History Main / BeenThereShapedHistory

* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' shows that Jack and Rose manage to visit every area of the ship as it sinks at one moment or another, and are even on the stern when the ship goes down. Between Jack, Rose, and a few other main characters, we see every major episode of the sinking.

* The mini-series ''ComicBook/SubMariner: The Depths'' seems to suggest that Namor was responsible for sinking the ''Titanic''.

* In a Swedish film ''Film/TheHundredYearOldManWhoClimbedOutTheWindowAndDisappeared'' shows through a series of flashback scenes that the main character prevented an assassination of Franco, personally suggested the explosive obturation principle for a Manhattan project, and many other things.

* In a Swedish film ''Film/TheHundredYearOldManWhoClimbedOutTheWindowAndDisappeared'' - which is by the way much better than the "arthouse-ish" name might imply - through a series of flashback scenes we gradually learn that the main character prevented an assassination of Franco, personally suggested the explosive obturation principle for a Manhattan project, and many other things.

* In ''Script/SeinfeldTheTwinTowers'', one of the minor subplots revolves around Cosmo Kramer discovering that he lent the box cutter that Mohammed Atta used to hijack one of the planes that brought down the Twin Towers... and [[SkewedPriorities going on a crusade to get it refunded by the government]], alongside a bunch of fellow {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}s who are organizing a FrivolousLawsuit to the City of New York for the destruction of the Towers inconveniencing their lives.

* In ''Fanfic/PerturaboInRemnant'', the titular Primarch came to Remnant about a hundred years before the main timeline and thus played a significant role in the world's recent history. He fought in the Great War against the kingdoms of Mantle and Mistral, made the profession of Hunters more widespread, and built Beacon Academy, to name a few. In the follow-up setting, when he joins the Imperium of Man, he naturally plays a significant role in shaping Imperial history.
* A core premise of the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HeroesOfTheDesk'' is that many events in history aren't as they seem--many were part of maintaining a {{Masquerade}}. Feudalism, the Salem Witch Trials, and something involving the Catholic Church are all [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] right now, though whaling in the early 20th century has finally been explained: [[spoiler:It was a cover against Sapient Cetaceans who were going to melt the polar ice caps]]. The main rationale for TheWorldIsNotReady comes in the form of a CrypticBackgroundReference to the fall of the Roman Empire being somehow related to [[MagicByAnyOtherName Functional Supernatural Phenomena]] [[TheUnmasquedWorld in an unmasqued world]]. \\
It also posits that a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction and its predecessors actually worked to conceal [[InsistentTerminology Functional Supernatural Phenomena]] (MagicByAnyOtherName) from the world through, among other things, feudalism, whaling, something involving the Catholic Church, and the Salem Witch Trials.

* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'' has Maledict - and considering he's the biblical Satan, it's very understandable. Not only is he behind various events in the Sonic series [[spoiler: such as the [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure release of Chaos]], the [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 creation of Shadow]], the Black Arms invasion, and the Metarex War]], he's also been involved in actual human history numerous times. The supplemental materials reveal that he established the Roman Empire as a Demon proxy state and manipulated the world into fighting the World Wars.
* In ''Fanfic/ShadowchasersConspiracy'', Eden claims to have been mentored by many historic figures over the century, including Lao Tzu, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, and John Locke. ("... and that was just philosophy," she adds. "You'd be surprised how easy it was to convince all the great geniuses in history to share what they know.")

* In the ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' {{Continuation}} fanfic ''Fanfic/BeyondTheWindingRoad,'' the three major wars we hear about throughout the story are far more intimately connected to the main cast than they first appear. All three of Sable's major wars in the past 100 years (the Revolution, Great Tousterre, and Idvitzen Invasion) basically dominoed from actions taken by the characters during the manga. The destructive climax of ''Pandora Hearts'' became the flashpoint of a building anti-nobility movement against the Four Great Dukedoms which led to the Revolution and divesting of the nobility; the Revolution's political instability opened up an opportunity for the Empire of Lucya to make a power grab that caused the Great Tousterre War; and the tensions left between Sable and its enemies in that war led to the Idvitzen invasion three decades later.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6364868/5/What-s-the-Alma-Mater What's the Alma Mater?]]", when the Mathter displaces Team Possible, Kim's father and himself back to various points in time, Kim's father sets out to drop the key apple on Isaac Newton's head and Rufus helps Winston Churchill write a crucial speech and inspires Henry V to keep fighting (the last of which earns Rufus a knighthood).

* In ''Fanfic/ABrighterDark'', Nyx becomes this due to her effective immortality from being frozen at the age of a young girl. She's lived long enough to have witnessed and interacted with several events that other characters only know about from history or legends, if they know about them at all.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10031627/1/Mutant-Histeria Mutant Histeria]]'', the Acolytes (Gambit, Pyro, Collosus, Sabertooth, and Mastermind) are sent on a time travel frenzy thanks to Forge's soap-powered time machine. During their travel, they cause the Great Fire of Moscow, the legend of Paul Bunyan, the naming of the French Foreign Legion, and the mass extinction of Mars billions of years before the present. They also run into past versions of several Marvel characters, including Professor X, Magneto, and Captain America.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/65940/my-little-mission-sneaking-is-magic My Little Mission: Sneaking Is Magic]]'', among other things, Snake's visit to Equestria is why he starts off ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' with a tranq pistol.
* In the ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'' universe, Asgardians have a tradition of taking on mortal identities and living among the people of Westeros and Essos. This had led to them influencing a lot of the world's history, up to them even serving as the inspiration for the Faith of the Seven (though thanks to in-universe SadlyMythtaken, the Faith isn't remotely accurate).
** Sif was Nettles, the mysterious DragonRider companion of Daemon Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons. She's also the reason that the giant [=Ægir=] is known as the Drowned God (as she dumped him in a lake after he drunkenly flirted with her at a party).
** Thor was Joramun, the King-Beyond-The-Wall who fought the Others in the Long Night. And in addition to inspiring the Warrior of the Seven, he was also viewed as both the Storm God of the Ironborn ''and'' the one defied by Durran Godsgrief.
** Loki is the most prolific, as over the course of his many pilgrimages to Midgard he taught Lann the Clever everything he knew, guided King Theon Stark towards raiding Andalos, convinced Ser Criston Cole to get revenge on Rhaenrya by siding with Aegon II, and wrote the Pureborn of Qarth's rules and doctrines.
** A non-Asgardian example would be [[spoiler:Qyburn/Mr.Sinister]]. According to himself, he engineered Robert's Rebellion, albeit only a side effect of his plan to [[spoiler:push Rahegar and Lyanna together, since he wanted to the see the potential of a child with both Targaryen and Stark blood]]. And it's implied he's behind many other conflicts at both sides of the Narrow Sea as a result of his projects.

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocus'' reveals that the Infinity Train had denizens that would eventually become the gods and demons humankind talk about. Another sidestory, ''Rey Mysterio vs the Cosmos'', brings up how the lost colony of Roanoke came to be when the Train picked the colonists up.
* In the ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'' / ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' crossover ''[[Fanfic/{{Lokid}} Loki'd series]]'', due to Hiccup being given an incredibly long life-span, he is able to help make the serum given to Captian America, work in a lab with Howard Stark, fight in the last battle against HYDRA in WWII and help found SHIELD.
* ''Fanfic/TheChaoticMasters'':
** The titular {{Physical God}}s evidently caused the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and created Mts. Everest and Kilimanjaro, among other things they did [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] over the centuries.
** The Knights of Entropy, the Meridian-based militant order of the Chaostism religion [[ReligionOfEvil which worships the Masters]], have been secretly influencing events in other parts of the world for centuries. For instance, they are confirmed to have caused the Great Fire of London, and are also suspected to have been involved in [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo's]] actions, as well as the French Revolution and rise of Napoleon.

* ''Anime/TheGoldenLaws'': Alisa's time machine becomes responsible for several events in history after malfunctioning: it inspired the helicopter hieroglyphs, was part of [[Literature/BookOfEzekiel Prophet Ezekiel's visions]], broke the Sphinx's nose, helped Moses and the Israelites get to the Red Sea and get to the other side before Pharaoh could even arrive at the shore.

** In ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesTornaTheGoldenCountry Torna: The Golden Country]]'', Jin, one of the main game's [[BigBad Big Bads]], invented the main game's battle system of Drivers fighting with their Blade's weapons while the Blade empowers the Driver with his Driver [[TheLostLenore Lora]] mainly because the two were broke and couldn't afford a seperate weapon for Lora.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 0}}'', which is set in the late '80s during the peak of Japan's economic bubble, reveals that by giving a politician some advice on introducing new taxes, Goro Majima may have accidentally caused the massive recession in the '90s known as the "Lost Decade".