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** [[WordOfGod The author's note]] at the beginning of the ''Franchise/BattletechExpandedUniverse'' novel ''Ideal War'' states that the Gibson Uprising, a relatively minor conflict involving the pre-Jihad Word Of Blake, was explicitly based on UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.

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** [[WordOfGod The author's note]] at the beginning of the ''Franchise/BattletechExpandedUniverse'' novel ''Ideal War'' states that the Gibson Uprising, a relatively minor conflict involving the pre-Jihad Word Of Blake, was explicitly based on UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (though the initial cause of the war, the resettlement of a secretive and militaristic religious group under the auspices of a larger power not sitting well with the locals, bears far more resemblance to [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict a different, but no less contentious conflict]]).
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The New Fishman Pirates threaten the people of Fishman Island to commit Fumi-e on the late Queen Otohime's image, to shed out their loyalty to Queen Otohime (who has the exact opposite view of the BigBad Hody Jones') which is a reference on feudal Japan's practice of purging Christians (they have their people step on a Christian imagery to prove that they're not Christian).

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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The New Fishman Pirates threaten the people of Fishman Island to commit Fumi-e on the late Queen Otohime's image, to shed out their loyalty to Queen Otohime (who has the exact opposite view of the BigBad Hody Jones') which is a reference on feudal Japan's practice of purging Christians (they have their people step on a Christian imagery image to prove that they're not Christian).

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