History WebAnimation / TheUnbiasedHistoryOfRome

* 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.

** Attila's declaration at the end of "Barbarians at the Gates"

* 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.

** Happy Merchants are used to represent Jews, although sympathetic Jews are usually depicted as Wojaks who only share the Merchant nose.

* BrickJoke: When Bibulus failed to blockade Caesar's crossing of the Adriatic Sea and died trying, Dovah made a point of using [[WebVideo/HistoriaCivilis the Bibulus Award]] from then on out. The award sees use again nine episodes later, when Constantine II gets killed in an ambush trying to conquer Constans' realm.

* CampGay: While many elite Romans (especially Hadrian) were portrayed as ManlyGay, Emperors Elegabalus and Constans were more effeminate. Elegabalus 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.

** Valentinian hated G*rms so much, he actually had to restrain himself while still launching punitive campaigns. One too many instances of the G*rms flaunting his proposed treaties sent him into a rage that can be felt throughout the empire, and sending fear into said G*rms [[CriticalExistenceFailure when he all the sudden popped a vessel]].

** More recent episodes have openings inspired by Japanese anime openings:

* UnstoppableFury: 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.

+ 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.

** All women have a similar template to work with[[note]]save for a few in the Severan Dynasty, where some within said dynasty were portrayed as feminized Wojaks[[/note]], although in this case they are also used for the twinks for [[ManlyGay certain Patricians]].

* 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]].

** 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.

** 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.

** Constantine the first reunited the empire after a decade of civil war, abolished the persecution of christians and transformed it into a roman civilizing force, slaughtered countless barbarian hordes, destroyed once and for all the Pr*etorian guard, 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 The Great

* 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]].

* GodEmperor: Caligula's [[AGodAmI god delusions]] are depicted as him becoming an actual god from his illness, complete with gaining [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] [[PurpleEyes eyes]]. And while Elagabalus isn't a god persay, he is treated like a divine being due to his devotion to Sol Invictus.

* 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 responsed by abolishing the entire organization and [[KillThemAll Purging Every Single One Of Them]].

** Constantine the first reunited the empire after a decade of civil war, abolished the persecution of christians and transformed into a roman civilizing force, slaughtered countless barbarian hordes, destroyed once and for all the Pr*etorian guard, 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 The Great

* JesusWasCrazy: In "The Mad Emperors", he was barely mentioned as "some Jew with a god complex" 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, Sol Invictus had shown his true form. Jesus himself was portrayed as a Chad]].

* 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.

* JesusWasCrazy: Or at the very least he's merely a footnote in The Mad Emperors.
--> '''DH''': And since we're talking violence, some Jew with god delusions just got crucified in Judea. From here on, his followers would increasingly infest the empire with their sacrilege against the divine Caesars and overall Christcuckery. There's something to all this, but that's for way later.