History Main / WeirdHistoricalWar

* ''VideoGame/DinoDDay'' takes place in an alternate [=WW2=] where [[ThoseWackyNazis the nazis]] [[StupidJetpackHitler developed the technology]] to clone [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]] and [[BeastOfBattle train them as deadly soldiers]], often [[WeaponizedAnimal adding mounted guns and armor]]. The allies do have at least one as well, a triceratops the nazis rejected for a deformed leg. One prosthetic and a mounted machine gun later, and it's just as effective as the nazis replacement dino.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation:

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4715 SCP-4715]] ("A Demon Born of War") is an AnimalisticAbomination and a BloodKnight that [[SizeShifting grows larger]] based on the number of people and creatures around it with hostile intentions. It first came into the world during a war waged between [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000 SCP-1000]] and [[TheFairFolk the Fae]] during the ice age.

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* There was a 2013 {{mockumentary}} on Creator/TheHistoryChannel called "The Great Martian War". It blended film footage from World War One with CG of Martian tripods. [[http://vimeo.com/107454954 Watch some footage of it here.]] There was also a video game based on the film.
* ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'' occasionally delved into this during the course of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In a Halloween special, Indy faces an eccentric Romanian general that is actually a vampirized Vlad Tepes planning to create a vampire army and take over the world (his first attack is on a POW camp, resulting on soldiers from both sides being vampirified and joining his ranks). In another special, he infiltrates a German airbase and destroys an experimental plane design of Anthony Fokker that is capable of crossing the Atlantic years before this was accomplished in real life, and that the Germans intend to use to bomb New York City.
* ''Series/WhiteRabbitProject'': The episode "Crazy UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Weapons" showcases some of the RealLife attempts by the Allied forces to create wonder weapons. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome as even the ones that actually worked when tested (which include such things as ''pigeon-guided smart bombs'') were too AwesomeButImpractical.

* The premise of ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'' involves witches having been an American military caste since the colonial era, with [[SalemIsWitchCountry Salem, Massachusetts]] becoming a combination of Hogwarts and West Point. In the modern day, America is fighting a Weird [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror War on Terror]] against a group called the Spree that stages violent occult attacks against civilians in places like malls and cruise ships.
* ''Series/Danger5'''s first season showed a very silly version of World War II inspired by '60s pulp adventure magazines, with LivingDinosaurs, {{kaiju}}, [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi mad science ]] and [[{{Ghostapo}} occultism]], and more. Season two gave us a very weird Cold War inspired by '80s pop culture, with HighlyVisibleNinja, TimeTravel, {{sentai}}, and a toy commercial at the end of every episode.

* Pinnacle Games published a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Wars Weird Wars]]'' line of d20 games taking place in RealLife past and future wars with supernatural additions. For example, ''Weird War II'' had the {{PC}}s playing Allied soldiers during World War II, but the Nazis had mutant soldiers, characters could use haunted vehicles and cast spells, and there were monsters. Lots of monsters. The UpdatedRerelease of the game line for TabletopGame/SavageWorlds so far includes UsefulNotes/WorldWarI ("Weird War I"), UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ("Weird War II"), UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar ("Tour Of Darkness"), and [[AncientRome the]] [[UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire Roman]] [[UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire Empire]] and its campaigns of conquest ("Weird Wars Rome").
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'':
** The "World War II" line included ''Weird War II''. Want to use rune magic to send giant monsters against the alien supersoldiers working for the other side? It's in here. (note: Despite the name similarity, this isn't part of the Pinnacle series.)
** ''TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer'': after the [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent Hellstorm]] in 1945, a number of real-world wars still went ahead with China facing stiff resistance from magic Tibetian monks in their invasion of 1950 and Iranian Revolution takes place while Shah is being treated for vampiric leukaemia in the United States in 1979. The supplement "Funny New Guys" focuses on roleplaying the Vietnam War if it were fought using wizards and dragons.
* Dream Pod 9's ''TabletopGame/GearKrieg'' setting is a World War II which has both sides using Pulp WeirdScience and most importantly HumongousMecha of varying types (MiniMecha and TransformingMecha modeled after and standing in for real-world military hardware, for example).
* ''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]].
* 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 TabletopRPG ''Godlike'' has as its base setting a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII where all sides have managed (through various means) to create or obtain superhumans and deploy them on the front lines (and its expansion, ''Brave New World'', provides some information on how the UsefulNotes/ColdWar went on the same universe). The system prides itself on being ''incredibly'' lethal even for the most powerful of player builds/supers, and thus ''seriously'' exposes that WarIsHell.
* Played with on the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' and ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' game series: while multiple members of the FantasyKitchenSink factions that comprise the settings did work during World War II (and other conflicts), they remained deep in the shadows and the byline and when the games get to the point of talking about UsefulNotes/WorldWarII proper they ''explicitly'' mention that none of them had absolutely ''[[AvertedTrope anything]]'' to do with [[WeDidntStartTheFuhrer Adolf Hitler's monstrous actions]] (WordOfGod is that they decided that having, for example, [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade the Camarilla]] as the one responsible for The Holocaust would have been in ''horrifyingly'' bad taste).
* 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...
* ''Kaiser's Gate'' is a fantasy [=WW1=], with the Tunguska event creating multiple gates between Earth and Faerie, where elves, dark elves, orcs, dwarves and other fantasy races live. The war begins as normal even though the mess left by the (re?)introduction of magic into the world has reshaped the world significantly; there is Native American nation, the Far East and Australia are bloody messes, New Orleans is now an independent city-state etc. The Red Baron now flies a wyvern against French gryphons, and golem accompany tanks into battle as golem are highly resistant to magic. At the end it gets worse, as Central American forces invade the US, and the dragons, who perform an act of mass destruction in a deal with a desperate Kaiser, decide he has stiffed them on the payment, sending the world into the Dragon War, which ends around 1920. Also there is no Soviet Union after this, as the Czar decided to quit the war early and develop [[InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha walking huts]] based on the legend of Bab Yaga instead.
* ''Cold City'' deals with the aftermath of Weird War 2, as the occupying forces in Berlin in 1950 have to deal with horrors created by "[[MagiTek twisted technology]]" - and each other, as some want it all wiped out, some want to study it, and some want it for themselves.
* ''TabletopGame/AllFleshMustBeEaten'' has multiple "deadworld" sample scenarios spread throughout the entire line wherein a ZombieApocalypse erupted right in the middle of anything from both World Wars to the Boxer Conflict to the Cold War, sometimes because of an actual project made by the military and sometimes just [[DiabolusExNihilo because]].
* Atomic Overmind Press' ''The Day After Ragnarok'' is a pulp AfterTheEnd setting, with "The End" having been a Nazi regime that was about to be defeated deciding to do a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum and using a ritual to summon [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jörmungandr Jörmungandr]] and have it destroy the world. The Americans were able to stop it by using one of the nukes made by the Manhattan Project to blow its head off... unfortunately the devastation it did with its death throes and all of its spilled mystically-tainted blood and poison was just as bad.
* Rogue Games' ''Colonial Gothic'' RPG involves the characters living in the time of (and fighting) UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution while dealing with monsters and demons that cause calamity in a myriad ways to both sides (and innocent bystanders) from the shadows.

* The ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'' series features the use of human-sized mecha called Panzerkleins (literally, "small tanks"), which were supplied by a terrorist group called Thor's Hammer to both Allied and Axis forces in order to reap off the profits while they waited for both factions to weaken each other off before they would start plans to take over the world.

* In ''Videogame/CallOfCthulhuTheWastedLand'' (set during World War I), you lead a small squad of British and American investigators in the Eastern French battlefield, attempting to stop the German to create an army of [[TheUndead Undead]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. The game then received a prequel DLC campaign in which you play as Docktor [sic] Kaul, the BigBad of the main campaign.
* ''Videogame/Strikers1945'': It is World War II as a ShootEmUp with various historical gigantic vehicles being able to [[TransformingMecha transform into gigantic robots]], and at least one fight with an alien creature.

* According to ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth 2'', the Cold War ended when the Soviet-invented stealth bomber (which looks a hell of a lot like a B-2) was stolen by American agents after an extended bombing campaign over Alaska. This embarrassing defeat caused the USSR to collapse soon after.
* ''VideoGame/GunsGoreAndCannoli 2'' has the Nazis trying to create zombies as a wonder weapon, [[spoiler:after the Dark Don (formerly small-fry gangster Frankie "The Fly") has handed them the poison-spiked zombie-making bathtub whiskey that caused the ZombieApocalypse of the first game]]. The right person for the job of getting rid of this? OneManArmy Mob enforcer Vinnie Cannoli.
* In World War I shooter ''VideoGame/SnoopyVsTheRedBaron'', the Triple Entente is working on their secret Doodlebug bomb (a V1-esque rocket, implied to be nuclear) when Charlie Brown is kidnapped by the Red Baron, Doodlebug plans in hand. It's up to Snoopy to fight through the Flying Circus's army of gigantic tanks, huge mechas, warships, and [[CoolAirship cool airships]] to rescue Charlie Brown and stop the Baron. [[RuleOfCool This is 100% how World War I went]][[note]]The justification for this, if you're wondering, is that it's just Snoopy dreaming about a movie script he wrote[[/note]].
* Despite ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' and the Great War that is central to its narrative happening in the future, it still qualifies as a weird historical war in that the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union never ended in the series' backstory. The Soviet Union would still ultimately fall apart, but China would step up in its place. A very large number of weird, unethical, and just plain wrong things would ultimately happen in Fallout's timeline between the [[AlternateHistory Divergence]], which seemingly happened sometime in the 1950's, and the big kaboom.
* ''Decorum Est'' is an AlternateHistory mod for ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron IV'' set in 1930, one year after the end of an alternate version of World War I which saw the use of superweapons, themselves the result of an arm race caused by the discovery of a "near magical" element named "[[{{Unobtainium}} Haephestium]]".
* ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' takes place (more or less) in an alternate version of World War II where the naval warships of both the Allies and Axis (referred to in-universe as the "Azur Lane" and "Crimson Axis" respectively) have been replaced with [[MoeAnthropomorphism pretty but powerful shipgirls]], thanks to the interference of the otherworldly Siren invaders (who have since been supporting the Crimson Axis for their own reasons).
* ''VideoGame/VictoryBelles'' is set in a version of WWII not too dissimilar to our own, with one major difference; the belligerent nations have all agreed to transfer operational command of any warship that has manifested a [[MoeAnthropomorphism female personification known as a "Belle"]] to the League of Nations's joint fleet responsible for protecting the Earth's seas and coasts from the powerful and otherwordly Morgana, with the specific divergence point being when both the Belles and Morgana began appearing en masse right at the beginning of the invasion of Poland.

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', uryuoms (shapeshifting humanoid aliens) [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=879 fought]] in the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution The American Revolutionary War]] in the AlternateUniverse where one of Ellen's multiversal counterparts lives.
* ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'' takes place in a deconstruction of superhero-filled WWII, except the Nazis have magic and they're winning.

* ''WebAnimation/TheUnbiasedHistoryOfRome'' is pretty much a {{Historical|Fantasy}} DarkFantasy (especially the later and Byzantine episodes) wrapped up in the format of {{edutainment}}, and this shows itself in it's depictions of Rome's various wars. For example; Cleopatra was a reincarnated Queen Dido mind-controling Mark Antony, the Sassanid Persians were TheLegionsOfHell, the Goths were demon-kings, Attila was a SorcerousOverlord who could only be cast out by the Pope, and fighting against it all were the Romans with the blood of the gods in their veins.

* 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.

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' called [[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsShapeShifters "Shape-Shifters"]] is about the Iraq War in a world where werewolves are a known and [[FantasticRacism discriminated against]] element. The story focuses on an American werewolf soldier choosing to go AWOL after avenging the death of his werewolf comrade at the hands of Iraqi werewolves, because of his mistreatment by his peers and superiors.

* In ''Literature/FredTheVampireAccountant'', the titular character is told that UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution only succeeded with the help of supernatural beings, especially [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]]. Apparently, supernatural creatures wanted a land of their own, far from the Old World, so they made a deal with the Founding Fathers, which is still in force to this day. During UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, the wording of the contract forced all supernatural beings to fight on the side of the North (since the contract was signed with the "Union").
* The ''SNAFU'' anthology book series by Cohesion Press centers around military operations that end up going wrong because of the operators running into rampaging Monsters.
* ''Literature/TheSuicideExhibition'' begins a series depicting [=WW2=] in which an alien menace is attempting to infiltrate and subvert the Earth's civilisation during the war, with Alastair Crowley's cult worshipping them and the Nazis trying to weaponise them; their main weapon is the Ubermensch, created from humans infected with an orange fungus.
* The ''Literature/AnnoDracula'' series involves Count Dracula surviving to influence 20th century civilisation, leading to an awful lot of vampires on both sides of [=WW1=] in ''Literature/TheBloodyRedBaron'', where German experiments allow the Baron to fly planeless.
* ''Literature/NoMansLandTalesFromTheWeirdWars'': A series from Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, where the German high command accepting the offer of help from an occultist in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI resulted in the world being flooded with weirdness, most notably in various fictional characters and entities become real.
* Another Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom series, ''Literature/VivereMilitareEst'', has its PointOfDivergence in 1945 when the Nazis and the Japanese turn to the occult in order to stave off total collapse, pulling them BackFromTheBrink and prolonging the war until 1946 when it's revealed that the Americans were also working on their own occult superweapon in the form of a "despoiler bomb". From there, a multi-sided Weird UsefulNotes/ColdWar develops between the Western Allies, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Japan, all while various cults and preternatural forces run rampant across the Third World and among domestic extremist groups, producing a concurrent Weird [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror War on Terror]].

* ''The Timeline Wars'' trilogy is about two groups of time and dimensional traveling groups waging a proxy war by giving improved technology to different groups or leaders throughout history:
** In the first book, ''Patton's Spaceship'', the villainous faction gives Nazi Germany the means of manufacturing optimized versions of the Me 262 jet fighter in 1936, before World War 2 breaks out. With, the Nazis annihilate both Britain and Russia before conquering the US. General Patton leads a counteroffensive using laser tanks and armed spaceships.
** The second book, ''Washington's Dirigible,'' features George Washington using [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dirigibles]] to fight the British in the American Revolution.
* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' tie-in novel ''The Unholy Cause''. In the novel, during the waning days of the Civil War, the Confederacy turned to black magic to bolster their side. Unfortunately for them, as is often the case in the Supernatural-verse, magic has a tendency to backfire and cause more harm to those who use it, which is precisely what happened to the Conferedates.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': On the brink of defeat, the Nazis, with the help of [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Grigori Rasputin]], are about to bring forth TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* Dr. Manhattan was used as a weapon in Vietnam in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', which changed the course of the war.
* Creator/DavidBrin's ''The Life-Eaters'' is premised on the idea that mass human sacrifice can create godlike beings, which the Nazis use to create Nordic gods to fight for them. Then other countries get in on the game, and things get pretty horrible.
* Creator/AvatarPress's ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' attempts to {{deconstruct|ion}} the typical comic book trope of super humans being used in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, instead painting them as [[PersonOfMassDestruction walking Weapons of Mass Destruction]] that leave plenty of {{Gorn}} behind wherever they're deployed ([[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome especially when facing regular troops]]).

** "The Haunted Tank," 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, J.E.B. Stuart ''was'' a real person.

* Guess the situation in ''Vampire Vixens of the Wehrmacht''. Go on, guess.
* The ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'' series follows the titular group of superwomen (yes, super''women'', with no supermen in sight) fighting for the Allies and preventing the Axis (or "[[NeutralEvil neutral]]" (in the "[[OmnicidalNeutral kill everybody on both sides and conquer/destroy the world]]" sense)) from deploying unnatural weapons.
* A ([[WhatCouldHaveBeen potentially to never be completed]]) Marvel ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' fancomic by James Stokoe, ''Spider-'Nam'', has ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' fighting in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (with Spidey costume under the G.I. gear and all). [[http://io9.gizmodo.com/5809737/what-if-spider-man-fought-in-vietnam Here is a view of some completed pages]].

* Downplayed in ''Comicbook/TheBoys'': while Compound V (the drug responsible for supers) was invented by a German who fled the Nazis, the only attempt at having supers in combat was a cataclysmic failure, killing off a US tank division, all the supers involved, and Senator Prescott Bush. The Nazis did end up creating a single super, but he didn't participate in the war (and works for Vought American nowadays).
* The major PointOfDivergence in ''ComicBook/EastOfWest'' is the American Civil War dragging out for several years longer than in real life before being ended by a meteor strike in the center of America. Things get weirder and weirder from there.
* ''ComicBook/SixtyEight'' was an Creator/ImageComics series revolving around a ZombieApocalypse emerging during the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar and spreading to the rest of the world from there.

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* Happened in the backstory of ''Film/IronSky'', when the Nazis evacuated their Antarctic base and fled to the moon with the aid of antigrav vehicles.
* In ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', a Nazi attempt to disrupt communication lines on British soil is thwarted by a witch and some suits of armor that she magically brings to life.
* ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'': in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, the Confederacy employs vampire troops. Abe only managed to win the war by using silver weapons.
* In the short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnINKwWUiY 1945A]]'', the Germans field a giant spider-like mech against the Allies, complete with a laser death ray.
* In ''Film/TheIncredibleMrLimpet'' Mr. Limpet--a former human, now a fish--uses his "thrum" call to guide Allied subs to German subs in order to sink them. The Germans develop a special torpedo which homes in on thrums.
* ''Film/{{Deathwatch 2002}}'' has a small number of WWI British (and German) soldiers trapped in a maze-like abandoned trench that is inhabited by a demonic being.
* ''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.
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' it is revealed that Hydra was not destroyed after the Red Skull's disappearance, and in fact has been infiltrating power structures all over the world, causing many major wars. And one of their major weapons in controlling the outcome of the chaos has been a BrainwashedAndCrazy HumanPopsicle SuperSoldier with a robot arm while their whole schtick was masterminded by Arnim Zola, who has uploaded himself in a series of 80s computers.
** ''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.
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'' has Moriarty heating the [[ShownTheirWork real]] war panic of 1891 between Germany and France, but Holmes and Watson manage to [[AvoidingTheGreatWar prevent war from breaking out]]. The revolutionary new weapons Moriarty is stockpilling and wants to [[WarForFunAndProfit sell to the highest bidder]] once war breaks out were unheard of in 1891, but were rather common in 1914, implying that they eventually found their way into the market [[ForegoneConclusion and were put to good use when a world war finally broke out]].
* 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.

* ''Film/ReignOfTheGargoyles'' has downed American pilots in France assisting a French woman on the quest for a lance from the tomb of a holy knight, after their plane is shredded by gargoyles. The gargoyles have many tactical advantages compared to a B-17, but can be killed with normal weapons; the lance is required as the master of the creatures cannot be killed with normal weapons. The gargoyles were a desperate delaying gambit by the {{Ghostapo}}, who summon the gargoyles but [[EvilIsNotAToy find out the hard way]] that they cannot command them.
* ''Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats'' involves a satirical view of the U.S. government's attempt at creating a psychic warfare division (based on the RealLife "Stargate Project", mentioned below) during the Cold War. The reason why they (and the Russians) decided to spend millions of dollars in such an insane proposal to begin with is explained as, simply enough, not wanting either side to hold supremacy in the field of the paranormal in very small chance that there was something real about it. The film opens with a NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, even.
* ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'' is about Frankensteins and time traveller in Usefulnotes/TheAmericanCivilWar.

* Nine years earlier, Creator/HarryHarrison used a similar scenario--a racist from the future travelling back to the time of the American Civil War to help the Confederacy win using easily produced Sten guns--as the basic premise for his novel ''A Rebel in Time''. Only here the black protagonist of the novel also travels back in time to prevent the changing of history.

* ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' by Creator/HarryTurtledove involves the Earth invaded by aliens during World War II.

* The short stories "Missile Gap" and "A Colder War" by Creator/CharlesStross are the UsefulNotes/ColdWar with added Franchise/CthulhuMythos, inspired when he realized the two were remarkably similar in theme: the human race existing at the mercy of vast, uncaring entities with the power to end civilization at any moment.
* Mike Mignola's ''[[Literature/{{Baltimore}} Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire]]'' starts in the trenches of WWI, when the protagonist is attacked by vampires, their bloodlust awakened by the slaughter. Eventually, the war is inconclusively brought to an end by the outbreak of a supernatural plague. The comic book series that follows after reveals other... unusual occurrences.
* Two of the Literature/ElementalMasters novels (''Literature/PhoenixAndAshes'' and ''Literature/UnnaturalIssue'') refer to magic being used by spies on both sides of World War I. The second also has a necromantic summoning in No Man's Land, which goes as well as you'd expect with all that raw material around.
* In the ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' series, [=WW2=] had a distinct supernatural flavour in the background with the Germans doing all sorts of nasty things at Ettersberg (better known as Buchenwald concentration camp) involving death magic. The battle to shut down the Nazi's supernatural weapons at Ettersberg also destroyed the Allies magical corps too.
* ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' indicates a few times that the American colonies, which never became independent in this setting, are gathering resources and wizards to fight a fantasy version of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. This has the wizardly rulers of Britain very concerned.
* ''Literature/LammasNight'', by Creator/KatherineKurtz, follows the magical Battle of Britain that was fought alongside the publicly-known one, with archmage Adolf Hitler's Nazi coven fighting the witches and mystics of the British isles.
* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' has magicians helping out in the Napoleonic wars.
* Appears in the backstory of ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': apparently UsefulNotes/WorldWarII was caused in part and fought largely by warring demigod children of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. The effects were so devastating that they vowed never to have children after the war. [[spoiler:Only Hades kept it.]]
** In the sequel series, ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', the American Civil War was apparently caused by feuding Roman and Greek demigods.
* ''Literature/{{Declare}}'' adds a supernatural background (specifically concerning [[spoiler:the Jinn]]) to [=WW2=] and particularly the Cold War.
* A variation in ''Literature/NightWatchSeries''. Some novels claim that [[MageSpecies Others]] secretly fought one another on both sides of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (yes, {{Ghostapo}} was real). [[UsefulNotes/TheCityFormerlyKnownAs Leningrad]] (now St. Petersburg again) was a particularly fierce battleground due to the city itself being full of magic. People still occasionally find powerful artifacts left over from those battles.
* Briefly discussed in the ''Literature/MediochreQSethSeries'', where a flashback to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI has Pigeon mention a rumour that mancers on the German side had been working on {{Magitek}} weaponry. Whether those rumours were ever true is not mentioned.
* The ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' novel series takes place during the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar--and adds to this a whole town from late 20th century America, introducing new technology and societal concepts to the 17th century.
** Downplayed most of the time. After the first book, most battles are still fought using largely 17th-century (or at most 19th-century) tactics and weapons, with American weapons and devices appearing in a supporting role, such as aircraft used for reconnaissance.
* Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker'' series has magic that's super real. Also, Joseph Smith as a superhero. This may or may not be the explanation for why world history is so wildly different.

* The book ''Literature/ShamblingTowardsHiroshima'' is mostly written as a memoir (and potential suicide note) of an old BMovie actor (of the type [[PeopleInRubberSuits that wore rubber suits for a living]] a la ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'') and his involvement on "Project KNICKERBOCKER", an attempt by the United States Navy to create RealLife (InUniverse) {{Kaiju}} to unleash as Weapons Of Mass Destruction on the Japanese. [[spoiler:[[DeconstructedTrope It turns out that]] said monsters were [[AwesomeButImpractical not only almost impossible to breed]] [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever in the customary size]], [[AwesomeButImpractical but the man-sized prototypes, even if]] ''seemingly'' lethal, were very calm. The actor's involvement in the project was to wear a rubber costume based on the monsters' looks in order to film propaganda movies of their supposed effectiveness.]] The people in charge of Project KNICKERBOCKER also mention in passing that [[StupidJetpackHitler the Nazis]] are breeding Kaiju of their own, but are apparently running into the same issues as they are. [[spoiler:In the end, this trope is subverted or maybe even defied: the Americans' attempt at intimidating the Japanese into surrendering by exposing the project is met with laughter because of a DisastrousDemonstration, so the Americans decide to pull the plug on the whole thing, kill the Kaiju they have already bred, and use [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki the Manhattan Project]] instead. It's made clear that the Germans did the same to their own Kaiju project.]]

* ''Series/Danger5'''s first season showed a very silly version of World War II inspired by '60s pulp adventure magazines, with LivingDinosaurs, {{kaiju}}, [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi mad science ]] and [[{{Ghostapo}} occultism]], and more. Season two gave us a very weird Cold War inspired by '80s pop culture, with HighlyVisibleNinja, TimeTravel, {sentai}}, and a toy commercial at the end of every episode.

* ''WebAnimation/TheUnbiasedHistoryOfRome'' is pretty much a {{Historical| Fantasy}} DarkFantasy (especially the later and Byzantine episodes) wrapped up in the format of EduTainment, and this shows itself in it's depictions of Rome's various wars. For example; Cleopatra was a reincarnated Queen Dido mind-controling Mark Antony, the Sassanid Persians were TheLegionsOfHell, the Goths were demon-kings, Attila was a SorcerousOverlord who could only be cast out by the Pope, and fighting against it all were the Romans with the blood of gods in their veins.

Expect the use of the occasional SecretWeapon, often of the RaygunGothic or DieselPunk kind if set in the mid 20th century. UsefulNotes/WorldWarII examples will overlap heavily with {{Ghostapo}}, NaziZombies, StupidJetpackHitler, and/or WeDidntStartTheFuhrer. UsefulNotes/ColdWar examples will often overlap with SovietSuperscience. Fantasy examples may overlap with HistoricalFantasy. Often is a sub-trope of DieselPunk or SecretHistory.

** ''Weird War Tales'', as seen up top. For most of its run it was a horror anthology, sort of a war-themed ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' 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)

* A variation in ''Literature/NightWatchSeries''. Some novels claim that [[WitchSpecies Others]] secretly fought one another on both sides of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (yes, {{Ghostapo}} was real). [[UsefulNotes/TheCityFormerlyKnownAs Leningrad]] (now St. Petersburg again) was a particularly fierce battleground due to the city itself being full of magic. People still occasionally find powerful artifacts left over from those battles.

* The miniature game ''DUST Tactics'' is about an alternative history World War 2 featuring walking tanks, powered armour, Nazi zombies and the like.

* The real-life investigation by the U.S. government and the Russians on whether or not psychic powers exist (as seen in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project Stargate Project]]) and whether or not they could be useful for intelligence-gathering purposes. Funny enough, in the people involved did used a whole lot of ''Franchise/StarWars'' terminology amongst themselves, including calling themselves "Jedis". Investigative reporter Jon Ronson examined one bizarre aspect of this -- an exploration of the idea that psychic powers could be used to deliver death at a distance -- by getting interviews with Americans who claimed to have been employed in a US Army project to see if the death stare worked. ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'' is a surreal exploration of the psi-wars as seen from the USA.

UsefulNotes/WorldWarII examples will overlap heavily with {{Ghostapo}}, NaziZombies, StupidJetpackHitler, and/or WeDidntStartTheFuhrer. UsefulNotes/ColdWar examples will often overlap with SovietSuperscience. Fantasy examples may overlap with HistoricalFantasy. Often is a sub-trope of DieselPunk or SecretHistory.

* ''VideoGame/VictoryBelles'' is set in a version of WWII not too dissimilar to our own, with one major difference; the belligerent nations have all agreed to transfer operational command of any warship that has manifested a [[MoeAnthropomorphism female personification known as a "Belle"]] to the League of Nations's joint fleet responsible for protecting the Earth's seas and coasts from the powerful and otherwordly Morgana, with both the Belles and Morgana appearing en masse right at the beginning of the invasion of Poland.

* ''VideoGame/VictoryBelles'' is set in a version of WWII not too dissimilar to our own, with one major difference; the belligerent nations have all agreed to transfer operational command of any warship that has manifested a [[MoeAnthropomorphism female personification known as a "Belle"]] to the League of Nations's joint fleet tasked with protecting the Earth's seas from the powerful and otherwordly Morgana, with both the Belles and Morgana appearing en masse right at the beginning of the invasion of Poland.

* Despite ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' and the Great War that is central to it's narrative happening in the future, it still qualifies as a weird historical war in that the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union never ended in the series' backstory. The Soviet Union would still ultimately fall apart, but China would step up in its place. A very large number of weird, unethical, and just plain wrong things would ultimately happen in Fallout's timeline between the [[AlternateHistory Divergence]], which seemingly happened sometime in the 1950's, and the big kaboom.

* ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' has you control a fleet of World War 2 era warships' AnthropomorphicRepresentation, with the main story recounting the battles of the pacific theater, and events focussing on various battles that happened during the war.

* ''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 KingArthur, soldiers with PsychicPowers and WeirdScience [[MilitaryMashupMachine Military Mashup Machines]].