History UsefulNotes / TheFalklandsWar

* Mentioned in ''Webcomic/AquaRegia'', when Daniel asks if Argentina still has mercenaries, a clerk replies to him that yes, there's still mercenaries, and one of the reasons why they still live on dictatorship and they never stopped being a militarized nation, 70+ years and counting, it's because while Galtieri proposed it, Videla flat out shut him down. Daniel [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that he can't even imagine his country going to war with "a piece of land". In other words, this was [[ForWantOfANail the decisive event]] that made the story setting possible.

** In "Burns' Heir", Krusty takes a night off filming his show and sticks on a re-run, figuring that no one will notice. Unfortunately for him, it happens to be the edition that was playing the night the Falklands War was declared, and he interrupted the show to deliver a CharacterFilibuster about it.

--->'''Argentine Ambassador:''' Oh, forget it. We kind of knew they were yours.

* ''ComicBook/Crossed'':
** Jackson fought in the war during his time with the [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous SBS]]; it was there that he first his lover and the woman whom he claims created the Crossed virus, Magda. Given his self-admitted insanity, [[spoiler: and the fact that Magda had nothing to do with the virus]] [[UnreliableNarrator it is hard to say how much of what he says is true]] but [[OneManArmy he is genuinely capable and lethal.]]

* Another British drama, 1990's ''Arrivederci Millwall,'' follows a group of British {{Football Hooligans}} as they visit Spain for the 1982 World Cup, in the aftermath of the Falklands War. One of them has lost his brother in that war, which sets off a chain of events that leads to tragedy.

** In one episode, Krusty takes a night off filming his show and sticks on a re-run, figuring that no one will notice; unfortunately for him, it happens to be the edition that was playing the night the Falklands War was declared, and he interrupted the show to deliver a CharacterFilibuster about it.
** The second WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror episode has a segment in which Lisa uses a wish to bring peace to the world, and the resulting montage includes a conversation between the British and Argentine ambassadors at the UN:
--->"Eh, sorry about the Falklands, old boy."\\
"Oh, forget it. We kind of knew they were yours."

[[caption-width-right:180:[[NeverLiveItDown Bullseye]]]]

Diplomatic efforts failed, as neither side was willing to back down. It's also possible that war was what both sides truly wanted, since it actually helped both sides politically-speaking. The newest junta and UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher needed to regain their popularity, and [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste fighting a war helps to boost a leader's popularity (assuming they win, that is).]][[note]]Many believe this requirement for a good image was the true reason behind the war.[[/note]] For the Argentine junta, this naturally failed spectacularly with their defeat, and they were toppled the next year.[[note]]It's been noted that if the junta had been willing to wait another year before invading, they likely would've won. There had been massive budget cuts scheduled for the British military in 1982 (cuts which were cancelled because of the war) which would've resulted in significant downsizing of the Royal Navy. Including the scrapping of the old aircraft carrier HMS ''Hermes'' and the sale of the brand-new HMS ''Invincible'' to Australia. Without a meaningful ability to bring air cover with them, Britain would've had little choice but to surrender the Falklands.[[/note]]

* Billy Butcher of Comicbook/TheBoys served in the Falklands, and apparently did not come back entirely sane - after his return, he is shown starting fights with strangers, or even his own friends, for absolutely no reason; one of his assaults gets him court-martialled. On the other hand, just how sane he was before he went to war is at best questionable.
* The Falklands War plays a role in the first arc of ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman Inc]]'' - the British Government sent a patriotic team there to stop the supervillain Doctor Daedalus. Memories of the war also cause tension between the Hood (who's British) and El Gaucho (Argentinean).

* Likewise in Series/HouseOfCardsUK. Prime Minister Urquhart says the same thing when a crisis blows up in Greece. However things don't go according to plan.

* Walter Blunt of ''BluntTalk'' fought in the war with the British Army, along with his valet Harry, who still calls him 'Major'.

* ''VideoGame/ProjectReality'', a mod of ''{{VideoGame/Battlefield2}}'', has an expansion that focuses on this conflict, with players able to play both the British and Argentine Army factions.

Incidentally, the Falklands conflict was technically a ''rematch'' between Britain and Argentina. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_invasions_of_the_River_Plate Britain invaded Argentina]] during UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars when Argentina was still a Spanish colony, part of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata]], and Spain was allied to France. The invasion was an embarrassing defeat for Britain, particularly since the Spanish colonists fought it off by themselves without any help from Spain. The colonists' irritation at the lack of Spanish aid was one of the reasons for their later revolution.