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-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6OOuPI5c0 Brad Neely]]''' delivering [[BlatantLies a faithful song]] on the life of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington

** UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla (pictured above fighting UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison): Fittingly has electrical powers.

*** Mister Fahrenheit, "the Supersonic Man", is a [[TheSpeedster Speedster]] who physically resembles Music/FreddieMercury and whose name is taken Music/{{Queen}} song ''Don't Stop Me Now''.

*** Mister Fahrenheit, "the Supersonic Man", is a SuperSpeedster who physically resembles Music/FreddieMercury and whose name is taken Music/{{Queen}} song ''Don't Stop Me Now''.

** Music/ElvisPresley is hailed as a musical icon who changed the face of music forever, yet also derided as a joke who let himself get fat and destroyed his own legacy. Blue Suede Heartstrings (now [[MeaningfulRename King Caerulus Melodia Equestria-Corporatum]]) is essentially the Codexverse's Ponified version of Elvis who, as a result of [[ForWantOfANail changes in circumstances and choices]], became a 'prodigy' [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Alicorn god]] of Music, Humility, Performance, and Love instead. Eventually, through certain choices made on his part, Blue Suede grows as a stallion and eventually re-Ascends [[spoiler:as a reincarnation 'clone' of [[TheArchmage Mana Equus]], one of the [[TheOldGods Thirteen Empyreans]]]], turning him into an Alicorn god of Musical Magic, Self-Respect, Performance, Love, and Mana.

* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'': UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla became the first modern vampire. He loses the vampirism and gains electromagnetic powers, and then later regains his vampirism.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' is rife with examples, befitting an AlternateHistory universe complete with '60s era ''[[ForScience Super Science!]]'' and real FunctionalMagic. To note:
** The original incarnation of the [[WeirdTradeUnion Guild of]] [[NebulousEvilOrganization Calamitous]] [[PunchClockVillain Intent]] included several {{Historical Domain Character}}s with implied supernatural/technological abilities including Creator/AleisterCrowley, [[Creator/MarkTwain Samuel Clemens]], Creator/OscarWilde, and "Father of Bodybuilding" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Sandow Eugen Sandow]]. They were rivals of UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, who fielded an army of airships along with his Avon Ladies. Col. Lloyd Venture, another founding member and great-grandfather of the eponymous brothers, was a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt (later revealed to be the actual first person on the moon, doing so in ''1902'').

*** Creator/JamesDean is a young actor who codified the GreaserDelinquents and CoolLoser tropes, and managed to retain popularity long after his tragic death. Here, as Bronze Gear, he later became the Alicorn god of Death, Defiance, Freedom, and Technology post-mortem after helping the Trimortidae during the '[[Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes Applewood Rescue]]'.

* [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]] of ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' has a segment in which DIO and Pucci theorize that Creator/LeonardoDaVinci was a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] User.

* In ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', The Doctor's past incarnations included UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, Jesus Christ, and Grigori Rasputin.
* ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers West Coast]]'': A version of the Lethal Legion consisted of these, as they were resurrected by the demon Satannish; the members were:

* ''{{ComicBook/Crimson}}'' has UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar as some of the villains. Here, they were reorganized into an independent supernatural hunting force that commits VanHelsingHateCrimes. They have a group of EliteMooks called The Order of the Dragon (the most skilled and formidable Templars) who harvested Angel blood to gain supernatural strength and durability.
* ''ComicBook/TheDeadBoyDetectives'' 2004 miniseries: UsefulNotes/GillesDeRais was not only a child murderer obsessed with the occult like he was in the historical record, here his magicks actually worked, and he'd drain the lives of children around him. It's explained that this was downplayed in the in-universe history to not freak people out.
--> '''Marquez''': It was more palatable that the murderer was merely a madman, and not a black magician and heretic.
* [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Grigori Rasputin]] in ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' is a sorcerer that worships the ancestral [[Main/DraconicAbomination Ogdru-Jahad]] and wants to [[CivilizationDestroyer start the Apocalypse]]. In the original comics, he has a HealingFactor and MindControl powers and has come back as a ghost at least twice, while in the [[Film/{{Hellboy|2004}} 2004 movie adaptation]] he has ResurrectiveImmortality and comes back to life with a fragment of his god inside.
* In ''{{ComicBook/Invincible}}'' the Immortal, a FlyingBrick with ResurrectiveImmortality, was Abraham Lincoln. He was also Christopher Columbus, though the [[WesternAnimation/Invincible2021 animated adaptation]] implicitly removed that rap sheet.
* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'': [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I of England]], UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, Creator/AleisterCrowley, and several others are transformed into hideous undead creatures in Hell. Meanwhile, Main/{{Dracula}}'s wife is the infamous Blood Countess, UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, a vampire with BloodMagic.
* Creator/JonathanHickman's ''{{ComicBook/SHIELD}}'' had many famous figures in history being parts of the organisation of which SHIELD is the most modern part, and fighting other such famous figures. Among others, Isaac Newton is an immortal and immoral super scientist and former stand-in Sorcerer Supreme, Michaelangelo is the Forever Man who is everywhere across time at once, and Nikola Tesla is an electricity-wielding cyborg called 'The Night Machine'.
* One bizarre issue of ''{{ComicBook/Tarot Witch Of The Black Rose}}'' revealed that {{UsefulNotes/George Washington}} had a suit of wooden PoweredArmor and that every President since then has been expected to don Powered Armor to defend the country in times of trouble.
* In ''{{ComicBook/X Statix}}'', Henrietta Hunter was originally supposed to be Diana, Princess of Wales, who had been inexplicably restored to life and given superpowers, but Marvel editorial vetoed it.