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Safe to say I can make this into Unbiased History. Maybe the Rome series can have its own page once again when there's enough non-Rome material
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-> ''"There once was a dream...a dream to purge this rotten world of the barbarians that infested it! A dream called Rome."''
-->-- [[EstablishingSeriesMoment The very first lines of the series]]
'''The Unbiased History of Rome''' is a web animation series by Dovahhatty started on May 22, 2019. In spite of the name, it actually is blatantly biased towards the Romans for laughs, sometimes even reinterpreting entire events in their favor as he covers their history from mythological beginnings in Troy, to the times of the Republic, to the empire onwards. The entire series can be watched in chronological order [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EOzr15h8S8&list=PLp5VE4P1YBhc05cDqiOazzTTu1WSh8MHg here]].
Dovah currently has a mini-series on the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire [[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyzAu5GDVAhRbHw6aR4AaABCQ in the works]]
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!!Contains examples of:
* TheAce: Some of the rulers that were regarded by contemporary historians as among the best really stick out in this manner.
** Julius Caesar, in spite of being in the Populares faction that Hatty didn't look fondly towards, was portrayed as taking part there out of necessity. His popularity with soldiers and his successful campaign in Gaul earned him the ire of Senators, including Cato the Younger who sabotaged any attempts at compromise. Caesar then won the ensuing civil war between him and Pompey, and even bested his most valuable general Labienus to close out said war.
** Amongst the Five Good Emperors, Trajan is a standout not only for being well-regarded even by Christians[[note]]He didn't consider persecuting them during his reign, ensuring that he's seen by Christian historians as a virtuous pagan[[/note]], but also bringing the Roman Empire to its greatest extent, stretching from Britain to Babylon. While there were uprisings towards the end, his accomplishments were considered the zenith of the empire. His feats were such that a common prayer among senators was "May he be luckier than Augustus and better than Trajan" for each successive Emperor.
** In The Crisis of the Third Century, Aurelian has assumed his reign in one of Rome's darkest moments, when not only the G*rms, Goths, Sassanids and the Cyprian Plague caused a lot of destruction, but the Gallic and Palmyrene Empires had split away from Rome. He donned the mask of Sol Invictus and went to work, dealing not only with the Barbarians but also with the splinter empires that threaten Rome's existence, all in five years. Unfortunately, Praetorian Guards assassinated him just before he could launch an offensive against the Sassanids.
** Constantine learned well from his years fighting alongside the Tetrarchy, and carried on fighting off Barbarian hordes after his father Constantius died and he became a Western Caesar. With a new Civil War picking up upon the Tetrarchy falling apart, he used the newfound Chi-Rho sign as a means of not only bringing his men to victory, but work towards the use of Christianity as a civilizing force of the Romans. He had the Praetorian Guard abolished after several generations of corruption, reunited the empire after defeating treacherous elements of the east, and built a new capital for the empire that would last over a thousand years unconquered. For these reasons and more, history remembers him as Constantine the Great.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** The abduction of Helen of Troy and the rape of the Sabine women become Helen kidnapping Paris and the Sabine women raping the Roman men.
** Roman mythology has [[CainAndAbel Romulus end up killing Remus]] or one of his supporters doing it. Here, Remus is pushed off the city wall by a disguised barbarian and Romulus [[MercyKill puts him out of his misery]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: Whereas Emperor Theodosius was commonly regarded with respect by contemporary historians for his reforms and the necessity of splitting administrative duties of the two halves of the Empire, here he was portrayed as a Virgin who actively patronized the chaotic, uncompromising Goths even as he ordered them to slaughter several Romans in Constantinople, then heavily clamped down on all non-Nicaean religions and tearing down the Statue of Victory from the Roman Senate. He then left his empire to his useless son Arcadius (East) and his cowardly son Honorius (West).
* AllWomenAreLustful: Particularly the Barbarian (or otherwise non-Roman) kind towards Romans. For example, there was the rape BY the Sabine women, Boudica revolted against the Romans because she's denied sex with them, and Cleopatra had the hots for Julius Caesar [[SexMagic for her mind control magic on Mark Anthony]]. Roman women weren't immune to this either, and it became a big problem around the rule of Caesar Augustus, even within his own family.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** The G*rms are portrayed as this; unlike the other barbarians they're uncivilizable and always seek to destroy civilization, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying any Roman foolish enough to ally with them]].
** Initially the Greeks were treated as a bunch of neaderthal-like barbarians who hated civilization, but they ultimately grow out of this trope in favor of the G*rms, being virgins and wojacks with the occasional chad in the mix.
** For much of Rome's history, the Parthians had been a thorn to Rome's side, but Rome was able to roll through them multiple times that they were reduced to a weak, ineffectual state before a dark force emerged from the shadows towards the end of the Severan Dynasty. From the ashes of the old Parthian Empire emerged the Sassanids, which were portrayed as subjects of dark magic about as sadistic and treacherous as the G*rms.
** [[HorrifyingTheHorror Even the G*rms and the Sassanids shudder]] at the imminent arrival of [[AlwaysABiggerFish the Huns]]. And when they themselves appeared, they were every bit as fearful as expected... [[spoiler:until Attila talked with Pope Leo and they were revealed as a race of Spurdo Spärdes when convinced attacking Rome really wasn't what they wanted anyway]].
* AppealToAudacity: Elagabalus' hedonistic and over-sexed activities are depicted as [[RefugeInAudacity him trying to get the attention of everyone]] in order to address the degeneracy problem and get the plebs' attention to understand the nature of Sol Invictus.
* ArtShift: While the people are consistently represented by meme characters, the background can consistently shift between a one-color background with simplistic art and/or stock images and backgrounds assembled in VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} and [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]].
* AssholeVictim: Most emperors killed by the corrupt Praetorian Guard are portrayed as Chads, even more notorious ones like Caligula, but some like Pupeinus and Balbinus and to a lesser extent Geta are portrayed as lousy Virgin emperors so their deaths are no real loss.
* AuthorAvatar: Dovahhatty is portrayed in the video as an overlord-type character clad entirely in purple.
* BadassFamily: While there are [[BlackSheep some]] [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon exceptions]], characters depicted as Chads are likely to have their relatives also depicted as Chads. Notable examples are the Julio-Claudian dynasty (with few exceptions like Tiberius [[ButtMonkey and Claudius]]), the Vespasians and the father-son duo of Valerian and Gallienus.
* BaitAndSwitch: To begin the Punic Wars:
--> '''Dovahhatty''': Today, we'll discuss one of the worst barbarian races ever to plague the earth, a group of merchants who migrated across the Levant many years ago, [''a silhouette appears to give the appearance of the Happy Merchant''] deceitfully manipulating others to further their greedy interests. You know what I'm talking about. [''the silhouette reveals itself as two Punics making poses to appear like the silhouette''] Punics!
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
** UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}} and Queen Zenobia are depicted as [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnations]] of [[Literature/TheAeneid Dido]], seeking vengeance on the Trojan-descended Rome [[WomanScorned for being rejected by Aeneas]].
** UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}'s AGodAmI delusions are interpreted as him actually becoming a god due to his sickness, with his sister Julia's death caused by her body failing from receiving the same apotheosis.
** While major Roman enemies like the G*rms are still portrayed as human, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardashir_I Ardashir]] and his descendants are [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon lords]] who create their heirs with dark rituals and laying eggs.
** The Huns have assumed a lichlike appearance, and Attila himself used the powers of sorcery, one of which causing earthquakes in Constantinople which necessitated the rush to repair the Theodosian Walls.
* BerserkButton:
** Cato had such a deep-seated anger towards Carthage's very existence (even while still a fetus) that he ended his statements in "Carthago delenda est"[[note]]Carthage must be destroyed[[/note]].
** Hadrian despised any lack of Roman civilization. A later one got pressed after he loses his favorite twink on a fishing trip in Egypt, then Bar Kokhba led a revolt in Judea. He was in no mood to talk, and sent twelve legions to utterly flatten Judea.
** Even while he couldn't get his brother Geta's affection in return, suggest that Caracalla murdered Geta at your own peril. Several plebs and the whole city of Alexandria learned that [[DisproportionateRetribution the hard way]].
** Valentinian hated G*rms so much, he actually had to restrain himself while still launching punitive campaigns. Their openly defying the terms of his treaty sent him into a rage that unsettled the Chad Palatini Guard and scared the G*rms. Just as he killed some in rage and started to throttle the remaining two, [[CriticalExistenceFailure the anger became so much he popped a blood vessel in his brain]].
* BlackComedy: The whole series to be exact, with certain moments, such as the destruction of Carthage, Caesar's conquest of Gaul, and Hadrian's suppression of Judea, are shown like a musical montage in particular.
* BookEnds: The series begins and ends with "A dream to purge this rotten world of the barbarians that infested it! A dream called Rome."
* ButtMonkey:
** In the Second Triumvirate, Lepidus was relegated to this role compared to Octavian and Mark Antony. He was denied a governing role in Hispania, largely watching paint dry in Africa. After Octavian reclaimed the islands from Sextus Pompey, Lepidus did try to claim Sicily for himself, only to be quickly denied and kicked out of the Triumvirate. He lived out the rest of his days as Pontifex Maximus, doing nothing as he did before.
** Before he became emperor, Claudius was subject to some humiliations in his life, [[RunningGag but such is life for Uncle Claudius]]. Even as he became emperor and did as good a job as a non-Chad can get, this misfortune still can show.
** The same is true for Dioclecian's Co-Emperor Maximian, who despite being his equal in theory, in practice, he is portrayed as an absolutely failure in everything he does, be it his failed invation of Brittania, or the persecusion of Christians, not to mention that he has an ugly bust.
* CampGay: While many elite Romans (especially Hadrian) were portrayed as ManlyGay, Emperors Elagabalus and Constans were more effeminate. Elagabalus used the flamboyant display and debauched acts as a means of preaching of Sol Invictus, while Constans was portrayed as an Ideal GF like the twinks before him.
* CatchPhrase "AVE MEEE!" for any usurper, typically unsuccessful ones who quickly get dispatched by Chad emperors.
* CensoredForComedy: The more degenerate groups were given this treatment, including the G*uls, Etr*scans and especially the G*rms[[note]]Germans[[/note]]. C*mmodus also got this treatment, a mark of DH's disdain for him.
* ChaosIsEvil: G*rms and other tribes portrayed as AlwaysChaoticEvil are often shown venerating chaos and chaotic beings.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Julian.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Dovah noted from their very inception that the Praetorian Guard never stays loyal for very long. They would inevitably become Virgin and assassinate an emperor over a missed payment or as a simple power grab.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: quite literally.
* ColdBloodedTorture
** Shapur ends up humiliating and torturing Emperor Valerian for years when imprisoned. When he asks to capitulate just so he can see his son, Shapur [[FlayingAlive flays him alive]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay and puts his corpse on display]]. When his successor asks the Romans to be magnanimous in victory Dicoletian [[GrievousHarmWithABody uses Valerian as an example]] for why he has no right to say so.
** The fate of Aurelian's assassins is to be brutally tortured for the severity of killing [[TheAce arguably the best emperor]]. It only stops when they need to use the food keeping them alive for more important manners, though one soldier suggests they could feed them their own shit.
* ControlFreak: Hadrian micromanaged affairs throughout the empire. At one moment he appeared out of a toilet to tell a civilized Gaul to get back to work.
* {{Dehumanization}}:
** Many groups who are not Roman were portrayed as degenerates, sometimes even borderline Neanderthalic early on, and later portrayals typically have them as Virgins, Wojaks or variants thereof.
** Even among non-Romans, the G*rms and the Sassanids are portrayed as evil daemons seeking to destroy all civilization in the name of their chaos gods, not to mention that, unlike regular barbarians such as Gauls, they are uncivilizable.
* DepravedHomosexual: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Elgabalus, who acts like a depraved and slutty bottom so he can get the plebs' attention and explain his new religion.
* DistinctiveAppearances: The historical figures are typically represented by various imageboard characters:
** The [[WebOriginal/VirginVsChad Chads]] are typically used to represent the Patricians, elite soldiers and favorable leaders of Rome. They have also been used for their Trojan forebears, the inhabitants of Alba Longa and an occasional non-Roman such as Hannibal (as the gods felt the Romans needed a challenge after the first Punic War) and Josephus (a Jewish historian who favored the empire and became a citizen).
** Wojaks are used to represent the plebs and an occasional leader. They have also been used to fill in for various non-Romans, often with varying attributes such as an [[SlasherSmile evil grin]] for the G*rms. Groups such as the Samnites and (initially) the Gauls are the corrupted variants thereof.
** [[WebOriginal/VirginVsChad Virgins]] are used to represent weak-willed/disloyal military men and senators on the Roman side, as well as some unflattering rulers. Among non-Romans, they fill in for the various Greekoids.
** Grugs are used for the less-civilized Barbarians, especially early on when the Greeks were portrayed in this manner before becoming Virgins.
** A Celtic variation of Norf F.C.s[[note]]a caricature of obese working class men from [[OopNorth the North of England]][[/note]] is used exclusively for the Britons, right down to the way they talk.
** A couple times, Happy Merchants were used to represent Jews, although most tend to usually be depicted as Wojaks who only share the Merchant nose. Same with Josephus, only in Chad form.
** Spurdo Spärde is used for elephants and flies, though he also represented Labienus (to make him "le benis") as well as nomadic tribes such as the Iazyges and Sarmatians.
** Women who are not Wojaks are portrayed as the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ideal-gf Ideal GF]], although in this case they are also used for the twinks for [[ManlyGay certain Patricians]].
** The [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freedom-aint-free Freedom Ain't Free]] bear is sometimes used to represent some figures such as the historian Cassius Dio and the Tetrarch Galerius, complete with the way they talk.
* DoubleStandard: While the show claims to be unbiased, Dovahatty holds many. For example, massacres of Romans by non-Romans are portrayed as utterly heinous, while massacres of non-Romans by Romans are often glorified.
* DrivenByEnvy: A number of [[BodyguardBetrayal Praetorian betrayals]] are depicted as being down to jealousy at the emperor, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Chaerea Cassius Chaerea]] who felt his masculinity threatened by Caligula being a Chad
* DrivenToSuicide: As in Roman history a number of Roman figures kill themselves. The most somber example is Diocletian[[note]]in history it's unclear whether he killed himself or died of natural causes[[/note]], who [[DeathByDespair hangs himself in despair]] after witnessing the Tetrarchy he worked so hard on fall apart.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Many twinks are portrayed as Ideal [=GFs=].
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Earlier episodes were shorter and had a more simplistic background design. It was around the Julius Caesar episode where episodes started to reach a half hour and incorporate backgrounds based from Minecraft and Skyrim. Even slightly earlier, background music was starting to get used more often.
** Due to the beginning starting with Trojan and early Roman mythology, Greeks were treated as almost AlwaysChaoticEvil and caveman-ish. By the time of the Caesars they're treated on more neutral terms as Virgins/Wojaks (with the occasional Chad), while groups like the Gauls and especially the G*rms get Rome and Dovahhatty's antipathy.
* EpicFail: Two moments in particular made Dovah borrow the Bibulus Award from ''WebVideo/HistoriaCivilis''. The first occurred when the namesake failed to blockade Julius Caesar's crossing of the Adriatic Sea, and died in his attempt at doing so. Nine episodes later, Constantine II lusted for the entire Roman Empire, and was threatening war with Constans unless he handed over all of Africa. When Constans refused to hand over Carthage, Constantine II followed through on his threat before being ambushed and killed in Aquileia
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: "Evil" is a bit of a stretch, but Geta is portrayed as a bratty asshole who doesn't like his brother Caracalla. Still, Caracalla mourns his assassination and [[BerserkButton is set off]] by anything that insults his memory or claims he killed him (the latter being what actually happened).
* EvilerThanThou: The G*rms and later Sassanids are portrayed as fearsome and evil foes of the Romans, however they end up fearing and are overshadowed by the Huns. [[spoiler:That is, until Pope Leo convinces them to stop their attack, leading to most of them being Spurdo Sparde.]]
* FaceHeelTurn:
** Brutus' betrayal of Julius Caesar is portrayed as this since unlike most betrayers, he's a Chad but eventually ends up being convinced by the corrupt senate to kill him. He eventually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes he screwed up]] and is DrivenToSuicide.
** Organization-wide, the Praetorians start as competent and loyal Chads during Augustus' reign. Come Sejanus' influence and they become increasingly corrupt Virgins. Even when they're purged with competent new members replacing them like during Septimius Severus' reign, they soon fall back into ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
** At first, Licinius assisted Constantine in defeating Maximinus Daia. Then after being victorious and maintaining hold of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, he turned on Constantine, with his hair curling up to form HornsOfVillainy.
* TheFaceless:
** When Aurelian is onscreen, there's never a good look above his nose, and where he's fully visible, he's wearing the mask of Sol Invictus.
** The Huns had a lichlike appearance where their faces aren't seen... [[spoiler:before the talk with Pope Leo revealed them as Spurdo Spärdes]].
** King Arthur and Mordred's face are also shadowed.
* AFamilyAffair: Attempted by Fausta, who attempts to seduce her step-son Crispus however he rejects his advances. Unfortunately [[FalseRapeAccusation she accuses him of rape]] and Constantine is forced [[OffingTheOffspring to execute him]] because of it.
* FalseRapeAccusation: The controversy surrounding Fausta and Crispus that led to Constantine OffingTheOffspring is depicted as her accusing him of raping her [[WomanScorned when he rejected her advances]]. After the execution Constantine is enraged and has Fausta executed for doing so.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Drusus's attempt to raise a civilized G*rm results in Arminius (his brother Flavus, who stayed loyal to Rome, is AdaptedOut).
* FatBastard:
** Tarquinius Superbus' son Sextus was portrayed as one, and his rape of Lucretia proved to be the last straw that angered Romans enough to overthrow the monarchy and start the Republic.
** In the Year of Four Emperors, Vitellius was a fat, lazy guardsman who spent a great deal of his post eating and partying at great expense. He convinced his colleagues to rebel against Galba, and had an army sent southward by the time Galba was replaced by Otho. After the latter committed suicide, [[AdiposeRex he proclaimed himself emperor]], planning to rape Sporus in a brutal gladiatorial display before the latter committed suicide to deny this. Many Eastern governors were disgusted with the idea of a him being Emperor and spending a lot of money to feed his gluttony, and eventually he was beheaded and thrown into the Tiber River, making way for Vespasian.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Diocletian detested the Praetorian Guard and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder their habitual tendency to turn on their employers]], and upon consolidating his rule alongside Maximian, he relegated them to guarding an irrelevant fort near the Milvian Bridge as a more fitting and humiliating punishment than putting them to death. That proved to not be enough, so Constantine wound up having the post [[KillEmAll abolished]].
* FliesEqualsEvil: Domitian's habit of pinning flies is explained as him knowing they were up to no good, which he's proven right when [[WomanScorned Berenice]] uses a fly to kill Titus with a fever.
* FootballHooligans: True to their portrayal as Norf F.C.s, the Britons had at more than one occasion had conversations which amounted to "Londinium F.C." "Nonce, Eburacum City".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Imperial Wrath" has the the G*rms and the Sassanids either act in response to some threat from the east or mention said threat in passing. These are references to the Huns, well before their formal introduction at the end of "Barbarians at the Gates".
* FreudianExcuse: Constantius II had such a dim view of humanity derived from his upbringing by Fausta.
* GodEmperor: Caligula's [[AGodAmI god delusions]] are depicted as him becoming an actual god from his illness, complete with gaining [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] eyes. And while Elagabalus isn't a god persay, he is treated like a divine being due to his devotion to Sol Invictus.
* {{Greed}}: Some of the assassinations are about wanting money and bribes, notably [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax Pertinax]] who gets killed because he couldn't bribe the Praetorian Guard, who then put up the position of emperor on auction in order to get the money they want.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Diocletian was so furious with the Sassanids' request that the Romans be "magnanimous in victory" that he beat all of Narseh's minion's to death with Valerian's skeletal remains.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Hadrian becomes severely depressed after his lover Antinous drowns himself and never fully recovers.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** As a whole, the Greeks. Initially portrayed as barbarians and AlwaysChaoticEvil, they mellow out over the course of the series and by the time of the Roman Empire they're usually just Virgins, Wojaks, [[TheTwink or ideal GF twinks]]. There's even the occasional Greek Chad.
** Surprisingly, [[spoiler:Atilla the Hun and his cohorts(excluding some allies like Odoacer) go from an almost lich-like force of death and destruction to Spurdo Sparde after a talk with Pope Leo, where they go home and Atilla dies partying]]. [[ForegoneConclusion Though this isn't that different from what actually happened]].
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Despite a HistoricalHeroUpgrade regarding his brother, Caracalla is still portrayed as AxCrazy, killing thousands of plebs [[DisproportionateRetribution for being a bad influence on Geta or claiming he killed him]], and slaughters the Parthians he was supposed to have a marriage with.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade
** In-universe example in the PreviouslyOn segment in the Severan Dynasty video that's otherwise more accurate to real history than Dovah's ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' retelling, where Commodus is a Chad who was a stud in the Colosseum instead of it being a ridiculous spectacle like in real life. Dovahhatty then ends by saying [[BlatantLies he was just kidding about that]].
** In real life, Elagabalus was a PuppetKing. Here, he's portrayed as an independent thinker and semi-divine who [[OffingTheOffspring was assassinated under his grandmother's orders]] because he refused to be her puppet(in actuality she likely did so because his reckless hedonism was problematic).
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Quite a few Roman figures were portrayed this way. Among emperors considered the worst by contemporary Historians, Commodus was the exception where he's still portrayed as a corrupt Virgin (and even he got a spoof recap where he got to be a Chad).
** While the pre-illness months of Caligula's rule were consistent with his portrayals by contemporary historians, the post-illness rule was portrayed as him having an epiphany as being a god. His infamous moment of declaring war on Neptune and collecting seashells as bounty was portrayed as conquering the elements to make crossing the English Channel easier, only stopping short of invading Britain (ergo leaving the task to Claudius) because of other matters to attend to.
** In real life, Caracalla had Geta murdered, but here he's portrayed as loving his brother and treating whatever he perceives as a negative influence, or suggesting he's the one to murder Geta, to a wrathful response. [[DownplayedTrope It's downplayed]] in that he's otherwise accurate to the violent and wrathful nature of the real Caracalla (though [[HeroicComedicSociopath played for laughs]]).
** Elagabalus used his degeneracy to counter the degeneracy problem and preached about Sol Invictus to streamline the pantheon.[[note]]In real life he just put his namesake Syrian sun god over the Roman pantheon[[/note]]
** While not bad rulers, Decius, Valerian and Diocletian's persecution of Christians isn't treated as an evil act but them needing all the help they can get from the pagan gods against their enemies and needing to punish Christians for being obstinate.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: An odd example with Caracalla, that zig-zags with HistoricalHeroUpgrade; while [[HeroicComedicSociopath played for laughs]] and framed as a NominalHero, Caracalla is still portrayed as an AxCrazy soldier emperor prone to DisproportionateRetribution such a starting a war with Parthia for relatively petty reasons. However one of his worst acts, that of [[CainAndAbel having Geta killed]], is changed to him loving his brother even though he still hates him, and the Praetorian Guard alone being behind his death.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** Being biased to Rome for the laughs, many non-Romans are portrayed as evil, with some like the Germans and Sasanid Empire being AlwaysChaoticEvil. Notably King Shapur is treated as a demon lord who tortured and [[FlayingAlive flayed]] Emperor Valerian (in reality he was probably just [[HumiliationConga humiliated and imprisoned]]).
** Within the Roman Empire, Livia is portrayed as similar to her ''Series/IClaudius'' portrayal in being an EvilMatriarch who offs Augustus' heir and later him, and Commodus is portrayed like he is in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' with him [[{{Patricide}} killing Marcus Aurelius]]. More generally, the senators are usually portrayed as a bunch of scheming, spineless figures who resent and bend over backwards to the new emperor.
** While the Praetorian Guard was already notorious for its BodyguardBetrayal, ''Unbiased History'' exaggerates it by making them more trigger-happy and petty in their motives than they were in real life. This is partly because a lot of the emperors they killed portrayed as Chads and/or being given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade. Some of the emperors they killed are Virgins like Pupienus/Balbinus or Wojacks like Gordian III, but the Praetorians are still portrayed as petty.
** The Visigothic leaders were portrayed without any sort of redeeming qualities; in contemporary accounts Alaric spared the churches in Rome because of his Arianist faith, but no such thing was mentioned to keep consistent with Goths being a chaotic, civilization-hating faction. Athaulf's relationship with Galla was portrayed here as rape.
* IRejectYourReality: The Praetorian Guard Constantly did this to justify killing emperors, most notably Aurelian, who they convinced themselves that he cannot be allowed to exist being so perfect.
* ItsPronouncedTropay: Often opts to use the classical Latin pronunciations for characters, but sometimes even throws a bone to the popular pronunciations like that of Julius Caesar or Marcus Antonius (Mark Anthony).
* JesusWasCrazy: In "The Mad Emperors", he was barely mentioned as "some Jew with god delusions" who got nailed to a cross in the course of Tiberius' reign. Christians had since become a thorn to subsequent emperors' sides, which led to Diocletian's Great Persecution. [[spoiler:Ultimately becomes subverted when in Constantine's dream, Jesus and the Roman Gods were revealed as one and the same]].
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: While most Chads [[BadassFamily have other Chads as kids]], Chad characters like Septimius Severus and especially Marcus Aurelius have corrupt virgin sons like Geta and ''especially'' C*mmodus as "failed prodigies". To a lesser extent, Emperor Vitellius is a [[FatBastard corpulent]] Wojak while his dad is a Chad.
* LoserDeity: Unlike the other gods who are portrayed by Chads, Neptune is portrayed as a Wojak and gets owned by Caligula in his conquest of the sea.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Played with; Hadrian isn't portrayed his evil, his violent rampage against Judea is caused by despair and anger from losing his favorite twink
* ManlyGay: Quite a few Patricians were rather fond of their twinks. In regards to the Emperors, Nero stayed loyal to the castrated servant Sporus, and Hadrian was portrayed as fucking many twinks. His favorite twink Antinous was distraught thinking he'd lose Hadrian to a woman (though Hadrian detested them), and committed suicide during a fishing trip. This sent the Emperor into deep sorrow that culminated eventually to the brutal suppression of Judea.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: The ManlyGay Hadrian's dearest love was an effeminate twink named Antinous. To a lesser extent there's Nero and his new wife, the eunuch Sporus.
* MindControlEyes: Mark Anthony's eyes become yellow when falling under the mind control of Cleopatra, who uses the romancing of Roman Chads like Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony as a means for [[SexMagic her sorcery]].
* NonIndicativeName: It is comedically blatantly biased towards the Romans.
* OneMythToExplainThemAll: Elagabalus comes to the conclusion that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus Sol Invictus]] is the one true god, with the Roman pantheon being aspects of his divinity[[note]]in reality Elagabalus worshipped another sun god who he gets his name from[[/note]]. He acts like a degenerate in order to get people's attention on this matter, and Aurelian later embraces this belief.
** Taken further with Constantine the great, who in a divine revelation, discovers that all gods and divine figures such as Zeus, Apollo, Minerva, Sol Invictus, and even Jesus Christ himself, are nothing but different aspects of the one true God, and so, it doesn't matter who you worship, since it's the same god overall. He uses this to legitimize Cristianity in the eyes of the empire.
* OffingTheOffspring: Like in history Constantine has his son Crispus, however both are portrayed as Chads and he only does it because [[FalseRapeAccusation Fausta accuses him of raping her]]. He's horrified learning of this and has her executed for it.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The Sassanids are interpreted as literal demons who worship chaotic gods, with Shapur creating his heir through laying an egg.
* {{Patricide}}
** Being a retelling of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' Commodus is depicted as killing Marcus Aurelius. The PreviouslyOn segment has Aurelius die of the plague like he did in reality.
** Dovahhatty subscribes to the belief that Brutus was Caesar's illegitimate child, so his assassination is this. Unlike Commodus Brutus is treated as a Chad because he was roped into it by the conspirators and [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself out of guilt]] after his defeat.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: The Sun is attributed to a number of victories by the Romans, with Elagabalus eventually coming to the realization that Sol Invictus is the one true god, something Aurelian embraces.
* PreviouslyOn: The Severan Dynasty begins with one of those, only with Commodus being portrayed as a Chad who succeeded Marcus Aurelius after the latter died of more or less natural causes, being a stud in the gladiatorial ring and being strangled in his bath by his virgin sparring partner Narcissus. Dovahhatty then says he was kidding about the whole thing, that his degenerate rule really ended the Antonine Dynasty and by extension weakened Rome.
* PyrrhicVictory: Inevitably brought up in The Conquest of Italy, where Pyrrhus of Epirus would wind up close to losing on more than one occasion, that he only won because he utilized his twenty Indian war elephants. It was getting to the point where he would curse his "victories".
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A collective version occured when the Praetorian Guard, as generations of betraying the empire and general corruption arrived to demand bribes from Constantine. He responded by abolishing the entire organization and [[KillThemAll purging every single one of them]].
** To a lesser extent, All of Aurelian's murderers were rounded and subjected to the worst tortures possible.
* RunningGag:
** Whenever a Chad Roman general gets the upper hand in a conflict, sometimes even killing/crucifying scores of people, they would do a dab.
** Massive conquests, purges and persecutions are often portrayed as an musical montage, with the roman leader or general of the time killing countless lives at the tune of the music.
** Resentful, envious Virgins plotting conspiracy, always in the same room.
* SexMagic: Cleopatra uses the divine Julian semen to mind control Mark Anthony, and later Livia uses Augustus' to off potential heirs who might succeed her husband instead of her son Tiberius.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/TheUnbiasedHistoryOfRome Has its own page]].
* ShownTheirWork: Despite being a series known for its satirical nature in its Rome-centric views, the contents are generally well-researched even its perspective twists.
* TakeThat:
** Plenty of barbs were made towards communism throughout the series. In the very first video, where the Trojans figured out economics among other issues, they surmised that it works when they use magic, and even then it's still worse than capitalism.
** When Sulla had come to a realization that the plebs were dragging down the republic, compounding the existing problems they have with the G*rms and Greekoids, there is a take that directed towards anti-Semites in general and /pol/ in particular:
--> '''DH''': Sulla forced himself to [[RedPillBluePill swallow that bitter red pill]]. The truth was that the Jews were behind everything- Uh, uh no wait, wrong redpill! [''Sulla turns away from the "/pol/tard pills", and towards the /his/torian pills''[[note]]in itself, there is a take that within it. ">H >R >E" refers to questioning the notion that the Holy Roman Empire was any of these[[/note]]] Ah, ah yes, here! Alright, so the truth was that the Republic would soon fall if things kept going the way they were.\\
'''Sulla''': Makes far more sense. Imagine blaming Jews for everything...
* TokenGoodTeammate:
** Despite the senators eventually portrayed as a bunch of scheming state parasites, some notable senators are portrayed as Chads, notably Antoninus Pius who becomes one of the Five Good Emperors and leads a peaceful regime, and Decius who is depicted as one of the more capable emperors in the Crisis Of The Third Century.
** Half-G*rms were typically portrayed as having half their face be Wojak and the other as a grinning G*rm, with chaotic thoughts being tempered by their Roman halves from time to time. Half-Vandal Stilicho was portrayed as a Chad, and though he still had the side of his face resembling a red-eyed G*rm, he resented the Vandal side of his family and gave Alaric a run for his money.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Unbiased History's "Imperial Wrath" episode had Julian The Apostate transformed a weak Wojack into a masculine Chad art after the tutelage of Ursicinus during his tenure as a Caesar in the western parts of the Roman Empire.
** Aetius' training montage turned the hapless Wojaks into muscular Chads, not to mention turning Barbarian like Theodoric to appreciate civilization based on his lack of mask and yellow eyes.
* TragicHero: The finale of UnbiasedHistory has major examples of heroic Chads whose life was cut short as Dovahhatty stated it as "These were the times of Tragic Heroes".
*** Stilicho, a half Vandal, who served the Western Empire loyally even refusing to overthrow his patron Honorius even if his death led to the sack of Rome.
*** Aetius used his skills and will to turn back Attila's Hunnic horde with the Germanic tribes yet Emperor Valentinian III murdered him before being avenged by Petronius Maximus (who actually instigated Aetius' murder to make his usurpation of Valentinian III justifiable) and Aetius' friends.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. The loss of his fleet to retake Africa along with the assassination by Ricimer dashed any hope for the restoration of Western Roman Empire.
* ToughActToFollow: Even the Senate felt unworthy of picking Aurelian's successor.
* TrueCompanions: The series' portrayal of Diocletian and other co-emperors of his Tetrarchy (Maximian, Galerian, and Constantius) were portrayed as close friends, which made it unique for the time due to the number of backstabbings and infighting during the Third Century Crisis to the point of Diocletian's patience and support to Maximian despite his many setbacks.
** Augustus was also this with Agrippa and Gaius Maecenas.
* TheTwink: Several appear in the series, including Hadrian's lover Antinous and the emperor Constans. They're usually depicted as Ideal [=GFs=].
* UnstoppableRage: Valentinian had one that [[OhCrap even G*rms dreaded]] and can be felt throughout the empire. What stopped the fury though was that he popped a blood vessel and died on the spot.
* VestigialEmpire: Like in history, Roman Empire suffered in later episodes set after Constantine The Great with many Romans becoming less competent and corrupt.
* WomanScorned:
** Many of Rome's woes like plagues and [[{{Reincarnation}} even some femme fatales]] are blamed on the spirit of [[Literature/TheAeneid Dido]] wanting revenge for Aeneas dumping her.
** Dovahhatty suggests that Titus died of a fever because Queen Berenice used her Jewish magic, angry that she had broken up with him.
** Fausta, who in real life accused Crispus of having an affair(of which he may have been guilty of), accuses him of rape when he refuses her advances so Constantine would have him executed. [[LaserGuidedKarma When Constantine finds out, he has her executed]].
* WorthyOpponent: Hannibal Barca is depicted as being this to the Romans. Notably, he's one of the very few non-Romans to be portrayed as a Chad.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Said almost word for word in the case of Commodus' twin dying infancy while he lived.
-->Unfortunately in the first year of his (Marcus Aurelius)reign, he would be faced with a monumental tragedy. Faustina, after birthing many children, such as Lucila, had given birth to twins. One of which died soon after birth. But that was not it. The Real Tragedy, was that the youngest twin, a boy named Commodus, '''Survived''' .
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-> ''"There once was a dream...a dream to purge this rotten world of the barbarians that infested it! A dream called Rome."''
-->-- [[EstablishingSeriesMoment The very first lines of the series]]
'''The Unbiased History of Rome''' is a web animation series by Dovahhatty started on May 22, 2019. In spite of the name, it actually is blatantly biased towards the Romans for laughs, sometimes even reinterpreting entire events in their favor as he covers their history from mythological beginnings in Troy, to the times of the Republic, to the empire onwards. The entire series can be watched in chronological order [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EOzr15h8S8&list=PLp5VE4P1YBhc05cDqiOazzTTu1WSh8MHg here]].
Dovah currently has a mini-series on the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire [[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyzAu5GDVAhRbHw6aR4AaABCQ in the works]]
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!!Contains examples of:
* TheAce: Some of the rulers that were regarded by contemporary historians as among the best really stick out in this manner.
** Julius Caesar, in spite of being in the Populares faction that Hatty didn't look fondly towards, was portrayed as taking part there out of necessity. His popularity with soldiers and his successful campaign in Gaul earned him the ire of Senators, including Cato the Younger who sabotaged any attempts at compromise. Caesar then won the ensuing civil war between him and Pompey, and even bested his most valuable general Labienus to close out said war.
** Amongst the Five Good Emperors, Trajan is a standout not only for being well-regarded even by Christians[[note]]He didn't consider persecuting them during his reign, ensuring that he's seen by Christian historians as a virtuous pagan[[/note]], but also bringing the Roman Empire to its greatest extent, stretching from Britain to Babylon. While there were uprisings towards the end, his accomplishments were considered the zenith of the empire. His feats were such that a common prayer among senators was "May he be luckier than Augustus and better than Trajan" for each successive Emperor.
** In The Crisis of the Third Century, Aurelian has assumed his reign in one of Rome's darkest moments, when not only the G*rms, Goths, Sassanids and the Cyprian Plague caused a lot of destruction, but the Gallic and Palmyrene Empires had split away from Rome. He donned the mask of Sol Invictus and went to work, dealing not only with the Barbarians but also with the splinter empires that threaten Rome's existence, all in five years. Unfortunately, Praetorian Guards assassinated him just before he could launch an offensive against the Sassanids.
** Constantine learned well from his years fighting alongside the Tetrarchy, and carried on fighting off Barbarian hordes after his father Constantius died and he became a Western Caesar. With a new Civil War picking up upon the Tetrarchy falling apart, he used the newfound Chi-Rho sign as a means of not only bringing his men to victory, but work towards the use of Christianity as a civilizing force of the Romans. He had the Praetorian Guard abolished after several generations of corruption, reunited the empire after defeating treacherous elements of the east, and built a new capital for the empire that would last over a thousand years unconquered. For these reasons and more, history remembers him as Constantine the Great.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** The abduction of Helen of Troy and the rape of the Sabine women become Helen kidnapping Paris and the Sabine women raping the Roman men.
** Roman mythology has [[CainAndAbel Romulus end up killing Remus]] or one of his supporters doing it. Here, Remus is pushed off the city wall by a disguised barbarian and Romulus [[MercyKill puts him out of his misery]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: Whereas Emperor Theodosius was commonly regarded with respect by contemporary historians for his reforms and the necessity of splitting administrative duties of the two halves of the Empire, here he was portrayed as a Virgin who actively patronized the chaotic, uncompromising Goths even as he ordered them to slaughter several Romans in Constantinople, then heavily clamped down on all non-Nicaean religions and tearing down the Statue of Victory from the Roman Senate. He then left his empire to his useless son Arcadius (East) and his cowardly son Honorius (West).
* AllWomenAreLustful: Particularly the Barbarian (or otherwise non-Roman) kind towards Romans. For example, there was the rape BY the Sabine women, Boudica revolted against the Romans because she's denied sex with them, and Cleopatra had the hots for Julius Caesar [[SexMagic for her mind control magic on Mark Anthony]]. Roman women weren't immune to this either, and it became a big problem around the rule of Caesar Augustus, even within his own family.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** The G*rms are portrayed as this; unlike the other barbarians they're uncivilizable and always seek to destroy civilization, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying any Roman foolish enough to ally with them]].
** Initially the Greeks were treated as a bunch of neaderthal-like barbarians who hated civilization, but they ultimately grow out of this trope in favor of the G*rms, being virgins and wojacks with the occasional chad in the mix.
** For much of Rome's history, the Parthians had been a thorn to Rome's side, but Rome was able to roll through them multiple times that they were reduced to a weak, ineffectual state before a dark force emerged from the shadows towards the end of the Severan Dynasty. From the ashes of the old Parthian Empire emerged the Sassanids, which were portrayed as subjects of dark magic about as sadistic and treacherous as the G*rms.
** [[HorrifyingTheHorror Even the G*rms and the Sassanids shudder]] at the imminent arrival of [[AlwaysABiggerFish the Huns]]. And when they themselves appeared, they were every bit as fearful as expected... [[spoiler:until Attila talked with Pope Leo and they were revealed as a race of Spurdo Spärdes when convinced attacking Rome really wasn't what they wanted anyway]].
* AppealToAudacity: Elagabalus' hedonistic and over-sexed activities are depicted as [[RefugeInAudacity him trying to get the attention of everyone]] in order to address the degeneracy problem and get the plebs' attention to understand the nature of Sol Invictus.
* ArtShift: While the people are consistently represented by meme characters, the background can consistently shift between a one-color background with simplistic art and/or stock images and backgrounds assembled in VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} and [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]].
* AssholeVictim: Most emperors killed by the corrupt Praetorian Guard are portrayed as Chads, even more notorious ones like Caligula, but some like Pupeinus and Balbinus and to a lesser extent Geta are portrayed as lousy Virgin emperors so their deaths are no real loss.
* AuthorAvatar: Dovahhatty is portrayed in the video as an overlord-type character clad entirely in purple.
* BadassFamily: While there are [[BlackSheep some]] [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon exceptions]], characters depicted as Chads are likely to have their relatives also depicted as Chads. Notable examples are the Julio-Claudian dynasty (with few exceptions like Tiberius [[ButtMonkey and Claudius]]), the Vespasians and the father-son duo of Valerian and Gallienus.
* BaitAndSwitch: To begin the Punic Wars:
--> '''Dovahhatty''': Today, we'll discuss one of the worst barbarian races ever to plague the earth, a group of merchants who migrated across the Levant many years ago, [''a silhouette appears to give the appearance of the Happy Merchant''] deceitfully manipulating others to further their greedy interests. You know what I'm talking about. [''the silhouette reveals itself as two Punics making poses to appear like the silhouette''] Punics!
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
** UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}} and Queen Zenobia are depicted as [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnations]] of [[Literature/TheAeneid Dido]], seeking vengeance on the Trojan-descended Rome [[WomanScorned for being rejected by Aeneas]].
** UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}'s AGodAmI delusions are interpreted as him actually becoming a god due to his sickness, with his sister Julia's death caused by her body failing from receiving the same apotheosis.
** While major Roman enemies like the G*rms are still portrayed as human, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardashir_I Ardashir]] and his descendants are [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon lords]] who create their heirs with dark rituals and laying eggs.
** The Huns have assumed a lichlike appearance, and Attila himself used the powers of sorcery, one of which causing earthquakes in Constantinople which necessitated the rush to repair the Theodosian Walls.
* BerserkButton:
** Cato had such a deep-seated anger towards Carthage's very existence (even while still a fetus) that he ended his statements in "Carthago delenda est"[[note]]Carthage must be destroyed[[/note]].
** Hadrian despised any lack of Roman civilization. A later one got pressed after he loses his favorite twink on a fishing trip in Egypt, then Bar Kokhba led a revolt in Judea. He was in no mood to talk, and sent twelve legions to utterly flatten Judea.
** Even while he couldn't get his brother Geta's affection in return, suggest that Caracalla murdered Geta at your own peril. Several plebs and the whole city of Alexandria learned that [[DisproportionateRetribution the hard way]].
** Valentinian hated G*rms so much, he actually had to restrain himself while still launching punitive campaigns. Their openly defying the terms of his treaty sent him into a rage that unsettled the Chad Palatini Guard and scared the G*rms. Just as he killed some in rage and started to throttle the remaining two, [[CriticalExistenceFailure the anger became so much he popped a blood vessel in his brain]].
* BlackComedy: The whole series to be exact, with certain moments, such as the destruction of Carthage, Caesar's conquest of Gaul, and Hadrian's suppression of Judea, are shown like a musical montage in particular.
* BookEnds: The series begins and ends with "A dream to purge this rotten world of the barbarians that infested it! A dream called Rome."
* ButtMonkey:
** In the Second Triumvirate, Lepidus was relegated to this role compared to Octavian and Mark Antony. He was denied a governing role in Hispania, largely watching paint dry in Africa. After Octavian reclaimed the islands from Sextus Pompey, Lepidus did try to claim Sicily for himself, only to be quickly denied and kicked out of the Triumvirate. He lived out the rest of his days as Pontifex Maximus, doing nothing as he did before.
** Before he became emperor, Claudius was subject to some humiliations in his life, [[RunningGag but such is life for Uncle Claudius]]. Even as he became emperor and did as good a job as a non-Chad can get, this misfortune still can show.
** The same is true for Dioclecian's Co-Emperor Maximian, who despite being his equal in theory, in practice, he is portrayed as an absolutely failure in everything he does, be it his failed invation of Brittania, or the persecusion of Christians, not to mention that he has an ugly bust.
* CampGay: While many elite Romans (especially Hadrian) were portrayed as ManlyGay, Emperors Elagabalus and Constans were more effeminate. Elagabalus used the flamboyant display and debauched acts as a means of preaching of Sol Invictus, while Constans was portrayed as an Ideal GF like the twinks before him.
* CatchPhrase "AVE MEEE!" for any usurper, typically unsuccessful ones who quickly get dispatched by Chad emperors.
* CensoredForComedy: The more degenerate groups were given this treatment, including the G*uls, Etr*scans and especially the G*rms[[note]]Germans[[/note]]. C*mmodus also got this treatment, a mark of DH's disdain for him.
* ChaosIsEvil: G*rms and other tribes portrayed as AlwaysChaoticEvil are often shown venerating chaos and chaotic beings.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Julian.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Dovah noted from their very inception that the Praetorian Guard never stays loyal for very long. They would inevitably become Virgin and assassinate an emperor over a missed payment or as a simple power grab.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: quite literally.
* ColdBloodedTorture
** Shapur ends up humiliating and torturing Emperor Valerian for years when imprisoned. When he asks to capitulate just so he can see his son, Shapur [[FlayingAlive flays him alive]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay and puts his corpse on display]]. When his successor asks the Romans to be magnanimous in victory Dicoletian [[GrievousHarmWithABody uses Valerian as an example]] for why he has no right to say so.
** The fate of Aurelian's assassins is to be brutally tortured for the severity of killing [[TheAce arguably the best emperor]]. It only stops when they need to use the food keeping them alive for more important manners, though one soldier suggests they could feed them their own shit.
* ControlFreak: Hadrian micromanaged affairs throughout the empire. At one moment he appeared out of a toilet to tell a civilized Gaul to get back to work.
* {{Dehumanization}}:
** Many groups who are not Roman were portrayed as degenerates, sometimes even borderline Neanderthalic early on, and later portrayals typically have them as Virgins, Wojaks or variants thereof.
** Even among non-Romans, the G*rms and the Sassanids are portrayed as evil daemons seeking to destroy all civilization in the name of their chaos gods, not to mention that, unlike regular barbarians such as Gauls, they are uncivilizable.
* DepravedHomosexual: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Elgabalus, who acts like a depraved and slutty bottom so he can get the plebs' attention and explain his new religion.
* DistinctiveAppearances: The historical figures are typically represented by various imageboard characters:
** The [[WebOriginal/VirginVsChad Chads]] are typically used to represent the Patricians, elite soldiers and favorable leaders of Rome. They have also been used for their Trojan forebears, the inhabitants of Alba Longa and an occasional non-Roman such as Hannibal (as the gods felt the Romans needed a challenge after the first Punic War) and Josephus (a Jewish historian who favored the empire and became a citizen).
** Wojaks are used to represent the plebs and an occasional leader. They have also been used to fill in for various non-Romans, often with varying attributes such as an [[SlasherSmile evil grin]] for the G*rms. Groups such as the Samnites and (initially) the Gauls are the corrupted variants thereof.
** [[WebOriginal/VirginVsChad Virgins]] are used to represent weak-willed/disloyal military men and senators on the Roman side, as well as some unflattering rulers. Among non-Romans, they fill in for the various Greekoids.
** Grugs are used for the less-civilized Barbarians, especially early on when the Greeks were portrayed in this manner before becoming Virgins.
** A Celtic variation of Norf F.C.s[[note]]a caricature of obese working class men from [[OopNorth the North of England]][[/note]] is used exclusively for the Britons, right down to the way they talk.
** A couple times, Happy Merchants were used to represent Jews, although most tend to usually be depicted as Wojaks who only share the Merchant nose. Same with Josephus, only in Chad form.
** Spurdo Spärde is used for elephants and flies, though he also represented Labienus (to make him "le benis") as well as nomadic tribes such as the Iazyges and Sarmatians.
** Women who are not Wojaks are portrayed as the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ideal-gf Ideal GF]], although in this case they are also used for the twinks for [[ManlyGay certain Patricians]].
** The [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freedom-aint-free Freedom Ain't Free]] bear is sometimes used to represent some figures such as the historian Cassius Dio and the Tetrarch Galerius, complete with the way they talk.
* DoubleStandard: While the show claims to be unbiased, Dovahatty holds many. For example, massacres of Romans by non-Romans are portrayed as utterly heinous, while massacres of non-Romans by Romans are often glorified.
* DrivenByEnvy: A number of [[BodyguardBetrayal Praetorian betrayals]] are depicted as being down to jealousy at the emperor, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Chaerea Cassius Chaerea]] who felt his masculinity threatened by Caligula being a Chad
* DrivenToSuicide: As in Roman history a number of Roman figures kill themselves. The most somber example is Diocletian[[note]]in history it's unclear whether he killed himself or died of natural causes[[/note]], who [[DeathByDespair hangs himself in despair]] after witnessing the Tetrarchy he worked so hard on fall apart.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Many twinks are portrayed as Ideal [=GFs=].
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Earlier episodes were shorter and had a more simplistic background design. It was around the Julius Caesar episode where episodes started to reach a half hour and incorporate backgrounds based from Minecraft and Skyrim. Even slightly earlier, background music was starting to get used more often.
** Due to the beginning starting with Trojan and early Roman mythology, Greeks were treated as almost AlwaysChaoticEvil and caveman-ish. By the time of the Caesars they're treated on more neutral terms as Virgins/Wojaks (with the occasional Chad), while groups like the Gauls and especially the G*rms get Rome and Dovahhatty's antipathy.
* EpicFail: Two moments in particular made Dovah borrow the Bibulus Award from ''WebVideo/HistoriaCivilis''. The first occurred when the namesake failed to blockade Julius Caesar's crossing of the Adriatic Sea, and died in his attempt at doing so. Nine episodes later, Constantine II lusted for the entire Roman Empire, and was threatening war with Constans unless he handed over all of Africa. When Constans refused to hand over Carthage, Constantine II followed through on his threat before being ambushed and killed in Aquileia
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: "Evil" is a bit of a stretch, but Geta is portrayed as a bratty asshole who doesn't like his brother Caracalla. Still, Caracalla mourns his assassination and [[BerserkButton is set off]] by anything that insults his memory or claims he killed him (the latter being what actually happened).
* EvilerThanThou: The G*rms and later Sassanids are portrayed as fearsome and evil foes of the Romans, however they end up fearing and are overshadowed by the Huns. [[spoiler:That is, until Pope Leo convinces them to stop their attack, leading to most of them being Spurdo Sparde.]]
* FaceHeelTurn:
** Brutus' betrayal of Julius Caesar is portrayed as this since unlike most betrayers, he's a Chad but eventually ends up being convinced by the corrupt senate to kill him. He eventually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes he screwed up]] and is DrivenToSuicide.
** Organization-wide, the Praetorians start as competent and loyal Chads during Augustus' reign. Come Sejanus' influence and they become increasingly corrupt Virgins. Even when they're purged with competent new members replacing them like during Septimius Severus' reign, they soon fall back into ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
** At first, Licinius assisted Constantine in defeating Maximinus Daia. Then after being victorious and maintaining hold of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, he turned on Constantine, with his hair curling up to form HornsOfVillainy.
* TheFaceless:
** When Aurelian is onscreen, there's never a good look above his nose, and where he's fully visible, he's wearing the mask of Sol Invictus.
** The Huns had a lichlike appearance where their faces aren't seen... [[spoiler:before the talk with Pope Leo revealed them as Spurdo Spärdes]].
** King Arthur and Mordred's face are also shadowed.
* AFamilyAffair: Attempted by Fausta, who attempts to seduce her step-son Crispus however he rejects his advances. Unfortunately [[FalseRapeAccusation she accuses him of rape]] and Constantine is forced [[OffingTheOffspring to execute him]] because of it.
* FalseRapeAccusation: The controversy surrounding Fausta and Crispus that led to Constantine OffingTheOffspring is depicted as her accusing him of raping her [[WomanScorned when he rejected her advances]]. After the execution Constantine is enraged and has Fausta executed for doing so.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Drusus's attempt to raise a civilized G*rm results in Arminius (his brother Flavus, who stayed loyal to Rome, is AdaptedOut).
* FatBastard:
** Tarquinius Superbus' son Sextus was portrayed as one, and his rape of Lucretia proved to be the last straw that angered Romans enough to overthrow the monarchy and start the Republic.
** In the Year of Four Emperors, Vitellius was a fat, lazy guardsman who spent a great deal of his post eating and partying at great expense. He convinced his colleagues to rebel against Galba, and had an army sent southward by the time Galba was replaced by Otho. After the latter committed suicide, [[AdiposeRex he proclaimed himself emperor]], planning to rape Sporus in a brutal gladiatorial display before the latter committed suicide to deny this. Many Eastern governors were disgusted with the idea of a him being Emperor and spending a lot of money to feed his gluttony, and eventually he was beheaded and thrown into the Tiber River, making way for Vespasian.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Diocletian detested the Praetorian Guard and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder their habitual tendency to turn on their employers]], and upon consolidating his rule alongside Maximian, he relegated them to guarding an irrelevant fort near the Milvian Bridge as a more fitting and humiliating punishment than putting them to death. That proved to not be enough, so Constantine wound up having the post [[KillEmAll abolished]].
* FliesEqualsEvil: Domitian's habit of pinning flies is explained as him knowing they were up to no good, which he's proven right when [[WomanScorned Berenice]] uses a fly to kill Titus with a fever.
* FootballHooligans: True to their portrayal as Norf F.C.s, the Britons had at more than one occasion had conversations which amounted to "Londinium F.C." "Nonce, Eburacum City".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Imperial Wrath" has the the G*rms and the Sassanids either act in response to some threat from the east or mention said threat in passing. These are references to the Huns, well before their formal introduction at the end of "Barbarians at the Gates".
* FreudianExcuse: Constantius II had such a dim view of humanity derived from his upbringing by Fausta.
* GodEmperor: Caligula's [[AGodAmI god delusions]] are depicted as him becoming an actual god from his illness, complete with gaining [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] eyes. And while Elagabalus isn't a god persay, he is treated like a divine being due to his devotion to Sol Invictus.
* {{Greed}}: Some of the assassinations are about wanting money and bribes, notably [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax Pertinax]] who gets killed because he couldn't bribe the Praetorian Guard, who then put up the position of emperor on auction in order to get the money they want.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Diocletian was so furious with the Sassanids' request that the Romans be "magnanimous in victory" that he beat all of Narseh's minion's to death with Valerian's skeletal remains.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Hadrian becomes severely depressed after his lover Antinous drowns himself and never fully recovers.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** As a whole, the Greeks. Initially portrayed as barbarians and AlwaysChaoticEvil, they mellow out over the course of the series and by the time of the Roman Empire they're usually just Virgins, Wojaks, [[TheTwink or ideal GF twinks]]. There's even the occasional Greek Chad.
** Surprisingly, [[spoiler:Atilla the Hun and his cohorts(excluding some allies like Odoacer) go from an almost lich-like force of death and destruction to Spurdo Sparde after a talk with Pope Leo, where they go home and Atilla dies partying]]. [[ForegoneConclusion Though this isn't that different from what actually happened]].
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Despite a HistoricalHeroUpgrade regarding his brother, Caracalla is still portrayed as AxCrazy, killing thousands of plebs [[DisproportionateRetribution for being a bad influence on Geta or claiming he killed him]], and slaughters the Parthians he was supposed to have a marriage with.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade
** In-universe example in the PreviouslyOn segment in the Severan Dynasty video that's otherwise more accurate to real history than Dovah's ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' retelling, where Commodus is a Chad who was a stud in the Colosseum instead of it being a ridiculous spectacle like in real life. Dovahhatty then ends by saying [[BlatantLies he was just kidding about that]].
** In real life, Elagabalus was a PuppetKing. Here, he's portrayed as an independent thinker and semi-divine who [[OffingTheOffspring was assassinated under his grandmother's orders]] because he refused to be her puppet(in actuality she likely did so because his reckless hedonism was problematic).
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Quite a few Roman figures were portrayed this way. Among emperors considered the worst by contemporary Historians, Commodus was the exception where he's still portrayed as a corrupt Virgin (and even he got a spoof recap where he got to be a Chad).
** While the pre-illness months of Caligula's rule were consistent with his portrayals by contemporary historians, the post-illness rule was portrayed as him having an epiphany as being a god. His infamous moment of declaring war on Neptune and collecting seashells as bounty was portrayed as conquering the elements to make crossing the English Channel easier, only stopping short of invading Britain (ergo leaving the task to Claudius) because of other matters to attend to.
** In real life, Caracalla had Geta murdered, but here he's portrayed as loving his brother and treating whatever he perceives as a negative influence, or suggesting he's the one to murder Geta, to a wrathful response. [[DownplayedTrope It's downplayed]] in that he's otherwise accurate to the violent and wrathful nature of the real Caracalla (though [[HeroicComedicSociopath played for laughs]]).
** Elagabalus used his degeneracy to counter the degeneracy problem and preached about Sol Invictus to streamline the pantheon.[[note]]In real life he just put his namesake Syrian sun god over the Roman pantheon[[/note]]
** While not bad rulers, Decius, Valerian and Diocletian's persecution of Christians isn't treated as an evil act but them needing all the help they can get from the pagan gods against their enemies and needing to punish Christians for being obstinate.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: An odd example with Caracalla, that zig-zags with HistoricalHeroUpgrade; while [[HeroicComedicSociopath played for laughs]] and framed as a NominalHero, Caracalla is still portrayed as an AxCrazy soldier emperor prone to DisproportionateRetribution such a starting a war with Parthia for relatively petty reasons. However one of his worst acts, that of [[CainAndAbel having Geta killed]], is changed to him loving his brother even though he still hates him, and the Praetorian Guard alone being behind his death.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** Being biased to Rome for the laughs, many non-Romans are portrayed as evil, with some like the Germans and Sasanid Empire being AlwaysChaoticEvil. Notably King Shapur is treated as a demon lord who tortured and [[FlayingAlive flayed]] Emperor Valerian (in reality he was probably just [[HumiliationConga humiliated and imprisoned]]).
** Within the Roman Empire, Livia is portrayed as similar to her ''Series/IClaudius'' portrayal in being an EvilMatriarch who offs Augustus' heir and later him, and Commodus is portrayed like he is in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' with him [[{{Patricide}} killing Marcus Aurelius]]. More generally, the senators are usually portrayed as a bunch of scheming, spineless figures who resent and bend over backwards to the new emperor.
** While the Praetorian Guard was already notorious for its BodyguardBetrayal, ''Unbiased History'' exaggerates it by making them more trigger-happy and petty in their motives than they were in real life. This is partly because a lot of the emperors they killed portrayed as Chads and/or being given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade. Some of the emperors they killed are Virgins like Pupienus/Balbinus or Wojacks like Gordian III, but the Praetorians are still portrayed as petty.
** The Visigothic leaders were portrayed without any sort of redeeming qualities; in contemporary accounts Alaric spared the churches in Rome because of his Arianist faith, but no such thing was mentioned to keep consistent with Goths being a chaotic, civilization-hating faction. Athaulf's relationship with Galla was portrayed here as rape.
* IRejectYourReality: The Praetorian Guard Constantly did this to justify killing emperors, most notably Aurelian, who they convinced themselves that he cannot be allowed to exist being so perfect.
* ItsPronouncedTropay: Often opts to use the classical Latin pronunciations for characters, but sometimes even throws a bone to the popular pronunciations like that of Julius Caesar or Marcus Antonius (Mark Anthony).
* JesusWasCrazy: In "The Mad Emperors", he was barely mentioned as "some Jew with god delusions" who got nailed to a cross in the course of Tiberius' reign. Christians had since become a thorn to subsequent emperors' sides, which led to Diocletian's Great Persecution. [[spoiler:Ultimately becomes subverted when in Constantine's dream, Jesus and the Roman Gods were revealed as one and the same]].
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: While most Chads [[BadassFamily have other Chads as kids]], Chad characters like Septimius Severus and especially Marcus Aurelius have corrupt virgin sons like Geta and ''especially'' C*mmodus as "failed prodigies". To a lesser extent, Emperor Vitellius is a [[FatBastard corpulent]] Wojak while his dad is a Chad.
* LoserDeity: Unlike the other gods who are portrayed by Chads, Neptune is portrayed as a Wojak and gets owned by Caligula in his conquest of the sea.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Played with; Hadrian isn't portrayed his evil, his violent rampage against Judea is caused by despair and anger from losing his favorite twink
* ManlyGay: Quite a few Patricians were rather fond of their twinks. In regards to the Emperors, Nero stayed loyal to the castrated servant Sporus, and Hadrian was portrayed as fucking many twinks. His favorite twink Antinous was distraught thinking he'd lose Hadrian to a woman (though Hadrian detested them), and committed suicide during a fishing trip. This sent the Emperor into deep sorrow that culminated eventually to the brutal suppression of Judea.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: The ManlyGay Hadrian's dearest love was an effeminate twink named Antinous. To a lesser extent there's Nero and his new wife, the eunuch Sporus.
* MindControlEyes: Mark Anthony's eyes become yellow when falling under the mind control of Cleopatra, who uses the romancing of Roman Chads like Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony as a means for [[SexMagic her sorcery]].
* NonIndicativeName: It is comedically blatantly biased towards the Romans.
* OneMythToExplainThemAll: Elagabalus comes to the conclusion that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus Sol Invictus]] is the one true god, with the Roman pantheon being aspects of his divinity[[note]]in reality Elagabalus worshipped another sun god who he gets his name from[[/note]]. He acts like a degenerate in order to get people's attention on this matter, and Aurelian later embraces this belief.
** Taken further with Constantine the great, who in a divine revelation, discovers that all gods and divine figures such as Zeus, Apollo, Minerva, Sol Invictus, and even Jesus Christ himself, are nothing but different aspects of the one true God, and so, it doesn't matter who you worship, since it's the same god overall. He uses this to legitimize Cristianity in the eyes of the empire.
* OffingTheOffspring: Like in history Constantine has his son Crispus, however both are portrayed as Chads and he only does it because [[FalseRapeAccusation Fausta accuses him of raping her]]. He's horrified learning of this and has her executed for it.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The Sassanids are interpreted as literal demons who worship chaotic gods, with Shapur creating his heir through laying an egg.
* {{Patricide}}
** Being a retelling of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' Commodus is depicted as killing Marcus Aurelius. The PreviouslyOn segment has Aurelius die of the plague like he did in reality.
** Dovahhatty subscribes to the belief that Brutus was Caesar's illegitimate child, so his assassination is this. Unlike Commodus Brutus is treated as a Chad because he was roped into it by the conspirators and [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself out of guilt]] after his defeat.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: The Sun is attributed to a number of victories by the Romans, with Elagabalus eventually coming to the realization that Sol Invictus is the one true god, something Aurelian embraces.
* PreviouslyOn: The Severan Dynasty begins with one of those, only with Commodus being portrayed as a Chad who succeeded Marcus Aurelius after the latter died of more or less natural causes, being a stud in the gladiatorial ring and being strangled in his bath by his virgin sparring partner Narcissus. Dovahhatty then says he was kidding about the whole thing, that his degenerate rule really ended the Antonine Dynasty and by extension weakened Rome.
* PyrrhicVictory: Inevitably brought up in The Conquest of Italy, where Pyrrhus of Epirus would wind up close to losing on more than one occasion, that he only won because he utilized his twenty Indian war elephants. It was getting to the point where he would curse his "victories".
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A collective version occured when the Praetorian Guard, as generations of betraying the empire and general corruption arrived to demand bribes from Constantine. He responded by abolishing the entire organization and [[KillThemAll purging every single one of them]].
** To a lesser extent, All of Aurelian's murderers were rounded and subjected to the worst tortures possible.
* RunningGag:
** Whenever a Chad Roman general gets the upper hand in a conflict, sometimes even killing/crucifying scores of people, they would do a dab.
** Massive conquests, purges and persecutions are often portrayed as an musical montage, with the roman leader or general of the time killing countless lives at the tune of the music.
** Resentful, envious Virgins plotting conspiracy, always in the same room.
* SexMagic: Cleopatra uses the divine Julian semen to mind control Mark Anthony, and later Livia uses Augustus' to off potential heirs who might succeed her husband instead of her son Tiberius.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/TheUnbiasedHistoryOfRome Has its own page]].
* ShownTheirWork: Despite being a series known for its satirical nature in its Rome-centric views, the contents are generally well-researched even its perspective twists.
* TakeThat:
** Plenty of barbs were made towards communism throughout the series. In the very first video, where the Trojans figured out economics among other issues, they surmised that it works when they use magic, and even then it's still worse than capitalism.
** When Sulla had come to a realization that the plebs were dragging down the republic, compounding the existing problems they have with the G*rms and Greekoids, there is a take that directed towards anti-Semites in general and /pol/ in particular:
--> '''DH''': Sulla forced himself to [[RedPillBluePill swallow that bitter red pill]]. The truth was that the Jews were behind everything- Uh, uh no wait, wrong redpill! [''Sulla turns away from the "/pol/tard pills", and towards the /his/torian pills''[[note]]in itself, there is a take that within it. ">H >R >E" refers to questioning the notion that the Holy Roman Empire was any of these[[/note]]] Ah, ah yes, here! Alright, so the truth was that the Republic would soon fall if things kept going the way they were.\\
'''Sulla''': Makes far more sense. Imagine blaming Jews for everything...
* TokenGoodTeammate:
** Despite the senators eventually portrayed as a bunch of scheming state parasites, some notable senators are portrayed as Chads, notably Antoninus Pius who becomes one of the Five Good Emperors and leads a peaceful regime, and Decius who is depicted as one of the more capable emperors in the Crisis Of The Third Century.
** Half-G*rms were typically portrayed as having half their face be Wojak and the other as a grinning G*rm, with chaotic thoughts being tempered by their Roman halves from time to time. Half-Vandal Stilicho was portrayed as a Chad, and though he still had the side of his face resembling a red-eyed G*rm, he resented the Vandal side of his family and gave Alaric a run for his money.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Unbiased History's "Imperial Wrath" episode had Julian The Apostate transformed a weak Wojack into a masculine Chad art after the tutelage of Ursicinus during his tenure as a Caesar in the western parts of the Roman Empire.
** Aetius' training montage turned the hapless Wojaks into muscular Chads, not to mention turning Barbarian like Theodoric to appreciate civilization based on his lack of mask and yellow eyes.
* TragicHero: The finale of UnbiasedHistory has major examples of heroic Chads whose life was cut short as Dovahhatty stated it as "These were the times of Tragic Heroes".
*** Stilicho, a half Vandal, who served the Western Empire loyally even refusing to overthrow his patron Honorius even if his death led to the sack of Rome.
*** Aetius used his skills and will to turn back Attila's Hunnic horde with the Germanic tribes yet Emperor Valentinian III murdered him before being avenged by Petronius Maximus (who actually instigated Aetius' murder to make his usurpation of Valentinian III justifiable) and Aetius' friends.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. The loss of his fleet to retake Africa along with the assassination by Ricimer dashed any hope for the restoration of Western Roman Empire.
* ToughActToFollow: Even the Senate felt unworthy of picking Aurelian's successor.
* TrueCompanions: The series' portrayal of Diocletian and other co-emperors of his Tetrarchy (Maximian, Galerian, and Constantius) were portrayed as close friends, which made it unique for the time due to the number of backstabbings and infighting during the Third Century Crisis to the point of Diocletian's patience and support to Maximian despite his many setbacks.
** Augustus was also this with Agrippa and Gaius Maecenas.
* TheTwink: Several appear in the series, including Hadrian's lover Antinous and the emperor Constans. They're usually depicted as Ideal [=GFs=].
* UnstoppableRage: Valentinian had one that [[OhCrap even G*rms dreaded]] and can be felt throughout the empire. What stopped the fury though was that he popped a blood vessel and died on the spot.
* VestigialEmpire: Like in history, Roman Empire suffered in later episodes set after Constantine The Great with many Romans becoming less competent and corrupt.
* WomanScorned:
** Many of Rome's woes like plagues and [[{{Reincarnation}} even some femme fatales]] are blamed on the spirit of [[Literature/TheAeneid Dido]] wanting revenge for Aeneas dumping her.
** Dovahhatty suggests that Titus died of a fever because Queen Berenice used her Jewish magic, angry that she had broken up with him.
** Fausta, who in real life accused Crispus of having an affair(of which he may have been guilty of), accuses him of rape when he refuses her advances so Constantine would have him executed. [[LaserGuidedKarma When Constantine finds out, he has her executed]].
* WorthyOpponent: Hannibal Barca is depicted as being this to the Romans. Notably, he's one of the very few non-Romans to be portrayed as a Chad.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Said almost word for word in the case of Commodus' twin dying infancy while he lived.
-->Unfortunately in the first year of his (Marcus Aurelius)reign, he would be faced with a monumental tragedy. Faustina, after birthing many children, such as Lucila, had given birth to twins. One of which died soon after birth. But that was not it. The Real Tragedy, was that the youngest twin, a boy named Commodus, '''Survived''' .
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-> ''"There once was a dream...a dream to purge this rotten world of the barbarians that infested it! A dream called Rome."''
-->-- [[EstablishingSeriesMoment The very first lines of the series]]
'''The Unbiased History of Rome''' is a web animation series by Dovahhatty started on May 22, 2019. In spite of the name, it actually is blatantly biased towards the Romans for laughs, sometimes even reinterpreting entire events in their favor as he covers their history from mythological beginnings in Troy, to the times of the Republic, to the empire onwards. The entire series can be watched in chronological order [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EOzr15h8S8&list=PLp5VE4P1YBhc05cDqiOazzTTu1WSh8MHg here]].
Dovah currently has a mini-series on the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire [[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyzAu5GDVAhRbHw6aR4AaABCQ in the works]]
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!!Contains examples of:
* TheAce: Some of the rulers that were regarded by contemporary historians as among the best really stick out in this manner.
** Julius Caesar, in spite of being in the Populares faction that Hatty didn't look fondly towards, was portrayed as taking part there out of necessity. His popularity with soldiers and his successful campaign in Gaul earned him the ire of Senators, including Cato the Younger who sabotaged any attempts at compromise. Caesar then won the ensuing civil war between him and Pompey, and even bested his most valuable general Labienus to close out said war.
** Amongst the Five Good Emperors, Trajan is a standout not only for being well-regarded even by Christians[[note]]He didn't consider persecuting them during his reign, ensuring that he's seen by Christian historians as a virtuous pagan[[/note]], but also bringing the Roman Empire to its greatest extent, stretching from Britain to Babylon. While there were uprisings towards the end, his accomplishments were considered the zenith of the empire. His feats were such that a common prayer among senators was "May he be luckier than Augustus and better than Trajan" for each successive Emperor.
** In The Crisis of the Third Century, Aurelian has assumed his reign in one of Rome's darkest moments, when not only the G*rms, Goths, Sassanids and the Cyprian Plague caused a lot of destruction, but the Gallic and Palmyrene Empires had split away from Rome. He donned the mask of Sol Invictus and went to work, dealing not only with the Barbarians but also with the splinter empires that threaten Rome's existence, all in five years. Unfortunately, Praetorian Guards assassinated him just before he could launch an offensive against the Sassanids.
** Constantine learned well from his years fighting alongside the Tetrarchy, and carried on fighting off Barbarian hordes after his father Constantius died and he became a Western Caesar. With a new Civil War picking up upon the Tetrarchy falling apart, he used the newfound Chi-Rho sign as a means of not only bringing his men to victory, but work towards the use of Christianity as a civilizing force of the Romans. He had the Praetorian Guard abolished after several generations of corruption, reunited the empire after defeating treacherous elements of the east, and built a new capital for the empire that would last over a thousand years unconquered. For these reasons and more, history remembers him as Constantine the Great.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** The abduction of Helen of Troy and the rape of the Sabine women become Helen kidnapping Paris and the Sabine women raping the Roman men.
** Roman mythology has [[CainAndAbel Romulus end up killing Remus]] or one of his supporters doing it. Here, Remus is pushed off the city wall by a disguised barbarian and Romulus [[MercyKill puts him out of his misery]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: Whereas Emperor Theodosius was commonly regarded with respect by contemporary historians for his reforms and the necessity of splitting administrative duties of the two halves of the Empire, here he was portrayed as a Virgin who actively patronized the chaotic, uncompromising Goths even as he ordered them to slaughter several Romans in Constantinople, then heavily clamped down on all non-Nicaean religions and tearing down the Statue of Victory from the Roman Senate. He then left his empire to his useless son Arcadius (East) and his cowardly son Honorius (West).
* AllWomenAreLustful: Particularly the Barbarian (or otherwise non-Roman) kind towards Romans. For example, there was the rape BY the Sabine women, Boudica revolted against the Romans because she's denied sex with them, and Cleopatra had the hots for Julius Caesar [[SexMagic for her mind control magic on Mark Anthony]]. Roman women weren't immune to this either, and it became a big problem around the rule of Caesar Augustus, even within his own family.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** The G*rms are portrayed as this; unlike the other barbarians they're uncivilizable and always seek to destroy civilization, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying any Roman foolish enough to ally with them]].
** Initially the Greeks were treated as a bunch of neaderthal-like barbarians who hated civilization, but they ultimately grow out of this trope in favor of the G*rms, being virgins and wojacks with the occasional chad in the mix.
** For much of Rome's history, the Parthians had been a thorn to Rome's side, but Rome was able to roll through them multiple times that they were reduced to a weak, ineffectual state before a dark force emerged from the shadows towards the end of the Severan Dynasty. From the ashes of the old Parthian Empire emerged the Sassanids, which were portrayed as subjects of dark magic about as sadistic and treacherous as the G*rms.
** [[HorrifyingTheHorror Even the G*rms and the Sassanids shudder]] at the imminent arrival of [[AlwaysABiggerFish the Huns]]. And when they themselves appeared, they were every bit as fearful as expected... [[spoiler:until Attila talked with Pope Leo and they were revealed as a race of Spurdo Spärdes when convinced attacking Rome really wasn't what they wanted anyway]].
* AppealToAudacity: Elagabalus' hedonistic and over-sexed activities are depicted as [[RefugeInAudacity him trying to get the attention of everyone]] in order to address the degeneracy problem and get the plebs' attention to understand the nature of Sol Invictus.
* ArtShift: While the people are consistently represented by meme characters, the background can consistently shift between a one-color background with simplistic art and/or stock images and backgrounds assembled in VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} and [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]].
* AssholeVictim: Most emperors killed by the corrupt Praetorian Guard are portrayed as Chads, even more notorious ones like Caligula, but some like Pupeinus and Balbinus and to a lesser extent Geta are portrayed as lousy Virgin emperors so their deaths are no real loss.
* AuthorAvatar: Dovahhatty is portrayed in the video as an overlord-type character clad entirely in purple.
* BadassFamily: While there are [[BlackSheep some]] [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon exceptions]], characters depicted as Chads are likely to have their relatives also depicted as Chads. Notable examples are the Julio-Claudian dynasty (with few exceptions like Tiberius [[ButtMonkey and Claudius]]), the Vespasians and the father-son duo of Valerian and Gallienus.
* BaitAndSwitch: To begin the Punic Wars:
--> '''Dovahhatty''': Today, we'll discuss one of the worst barbarian races ever to plague the earth, a group of merchants who migrated across the Levant many years ago, [''a silhouette appears to give the appearance of the Happy Merchant''] deceitfully manipulating others to further their greedy interests. You know what I'm talking about. [''the silhouette reveals itself as two Punics making poses to appear like the silhouette''] Punics!
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
** UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}} and Queen Zenobia are depicted as [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnations]] of [[Literature/TheAeneid Dido]], seeking vengeance on the Trojan-descended Rome [[WomanScorned for being rejected by Aeneas]].
** UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}'s AGodAmI delusions are interpreted as him actually becoming a god due to his sickness, with his sister Julia's death caused by her body failing from receiving the same apotheosis.
** While major Roman enemies like the G*rms are still portrayed as human, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardashir_I Ardashir]] and his descendants are [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon lords]] who create their heirs with dark rituals and laying eggs.
** The Huns have assumed a lichlike appearance, and Attila himself used the powers of sorcery, one of which causing earthquakes in Constantinople which necessitated the rush to repair the Theodosian Walls.
* BerserkButton:
** Cato had such a deep-seated anger towards Carthage's very existence (even while still a fetus) that he ended his statements in "Carthago delenda est"[[note]]Carthage must be destroyed[[/note]].
** Hadrian despised any lack of Roman civilization. A later one got pressed after he loses his favorite twink on a fishing trip in Egypt, then Bar Kokhba led a revolt in Judea. He was in no mood to talk, and sent twelve legions to utterly flatten Judea.
** Even while he couldn't get his brother Geta's affection in return, suggest that Caracalla murdered Geta at your own peril. Several plebs and the whole city of Alexandria learned that [[DisproportionateRetribution the hard way]].
** Valentinian hated G*rms so much, he actually had to restrain himself while still launching punitive campaigns. Their openly defying the terms of his treaty sent him into a rage that unsettled the Chad Palatini Guard and scared the G*rms. Just as he killed some in rage and started to throttle the remaining two, [[CriticalExistenceFailure the anger became so much he popped a blood vessel in his brain]].
* BlackComedy: The whole series to be exact, with certain moments, such as the destruction of Carthage, Caesar's conquest of Gaul, and Hadrian's suppression of Judea, are shown like a musical montage in particular.
* BookEnds: The series begins and ends with "A dream to purge this rotten world of the barbarians that infested it! A dream called Rome."
* ButtMonkey:
** In the Second Triumvirate, Lepidus was relegated to this role compared to Octavian and Mark Antony. He was denied a governing role in Hispania, largely watching paint dry in Africa. After Octavian reclaimed the islands from Sextus Pompey, Lepidus did try to claim Sicily for himself, only to be quickly denied and kicked out of the Triumvirate. He lived out the rest of his days as Pontifex Maximus, doing nothing as he did before.
** Before he became emperor, Claudius was subject to some humiliations in his life, [[RunningGag but such is life for Uncle Claudius]]. Even as he became emperor and did as good a job as a non-Chad can get, this misfortune still can show.
** The same is true for Dioclecian's Co-Emperor Maximian, who despite being his equal in theory, in practice, he is portrayed as an absolutely failure in everything he does, be it his failed invation of Brittania, or the persecusion of Christians, not to mention that he has an ugly bust.
* CampGay: While many elite Romans (especially Hadrian) were portrayed as ManlyGay, Emperors Elagabalus and Constans were more effeminate. Elagabalus used the flamboyant display and debauched acts as a means of preaching of Sol Invictus, while Constans was portrayed as an Ideal GF like the twinks before him.
* CatchPhrase "AVE MEEE!" for any usurper, typically unsuccessful ones who quickly get dispatched by Chad emperors.
* CensoredForComedy: The more degenerate groups were given this treatment, including the G*uls, Etr*scans and especially the G*rms[[note]]Germans[[/note]]. C*mmodus also got this treatment, a mark of DH's disdain for him.
* ChaosIsEvil: G*rms and other tribes portrayed as AlwaysChaoticEvil are often shown venerating chaos and chaotic beings.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Julian.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Dovah noted from their very inception that the Praetorian Guard never stays loyal for very long. They would inevitably become Virgin and assassinate an emperor over a missed payment or as a simple power grab.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: quite literally.
* ColdBloodedTorture
** Shapur ends up humiliating and torturing Emperor Valerian for years when imprisoned. When he asks to capitulate just so he can see his son, Shapur [[FlayingAlive flays him alive]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay and puts his corpse on display]]. When his successor asks the Romans to be magnanimous in victory Dicoletian [[GrievousHarmWithABody uses Valerian as an example]] for why he has no right to say so.
** The fate of Aurelian's assassins is to be brutally tortured for the severity of killing [[TheAce arguably the best emperor]]. It only stops when they need to use the food keeping them alive for more important manners, though one soldier suggests they could feed them their own shit.
* ControlFreak: Hadrian micromanaged affairs throughout the empire. At one moment he appeared out of a toilet to tell a civilized Gaul to get back to work.
* {{Dehumanization}}:
** Many groups who are not Roman were portrayed as degenerates, sometimes even borderline Neanderthalic early on, and later portrayals typically have them as Virgins, Wojaks or variants thereof.
** Even among non-Romans, the G*rms and the Sassanids are portrayed as evil daemons seeking to destroy all civilization in the name of their chaos gods, not to mention that, unlike regular barbarians such as Gauls, they are uncivilizable.
* DepravedHomosexual: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Elgabalus, who acts like a depraved and slutty bottom so he can get the plebs' attention and explain his new religion.
* DistinctiveAppearances: The historical figures are typically represented by various imageboard characters:
** The [[WebOriginal/VirginVsChad Chads]] are typically used to represent the Patricians, elite soldiers and favorable leaders of Rome. They have also been used for their Trojan forebears, the inhabitants of Alba Longa and an occasional non-Roman such as Hannibal (as the gods felt the Romans needed a challenge after the first Punic War) and Josephus (a Jewish historian who favored the empire and became a citizen).
** Wojaks are used to represent the plebs and an occasional leader. They have also been used to fill in for various non-Romans, often with varying attributes such as an [[SlasherSmile evil grin]] for the G*rms. Groups such as the Samnites and (initially) the Gauls are the corrupted variants thereof.
** [[WebOriginal/VirginVsChad Virgins]] are used to represent weak-willed/disloyal military men and senators on the Roman side, as well as some unflattering rulers. Among non-Romans, they fill in for the various Greekoids.
** Grugs are used for the less-civilized Barbarians, especially early on when the Greeks were portrayed in this manner before becoming Virgins.
** A Celtic variation of Norf F.C.s[[note]]a caricature of obese working class men from [[OopNorth the North of England]][[/note]] is used exclusively for the Britons, right down to the way they talk.
** A couple times, Happy Merchants were used to represent Jews, although most tend to usually be depicted as Wojaks who only share the Merchant nose. Same with Josephus, only in Chad form.
** Spurdo Spärde is used for elephants and flies, though he also represented Labienus (to make him "le benis") as well as nomadic tribes such as the Iazyges and Sarmatians.
** Women who are not Wojaks are portrayed as the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ideal-gf Ideal GF]], although in this case they are also used for the twinks for [[ManlyGay certain Patricians]].
** The [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freedom-aint-free Freedom Ain't Free]] bear is sometimes used to represent some figures such as the historian Cassius Dio and the Tetrarch Galerius, complete with the way they talk.
* DoubleStandard: While the show claims to be unbiased, Dovahatty holds many. For example, massacres of Romans by non-Romans are portrayed as utterly heinous, while massacres of non-Romans by Romans are often glorified.
* DrivenByEnvy: A number of [[BodyguardBetrayal Praetorian betrayals]] are depicted as being down to jealousy at the emperor, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Chaerea Cassius Chaerea]] who felt his masculinity threatened by Caligula being a Chad
* DrivenToSuicide: As in Roman history a number of Roman figures kill themselves. The most somber example is Diocletian[[note]]in history it's unclear whether he killed himself or died of natural causes[[/note]], who [[DeathByDespair hangs himself in despair]] after witnessing the Tetrarchy he worked so hard on fall apart.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Many twinks are portrayed as Ideal [=GFs=].
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Earlier episodes were shorter and had a more simplistic background design. It was around the Julius Caesar episode where episodes started to reach a half hour and incorporate backgrounds based from Minecraft and Skyrim. Even slightly earlier, background music was starting to get used more often.
** Due to the beginning starting with Trojan and early Roman mythology, Greeks were treated as almost AlwaysChaoticEvil and caveman-ish. By the time of the Caesars they're treated on more neutral terms as Virgins/Wojaks (with the occasional Chad), while groups like the Gauls and especially the G*rms get Rome and Dovahhatty's antipathy.
* EpicFail: Two moments in particular made Dovah borrow the Bibulus Award from ''WebVideo/HistoriaCivilis''. The first occurred when the namesake failed to blockade Julius Caesar's crossing of the Adriatic Sea, and died in his attempt at doing so. Nine episodes later, Constantine II lusted for the entire Roman Empire, and was threatening war with Constans unless he handed over all of Africa. When Constans refused to hand over Carthage, Constantine II followed through on his threat before being ambushed and killed in Aquileia
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: "Evil" is a bit of a stretch, but Geta is portrayed as a bratty asshole who doesn't like his brother Caracalla. Still, Caracalla mourns his assassination and [[BerserkButton is set off]] by anything that insults his memory or claims he killed him (the latter being what actually happened).
* EvilerThanThou: The G*rms and later Sassanids are portrayed as fearsome and evil foes of the Romans, however they end up fearing and are overshadowed by the Huns. [[spoiler:That is, until Pope Leo convinces them to stop their attack, leading to most of them being Spurdo Sparde.]]
* FaceHeelTurn:
** Brutus' betrayal of Julius Caesar is portrayed as this since unlike most betrayers, he's a Chad but eventually ends up being convinced by the corrupt senate to kill him. He eventually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes he screwed up]] and is DrivenToSuicide.
** Organization-wide, the Praetorians start as competent and loyal Chads during Augustus' reign. Come Sejanus' influence and they become increasingly corrupt Virgins. Even when they're purged with competent new members replacing them like during Septimius Severus' reign, they soon fall back into ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
** At first, Licinius assisted Constantine in defeating Maximinus Daia. Then after being victorious and maintaining hold of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, he turned on Constantine, with his hair curling up to form HornsOfVillainy.
* TheFaceless:
** When Aurelian is onscreen, there's never a good look above his nose, and where he's fully visible, he's wearing the mask of Sol Invictus.
** The Huns had a lichlike appearance where their faces aren't seen... [[spoiler:before the talk with Pope Leo revealed them as Spurdo Spärdes]].
** King Arthur and Mordred's face are also shadowed.
* AFamilyAffair: Attempted by Fausta, who attempts to seduce her step-son Crispus however he rejects his advances. Unfortunately [[FalseRapeAccusation she accuses him of rape]] and Constantine is forced [[OffingTheOffspring to execute him]] because of it.
* FalseRapeAccusation: The controversy surrounding Fausta and Crispus that led to Constantine OffingTheOffspring is depicted as her accusing him of raping her [[WomanScorned when he rejected her advances]]. After the execution Constantine is enraged and has Fausta executed for doing so.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Drusus's attempt to raise a civilized G*rm results in Arminius (his brother Flavus, who stayed loyal to Rome, is AdaptedOut).
* FatBastard:
** Tarquinius Superbus' son Sextus was portrayed as one, and his rape of Lucretia proved to be the last straw that angered Romans enough to overthrow the monarchy and start the Republic.
** In the Year of Four Emperors, Vitellius was a fat, lazy guardsman who spent a great deal of his post eating and partying at great expense. He convinced his colleagues to rebel against Galba, and had an army sent southward by the time Galba was replaced by Otho. After the latter committed suicide, [[AdiposeRex he proclaimed himself emperor]], planning to rape Sporus in a brutal gladiatorial display before the latter committed suicide to deny this. Many Eastern governors were disgusted with the idea of a him being Emperor and spending a lot of money to feed his gluttony, and eventually he was beheaded and thrown into the Tiber River, making way for Vespasian.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Diocletian detested the Praetorian Guard and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder their habitual tendency to turn on their employers]], and upon consolidating his rule alongside Maximian, he relegated them to guarding an irrelevant fort near the Milvian Bridge as a more fitting and humiliating punishment than putting them to death. That proved to not be enough, so Constantine wound up having the post [[KillEmAll abolished]].
* FliesEqualsEvil: Domitian's habit of pinning flies is explained as him knowing they were up to no good, which he's proven right when [[WomanScorned Berenice]] uses a fly to kill Titus with a fever.
* FootballHooligans: True to their portrayal as Norf F.C.s, the Britons had at more than one occasion had conversations which amounted to "Londinium F.C." "Nonce, Eburacum City".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Imperial Wrath" has the the G*rms and the Sassanids either act in response to some threat from the east or mention said threat in passing. These are references to the Huns, well before their formal introduction at the end of "Barbarians at the Gates".
* FreudianExcuse: Constantius II had such a dim view of humanity derived from his upbringing by Fausta.
* GodEmperor: Caligula's [[AGodAmI god delusions]] are depicted as him becoming an actual god from his illness, complete with gaining [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] eyes. And while Elagabalus isn't a god persay, he is treated like a divine being due to his devotion to Sol Invictus.
* {{Greed}}: Some of the assassinations are about wanting money and bribes, notably [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax Pertinax]] who gets killed because he couldn't bribe the Praetorian Guard, who then put up the position of emperor on auction in order to get the money they want.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Diocletian was so furious with the Sassanids' request that the Romans be "magnanimous in victory" that he beat all of Narseh's minion's to death with Valerian's skeletal remains.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Hadrian becomes severely depressed after his lover Antinous drowns himself and never fully recovers.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** As a whole, the Greeks. Initially portrayed as barbarians and AlwaysChaoticEvil, they mellow out over the course of the series and by the time of the Roman Empire they're usually just Virgins, Wojaks, [[TheTwink or ideal GF twinks]]. There's even the occasional Greek Chad.
** Surprisingly, [[spoiler:Atilla the Hun and his cohorts(excluding some allies like Odoacer) go from an almost lich-like force of death and destruction to Spurdo Sparde after a talk with Pope Leo, where they go home and Atilla dies partying]]. [[ForegoneConclusion Though this isn't that different from what actually happened]].
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Despite a HistoricalHeroUpgrade regarding his brother, Caracalla is still portrayed as AxCrazy, killing thousands of plebs [[DisproportionateRetribution for being a bad influence on Geta or claiming he killed him]], and slaughters the Parthians he was supposed to have a marriage with.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade
** In-universe example in the PreviouslyOn segment in the Severan Dynasty video that's otherwise more accurate to real history than Dovah's ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' retelling, where Commodus is a Chad who was a stud in the Colosseum instead of it being a ridiculous spectacle like in real life. Dovahhatty then ends by saying [[BlatantLies he was just kidding about that]].
** In real life, Elagabalus was a PuppetKing. Here, he's portrayed as an independent thinker and semi-divine who [[OffingTheOffspring was assassinated under his grandmother's orders]] because he refused to be her puppet(in actuality she likely did so because his reckless hedonism was problematic).
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Quite a few Roman figures were portrayed this way. Among emperors considered the worst by contemporary Historians, Commodus was the exception where he's still portrayed as a corrupt Virgin (and even he got a spoof recap where he got to be a Chad).
** While the pre-illness months of Caligula's rule were consistent with his portrayals by contemporary historians, the post-illness rule was portrayed as him having an epiphany as being a god. His infamous moment of declaring war on Neptune and collecting seashells as bounty was portrayed as conquering the elements to make crossing the English Channel easier, only stopping short of invading Britain (ergo leaving the task to Claudius) because of other matters to attend to.
** In real life, Caracalla had Geta murdered, but here he's portrayed as loving his brother and treating whatever he perceives as a negative influence, or suggesting he's the one to murder Geta, to a wrathful response. [[DownplayedTrope It's downplayed]] in that he's otherwise accurate to the violent and wrathful nature of the real Caracalla (though [[HeroicComedicSociopath played for laughs]]).
** Elagabalus used his degeneracy to counter the degeneracy problem and preached about Sol Invictus to streamline the pantheon.[[note]]In real life he just put his namesake Syrian sun god over the Roman pantheon[[/note]]
** While not bad rulers, Decius, Valerian and Diocletian's persecution of Christians isn't treated as an evil act but them needing all the help they can get from the pagan gods against their enemies and needing to punish Christians for being obstinate.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: An odd example with Caracalla, that zig-zags with HistoricalHeroUpgrade; while [[HeroicComedicSociopath played for laughs]] and framed as a NominalHero, Caracalla is still portrayed as an AxCrazy soldier emperor prone to DisproportionateRetribution such a starting a war with Parthia for relatively petty reasons. However one of his worst acts, that of [[CainAndAbel having Geta killed]], is changed to him loving his brother even though he still hates him, and the Praetorian Guard alone being behind his death.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** Being biased to Rome for the laughs, many non-Romans are portrayed as evil, with some like the Germans and Sasanid Empire being AlwaysChaoticEvil. Notably King Shapur is treated as a demon lord who tortured and [[FlayingAlive flayed]] Emperor Valerian (in reality he was probably just [[HumiliationConga humiliated and imprisoned]]).
** Within the Roman Empire, Livia is portrayed as similar to her ''Series/IClaudius'' portrayal in being an EvilMatriarch who offs Augustus' heir and later him, and Commodus is portrayed like he is in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' with him [[{{Patricide}} killing Marcus Aurelius]]. More generally, the senators are usually portrayed as a bunch of scheming, spineless figures who resent and bend over backwards to the new emperor.
** While the Praetorian Guard was already notorious for its BodyguardBetrayal, ''Unbiased History'' exaggerates it by making them more trigger-happy and petty in their motives than they were in real life. This is partly because a lot of the emperors they killed portrayed as Chads and/or being given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade. Some of the emperors they killed are Virgins like Pupienus/Balbinus or Wojacks like Gordian III, but the Praetorians are still portrayed as petty.
** The Visigothic leaders were portrayed without any sort of redeeming qualities; in contemporary accounts Alaric spared the churches in Rome because of his Arianist faith, but no such thing was mentioned to keep consistent with Goths being a chaotic, civilization-hating faction. Athaulf's relationship with Galla was portrayed here as rape.
* IRejectYourReality: The Praetorian Guard Constantly did this to justify killing emperors, most notably Aurelian, who they convinced themselves that he cannot be allowed to exist being so perfect.
* ItsPronouncedTropay: Often opts to use the classical Latin pronunciations for characters, but sometimes even throws a bone to the popular pronunciations like that of Julius Caesar or Marcus Antonius (Mark Anthony).
* JesusWasCrazy: In "The Mad Emperors", he was barely mentioned as "some Jew with god delusions" who got nailed to a cross in the course of Tiberius' reign. Christians had since become a thorn to subsequent emperors' sides, which led to Diocletian's Great Persecution. [[spoiler:Ultimately becomes subverted when in Constantine's dream, Jesus and the Roman Gods were revealed as one and the same]].
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: While most Chads [[BadassFamily have other Chads as kids]], Chad characters like Septimius Severus and especially Marcus Aurelius have corrupt virgin sons like Geta and ''especially'' C*mmodus as "failed prodigies". To a lesser extent, Emperor Vitellius is a [[FatBastard corpulent]] Wojak while his dad is a Chad.
* LoserDeity: Unlike the other gods who are portrayed by Chads, Neptune is portrayed as a Wojak and gets owned by Caligula in his conquest of the sea.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Played with; Hadrian isn't portrayed his evil, his violent rampage against Judea is caused by despair and anger from losing his favorite twink
* ManlyGay: Quite a few Patricians were rather fond of their twinks. In regards to the Emperors, Nero stayed loyal to the castrated servant Sporus, and Hadrian was portrayed as fucking many twinks. His favorite twink Antinous was distraught thinking he'd lose Hadrian to a woman (though Hadrian detested them), and committed suicide during a fishing trip. This sent the Emperor into deep sorrow that culminated eventually to the brutal suppression of Judea.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: The ManlyGay Hadrian's dearest love was an effeminate twink named Antinous. To a lesser extent there's Nero and his new wife, the eunuch Sporus.
* MindControlEyes: Mark Anthony's eyes become yellow when falling under the mind control of Cleopatra, who uses the romancing of Roman Chads like Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony as a means for [[SexMagic her sorcery]].
* NonIndicativeName: It is comedically blatantly biased towards the Romans.
* OneMythToExplainThemAll: Elagabalus comes to the conclusion that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus Sol Invictus]] is the one true god, with the Roman pantheon being aspects of his divinity[[note]]in reality Elagabalus worshipped another sun god who he gets his name from[[/note]]. He acts like a degenerate in order to get people's attention on this matter, and Aurelian later embraces this belief.
** Taken further with Constantine the great, who in a divine revelation, discovers that all gods and divine figures such as Zeus, Apollo, Minerva, Sol Invictus, and even Jesus Christ himself, are nothing but different aspects of the one true God, and so, it doesn't matter who you worship, since it's the same god overall. He uses this to legitimize Cristianity in the eyes of the empire.
* OffingTheOffspring: Like in history Constantine has his son Crispus, however both are portrayed as Chads and he only does it because [[FalseRapeAccusation Fausta accuses him of raping her]]. He's horrified learning of this and has her executed for it.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The Sassanids are interpreted as literal demons who worship chaotic gods, with Shapur creating his heir through laying an egg.
* {{Patricide}}
** Being a retelling of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' Commodus is depicted as killing Marcus Aurelius. The PreviouslyOn segment has Aurelius die of the plague like he did in reality.
** Dovahhatty subscribes to the belief that Brutus was Caesar's illegitimate child, so his assassination is this. Unlike Commodus Brutus is treated as a Chad because he was roped into it by the conspirators and [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself out of guilt]] after his defeat.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: The Sun is attributed to a number of victories by the Romans, with Elagabalus eventually coming to the realization that Sol Invictus is the one true god, something Aurelian embraces.
* PreviouslyOn: The Severan Dynasty begins with one of those, only with Commodus being portrayed as a Chad who succeeded Marcus Aurelius after the latter died of more or less natural causes, being a stud in the gladiatorial ring and being strangled in his bath by his virgin sparring partner Narcissus. Dovahhatty then says he was kidding about the whole thing, that his degenerate rule really ended the Antonine Dynasty and by extension weakened Rome.
* PyrrhicVictory: Inevitably brought up in The Conquest of Italy, where Pyrrhus of Epirus would wind up close to losing on more than one occasion, that he only won because he utilized his twenty Indian war elephants. It was getting to the point where he would curse his "victories".
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A collective version occured when the Praetorian Guard, as generations of betraying the empire and general corruption arrived to demand bribes from Constantine. He responded by abolishing the entire organization and [[KillThemAll purging every single one of them]].
** To a lesser extent, All of Aurelian's murderers were rounded and subjected to the worst tortures possible.
* RunningGag:
** Whenever a Chad Roman general gets the upper hand in a conflict, sometimes even killing/crucifying scores of people, they would do a dab.
** Massive conquests, purges and persecutions are often portrayed as an musical montage, with the roman leader or general of the time killing countless lives at the tune of the music.
** Resentful, envious Virgins plotting conspiracy, always in the same room.
* SexMagic: Cleopatra uses the divine Julian semen to mind control Mark Anthony, and later Livia uses Augustus' to off potential heirs who might succeed her husband instead of her son Tiberius.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/TheUnbiasedHistoryOfRome Has its own page]].
* ShownTheirWork: Despite being a series known for its satirical nature in its Rome-centric views, the contents are generally well-researched even its perspective twists.
* TakeThat:
** Plenty of barbs were made towards communism throughout the series. In the very first video, where the Trojans figured out economics among other issues, they surmised that it works when they use magic, and even then it's still worse than capitalism.
** When Sulla had come to a realization that the plebs were dragging down the republic, compounding the existing problems they have with the G*rms and Greekoids, there is a take that directed towards anti-Semites in general and /pol/ in particular:
--> '''DH''': Sulla forced himself to [[RedPillBluePill swallow that bitter red pill]]. The truth was that the Jews were behind everything- Uh, uh no wait, wrong redpill! [''Sulla turns away from the "/pol/tard pills", and towards the /his/torian pills''[[note]]in itself, there is a take that within it. ">H >R >E" refers to questioning the notion that the Holy Roman Empire was any of these[[/note]]] Ah, ah yes, here! Alright, so the truth was that the Republic would soon fall if things kept going the way they were.\\
'''Sulla''': Makes far more sense. Imagine blaming Jews for everything...
* TokenGoodTeammate:
** Despite the senators eventually portrayed as a bunch of scheming state parasites, some notable senators are portrayed as Chads, notably Antoninus Pius who becomes one of the Five Good Emperors and leads a peaceful regime, and Decius who is depicted as one of the more capable emperors in the Crisis Of The Third Century.
** Half-G*rms were typically portrayed as having half their face be Wojak and the other as a grinning G*rm, with chaotic thoughts being tempered by their Roman halves from time to time. Half-Vandal Stilicho was portrayed as a Chad, and though he still had the side of his face resembling a red-eyed G*rm, he resented the Vandal side of his family and gave Alaric a run for his money.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Unbiased History's "Imperial Wrath" episode had Julian The Apostate transformed a weak Wojack into a masculine Chad art after the tutelage of Ursicinus during his tenure as a Caesar in the western parts of the Roman Empire.
** Aetius' training montage turned the hapless Wojaks into muscular Chads, not to mention turning Barbarian like Theodoric to appreciate civilization based on his lack of mask and yellow eyes.
* TragicHero: The finale of UnbiasedHistory has major examples of heroic Chads whose life was cut short as Dovahhatty stated it as "These were the times of Tragic Heroes".
*** Stilicho, a half Vandal, who served the Western Empire loyally even refusing to overthrow his patron Honorius even if his death led to the sack of Rome.
*** Aetius used his skills and will to turn back Attila's Hunnic horde with the Germanic tribes yet Emperor Valentinian III murdered him before being avenged by Petronius Maximus (who actually instigated Aetius' murder to make his usurpation of Valentinian III justifiable) and Aetius' friends.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. The loss of his fleet to retake Africa along with the assassination by Ricimer dashed any hope for the restoration of Western Roman Empire.
* ToughActToFollow: Even the Senate felt unworthy of picking Aurelian's successor.
* TrueCompanions: The series' portrayal of Diocletian and other co-emperors of his Tetrarchy (Maximian, Galerian, and Constantius) were portrayed as close friends, which made it unique for the time due to the number of backstabbings and infighting during the Third Century Crisis to the point of Diocletian's patience and support to Maximian despite his many setbacks.
** Augustus was also this with Agrippa and Gaius Maecenas.
* TheTwink: Several appear in the series, including Hadrian's lover Antinous and the emperor Constans. They're usually depicted as Ideal [=GFs=].
* UnstoppableRage: Valentinian had one that [[OhCrap even G*rms dreaded]] and can be felt throughout the empire. What stopped the fury though was that he popped a blood vessel and died on the spot.
* VestigialEmpire: Like in history, Roman Empire suffered in later episodes set after Constantine The Great with many Romans becoming less competent and corrupt.
* WomanScorned:
** Many of Rome's woes like plagues and [[{{Reincarnation}} even some femme fatales]] are blamed on the spirit of [[Literature/TheAeneid Dido]] wanting revenge for Aeneas dumping her.
** Dovahhatty suggests that Titus died of a fever because Queen Berenice used her Jewish magic, angry that she had broken up with him.
** Fausta, who in real life accused Crispus of having an affair(of which he may have been guilty of), accuses him of rape when he refuses her advances so Constantine would have him executed. [[LaserGuidedKarma When Constantine finds out, he has her executed]].
* WorthyOpponent: Hannibal Barca is depicted as being this to the Romans. Notably, he's one of the very few non-Romans to be portrayed as a Chad.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Said almost word for word in the case of Commodus' twin dying infancy while he lived.
-->Unfortunately in the first year of his (Marcus Aurelius)reign, he would be faced with a monumental tragedy. Faustina, after birthing many children, such as Lucila, had given birth to twins. One of which died soon after birth. But that was not it. The Real Tragedy, was that the youngest twin, a boy named Commodus, '''Survived''' .
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* AssholeVictim: Most emperors killed by the corrupt Praetorian Guard are portrayed as Chads, even more notorious ones like Caligula, but some like Pupeinus and Balbinus and to a lesser extent Geta are portrayed as lousy Virgin emperors so their deaths are no real loss.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: "Evil" is a bit of a stretch, but Geta is portrayed as a bratty asshole who doesn't like his brother Caracalla. Still, Caracalla mourns his assassination and [[BerserkButton is set off]] by anything that insults his memory or claims he killed him (the latter being what actually happened).
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* FaceHeelTurn: FaceHeelTurn:
** Brutus' betrayal of Julius Caesar is portrayed as this since unlike most betrayers, he's a Chad but eventually ends up being convinced by the corrupt senate to kill him. He eventually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes he screwed up]] and is DrivenToSuicide.
** Organization-wide, the Praetorians start as competent and loyal Chads during Augustus' reign. Come Sejanus' influence and they become increasingly corrupt Virgins. Even when they're purged with competent new members replacing them like during Septimius Severus' reign, they soon fall back into ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
** At first, Licinius assisted Constantine in defeating Maximinus Daia. Then after being victorious and maintaining hold of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, he turned on Constantine, with his hair curling up to form HornsOfVillainy.
** Brutus' betrayal of Julius Caesar is portrayed as this since unlike most betrayers, he's a Chad but eventually ends up being convinced by the corrupt senate to kill him. He eventually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes he screwed up]] and is DrivenToSuicide.
** Organization-wide, the Praetorians start as competent and loyal Chads during Augustus' reign. Come Sejanus' influence and they become increasingly corrupt Virgins. Even when they're purged with competent new members replacing them like during Septimius Severus' reign, they soon fall back into ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
** At first, Licinius assisted Constantine in defeating Maximinus Daia. Then after being victorious and maintaining hold of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, he turned on Constantine, with his hair curling up to form HornsOfVillainy.
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** Initially the Greeks were treated as a bunch of neaderthal-like barbarians who hated civilization, but they ultimately grow out of this trope in favor of the G*rms, being virgins and wojacks with the occasional chad in the mix.
* BadassFamily: While there are [[BlackSheep some]] [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon exceptions]], characters depicted as Chads are likely to have their relatives also depicted as Chads. Notable examples are the Julio-Claudian dynasty (with few exceptions like Tiberius [[ButtMonkey and Claudius]]), the Vespasians and the father-son duo of Valerian and Gallienus.
* DrivenToSuicide: As in Roman history a number of Roman figures kill themselves. The most somber example is Diocletian[[note]]in history it's unclear whether he killed himself or died of natural causes[[/note]], who [[DeathByDespair hangs himself in despair]] after witnessing the Tetrarchy he worked so hard on fall apart.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Earlier episodes were shorter and had a more simplistic background design. It was around the Julius Caesar episode where episodes started to reach a half hour and incorporate backgrounds based from Minecraft and Skyrim. Even slightly earlier, background music was starting to get used more often.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Earlier episodes were shorter and had a more simplistic background design. It was around the Julius Caesar episode where episodes started to reach a half hour and incorporate backgrounds based from Minecraft and Skyrim. Even slightly earlier, background music was starting to get used moreoften.often.
** Due to the beginning starting with Trojan and early Roman mythology, Greeks were treated as almost AlwaysChaoticEvil and caveman-ish. By the time of the Caesars they're treated on more neutral terms as Virgins/Wojaks (with the occasional Chad), while groups like the Gauls and especially the G*rms get Rome and Dovahhatty's antipathy.
** Earlier episodes were shorter and had a more simplistic background design. It was around the Julius Caesar episode where episodes started to reach a half hour and incorporate backgrounds based from Minecraft and Skyrim. Even slightly earlier, background music was starting to get used more
** Due to the beginning starting with Trojan and early Roman mythology, Greeks were treated as almost AlwaysChaoticEvil and caveman-ish. By the time of the Caesars they're treated on more neutral terms as Virgins/Wojaks (with the occasional Chad), while groups like the Gauls and especially the G*rms get Rome and Dovahhatty's antipathy.
* EvilerThanThou: The G*rms and later Sassanids are portrayed as fearsome and evil foes of the Romans, however they end up fearing and are overshadowed by the Huns. [[spoiler:That is, until Pope Leo convinces them to stop their attack, leading to most of them being Spurdo Sparde.]]
* AFamilyAffair: Attempted by Fausta, who attempts to seduce her step-son Crispus however he rejects his advances. Unfortunately [[FalseRapeAccusation she accuses him of rape]] and Constantine is forced [[OffingTheOffspring to execute him]] because of it.
* FalseRapeAccusation: The controversy surrounding Fausta and Crispus that led to Constantine OffingTheOffspring is depicted as her accusing him of raping her [[WomanScorned when he rejected her advances]]. After the execution Constantine is enraged and has Fausta executed for doing so.
* FalseRapeAccusation: The controversy surrounding Fausta and Crispus that led to Constantine OffingTheOffspring is depicted as her accusing him of raping her [[WomanScorned when he rejected her advances]]. After the execution Constantine is enraged and has Fausta executed for doing so.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** As a whole, the Greeks. Initially portrayed as barbarians and AlwaysChaoticEvil, they mellow out over the course of the series and by the time of the Roman Empire they're usually just Virgins, Wojaks, [[TheTwink or ideal GF twinks]]. There's even the occasional Greek Chad.
** Surprisingly, [[spoiler:Atilla the Hun and his cohorts(excluding some allies like Odoacer) go from an almost lich-like force of death and destruction to Spurdo Sparde after a talk with Pope Leo, where they go home and Atilla dies partying]]. [[ForegoneConclusion Though this isn't that different from what actually happened]].
** As a whole, the Greeks. Initially portrayed as barbarians and AlwaysChaoticEvil, they mellow out over the course of the series and by the time of the Roman Empire they're usually just Virgins, Wojaks, [[TheTwink or ideal GF twinks]]. There's even the occasional Greek Chad.
** Surprisingly, [[spoiler:Atilla the Hun and his cohorts(excluding some allies like Odoacer) go from an almost lich-like force of death and destruction to Spurdo Sparde after a talk with Pope Leo, where they go home and Atilla dies partying]]. [[ForegoneConclusion Though this isn't that different from what actually happened]].
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* HistoricalDowngrade: While he doesn't show up in person, UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat is given a "meh" treatment whenever referenced. While Julius Caesar in real life saw Alexander as an idol, Dovahhatty claims this is Greekoid revisionism.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: An odd example with Caracalla, that zig-zags with HistoricalHeroUpgrade; while [[HeroicComedicSociopath played for laughs]] and framed as a NominalHero, Caracalla is still portrayed as an AxCrazy soldier emperor prone to DisproportionateRetribution such a starting a war with Parthia for relatively petty reasons. However one of his worst acts, that of [[CainAndAbel having Geta killed]], is changed to him loving his brother even though he still hates him, and the Praetorian Guard alone being behind his death.
** While the Praetorian Guard was already notorious for its BodyguardBetrayal, ''Unbiased History'' exaggerates it by making them more trigger-happy and petty in their motives than they were in real life. This is partly because a lot of the emperors they killed portrayed as Chads and/or being given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade. Some of the emperors they killed are Virgins like Pupienus/Balbinus or Wojacks like Gordian III, but the Praetorians are still portrayed as petty.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: While most Chads [[BadassFamily have other Chads as kids]], Chad characters like Septimius Severus and especially Marcus Aurelius have corrupt virgin sons like Geta and ''especially'' C*mmodus as "failed prodigies". To a lesser extent, Emperor Vitellius is a [[FatBastard corpulent]] Wojak while his dad is a Chad.
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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: The ManlyGay Hadrian's dearest love was an effeminate twink named Antinous.
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* OffingTheOffspring: Like in history Constantine has his son Crispus, however both are portrayed as Chads and he only does it because [[FalseRapeAccusation Fausta accuses him of raping her]]. He's horrified learning of this and has her executed for it.
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** Fausta, who in real life accused Crispus of having an affair(of which he may have been guilty of), accuses him of rape when he refuses her advances so Constantine would have him executed. [[LaserGuidedKarma When Constantine finds out, he has her executed]].
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Dovah currently has a mini-series on UsefulNotes/TheByzantineEmpire the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire [[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyzAu5GDVAhRbHw6aR4AaABCQ in the works]]
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Dovah currently has a mini-series series on UsefulNotes/TheByzantineEmpire [[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyzAu5GDVAhRbHw6aR4AaABCQ in the works]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Roman mythology has [[CainAndAbel Romulus end up killing Remus]] or one of his supporters doing it. Here, Remus is pushed off by a disguised barbarian and Romulus [[MercyKill puts him out of his misery]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism: AdaptationalHeroism:
** The abduction of Helen of Troy and the rape of the Sabine women become Helen kidnapping Paris and the Sabine women raping the Roman men.
** Roman mythology has [[CainAndAbel Romulus end up killing Remus]] or one of his supporters doing it. Here, Remus is pushed off the city wall by a disguised barbarian and Romulus [[MercyKill puts him out of his misery]].
** The abduction of Helen of Troy and the rape of the Sabine women become Helen kidnapping Paris and the Sabine women raping the Roman men.
** Roman mythology has [[CainAndAbel Romulus end up killing Remus]] or one of his supporters doing it. Here, Remus is pushed off the city wall by a disguised barbarian and Romulus [[MercyKill puts him out of his misery]].
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** To a lesser extent, All of Aurelian's murderers were rounded and subjected to the worst tortures possible.
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* ToughActToFollow: Even the Senate felt unworthy of picking Aurelian's successor.
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* {{Cincinnatus}}: quite literally.
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* Crowning
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** While G*rm steeds appeared zombified in "Imperial Wrath", the Huns were foreshadowed to be more lichlike, with the horse at the ending being skeletal.
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** While G*rm steeds appeared zombified in "Imperial Wrath", the The Huns were foreshadowed to be more lichlike, with have assumed a lichlike appearance, and Attila himself used the horse at powers of sorcery, one of which causing earthquakes in Constantinople which necessitated the ending being skeletal.rush to repair the Theodosian Walls.
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-->Unfortunately in the first year of his (Marcus Aurelius)reign, he would be faced with a monumental tragedy. Faustina, after birthing many children, such as Lucila, had given birth to twins. One of which died soon after birth. But that was not it. The Real Tragedy, was that the youngest twin, a boy named Commodus, *Survived* .
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-->Unfortunately in the first year of his (Marcus Aurelius)reign, he would be faced with a monumental tragedy. Faustina, after birthing many children, such as Lucila, had given birth to twins. One of which died soon after birth. But that was not it. The Real Tragedy, was that the youngest twin, a boy named Commodus, *Survived* .'''Survived''' .
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* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Said almost word for word in the case of Commodus' twin dying infancy while he lived.
-->Unfortunately in the first year of his (Marcus Aurelius)reign, he would be faced with a monumental tragedy. Faustina, after birthing many children, such as Lucila, had given birth to twins. One of which died soon after birth. But that was not it. The Real Tragedy, was that the youngest twin, a boy named Commodus, *Survived* .
-->Unfortunately in the first year of his (Marcus Aurelius)reign, he would be faced with a monumental tragedy. Faustina, after birthing many children, such as Lucila, had given birth to twins. One of which died soon after birth. But that was not it. The Real Tragedy, was that the youngest twin, a boy named Commodus, *Survived* .
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** King Arthur and Mordred's face are also shadowed.
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* ShoutOut:
** More recent episodes have openings inspired by anime openings:
*** The Five Good Emperors: "Sanjou!! Ginyu Tokusentai!!", the Ginyu Force theme since ''Anime/DragonBallKai''
*** The Severan Dynasty: "Clattonia" of ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}''
*** The Crisis of the Third Century: "Kana-Boon Silhouette" of ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden''
*** Constantine the Great: "THE HERO!!" of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''
*** Imperial Wrath: the English theme to ''Anime/YuGiOh''
*** Barbarians at the Gates: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsKRi2o2_U English cover]] to "Here" of ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride''
** The introduction of "The Mad Emperors", instead of its usual theme, uses the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] theme.
** Caesar's reaction to Pompey's head being presented to him in Egypt: "[[Series/{{Rome}} HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!]]"
** When Augustus found out that his daughter Julia was a degenerate whore when Tiberius says he's getting away from her, Augustus told her "[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Degenerates like you belong on a cross!]]"
** When the Romans came to collect their inheritance from the late king of the Icini tribe, they were disgusted with how polluted the gene pool was. When they were present, they saw the Briton inhabitants cosplaying as [[Series/GameOfThrones House Stark]].
** The section on Commodus is partially a retelling of the plot to ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', with some of his recorded antics mixed in, then the following episode the [[PreviouslyOn recap]] reverted to the more common portrayal among contemporary historians, only with Commodus being Chad:
--> '''DH''': (''chuckles'') Just fucking kidding! (''holds up a copy of Gladiator that was made into a book'') The historian Creator/RidleyScott already debunked all this garbage!
** Historian Cassius Dio is represented as a [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freedom-aint-free Freedom Ain't Free]] bear dressed as [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]].
** Instead of an anime opening, "Diocletian's Tetrarchy" opens to the style of ''Series/{{Friends}}''' intro.
** In gratitude for his defense of Londinium from the Franks, the Britons named Constantius "Website/{{Reddit}}or Lucius Aeterna".[[note]]Restorer of Eternal Light[[/note]]
-->'''Constantius''': [[Memes/{{Reddit}} Thanks for le praise, kind strangers XD]]
** Attila's declaration at the end of "Barbarians at the Gates" was his words in the announcement trailer of ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila''
** More recent episodes have openings inspired by anime openings:
*** The Five Good Emperors: "Sanjou!! Ginyu Tokusentai!!", the Ginyu Force theme since ''Anime/DragonBallKai''
*** The Severan Dynasty: "Clattonia" of ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}''
*** The Crisis of the Third Century: "Kana-Boon Silhouette" of ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden''
*** Constantine the Great: "THE HERO!!" of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''
*** Imperial Wrath: the English theme to ''Anime/YuGiOh''
*** Barbarians at the Gates: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsKRi2o2_U English cover]] to "Here" of ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride''
** The introduction of "The Mad Emperors", instead of its usual theme, uses the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] theme.
** Caesar's reaction to Pompey's head being presented to him in Egypt: "[[Series/{{Rome}} HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!]]"
** When Augustus found out that his daughter Julia was a degenerate whore when Tiberius says he's getting away from her, Augustus told her "[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Degenerates like you belong on a cross!]]"
** When the Romans came to collect their inheritance from the late king of the Icini tribe, they were disgusted with how polluted the gene pool was. When they were present, they saw the Briton inhabitants cosplaying as [[Series/GameOfThrones House Stark]].
** The section on Commodus is partially a retelling of the plot to ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', with some of his recorded antics mixed in, then the following episode the [[PreviouslyOn recap]] reverted to the more common portrayal among contemporary historians, only with Commodus being Chad:
--> '''DH''': (''chuckles'') Just fucking kidding! (''holds up a copy of Gladiator that was made into a book'') The historian Creator/RidleyScott already debunked all this garbage!
** Historian Cassius Dio is represented as a [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freedom-aint-free Freedom Ain't Free]] bear dressed as [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]].
** Instead of an anime opening, "Diocletian's Tetrarchy" opens to the style of ''Series/{{Friends}}''' intro.
** In gratitude for his defense of Londinium from the Franks, the Britons named Constantius "Website/{{Reddit}}or Lucius Aeterna".[[note]]Restorer of Eternal Light[[/note]]
-->'''Constantius''': [[Memes/{{Reddit}} Thanks for le praise, kind strangers XD]]
** Attila's declaration at the end of "Barbarians at the Gates" was his words in the announcement trailer of ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila''
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* ShoutOut:
** More recent episodes have openings inspired by anime openings:
*** The Five Good Emperors: "Sanjou!! Ginyu Tokusentai!!", the Ginyu Force theme since ''Anime/DragonBallKai''
*** The Severan Dynasty: "Clattonia" of ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}''
*** The Crisis of the Third Century: "Kana-Boon Silhouette" of ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden''
*** Constantine the Great: "THE HERO!!" of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''
*** Imperial Wrath: the English theme to ''Anime/YuGiOh''
*** Barbarians at the Gates: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsKRi2o2_U English cover]] to "Here" of ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride''
** The introduction of "The Mad Emperors", instead ofShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/TheUnbiasedHistoryOfRome Has its usual theme, uses the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] theme.
** Caesar's reaction to Pompey's head being presented to him in Egypt: "[[Series/{{Rome}} HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!]]"
** When Augustus found out that his daughter Julia was a degenerate whore when Tiberius says he's getting away from her, Augustus told her "[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Degenerates like you belong on a cross!]]"
** When the Romans came to collect their inheritance from the late king of the Icini tribe, they were disgusted with how polluted the gene pool was. When they were present, they saw the Briton inhabitants cosplaying as [[Series/GameOfThrones House Stark]].
** The section on Commodus is partially a retelling of the plot to ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', with some of his recorded antics mixed in, then the following episode the [[PreviouslyOn recap]] reverted to the more common portrayal among contemporary historians, only with Commodus being Chad:
--> '''DH''': (''chuckles'') Just fucking kidding! (''holds up a copy of Gladiator that was made into a book'') The historian Creator/RidleyScott already debunked all this garbage!
** Historian Cassius Dio is represented as a [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freedom-aint-free Freedom Ain't Free]] bear dressed as [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]].
** Instead of an anime opening, "Diocletian's Tetrarchy" opens to the style of ''Series/{{Friends}}''' intro.
** In gratitude for his defense of Londinium from the Franks, the Britons named Constantius "Website/{{Reddit}}or Lucius Aeterna".[[note]]Restorer of Eternal Light[[/note]]
-->'''Constantius''': [[Memes/{{Reddit}} Thanks for le praise, kind strangers XD]]
** Attila's declaration at the end of "Barbarians at the Gates" was his words in the announcement trailer of ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila''own page]].
** More recent episodes have openings inspired by anime openings:
*** The Five Good Emperors: "Sanjou!! Ginyu Tokusentai!!", the Ginyu Force theme since ''Anime/DragonBallKai''
*** The Severan Dynasty: "Clattonia" of ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}''
*** The Crisis of the Third Century: "Kana-Boon Silhouette" of ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden''
*** Constantine the Great: "THE HERO!!" of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''
*** Imperial Wrath: the English theme to ''Anime/YuGiOh''
*** Barbarians at the Gates: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsKRi2o2_U English cover]] to "Here" of ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride''
** The introduction of "The Mad Emperors", instead of
** Caesar's reaction to Pompey's head being presented to him in Egypt: "[[Series/{{Rome}} HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!]]"
** When Augustus found out that his daughter Julia was a degenerate whore when Tiberius says he's getting away from her, Augustus told her "[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Degenerates like you belong on a cross!]]"
** When the Romans came to collect their inheritance from the late king of the Icini tribe, they were disgusted with how polluted the gene pool was. When they were present, they saw the Briton inhabitants cosplaying as [[Series/GameOfThrones House Stark]].
** The section on Commodus is partially a retelling of the plot to ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', with some of his recorded antics mixed in, then the following episode the [[PreviouslyOn recap]] reverted to the more common portrayal among contemporary historians, only with Commodus being Chad:
--> '''DH''': (''chuckles'') Just fucking kidding! (''holds up a copy of Gladiator that was made into a book'') The historian Creator/RidleyScott already debunked all this garbage!
** Historian Cassius Dio is represented as a [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freedom-aint-free Freedom Ain't Free]] bear dressed as [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]].
** Instead of an anime opening, "Diocletian's Tetrarchy" opens to the style of ''Series/{{Friends}}''' intro.
** In gratitude for his defense of Londinium from the Franks, the Britons named Constantius "Website/{{Reddit}}or Lucius Aeterna".[[note]]Restorer of Eternal Light[[/note]]
-->'''Constantius''': [[Memes/{{Reddit}} Thanks for le praise, kind strangers XD]]
** Attila's declaration at the end of "Barbarians at the Gates" was his words in the announcement trailer of ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila''
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*** Aetius used his skills and will to turn back Attila's Hunnic horde with the Germanic tribes yet Emperor Valentinian III murdered him before being avenged by Petronius Maximus and Aetius' friends.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. The major loss of his fleet to retake Africa along with assassination by Ricimer ended any hope for the restoration of Western Roman Empire.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. The major loss of his fleet to retake Africa along with assassination by Ricimer ended any hope for the restoration of Western Roman Empire.
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*** Aetius used his skills and will to turn back Attila's Hunnic horde with the Germanic tribes yet Emperor Valentinian III murdered him before being avenged by Petronius Maximus (who actually instigated Aetius' murder to make his usurpation of Valentinian III justifiable) and Aetius' friends.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. Themajor loss of his fleet to retake Africa along with the assassination by Ricimer ended dashed any hope for the restoration of Western Roman Empire.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. The
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* TookALevelInBadass: Unbiased History's "Imperial Wrath" episode had Julian The Apostate transformed a weak Wojack into a masculine Chad art after the tutelage of Ursicinus during his tenure as a Caesar in the western parts of the Roman Empire.
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* TookALevelInBadass: TookALevelInBadass:
** Unbiased History's "Imperial Wrath" episode had Julian The Apostate transformed a weak Wojack into a masculine Chad art after the tutelage of Ursicinus during his tenure as a Caesar in the western parts of the RomanEmpire.Empire.
** Aetius' training montage turned the hapless Wojaks into muscular Chads, not to mention turning Barbarian like Theodoric to appreciate civilization based on his lack of mask and yellow eyes.
** Unbiased History's "Imperial Wrath" episode had Julian The Apostate transformed a weak Wojack into a masculine Chad art after the tutelage of Ursicinus during his tenure as a Caesar in the western parts of the Roman
** Aetius' training montage turned the hapless Wojaks into muscular Chads, not to mention turning Barbarian like Theodoric to appreciate civilization based on his lack of mask and yellow eyes.
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** Even the two shudder at the imminent arrival of [[AlwaysABiggerFish the Huns]].
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** Even the two shudder at the imminent arrival of [[AlwaysABiggerFish the Huns]]. And when they themselves appeared, they were every bit as fearful as expected... [[spoiler:until Attila talked with Pope Leo and they were revealed as a race of Spurdo Spärdes when convinced attacking Rome really wasn't what they wanted anyway]].
* BookEnds: The series begins and ends with "A dream to purge this rotten world of the barbarians that infested it! A dream called Rome."
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* TheFaceless: When Aurelian is onscreen, there's never a good look above his nose, and where he's fully visible, he's wearing the mask of Sol Invictus.
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* TheFaceless: TheFaceless:
** When Aurelian is onscreen, there's never a good look above his nose, and where he's fully visible, he's wearing the mask of SolInvictus.Invictus.
** The Huns had a lichlike appearance where their faces aren't seen... [[spoiler:before the talk with Pope Leo revealed them as Spurdo Spärdes]].
** When Aurelian is onscreen, there's never a good look above his nose, and where he's fully visible, he's wearing the mask of Sol
** The Huns had a lichlike appearance where their faces aren't seen... [[spoiler:before the talk with Pope Leo revealed them as Spurdo Spärdes]].
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* TragicHero: The finale of UnbiasedHistory has major examples of heroic Chads whose life was cut short as Dovahhatty stated it as "These were the times of Tragic Heroes".
*** Stilicho, a half Vandal, who served the Western Empire loyally even refusing to overthrow his patron Honorius even if his death led to the sack of Rome.
*** Aetius used his skills and will to turn back Attila's Hunnic horde with the Germanic tribes yet Emperor Valentinian III murdered him before being avenged by Petronius Maximus and Aetius' friends.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. The major loss of his fleet to retake Africa along with assassination by Ricimer ended any hope for the restoration of Western Roman Empire.
*** Stilicho, a half Vandal, who served the Western Empire loyally even refusing to overthrow his patron Honorius even if his death led to the sack of Rome.
*** Aetius used his skills and will to turn back Attila's Hunnic horde with the Germanic tribes yet Emperor Valentinian III murdered him before being avenged by Petronius Maximus and Aetius' friends.
*** Majorian managed to retake Gaul and Hispania along with setting reforms to strengthen the empire. The major loss of his fleet to retake Africa along with assassination by Ricimer ended any hope for the restoration of Western Roman Empire.
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* DoubleStandard: While the show claims to be unbiased, Dovahatty holds many. For example, massacres of Romans by non-Romans are portrayed as utterly heinous, while massacres of non-Romans by Romans are often glorified.
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** Even among non Romans, the G*rms and the Sassanids are portrayed as evil daemons seeking to destroy all civilization in the name of their chaos gods, not to mention that, unlike regular barbarians such as Gauls, they are uncivilizable.
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** Even among non Romans, non-Romans, the G*rms and the Sassanids are portrayed as evil daemons seeking to destroy all civilization in the name of their chaos gods, not to mention that, unlike regular barbarians such as Gauls, they are uncivilizable.
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Many twinks are portrayed as Ideal GFs.
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Many twinks are portrayed as Ideal GFs.[=GFs=].
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: The ManlyGay Hadrian's dearest love was an effeminate twink named Antinous.
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* TheTwink: Several appear in the series, including Hadrian's lover Antinous and the emperor Constans. They're usually depicted as Ideal GFs.
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* TheTwink: Several appear in the series, including Hadrian's lover Antinous and the emperor Constans. They're usually depicted as Ideal GFs.[=GFs=].
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Many twinks are portrayed as Ideal GFs.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Hadrian becomes severely depressed after his lover Antinous drowns himself and never fully recovers.
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** While the pre-illness months of Caligula's rule were consistent with his portrayals by contemporary historians, the post-illness rule was portrayed as him having an epiphany as being a god. His infamous moment of declaring war on Neptune and collecting seashells as bounty was portrayed as conquering the elements to make crossing the English Channel easier, only stopping short of invading Britain (ergo leaving the task to Claudius) because of matters to attend to.
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** While the pre-illness months of Caligula's rule were consistent with his portrayals by contemporary historians, the post-illness rule was portrayed as him having an epiphany as being a god. His infamous moment of declaring war on Neptune and collecting seashells as bounty was portrayed as conquering the elements to make crossing the English Channel easier, only stopping short of invading Britain (ergo leaving the task to Claudius) because of other matters to attend to.
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* PreviouslyOn: The Severan Dynasty begins with one of those, only with Commodus being portrayed as a Chad who succeeded Marcus Aurelius after the latter died of natural causes, being a stud in the gladiatorial ring and being strangled in his bath by his virgin sparring partner Narcissus. Dovahhatty then says he was kidding about the whole thing, that his degenerate rule really ended the Antonine Dynasty and by extension weakened Rome.
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* ThePowerOfTheSun: The Sun is attributed to a number of victories by the Romans, with Elagabalus eventually coming to the realization that Sol Invictus is the one true god, something Aurelian embraces.
* PreviouslyOn: The Severan Dynasty begins with one of those, only with Commodus being portrayed as a Chad who succeeded Marcus Aurelius after the latter died of more or less natural causes, being a stud in the gladiatorial ring and being strangled in his bath by his virgin sparring partner Narcissus. Dovahhatty then says he was kidding about the whole thing, that his degenerate rule really ended the Antonine Dynasty and by extension weakened Rome.
* PreviouslyOn: The Severan Dynasty begins with one of those, only with Commodus being portrayed as a Chad who succeeded Marcus Aurelius after the latter died of more or less natural causes, being a stud in the gladiatorial ring and being strangled in his bath by his virgin sparring partner Narcissus. Dovahhatty then says he was kidding about the whole thing, that his degenerate rule really ended the Antonine Dynasty and by extension weakened Rome.
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* RunningGag: Whenever a Chad Roman general gets the upper hand in a conflict, sometimes even killing/crucifying scores of people, they would do a dab.
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** Whenever a Chad Roman general gets the upper hand in a conflict, sometimes even killing/crucifying scores of people, they would do a dab.
** Whenever a Chad Roman general gets the upper hand in a conflict, sometimes even killing/crucifying scores of people, they would do a dab.
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* SexMagic: Cleopatra uses the divine Julian semen to mind control Mark Anthony, and later Livia uses Augustus' to off potential heirs instead of her son Tiberius.
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* SexMagic: Cleopatra uses the divine Julian semen to mind control Mark Anthony, and later Livia uses Augustus' to off potential heirs who might succeed her husband instead of her son Tiberius.
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* ThePowerOfTheSun: The Sun is attributed to a number of victories by the Romans, with Elagabalus eventually coming to the realization that Sol Invictus is the one true god, something Aurelian embraces.
* TheTwink: Several appear in the series, including Hadrian's lover Antinous and the emperor Constans. They're usually depicted as Ideal GFs.
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* WorthyOpponent: Hannibal Barca is depicted as being this to the Romans. Notably, he's one of the very few non-Romans to be portrayed as a Chad.
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** The Visigothic leaders were portrayed without any sort of redeeming qualities; in contemporary accounts Alaric spared the churches in Rome because of his Arianist faith, but no such thing was mentioned to keep consistent with Goths being a chaotic, civilization-hating faction. Athaulf's relationship with Galla was portrayed here as rape.
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** Augustus was also this with Agrippa and Gaius Maecenas.
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** Half-G*rms were typically portrayed as having half their face be Wojak and the other as a grinning G*rm, with chaotic thoughts being tempered by their Roman halves from time to time. Half-Vandal Stilicho as portrayed as a Chad, and though he still had the side of his face resembling a red-eyed G*rm, he resented the Vandal side of his family and gave Alaric a run for his money.
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** Half-G*rms were typically portrayed as having half their face be Wojak and the other as a grinning G*rm, with chaotic thoughts being tempered by their Roman halves from time to time. Half-Vandal Stilicho as was portrayed as a Chad, and though he still had the side of his face resembling a red-eyed G*rm, he resented the Vandal side of his family and gave Alaric a run for his money.
