History Main / ArchivedArmy

* A JusticeSocietyOfAmerica comic had the JSA fighting what appeared to be a band of villains out of history: Nero, Goliath, Captain Kidd, Cesare Borgia, Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun. It turned out to be one guy (a guard at a wax museum) masquerading as all these figures. However he succeeds in killing the entire male membership of the Society in that issue. [[They get better ComicBookDeath]].

* ''Kid Eternity'' had this as his superpower, along with invisibility.
** In a crossover with ''CaptainMarvel'', Dr. Sivana revived several villains to oppose them. It didn't work out--Benedict Arnold betrayed him.
* A JusticeSocietyOfAmerica comic had the JSA fighting what appeared to be a band of villains out of history: Nero, Goliath, Captain Kidd, Cesare Borgia, Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun. It turned out to be one guy (a guard at a wax museum) masquerading as all these figures.

* The {{Fallout}} 3 expansion "Mothership Zeta" has you team up with several cryogenically-preserved warriors on the alien spaceship: a military doctor from Operation Anchorage, a contemporary slaver, a wild west cowboy, and a samurai.

* ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Savage Curtain". The Hero team is Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan. The {{Villain}} team is Genghis Khan, the Klingon Kahless, Colonel Green and the MadScientist Zora. Everyone except Kirk and Spock are actually alien rock creatures masquerading as humanoids.

* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons'' Treehouse of Horror, where Billy the Kid leads a gang of historical villains, including the most evil German in history -- Kaiser Wilhelm!

* ''ReadOrDie'': The I-Jin are all made up of famous figures from the past, most notably Ludwig van Beethoven. They're cloned.

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* ''Drifters'' has this on [[GreyAndGrayMorality both sides]] at a [[CrapsackWorld crapsack fantasy world]] - the [[HeroicSociopath good]] guys being summoned there at the verge of their deaths while the [[OmnicidalManiac bad]] guys were those who historically died tragically.

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* ''RedDwarf'': The episode "Meltdown" features a war between the greatest and the worst people in history (technically, robot duplicates thereof, from a now-abandoned theme park).
* One episode of ''LoisAndClark'' involved clones of Al Capone, as well as Bonnie and Clyde.

* If you stretch it a bit, this is basically the concept of the ''WarriorsOrochi'' series - bringing together legendary warriors from China's Three Kingdoms Period, others from Japan's Warring States Era, and a few guys from mythology for good measure - just so Orochi can have a decent challenge. Certainly, a teamup of Masamune Date, Lu Bu and [[JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]] invokes the same sort of feeling...

* The SevenSoldiers of Victory once fought a villain with a time machine who brought forward Alexander the Great, Nero, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and Napoleon Bonaparte to serve as commanders in his army of conquest.

* Played with in ''{{Futurama}}'' when the Holo-shed malfunctions and Attila the Hun, Jack the Ripper, Professor Moriarty, and Evil Lincoln become real and attack Kif and Amy.

* The ''VentureBrothers'' episode "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II" has the Venture crew inexplicably team up with Caligula, Sigmund Freud, and EdgarAllanPoe. It's never quite explained how the team-up happened, as it is the second part of an episode for which the first part was never made.

* There's an episode of ''TheTick'' titled "Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!", featuring a team of famous inventors, including da Vinci, Edison, Guttenberg, George Washington Carver, and the caveman who invented the wheel.

* ''FateStayNight'' and its prequel is pretty much the mythological version of this, although some (like Gilgamesh and Alexander the Great) were historical people.

* ''[[{{Literature/ptitleeiku6qu3}} The Night's Dawn Trilogy]]'' features an invasion from TheLegionsOfHell in a SpaceOpera setting… A disproportionatly large portion of whom hail from the 20th century, potentially leading to massive {{Narm}} on the reader's part.

* ''XiaolinShowdown'' had these as Jack Spicer's army in a time travel episode: Attila the Hun, Blackbeard, most likely Billy the Kid or some other famous western villain, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Jack Spicer's first-grade teacher]].

* In one episode of ''TheSuperGlobetrotters'', the Time Lord assemebled "the greatest criminals in history" into a gang.

* In ''All-Select Comics'' #7, the sorcerer Terdu summons a group of villains from the past, whom he dubs the 'Men of Evil', to battle captainAmerica and Bucky. The Men of Evil were Captain Kidd, JackTheRipper, Frank and Jesse James, Bluebeard, Gyp-the-Blood, and three gangsters (names unrevealed) who had died in the elctric chair decades earlier.

* The {Fallout} 3 expansion "Mothership Zeta" has you team up with several cryogenically-preserved warriors on the alien spaceship: a military doctor from Operation Anchorage, a contemporary slaver, a wild west cowboy, and a samurai.

* The ''[[NightsDawn Night's Dawn]]'' trilogy features an invasion from TheLegionsOfHell in a SpaceOpera setting… A disproportionatly large portion of whom hail from the 20th century, potentially leading to massive {{Narm}} on the reader's part.

* The second ''NightAtTheMuseum'' movie features animated statues of Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon, Al Capone as henchman to the {{Big Bad}}, an Egyptian King.

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