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[-[[caption-width-right:348:With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. [[note]] [[http://www.ravenmimura.com/gallery_item.php?id=234 Image]] by [[http://www.ravenmimura.com/ Raven Mimura [[/note]]]] ]]-]

->''"Conquering the world on horseback is easy. It is dismounting and governing that is hard."''

Want to know why you [[Film/ThePrincessBride never get involved in a land war in Asia]]? Genghis Khan[[note]]"Chinggis Haan" is a closer pronunciation of his name, primarily due to the fact that Mongolian and many Turkic dialects don't have a hard "c" sound, but generations of English-speakers have pronounced it "Genghis Khan" thanks to an incorrect translation of Persian, so "toe-may-tow/t'-mah-toe". However, the Chinese transliteration of his name is rather accurate: "Chengjisi Han" (成吉思 汗)。[[/note]] (circa 1162 – August 18, 1227), birth name Temüjin Borjigin, is why.

Undoubtedly one of the greatest conquerors who ever lived, this guy did the impossible. He united the UsefulNotes/{{Mongol|ia}}s. After accomplishing that, he began the conquest of the rest of Asia, then expanding westwards until his armies clashed with both Muslim and Christian forces. The military strategy and laws he laid down allowed the [[FamilyBusiness next generation to expand the empire]]. During the height of the Mongol conquests, the Mongol armies reached all the way to Austria in Europe and Egypt in North Africa. When the dust settled, the Mongol Empire ruled over 17% of all land on earth, from Ukraine to Korea, and just about everything in between, forming the largest contiguous land empire in history. At its height, over 100 million people were subject to the Mongol Empire, which the core population, that being the Mongols themselves, only ever numbered to approximately one million. He and his people were [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxPar0BcMo truly]] [[WebVideo/CrashCourse exceptional]].

He's mentioned far more in Chinese and ''especially'' Central Asian stories and culture than in Western Europe; the latter was spared much of his wrath, save for sporadic raids that begin in the 1240s. In Western European (and by extension North American) culture, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation he is either shown as]] a tolerant and just ruler who helped bring order in a chaotic period, or as a [[BarbarianTribe ruthless barbarian who slaughtered swathes of innocents for personal gain]]. While it's easy to cherry-pick his deeds to make him look unambiguously like one or the other, the truth is a mixture of the two. He was a revolutionary conqueror in Asia for the time in that he allowed almost total freedom of religion, did not impose on the cultures of the defeated, and established a vast and effective trade and postal network that were of great benefits to most parts of Asia - particularly given the long disintegration and decline of the Southern Song dynasty under the strain of fighting their [[ForeverWar fifty-year stalemate war]] with the Jin dynasty founded by the Jurchens (a Tungusic tribe ancestral to the Manchus who had taken the entire north China plain from them, thus the 'Southern' Song). On the other hand, [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill he was absolutely ruthless]] to anyone who dared to resist his [[TheHorde Mongol hordes]]. He was noted to have used early forms of biological warfare [[note]]While this was done knowingly, the expansion of his empire may have unknowingly played a part in introducing TheBlackDeath pandemic to Europe more than a century after his death. [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-black-death-rampage-across-world-more-century-previously-thought-180977331/ This hypothesis in 2021]] suggests that the marmots brought by the Mongols to the Tian Shan area during the conquest of the Kara-Khitai circa 1216 picked up a strain of plague; when the Mongols besieged Baghdad in 1258, the hypothesis is that marmots with the plague managed to infect rodents in Baghdad, laying the seeds for future devastation.[[/note]], used living prisoners as {{human shield}}s, and massacred civilian populations as punishment for resistance. The Iranian plateau lost three-quarters of its population during his conquest and didn't fully recover until the mid-20th century. Entire cities were leveled to the ground [[MakeAnExampleOfThem as examples]]; to this day, some areas in Central Asia are disproportionately populated compared to their surroundings thanks to these ''13th century'' tactics.

To say that he was brutal was an understatement, but those who got it the worst were [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves traitors]] and [[ShootTheMessenger anyone who killed his messengers]]. The former were killed in horrific fashions such as [[CruelAndUnusualDeath boiling them in oil]], while he razed any nation stupid enough to do the later.

In fact, Genghis Khan's conquests possibly caused an evolutionary shift, as wild species populations in Central Asia exploded because all the humans who would otherwise till the arable lands and keep them at bay were dead or refugees; this also led to a brief lowering of global temperatures as the takeover of farmland by forests caused a noticeable dip in atmospheric carbon levels. One of the worst Mongol atrocities was the destruction of Baghdad, led by one of Genghis Khan's grandsons. At the time, Baghdad was a jewel of world civilization since it had been ''the'' Islamic center of commerce and learning for centuries. It is said that the Tigris River ran not only red with blood, but ''black'' due to the ink from the quantity of books thrown in the river. Ironically, Hulagu Khan (the Khan who did all that) later got his ass kicked from the Muslim Khans of the Mongol Hordes, particularly Berke Khan. This civil war eventually ended with Nogai Khan, a Muslim, ending as the most powerful figure and kingmaker amongst the Mongolian tribes excepting Kublai Khan. Before that, Hulagu's advance into Palestine was decisively defeated by the up-and-coming Mamluk Dynasty at the Battle of Ain Jalaut.

Genghis' exploits against Islam brought him to knowledge of the old Europe, where news became so hot that he was initially conflated with the legend of the Prester John, a fabled Christian king of the Orient locked in his own fighting against Muslim states. The Europeans first believed Genghis was a son of this Prester John, and when his true identity became known, the legend changed so Genghis had now ''defeated'' Prester John during his conquests. The Frankish kingdom and its various Crusader states later exchanged some diplomacy with Genghis' descendants, but negotiations of an alliance against Islam were unsuccessful - Mongols tended to view other peoples as either enemies or subjects.

Speaking of descendants, in 2003 it was discovered that a y-chromosomal lineage found in about 8% of the population of his former territory (and .5% of the entire world) [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html probably came from him]]. His descendants -- the Genghisids -- made up a large part of the aristocracy of the various Imperial regions and vassals, and its successor states across Asia for centuries afterwards. Many leaders more dubiously claimed the "Golden Lineage" as a source of legitimacy, and the latest aspiring Khan ''in spirit'' was a mystically-minded Baltic German Tsarist, Baron UsefulNotes/RomanVonUngernSternberg.

In the 21st century, the clan name of Genghis Khan, the Borjigiin, became the most common surname in Mongolia, even among those who are almost certainly not descended from the Mongolian royal family. For decades, Mongolian communist government banned use of surnames, condemning it as [[ShedTheFamilyName an obsolete legacy of the feudal past]]. After the ban was lifted but original names were lost, many Mongols opted for an opportunity for MeaningfulRename, by choosing the surname of their country's greatest hero.

Note: In Korea, it is taught that after many consistent invasions and after fighting back and surviving their attacks, the Koreans grew tired of them, giving some of their land to them and then forming an "alliance". Though partially debatable, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Korea it's true that the Koreans survived their attack]] [[SerialEscalation 5 times]], and after the 6th they were "allies" with them. All of which extends to Japan, since the bulk of the army that attacked Japan consisted of Koreans under a Mongolian flag (who says being allies doesn't have its benefits?). However, that could also mean that the Mongolians didn't fail in their invasion of Japan, but Korea did. [[DependingOnTheWriter It all depends on who commissioned the historical text you're reading]].

Genghis Khan's dynasty only ever commissioned one major historical text, ''The Secret History of the Mongols'', written not long after Genghis Khan's death for the royal family. The original Mongolian manuscript was lost, but the text survived through an early Chinese translation. Only in the 20th Century did further translations (including English) finally become available. While it contains some folkloric exaggerations, it is generally considered a [[WartsAndAll fairly honest account]] rather than the sort of glorified flattery one might expect, and is considered a major authority on the details of Genghis Khan's life. Probably indirectly responsible for a fair bit of recent re-evaluations of the Mongols as more than bloodthirsty barbarians.

TropeNamer for the GenghisGambit, and TropeMaker for AVillainNamedKhan.
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!!Tropes as portrayed in fiction:

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In Mongolia and Central Asia he's the BigGood; China is mixed-to-positive-in-retrospect after Yuan rule displayed benefits for the country, although recently they have been a bit colder to him; Eastern Europe tends to be rather negative on him as his son's hordes actually hit there, held Russia for centuries and devastated Poland and Hungary; and the Middle East is very negative on him as his troops wiped out a large portion of Persia's population and his grandson sacked Baghdad. In Western Europe, which was TheUnfought except the Italian trade colony of Caffa in his descendants' time (which survived but had a role in ThePlague), as stated above either seen as a just ruler, a vicious barbarian or EvilIsCool.
* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: Legend has it he requested to be returned to Mongolia and buried in an unmarked grave, which to this day has never been found. ''The Secret History of the Mongols'' lists the year he died and no other details, while ''Literature/TheTravelsOfMarcoPolo'' suggests it was a Mongolian custom for khans to be buried in a mountain called Altaï. There are many legends surrounding his grave, such as a river being diverted over it (like Alaric I and King Gilgamesh), that it was trampled by horses, that trees were planted over it, that permafrost was involved, or that the gravediggers and pallbearers were killed after he was interred, followed by the killers then being killed by different soldiers to ensure no one would know or find the location of the Great Khan's grave.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The man was certainly brutal, but he handed out promotions on merit, not on things like money, race, ethnicity, religion or birth. Some of his generals started out as slaves and climbed up the ranks. He also implemented complete freedom of religion at a time where Europe and the Middle-East were pissing away entire fortunes and wasting thousands of lives in wars against the Christians/Muslims/the wrong kind of Christian/the wrong kind of Muslim.
* FieryRedhead: He was red-haired and violent according to Mongol and Kazakh folk tales, generally depicted as black or brown haired by Western accounts. An exception would have to be ''{{Film/Mongol}}'', which is actually a joint Russo-Kazakh-German film which is noted to be the only half-way historically accurate depiction of his life, where Genghis is played as a kid by Odnyam Odsuran, a red-haired child actor of Mongol descent. (Of course, Creator/TadanobuAsano, the guy who played adult Genghis, was black-haired and Japanese and didn't look a a thing like him except for the beard and hairstyle.)
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Whilst he did indeed introduce some progressive policies for the time, his conquests caused the deaths of as many as 60,000,000 people (which is almost as many as died in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII) if you go with a high estimate and 30,000,000 if you go low (still more than the fatalities in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.) 60,000,000 in the Middle Ages would have been 17.1% of the world's total population. However, many still remember Genghis with admiration.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** Modern pop culture thinks of him as a barely sentient barbarian warlord, leading his [[TheHorde horde]] on an orgy of RapePillageAndBurn. In reality, he outlawed the kidnapping and selling of women, opposed slavery and torture, lowered taxes, usually made a point of sparing women and children in his raids [[note]]emphasis on the usually[[/note]], and introduced total religious freedom (virtually unheard of at the time). However, he perpetrated the scary rumors about himself and his hordes to enhance his reputation as a MemeticBadass so he's as much to blame for this trope as anyone else.
** Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire is also despised in the Middle-East since a large bulk of his victims originated from that region with some going as far as saying he embarked on a genocidal campaign against Muslims attributing destruction of the Khwarazmian Empire and Baghdad as evidence. As evidenced by his religious tolerance, Genghis didn't have a bone to pick with Islam itself, only some of his opponents such as the Kwarazmians happened to be Muslims - and they had slighted him first by [[ShootTheMessenger executing his emissaries]]. Personally a Tengrist, he really didn't care if sworn enemies - or valued friends, were Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Taoist. In addition, the sack of Baghdad perpetrated by his grandson Hulagu was criticized by Mongols that converted to Islam such as the Golden Horde's Berke, who fought Hulagu's Ilkhanate partially for this reason.
* ManlyFacialHair: Statues, coinage, books, posthumous portraits - the only thing they each have in common is giving Chinggis a massive beard. Justified, given that Mongolia is amongst the coldest places on Earth so keeping a beard would have been practical.
* MemeticBadass: In addition to actually cementing himself as this in popular folklore via spreading of rumors and actual war atrocities he committed in his conquests, Genghis Khan is universally seen as one of the biggest FourStarBadass who ever lived in history, often to the point of both his supporters and haters genuinely admitting he was probably the best commander who ever lived in the Medieval period (or at least during his lifetime). Many authors and film directors often refer to the Khan's memetic folklore warrior image when portraying him in fictional works in which he destroys entire civilization within two weeks, if not several days, upon personally going to a region to take command of the local Mongol force. In so many fictional works taking place in the Medieval period when Khan was alive, there is almost always gossip among bystanders in the story about how the world is ending because the Mongols might be coming to their town next to invade and many generals and officers in such stories are often spending a good bulk of their screen time trying to debate how to fight off a possible Mongol Horde invasion. Even video game portrayals imitate Genghis Khan's popular military image where the Mongols are portrayed as the LightningBruiser faction of the game and AI controlling Mongols (often under the same or similar name as the Khan) are often the most difficult to defeat.
* OutWithABang: One legend say that he died after [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] a Chinese princess captured as a war prize, either from a heart attack or because she [[KarmicDeath killed him with a blade she kept hidden]]. This is almost certainly false; modern historical consensus is that he died of the bubonic plague.
* RapePillageAndBurn: Downplayed or exaggerated depending on where the writer falls on the AlternateCharacterInterpretation. He certainly tolerated it all to some degree, and at the same time certainly could and did control and regulate it more than most, but that didn't mean it didn't happen. A lot. Indeed, a lot of the control he exerted was so that he could ''weaponize'' it against those that would try to resist.
* RepressiveButEfficient: Under his rule - the ''Pax Mongolia'' - you could walk from modern day Ukraine to modern day Hong Kong without running into any bandits or other hostiles. If you were under the protection of the Mongols people thought twice about messing with you.

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!!Appears in the following works:

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': During a speech, [[MadScientist Dr.]] [[BigBad Hell]] declared that he would achieve what Genghis Khan was unable to do ([[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]]).
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* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the Marvel version of Literature/FuManchu (who's now ExiledFromContinuity), ComicBook/IronMan villain The Mandarin (and by extension his son Temujin), and 50s YellowPeril villain [[Comicbook/AgentsOfAtlas The Golden Claw]] all [[FamousAncestor claim descent]] from Genghis Khan and continue their ancestor's dream of world conquest, the first through a crime empire, the second through technological expertise rather than sheer force, and the third through an ancient conspiracy of companies and entities named "[[DevelopmentGag Atlas]]". Notably, in-story, only the last, the Golden Claw, has a claim to be the true heir of the Khan, as he possesses the spirit banner of Temujin himself, and later makes the hero Khan of the Atlas Empire.
* Franchise/DCUniverse villain ComicBook/VandalSavage, who is immortal, has used [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci multiple aliases throughout his history]] as a conqueror and villain, with "Genghis Khan" merely having been one of them.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' contains a sideways reference to the Khan in the title character's famous answer to the question "What is best in life?"[[note]]"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"[[/note]], which is paraphrased and condensed from a similiar line attributed to Temujin: "The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." Conan also has a sidekick named Subotai, which was the name of one of Genghis Khan's chief generals and strategists.
* ''Film/TheConqueror'', an unfortunate 1956 movie where the part of Genghis Khan is [[QuestionableCasting played by]] Creator/JohnWayne in {{yellowface}}. Also unfortunate in that it was filmed downwind from a nuclear testing site, leading to the possibly-exaggerated story that an unusually-high number of people involved in the film - including Wayne himself - developed cancer in the following years.
* ''Film/GenghisKhan'', an only slightly less unfortunate 1965 one where he's played by Creator/OmarSharif.
* ''Film/GenghisKhanToTheEndsOfTheEarthAndSea'': A 2007 Japanese production which is pretty historically accurate.
* ''The Fall of Otrar'', a 1991 Kazakhstani film directed by Ardak Amirkulov which shows Genghis Khan's destruction of the Khwarezmid Empire from the viewpoint of the latter. Genghis appears in only two scenes and painted as an overarching, albeit charismatic and frightening, EvilOverlord.
* ''Film/{{Mongol}}'', a 2007 biopic where he's played by Creator/TadanobuAsano.
* ''Film/TheMongols'' (in which he's played by Italian actor Roldano Lupi - yellowface applies to him and every other actor playing Mongols in the film, Creator/JackPalance as his son Ögedei included) anachronistically shows Genghis attempting to conquer Poland in 1240, while he actually died in 1227 when he besieged the rebellious Western Xia in China.
* He also joined ''Film/{{Bill and Ted|sExcellentAdventure}}'' on their Excellent Adventure.
* ''Film/TheMaskOfFuManchu'' involves the titular villain trying to obtain the sword and mask of Genghis Khan, hoping to reincarnate as Khan, unite the [[InterchangeableAsianCultures peoples of Asia]], and [[YellowPeril make war on the white race]]. This makes little sense as most Asiatics (including the stereotypically-Chinese Fu Manchu) would regard a resurrected Khan as a foreign tyrant to be resisted and not rallied-around. If he were to be magically resurrected, the people who would follow him are Mongolian and Turkic peoples (some Hungarians might also, due to the Hungarian people having also been Steppe warriors back in the day). All of whom are ''Eurasian'' Steppe peoples who consider themselves culturally and historically apart from other Asians.
* Shiwan Khan, nemesis of ''Film/TheShadow'' made the absurdly improbable claim that he was his ''last'' descendant, and felt that it was his duty as his heir to finish the Great Khan's mission of conquering the entire world.
* Genghis Khan is one of the 100 revived souls featured in ''Film/KamenRiderGhostThe100EyeconsAndGhostsFatefulMoment''.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* A novel in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' expanded universe, ''The Secret Crusade,'' has Altaïr ibn-La'Ahad's son, Darim, joining fellow Assassin Qulan Gal in hunting Ghengis since he's not only a Templar ally, but also has a Sword of Eden. Qulan is the one that shoots Ghengis's horse to make him fall and while the Khan boasts his empire will last forever, Darim executes him with a crossbow bolt.
* A trilogy of novels in the ''Literature/ForgottenRealms'' setting revolve around Yamun Khahan, a [[{{Expy}} clear stand-in]] for Genghis Khan.
* The ''Literature/{{Conqueror}}'' trilogy (''Wolf of the Plains'', ''Lords of the Bow'' and ''Bones of the Hills'') by British author Conn Iggulden follows the story of Genghis Khan from birth to death. Followed by other books about his successors.
* In the 14th century Genghis pops up in none other than ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' by Creator/GeoffreyChaucer. "The Squire's Tale" deals with Genghis (rendered in Chaucer as "Cambyuskan") looking for a husband for his beautiful daughter.
* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': Mr. Prosser is unknowingly a descendant of Genghis Khan. His fondness of little furry hats, decorative battle-axes, and [[BreadMilkEggsSquick his visions of fiery rampages]] are hereditary.
** ''Literature/ThePrivateLifeOfGenghisKhan'', a sketch by Creator/DouglasAdams and [[Creator/MontyPython Graham Chapman]], presents the man himself as a blood-thirsty warlord by day, paranoid neurotic by night.
* ''Literature/{{Steppe}}'' is set in a far-future society where reading is now obsolete and people are educated by watching historical recreations in the form of [=LARP=] games, namely the history of the Asian steppe culminating with Genghis.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Savage Curtain", a duplicate of Genghis Khan was created by the Excalbians as part of an experiment to better understand the concepts of "good" and "evil". (Clearly, the show's writers perceived him as evil; see AlternateCharacterInterpretation above.) Less forgiveably the writers perceived him as almost childishly barbaric. Whatever else he was, he wasn't stupid.
* Was pitted against Hannibal on an episode of Series/DeadliestWarrior.
* A NoodleIncident in ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the Doctor mention that his army tried and failed to break into the TARDIS at some point.
* He's a minor character in ''Series/TheLegendOfTheCondorHeroes2008'', ''Series/TheLegendOfTheCondorHeroes2017'', and the novel's other adaptations.
* He appears in ''Series/MarcoPolo'' in a flashback to Kublai Khan's childhood, using birds with lit ropes tied to their feet to burn down a Chinese city.
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In Season 5, he's one of the souls that Astra resurrects out of Hell to sow chaos throughout history. Though in his case, he only resurrected after he was already in his tomb, so he had to spend a few centuries digging his way out, finally succeeding in the 1990s. He then makes his way to Hong Kong, which the British are preparing to hand over to the Chinese, where he proceeds to take over the local triads and hatches a scheme to kidnap the visiting Prince Charles.
* Genghis Khan's likeness is used in ''Series/KamenRiderX'' as the basis for the kaijin Genghis Khan Condor.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The German disco band ''Music/DschinghisKhan'' was named for him, and they wrote a song of the same name about him too.
* Music/IronMaiden also named an instrumental track after him, appearing on their album ''Music/{{Killers}}''.
* Mongolian folk metal band Music/TheHU devotes one of their singles for him, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD1gDSao1eA The Great Chinggis Khaan]]." The focus is on Genghis [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade as a unifier and lawgiver]].
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[[folder:Podcast]]
* Dan Carlin's ''Podcast/HardcoreHistory'' covered the conquests of Genghis Khan, and his successors, in his ''Wrath of the Khans'' series.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** It was [[RetCon (in the earlier editions, at least)]] the Mongol invasions that created [[WarGod Khorne]]. Also, Khorne's first and most powerful Daemon Prince, [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doombreed]], is said to have been a [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade bloodthirsty warlord]], anterior to the public appearance of the GodEmperor. Among fans, Genghis is the favorite candidate, through he isn't the [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin only]] [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler one]].
** The loyalist Primarch Jaghatai Khan also count as a [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed stand-in for the guy]].
** Mogul Kamir from the same franchise is basically Genghis Khan with a super-strong cyborg arm, a laser firing bionic eye, AND A ROBOTIC WARHORSE.
** The Great Kurgan, as described in Forgeworld's ''Tamurkhan: The Throne of Chaos'' supplement for Warhammer Fantasy Battle is basically his Chaos-worshiping, spiky daemonic super-human warrior equivalent. Tamurkhan himself is very loosely based on the later Turco-Mongolic warlord [[UsefulNotes/TimurTheLame Tamerlane]]...despite being a BodySurfing maggot.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* As with other {{Historical Domain Character}}s, Julius Carn from the ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' series is based on him..
* The usual leader of Mongolia in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'', and while aggressive, not as warlike as the Aztecs, Zulus or Huns. In ''Civilization V'', he gets a combat bonus against City States, and a speed buff to all mounted units. The [=AI=] flavouring does take the City State attack bonus to heart, so you might not get along with him if you're allied with many city states. He's among the most [[UndyingLoyalty loyal leaders if you get on his good side]]. In ''Civilization VI'', he gives his cavalry units bonus combat strength and the ability to capture enemy cavalry units, even cavalry units exclusive to other civilizations.
* He has [[Recap/AgeOfEmpiresIIGenghisKhan a campaign]] in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII''. He's also a HeroUnit, although it appears only at the first minutes of the first level and he isn't playable. However, he is the strongest Hero Unit, with 300 Health, 25 attack, 2/2 armor, 5 of range and he's a Horse Archer. There's a reason why the "Blood" type Multiplayer Scenarios has him as the last unit that you unlock. A glitch in early versions (long since patched out) could cause him to come under player control by accident, making the first level ridiculously easy.
* Creator/{{Koei|Tecmo}} made an entire series of strategy games centering around him. You can either choose to fight him [[VillainProtagonist or be him]].
* ''VideoGame/TheAncientArtOfWar'': Genghis Khan is the only opponent accompanied by another character: his general, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subutai Subotai]].
* VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII'': He shows up as a historical character, and as of ''The Old Gods'' DLC, he and the massive army he brings with him are playable. He is however referred to (marginally more accurately) as Temujin Khagan. The ''Horse Lords'' DLC gave him and other steppe nomads an unique form of "nomadic" government. It's also possible for a Mongol PlayerCharacter other than Temujin himself to declare themselves Genghis Khan.
* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'': Part of the backstory of the eponymous jewel in the diamond heist. The trailer for the heist's release states that according to legend, the beginning of its travels was with the great Khans, and it holds the nickname (among others) of the "Eye of Temujin".
* ''VideoGame/EscapeFromHell1990'' has Genghis Khan bored in Hell's reception area and eager to join your party.
* ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'': Although Genghis Khan doesn't appear, as the game is set during the historical 1274 Mongol invasion of Japan, BigBad Khotun Khan proclaims himself as the warlord's grandson and cousin of Kublai.
* ''VideoGame/HonorOfKings'': Genghis Khan is one of the non-Chinese people to be included in the mostly Chinese roster as a marksman-type hero that rides on a beast and can lay traps on the battlefield to catch enemies off guard.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The ''Literature/ChaosTimeline'' is an AlternateHistory based on the premise that Genghis dies early, before he can start his conquests. The world soon looks very different...
* WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory had him go up against the Easter Bunny. Needless to say, [[CurbStompBattle there was no contest.]]
* Not Genghis Khan per se, but the Mongol Empire as a whole is a RunningGag on WebVideo/CrashCourse, where John Green will make a declarative statement, then follow it up with "unless you are the Mongols" ("We're the exception!")
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Fought UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'', and lost, though only because their personalities had been accidentally swapped in a time-travel accident.
* He was a contender for the role of Part-Time Villain on ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'', but lost the role to [[BigBad Rippen]] due to his EvilLaugh.
* His clone is a recurring character in ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'', but unlike his infamous clonefather, he's a dimwitted GentleGiant.
* The third episode of ''WesternAnimation/TimeWarpTrio'', "You Can't, But Genghis Khan", has a surprisingly benevolent portrayal. The boys wind up in Mongolia due to the magic book accidentally homing in on a Mongolian Barbeque menu. There they meet and befriend a young Temüjin, nicknaming him "TJ", alongside his future wife, Börte. The pair help the trio in finding the magic book to get them back home, whilst the trio help them against some of "TJ's" early enemies after the death of his father.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', the villain Vandal Savage [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy has been known by many names and titles over the course of his 50,000-year life]], among them Genghis Khan.
* He appears in the prologue of the ''WesternAnimation/BobMorane'' episode "The Crown of Golconda". His name is typically mispronounced as it is in the west and he neither has the red hair or green eyes he actually had, but rather the stereotypical black hair and dark eyes. His alleged descendant Mr. Ming is the main antagonist of the series.
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