History Quotes / BeenThereShapedHistory

->--'''Belial''', ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter''

-->--'''Poppy,''' ''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician King]]''

-->--''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician King]]''

->--'''Belial''', ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter''

-->--'''ComicBook/VandalSavage''', ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica''

-->-- ''ComicBook/ZatannaAndTheHouseOfSecrets''

->'''Marco:''' Oh, [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots Erek]], one more thing. I kind of need a makeup paper on some great figure from American history. [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld It's kind of due day after tomorrow]].
->'''Erek:''' How about [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt Franklin Roosevelt]]? I was the White House butler during his administration. I was the one who came up with the phrase 'New Deal.' Of course, it was during a poker game.
-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #34''

-->-- ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''

-->-- ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''

->'''Marco:''' Oh, [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots Erek]], one more thing. I kind of need a makeup paper on some great figure from American history. [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld It's kind of due day after tomorrow]].
->'''Erek:''' How about [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt Franklin Roosevelt]]? I was the White House butler during his administration. I was the one who came up with the phrase 'New Deal.' Of course, it was during a poker game.
-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #34''

->'''Marco:''' Oh, [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots Erek]], one more thing. I kind of need a makeup paper on some great figure from American history. [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveThe World It's kind of due day after tomorrow]].

-->-- ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''

-->-- ''Podcast/TheLastPodcastOnTheLeft'' Episode 312 ("Rasputin Part III: The Rise of Rasputin")

-->--'''The King of the Vampires,''' ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}: Rough Trade''

-->--''An Unattractive Vampire'' by [=Jim McDoniel=]

->[[StingyJack The Irishman]] paused his tale to answer a question on the television. “Would anyone happen to know who opposed UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart Richard the Lionheart]] in the [[UsefulNotes/TheCrusades Third Crusade]]?”

-->--''Bellum Romanum,'' by Carrie Vaughn

-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition

-->--'''Faethor Ferenczy,''' ''Literature/{{Necroscope}} II: Wamphyri''

->It was 1204. Need I remind you of a singular emergence in Mongolia just two years later? Of course not, his name was Temujin - later UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan! With a party of Uighurs I joined him and helped subdue and unite the last of the rowdy Mongol tribes, until all Mongolia was finally united. I proved myself a capable warlord and he showed me some respect. With some small effort I was able to [[MasterOfDisguise change my features until I looked the part]]; that is to say [{VoluntaryShapeshifting I willed my vampire flesh into a new mould]]. The Khan knew that I was not a Mongol, of course, but at least I was acceptable. And later he would have many [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenaries]] in his command, so that my participation was in no way a rare thing. I was with him against the Chin, when we penetrated the Great Wall, and after his death I was there to see the total obliteration of the Chin Empire. I passed my 'loyalty' down to Genghis's grandson, Batu. I could have offered my services to other Mongol Khans, but Batu's objective was Europe! It was one thing to return a man alone, but another to go back as a general in a Mongol army!

-->--'''The Buzzing,''' on [[spoiler: Lilith]], ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-->-- '''[[NoNameGiven The Cigarette-Smoking Man]]''', ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"

-->-- ''Film/AndStarringPanchoVillaAsHimself''

-->'''Inquisitor''': This Elder One thinks he can become divine? That's the oldest conceit of mortals!\\

-->'''Inquisitor''': [[spoiler: This Elder One thinks he can become divine? That's the oldest conceit of mortals!]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Envy Demon]]''': [[spoiler: He knows. He was ''there''.]]

-->--'''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Fires of Pompeii"

-->--'''The Doctor'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Fires of Pompeii"

-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''

->I mention [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance the Renaissance]], not because it was an important time for the family, but because our more distant relatives as a whole linger over memories of the age, [[NostalgiaFilter savoring them like a soap bone]]: the elders who played at sophistication sharpened their fangs on [[Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli Machiavelli]], and discovered that this interesting Alighieri person [[Literature/TheDivineComedy had been composing some poetry]]. Most remarkable - most ''frustrating'' - of all was the incredible way that they began to claim that [[SelfServingMemory they'd been involved in these advances all along]] - as if they'd been sipping vitae in [[Creator/GiovanniBoccaccio Boccaccio]]'s studio instead of cowering under bridges, hiding from Inquisitors.