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* ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}} has Mitama, the spirits of heroes devoured by oni across the ages that have been freed by Slayers. Slayers can commune with these spirits to gain special powers and the PlayerCharacter has the unique[[note]]One non-combatant NPC shares it.[[/note]] power of communing with a very large number of them.

* Kid Eternity had this as his superpower, along with invisibility. There was also his evil counterpart, Master Man, who could summon villains from history.

* In ''Literature/TimeRiders'', the team are joined by the likes of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and the apparent Literature/RobinHood. However, they can't stay permanently.

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* One iteration of the Lethal Legion villain team, enemies of Comicbook/TheAvengers, was composed of history's greatest murderers, given superpowers by hell. They were [[Characters/TheBorgias Lucrezia Borgia]], UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, and [[Characters/NaziGermany Heinrich Himmler]]. Lucrezia was codenamed "Cyana", granted [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue skin]], AbsurdlySharpClaws coated with [[PoisonousPerson poison]], and a literal KissOfDeath. Lizzie was codenamed "Axe of Violence", granted light red skin, [[ArtificialLimbs her right hand was replaced by a double-headed axe]], and two other [[AnAxeToGrind double-headed axes uses as throwing weapons]]. Josef was codenamed "Coldsteel", becoming a ChromeChampion with a body made of living steel, granting him SuperStrength and SuperToughness. Heinrich was codenamed "Zyklon", granted a PoweredArmor which allowed him to [[JetPack fly]]. He released DeadlyGas from his mask and gauntlets.

* One iteration of the Lethal Legion villain team, enemies of Comicbook/TheAvengers, was composed of history's greatest murderers, given superpowers by hell. They were [[Characters/TheBorgias Lucrezia Borgia]], UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, and [[Characters/NaziGermany Heinrich Himmler]]. Lucrezia was codenamed "Cyana", granted [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue skin]], AbsurdlySharpClaws coated with [[PoisonousPerson poison]], and a literal KissOfDeath. Lizzie was codenamed "Axe of Violence]], granted light red skin, [[ArtificialLimbs her right hand was replaced by a double-headed axe]], and two other [[AnAxeToGrind double-headed axes uses as throwing weapons]]. Josef was codenamed "Coldsteel", becoming a ChromeChampion with a body made of living steel, granting him SuperStrength and SuperToughness. Heinrich was codenamed "Zyklon", granted a PoweredArmor which allowed him to [[JetPack fly]]. He released DeadlyGas from his mask and gauntlets.

* One iteration of the Lethal Legion villain team, enemies of Comicbook/TheAvengers, was composed of history's greatest murderers, given superpowers by hell. They were [[Characters/TheBorgias Lucrezia Borgia]], UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, and [[Characters/NaziGermany Heinrich Himmler]]. Lucrezia was codenamed "Cyana", granted [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue skin]], [[AbsurdlySharpClaws]] coated with [[PoisonousPerson poison]], and a literal KissOfDeath. Lizzie was codenamed "Axe of Violence]], granted light red skin, [[ArtificialLimbs her right hand was replaced by a double-headed axe]], and two other [[AnAxeToGrind double-headed axes uses as throwing weapons]]. Josef was codenamed "Coldsteel", becoming a ChromeChampion with a body made of living steel, granting him SuperStrength and SuperToughness. Heinrich was codenamed "Zyklon", granted a PoweredArmor which allowed him to [[JetPack fly]]. He released DeadlyGas from his mask and gauntlets.

* In ''Knight and Squire'' #3, Richard III is resurrected and he proceeds to resurrect England's other 'bad' kings: Edward I, Charles I, John and William II. The monarchs are granted genetically enhanced superpowers and each leads a criminal army to take over a different part of the UK.

* One iteration of the Lethal Legion villain team was composed of history's greatest murderers, given superpowers by hell.

** Another Simpsons example, though this one's just a brief throwaway - when Homer and Mr. Burns are stuck in a cabin together, Homer says he has "power... political power!" and we see a ghostly team of historical figures (including the ActualPacifist UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi]]) brandishing weapons.

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

* In ''Literature/TimeRiders'', the team are joined by the likes of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and the apparent Literature/RobinHood.However, they can't stay permanently.

* ''Anime/ReadOrDie'': The I-Jin are all made up of famous figures from the past, most notably Ludwig van Beethoven. They're cloned.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and its prequel is pretty much the mythological version of this, although some (like Gilgamesh and Alexander the Great) were historical people.

* The ComicBook/SevenSoldiers of Victory once fought a villain with a time machine who brought forward AlexanderTheGreat, Nero, GenghisKhan, AttilaTheHun, and NapoleonBonaparte to serve as commanders in his army of conquest.

* A ComicBook/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. [[ComicBookDeath They get better]].

* 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 ComicBook/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 electric chair decades earlier.
* In ''ComicBook/RequiemChevalierVampire'' Dracula keeps the heads of Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Saladin and a future Martian conqueror to plan his strategies.
** The elite vampires (people who committed great atrocities in life) include Elizabeth Bathory (Dracula's wife), Nero, AttilaTheHun, and [[ReignOfTerror Maximilien Robespierre]]. [[spoiler:If you're wondering why UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler isn't there, he's a kind of superweapon: when killed, all his victims AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
** Ghouls did evil while persuading themselves they did good. Their ranks include Edgar Hoover and Oppenheimer.

* In ''[[http://dragonblond_04.tripod.com/fanfictions/MotherMayI.htm Mother, May I (Take Over The World)]]'' ({{MSTing}} [[http://cardcaptor_schlueter.tripod.com/Card_Captor_Science_Theater_3000-Episode_19.htm here]]), a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] FanFic, the world's most evil people - among them Saddam Hussein, Hitler, Pikachu, and an increasingly bemused Martin Luther King, Jr. - take over the world.
* ''FanFic/XCOMResurrection'' has the [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown XCOM Project]] bringing back historical warriors in order to fight aliens. The first squad consists of JoanOfArc, SimoHayha, GenghisKhan, and [[Literature/RagnarLodbrokAndHisSons Ragnar]] [[Series/{{Vikings}} Lothbrok]]. They also get UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla to head up the science department.

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

** There were enough people from other eras (past and future) so that (apart from the [[RuleOfFunny multiple Elvises]]) it could plausibly just be a statistical blip. And one of them's Al freakin' Capone.
* In ''Literature/TimeRiders'', the team are joined by the likes of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and the apparent Main/RobinHood.However, they can't stay permanently.

* ''Series/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.

* In the Gamescience adventure "The Future King", Doc Holliday, Nostradamus, Bruce Lee, Harald Hardraada, Owen Glendower and Cyrano de Bergerac are gathered together to find and wake King Arthur.

* Parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons: WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' short, where Billy the Kid leads a gang of historical villains, including the most evil German in history -- Kaiser Wilhelm!
** Another Simpsons example, though this one's just a brief throwaway - when Homer and Mr. Burns are stuck in a cabin together, Homer says he has "power... political power!" and we see a ghostly team of historical figures (including [[ActualPacifist Gandhi]]) brandishing weapons.
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when [[HoloDeckMalfunction the Holo-shed malfunctions]] and AttilaTheHun, JackTheRipper, Professor Moriarty, and Evil Lincoln become real and attack Kif and Amy.
* ''WesternAnimation/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]].

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' had a bad guy bring wax figures of Jesse James, Blackbeard, and an old-timey executioner to life to fight Spider-Man.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E4EscapeToTheHouseOfMummiesPartII Escape to the House of Mummies Part II]]" has the Venture crew inexplicably team up with EmperorCaligula, UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe (and a time-duplicated Brock Samson). It's never quite explained how the team-up happened, [[UnInstallment as it is the second part of an episode for which the first part was never made]].
* There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/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 cavewoman who invented the wheel.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' had an episode where Johnny brought back several historical figures, including Attila the Hun and a caveman, to create the most powerful hockey team.

* ''SamuraiDeeperKyo'''s concept.
* ''Drifters'' has this on [[GreyAndGrayMorality both sides]] at a [[CrapsackWorld crapsack fantasy world]] - the [[SociopathicHero good]] guys summoned there at the verge of death while the [[OmnicidalManiac bad]] guys were those who historically died tragically.

* The SevenSoldiers of Victory once fought a villain with a time machine who brought forward AlexanderTheGreat, Nero, GenghisKhan, AttilaTheHun, and NapoleonBonaparte to serve as commanders in his army of conquest.

* ''Kid Eternity'' had this as his superpower, along with invisibility. There was also his evil counterpart, Master Man, who could summon villains from history.
** In a crossover with ''[[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'', Dr. Sivana revived several villains to oppose them. It didn't work out--Benedict Arnold betrayed him, as not even the British liked him for his treachery.
* 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. [[ComicBookDeath They get better]].
* In ''KnightAndSquire'' #3, Richard III is resurrected and he proceeds to resurrect England's other 'bad' kings: Edward I, Charles I, John and William II. The monarchs are granted genetically enhanced superpowers and each leads a criminal army to take over a different part of the UK.

* In ''RequiemChevalierVampire'' Dracula keeps the heads of Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Saladin and a future Martian conqueror to plan his strategies.

* In TimeRiders, the team are joined by the likes of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and the apparent Main/RobinHood.However, they can't stay permanently.

* 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 [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]] invokes the same sort of feeling...

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

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when the Holo-shed malfunctions and AttilaTheHun, JackTheRipper, Professor Moriarty, and Evil Lincoln become real and attack Kif and Amy.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' 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.

** The elite vampires (people who committed great atrocities in life) include Elizabeth Bathory (Dracula's wife), Nero, AttilaTheHun, and [[ReignOfTerror Maximilien Robespierre]]. [[spoiler:If you're wondering why AdolfHitler isn't there, he's a kind of superweapon: when killed, all his victims AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]

* ''FanFic/XCOMResurrection'' has the [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown XCOM Project]] bringing back historical warriors in order to fight aliens. The first squad consists of JoanOfArc, SimoHayha, GenghisKhan, and [[Literature/RagnarLodbrokAndHisSons Ragnar]] [[Series/{{Vikings}} Lothbrok]]. They also get NikolaTesla to head up the science department.

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

Justified in different ways: They could be simulacra, clones, or magically reanimated. Or brought forward in time. Related to JuryOfTheDamned and StupidJetpackHitler.

* 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 ComicBook/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.
* In RequiemChevalierVampire Dracula keeps the heads of Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Saladin and a future Martian conqueror to plan his strategies.

* The VideoGame/{{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.

* ''FanFic/XCOMResurrection'' has the [[VideoGame/{{XCOM}} XCOM Project]] bringing back historical warriors in order to fight aliens. The first squad consists of JoanOfArc, SimoHayha, GhengisKhan, and [[Literature/TheSonsOfRagnarLodbrok Ragnar]] [[Series/{{Vikings}} Lothbrok]]. They also get NikolaTesla to head up the science department.

* ''FanWork/XCOMResurrection'' has the [[XCOMEnemyUnknown XCOM Project]] bringing back historical warriors in order to fight aliens. The first squad consists of JoanOfArc, SimoHayha, GhenghisKhan, and [[Literature/TheSonsOfRagnarLodbrok Ragnar]] [[Series/Vikings Lothbrok]]. They also get NikolaTesla to head up the science department.

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

* An episode of the 1967 ''{{Spider-Man}}'' cartoon had a bad guy bring wax figures of Jesse James, Blackbeard, and an old-timey executioner to life to fight Spider-Man.

* This is the idea behind ''CloneHigh'': TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness has cloned many of history's greatest leaders to rule the world somehow.
* In one episode of ''TheSuperGlobetrotters'', the Time Lord assembled "the greatest criminals in history" into a gang.
* ''JohnnyTest'' had an episode where Johnny brought back several historical figures, including Attila the Hun and a caveman, to create the most powerful hockey team.

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* 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 cavewoman who invented the wheel.

** In a crossover with ''CaptainMarvel'', Dr. Sivana revived several villains to oppose them. It didn't work out--Benedict Arnold betrayed him, as not even the British liked him for his treachery.

* 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.

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