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%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In full effect for the Founding Fathers.
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%%* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: ''Washington Invictus''.

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!Tropes Found in Mythpunk Include:

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
** Carefully danced around. While velociraptors appear, it's never mentioned whether they're realistically tiny, or the large-sized, Jurassic Park-style velociraptors.
** And beside that, they were created through MadScience.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In full effect for the Founding Fathers.
* BadassBoast: Alexander Hamilton has one of these.
* BadassNormal: Pretty much every historical figure, ever.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Radio Gaga.

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Found in Mythpunk Include:

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
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ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Carefully danced around. While velociraptors appear, it's never mentioned whether they're realistically tiny, or the large-sized, Jurassic Park-style velociraptors.
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velociraptors. And beside that, they were created through MadScience.
* %%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In full effect for the Founding Fathers.
* %%* BadassBoast: Alexander Hamilton has one of these.
* %%* BadassNormal: Pretty much every historical figure, ever.
* %%* CosmicHorrorStory: Radio Gaga.



* DoomsdayDevice: Benjamin Franklin built one of these.
* EldritchAbomination: Music/LadyGaga.
* TheEmpire: The British, naturally.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: ''Washington Invictus''.
* EyeBeams: Jane Austen's demon governess has these.

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* %%* DoomsdayDevice: Benjamin Franklin built one of these.
* %%* EldritchAbomination: Music/LadyGaga.
* %%* TheEmpire: The British, naturally.
* %%* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: ''Washington Invictus''.
* %%* EyeBeams: Jane Austen's demon governess has these.



* ImmuneToBullets: George Washington.

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* MadScientist: Benjamin Franklin is one of these.

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* %%* MadScientist: Benjamin Franklin is one of these.



* MindRape: Music/LadyGaga does this.

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* %%* MindRape: Music/LadyGaga does this.



* ZombieApocalypse: Anyone Died is one of these, and a Victorian-era zombie apocalypse is a minor detail in Virtue and Vampyrism.

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* ZombieApocalypse: Anyone Died is one of these, and a Victorian-era zombie apocalypse is a minor detail in Virtue and Vampyrism.Vampyrism.

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* {{Buddhism}}: With Jane Austen as Siddhartha.



* UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington: Is a total badass.



* NeoPaganism: Radio Gaga could be seen as an eldritch version of the goddess creation myth
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The [[http://mythpunk.blogspot.com/ Mythpunk]] Fiction Blog is a blog containing, you guessed it, MythPunk action-comedy stories combining alternate history and epics. Set in a world where historical figures regularly clash with dinosaurs, zombies, and alien gods with kung fu, the stories run off of RuleOfCool and sly historical and pop culture in-jokes.

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The [[http://mythpunk.blogspot.com/ Mythpunk]] Fiction Blog is a blog containing, you guessed it, MythPunk {{Mythpunk}} action-comedy stories combining alternate history and epics. Set in a world where historical figures regularly clash with dinosaurs, zombies, and alien gods with kung fu, the stories run off of RuleOfCool and sly historical and pop culture in-jokes.
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* EldritchAbomination: LadyGaga.

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* EldritchAbomination: LadyGaga.Music/LadyGaga.



* MindRape: LadyGaga does this.

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* MindRape: LadyGaga Music/LadyGaga does this.
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* GeorgeWashington: Is a total badass.

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* GeorgeWashington: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington: Is a total badass.

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Somewhere A Palaeontologist Is Crying is now Artistic License Paleontology. Bad examples and ZCE are being removed.


* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
** Carefully danced around. While velociraptors appear, it's never mentioned whether they're realistically tiny, or the large-sized, Jurassic Park-style velociraptors.
** And beside that, they were created through MadScience.



* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Carefully danced around. While velociraptors appear, it's never mentioned whether they're realistically tiny, or the large-sized, Jurassic Park-style velociraptors.
** And beside that, they were created through MadScience.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "''The British were fielding velociraptors. A full legion of them, clad in red coats and powdered wigs, advanced on the colonial army, reptilian eyes aglint with the cold malice of primeval hunger.''"
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* NeoPaganism: Radio Gaga could be seen as an eldritch version of the goddess creation myth
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'''Tropes Found in Mythpunk Include:'''

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The [[http://mythpunk.blogspot.com/ Mythpunk]] Fiction Blog is a blog containing, you guessed it, MythPunk action-comedy stories combining alternate history and epics. Set in a world where historical figures regularly clash with dinosaurs, zombies, and alien gods with kung fu, the stories run off of RuleOfCool and sly historical and pop culture in-jokes.

'''Tropes Found in Mythpunk Include:'''

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In full effect for the Founding Fathers.
* BadassBoast: Alexander Hamilton has one of these.
* BadassNormal: Pretty much every historical figure, ever.
* {{Buddhism}}: With Jane Austen as Siddhartha.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Radio Gaga.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "''The British were fielding velociraptors. A full legion of them, clad in red coats and powdered wigs, advanced on the colonial army, reptilian eyes aglint with the cold malice of primeval hunger.''"
* DealWithTheDevil: George Washington made a pact with the gods of firearms to become impervious to bullets.
* DoomsdayDevice: Benjamin Franklin built one of these.
* EldritchAbomination: LadyGaga.
* TheEmpire: The British, naturally.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: ''Washington Invictus''.
* EyeBeams: Jane Austen's demon governess has these.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Gods, zombies, vampires, Buddhas, Lovecraftian horrors, mad scientists, dinosaurs, and presidents.
* GeorgeWashington: Is a total badass.
* ImmuneToBullets: George Washington.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Alexander Hamilton uses a katana forged by Adam Smith to defeat the god of economics.
* MadScientist: Benjamin Franklin is one of these.
* MartialArtsAndCrafts: Alexander Hamilton is a master of kung fu economomics.
* MetaphysicalFuel: Washington powers Benjamin Franklin's superweapon with the crystallized soul of Benedict Arnold.
* MindRape: LadyGaga does this.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're manifestations of the inherent suffering of all life. Or at least, Dracula is.
* RuleOfCool: The driving force of the stories.
* ScienceIsBad: Benjamin Franklin is seen as a villainous figure because he's a scientist. On the other hand, Thomas Jefferson is a sorcerer and George Washington makes deals with various devils, and nothing is said of it.
* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Carefully danced around. While velociraptors appear, it's never mentioned whether they're realistically tiny, or the large-sized, Jurassic Park-style velociraptors.
** And beside that, they were created through MadScience.
* ZombieApocalypse: Anyone Died is one of these, and a Victorian-era zombie apocalypse is a minor detail in Virtue and Vampyrism.

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