather simplistic, is exponentially better than the early episodes.
14	* BadassBookworm: Scientists and mathematicians makes up a good section of the cast. Given the nature of the comic, they tend to be incredibly powerful.
15	* BerserkButton: For Newton, mentioning Leibniz (or Euler, for that matter) will send him into a fury.
16	* BigBad: Either Ethan Allen, UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge or [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Possibility]]. It's hard to tell at this point.
17	* TheBigGuy: Peter the Great
18	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: [[ColorCodedWizardry Mathematicians]] and dimensional personifications are identified by colors (Time is turquoise, Newton and Space are green, Euler and the Eigenpower are gold, etc.). What it means for two people to have the same color has not yet been clarified.
19	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The early arcs were even stranger than the current ones (Frederick Douglass creating a transcendentalist monster by sewing together Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, anyone?). Also, pigs make multiple appearances in the Loyola arc, but it has been hinted that the reason for this will be explained at some point in the future.
20	* EldritchAbomination: Picasso briefly becomes one. Also, it turns out that [[spoiler:W. S. Gilbert]] worships these.
21	* EternalEnglish: Somewhat justified - Noam Chomsky intervened at the Tower of Babel, ensuring that everyone in all time periods speaks English. [[InSpiteOfANail This has had remarkably little effect on history.]]
22	* {{Foreshadowing}}: A Leibnizbot standing over Sans Souci appeared briefly in a montage from 2010, four years before its formal introduction.
23	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Abraham Lincoln learned how to talk to animals from the Literature/BabaYaga.
24	* GargleBlaster: The Dirty Charlemagne, consisting of Chianti, rhino horn dust, and mercury. Extra opiates makes it a Dirtier Charlemagne.
25	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Ethan Allen.
26	* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Subverted, for the most part. Despite having many historical figures as protagonists, the majority of the cast are really quite terrible people.
27	* HistoricalHilarity: Built into the premise
28	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: W.S. Gilbert, Marie Antoinette, Salvador Dali - is there anyone in this comic this ''hasn't'' happened to?
29	* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the massive changes done to the timeline, famous people still tend to be born at the right times.
30	* JerkAss: Everyone, with the possible exception of Abe Lincoln.
31	* KnightTemplar: UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge
32	* NewAgeRetroHippie: Ignatius of Loyola, of all people.
33	* OnlySaneMan:
34	** Isaac Newton, or so he feels most of the time. But he too can succumb to megalomania.
35	** UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln is probably a straighter example of this being the most normal person on the team.
36	* RetGone: Paul-Henri Delaflote used to be a very important scientist, but was erased from history
37	* SealedEvilInACan: UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge, almost literally.
38	* ShipTease:UsefulNotes/EmilyDickinson and Leonhard Euler get one in the 2016 Valentine's special.
39	* ShoutOut: Several:
40	** The 'future' arc is admittedly inspired by ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
41	** The same arc features a direct reference to ''Literature/EndersGame''.
42	** Joseph Campbell shows up wielding a lightsaber. This is a reference to his influence on Creator/GeorgeLucas during the writing of ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]''.
43	** After fixing the rockets on Frederick's robot, Wernher von Braun answers an American soldier's question of the robot's destination with [[Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas "Once the robot is up, who cares where it comes down? That's not my department."]]
44	* StableTimeLoop: The 'future' arc.
45	* SuperpoweredAlterEgo: Abraham Lincoln can become ''Flaverham'' Lincoln, a mighty juggernaut powered by pure ''funk''.
46	* TakeThat: Napoleon, an avowed fan of TheEmpire from ''Franchise/StarWars'', suffers a psychotic breakdown when he sees them defeated by the Ewoks.
47	** The Gentlemen Scholars (or at least the Count) don't have a very favorable opinion on Carl Jung or his work. To their credit, this dislike doesn't really show that much in the comic (Jung's JerkAss tendencies aren't any worse than anyone else's in the comic), but TheRant for those strips was incredibly vitriolic.
48	* TimeyWimeyBall: It's a time travel comic. This is to be expected.
49	* Tsundere: Isaac Newton and Wehrner von Braun are this to each other.
50	* ViewersAreGeniuses: Many of the jokes require a lot of historical knowledge. Usually the Gentlemen Scholars are kind enough to provide helpful information in TheRant.
51	* VillainByDefault: Averted. For an historical comic, 'classic' historical baddies such as UsefulNotes/JosefStalin and ThoseWackyNazis have yet to show up, in favor of more bizarre antagonists like Ethan Allen and Pablo Picasso.
52	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Peter the Great rarely has a shirt on
53	* WestCoastTeam: More accurately, EasternCivilizationTeam. Frederick's euro-centric team has a significantly more competent Eastern counterpart, led by Nader Shah. They don't get on very well.
54	* WorldOfBadass: Indeed.
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