History Main / WeirdHistoricalWar

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' has HYDRA, the Nazi high-science division create the Super Soldier Serum and use it on their leader but after Dr Erskine (who is implied to be Jewish) defects to the States, the Allied Strategic Scientific Reserve manage to create their own SuperSoldier, ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. HYDRA also uses the Tesseract, which they claim was once in the possession of Odin, as an energy source to power their blaster guns and cannons and weird vehicles and weapons of mass destruction.

* ''TabletopGame/SecretsOfTheThirdReich''. World War II is still going on in 1949 (and going further into AlternateHistory as things go on) with an AllMythsAreTrue FantasyKitchenSink situation, with such things as Nazi zombie troopers, vampires, PoweredArmor soldiers and MiniMecha being fought with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica [[{{Expy}} Expies]] made from technology obtained from [[RoswellThatEndsWell the Roswell UFO]], a British HeroUnit that is a reincarnation of Myth/KingArthur, soldiers with PsychicPowers and WeirdScience [[MilitaryMashupMachine Military Mashup Machines]].

** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'' involves UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein developing a time machine during World War II, finally completing it in 1946 and using it to eliminate Hitler in 1924, just as he is exiting Landsberg Prison. This has less-than-ideal results: the Pacific War seems to proceed as usual, but World War II breaks out in ''1946'', with the European Allies (now including Germany, Turkey, and Spain) fighting against the Soviet Union in a war involving attack helicopters, nuclear submarines, {{Lightning Gun}}s, spy satellites, energy shields, and space-time teleportation. The United States, which had provided support to the European Allies for much of the war, eventually enters when it seemed that the USSR was on the verge of overwhelming Europe and Asia. The [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2 direct sequel]] features a ''[[WorldWarIII third]]'' [[WorldWarIII World War]] in the 1970's, initiated by a Soviet invasion of the United States.

* Multiple [[BMovie B-Movies]] created during the height of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror had the main characters performing top-secret missions (or just being the RightManInTheWrongPlace) to prevent monsters and [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] from being used to turn the war in the favor of the insurgents (and cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt)-for example, ''[=OZombie=]'' and the resurrection of Osama Bin-Laden [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as "Patient Zero" of a]] ZombieApocalypse.

* The ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''/''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'' [=RPGs=] have a setting called ''TabletopGame/AchtungCthulhu'', which is about a mix of Franchise/CthulhuMythos and World War II in which the PlayerCharacters fight a secret war against the [[{{Ghostapo}} Black Sun]] and ''[[StupidJetpackHitler Nachtwölfe]]''.

* ''TabletopGame/TheLastWar'' is a tactical gang-building game where the survivors of a war that started in 1914 face off with the things that once lurked in the dark, struggling to survive the apocalypse caused by the war which is known in-universe as the Last War, because there ain't enough people to fight another. Features things like giant trench maggots, shadowy monsters and haunted landships.

** ''Film/BlackWidow'' reveals the the Soviet/[[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia Russian]] spy program known as the "Red Room" has been essentially doing the same thing as Hydra, but with a less monumental end goal, which has allowed them to continue operating for even longer. Most of their work is done by brainwashed super spies.

This trope differs from FantasyConflictCounterpart in that this trope is the real war plus "extras", where FantasyConflictCounterpart is the war RecycledInSpace.

* ''Death March'' (created by Neckbeardia's James) involves all the blood, death, and horror of UsefulNotes/WorldWar1 partially reawakening an EldritchAbimination [[SealedEvilInACan entombed in a crypt underneath the Somme]]. Its stirrings awaken the dead (and any severed body parts) into horrifying revenants, who attack both sides at night. [[FireKeepsItDead They can only be truly killed with fire]]. Its power also enlivens the tangles of barbed wire into thrashing death-traps, and turned any sufficiently big patch of mud into [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Arrowsmith}}'' is set in an AlternateHistory Earth in which the United States of America is actually the United States of Columbia, {{Magic}} is real, and the UsefulNotes/WorldWarI is fought with and by dragons, spells, vampires and all other kinds of magical weapons and beings.

** The wars get even weirder in the [[ComicBook/InfinityWars2018 Warp World]] setting, where--among other character combinations--Captain America is amalgamated with Doctor Strange into Soldier Supreme, a magically-powered American soldier fighting Hitler's priest of Hell, Dormammu Red, and becomes trapped in the Dark Dimension for decades instead of becoming frozen in ice.

* DC had a lot of war comics, two of which adhered very closely to this trope:
** ''Weird War Tales'', as seen up top. For most of its run it was a horror anthology, sort of a war-themed ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' that focused primarily on WWI and WWII and hosted by Death himself. Towards the end it was headlined by the Creature Commandos (an artificial MonsterMash created as an exercise in psychological warfare) and GI Robot (a mute, seemingly nonsentient robot fighting for the USMC in the Pacific)

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar was complicated by the sudden awakening of magical forces. The war now includes features like zombies and {{Steampunk}} mad science devices. While not the main focus, the supplement ''Deadlands: Noir'' also provides info about how World War I went in this universe and the ''Hell On Earth'' expansion provided some info on how World War II went.

* The roadside attraction ''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Kingdom_II Dinosaur Kingdom II]]'' in Natural Bridge, Virginia showcases an attempt by the Union Army at using dinosaurs resurrected from a glacier as weapons and industrial power. To call it an "EpicFail" is [[BlackComedy being too charitable]]. The creator, Mark Cline, has mentioned that he wishes to expand the attraction with a showcase of the Confederate Army trying to use dinosaurs during Pickett's Charge with equally chaotic results.

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* ''Music/{{Sabaton}}'': The band primarily plays HorribleHistoryMetal focused on military history and battles and usually sticks to the history, but it is occasionally embellished for the sake of the song. "The Attack of the Dead Men", about an incident during the first World War where a group of Russians counter-attacked through poison gas ''without gas masks'', evokes this trope by playing it up a bit more as if they were really undead soldiers.

Striking fear into their foe''

->''And that's when the dead men are marching again''

* [[http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-World-War-II-Wasnt/dp/0671698818 "The Fantastic World War II"]] includes stories by Creator/AEVanVogt, Creator/CMKornbluth, Creator/LesterDelRey, and Creator/HarryTurtledove. Basically every story is an example of the genre of "weird WWII" in some way or another. It includes such stories about Sir Francis Drake participating in the Dunkirk evacuation, Count Dracula dining on Nazis, a Nazi teleportation device, and an entire army of cloned Hitlers.

* The tabletop strategy game ''[[https://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/konflikt-47 Konflikt '47]]'' has UsefulNotes/WorldWarII still going on long after the war ended in RealLife (like the title says, the "current day" within the game's timeline is 1947), the Soviet Union splitting from the Allies... and all sides using Mad Science (a new era that was kick-started by the Manhattan Project), like NaziZombies (and disposable robot troops), MiniMecha and PoweredArmor used as "armored cavalry", tanks packing Tesla Coil cannons...

** ''ComicBook/TheHauntedTank'', which ran in DC's ''G.I. Combat'' for about ''25 years''. During WWII Lt. Jeb Stuart commands an M3 Stuart tank haunted by his (and the tank's!) namesake, [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate]] general J.E.B. Stuart. And only Jeb can see or hear Gen. Stuart, so his crew thinks he's a little crazy, but certainly still capable enough to get them through their duty in the field alive. For the record, [[HistoricalDomainCharacter J.E.B. Stuart ''was'' a real person]].

** Things get even weirder in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert the third game]], when the Soviets try to save themselves from losing the war in the second game by using a time machine to go back to 1927 and assassinate Einstein. This somehow has no effect on the events of the first game, but instead finds the Soviets now winning the "historical" WW3, at which point they are attacked by the Empire of Japan using HumongousMecha.

* Not 100% following this Trope, but still pretty close: A quick gag on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is that of Professor Frink bringing a giant Steampunk Mecha-Spider (a la ''Film/TheWildWildWest'') to a Civil War re-enactment. The other side is quickly curb-stomped.

* ''TabletopGame/SilverBayonet'' is a skirmish Gothic horror game set during the Napoleonic wars in which elite bands of monster hunters hunt the things lurking in the dark.