Fatebane: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Admiral Patton punched right through the Western Wall and sank the Japanese fleet. And that was in the days of triremes: oar-powered ships that couldn't fire back as well as coastal fortresses. Nazar: And how many ships did he lose in that battle? Fatebane: It's the principle that matters! If she could do it, so can we!
This article on a Tarot poker game in a fantasy novel claims that the Tarot deck is the ancestor of the modern playing card deck. Modern European playing cards only appeared sometime around 1370, and the earliest Tarot decks appeared circa 1440.
In 2009, the dressup game site Poupee Girl held a Time Travel event, with avatar items representing "Western" and "Middle Ages" themes. Which was all well and good, except the Middle Ages themed items were all Rococo-era styles.
The Nostalgia Critic's review of Pearl Harbor: He gives an extremely long rant about the indiscipline and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize?
It was a surprise attack and many first hand reports claim ships that were bombed were having massive parties, with alcohol involved, the night beforehand. For that matter, many of the people on the ships weren't in their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim.
The Critic also fails to realize the US military was actively denying the possibility of an overseas attack on Pearl Harbor, despite warnings;note The Army and the Navy commanders were also in a "who's better" turf war and weren't communicating important intel, including "Pearl Harbor is quite likely under threat of attack." the Pearl Harbor commander's personal bugbear was potential sabotage.
He claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were factories which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review The Other Wiki's page on both subjects, or asked his navy father.
Parodied in Jon Lajoie's "WTF Collective 2" song with MC Historical Inaccuracy:
I drop lyrical bombs like Hiroshima in '73 I write rhymes like Shakespeare when he wrote Anne Frank's Diary hich is about the civil war of 1812 in Germany I'm like the Spanish Inquisition when they killed Jesus And Abe Lincoln's suicide was the theme for my thesis Like Moses when I focus I can split the red sea Like he did in 1950 with the Chinese army
This◊ Demotivational Poster. It plays Medieval Morons and The Dung Ages perfectly straight and exaggerates them. No, Ancient Greece and Rome did not have science as we know it (though they did come up with some of the important precursors). In any case, they were definitely not as advanced as the eighteenth century. No, The Middle Ages were not completely stagnant. And no, the rise of Christianity most definitely did not set back all of civilization — even the ones which had never heard of Christianity or the West at that point in time — back to conditions of 1000 BCE.
Played for laughs in the Atop the Fourth Wall review of the Doom comic. 90s Kid actually believes the soldiers in WWII had to fight space aliens.
A very minor one in Stuart Ashen's Hitler Cartoon: Hitler's "rainbow" is of the modern day/Weimar Germany flag, although Hitler changed the flag immediately after getting into power.
Lindybeige: He takes apart the inaccuracies of movies such as Braveheart and Black Death, which make huge errors in their depiction of events, geography, chronology, religion, clothing, language, and customs.
A claim made by those who try to argue that mysticism makes claims about the world just as valid as scientific ones is that when Westerners first met the Inuit, they tried to convince the natives of the superiority of Western learning—that is, sciencenote never mind that science wasn’t developed exclusively by Europeans, but independently in many cultures—by telling them about the Moon landings. The elders are not impressed, and say that their shamans have been doing that already from time immemorial. In reality, this conversation never happened, since the Inuit were in contact with the outside world for many decades by 1969, and saw the Moon landing on TV like any other Canadians. Also, this is an inaccurate portrayal of their religion, but that’s a discussion for another article.
Played for Laughs in the Shipwrecked Comedy/Tin Can Bros crossover, where the "Judge" claims that Jack and Dean's sketch was the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, and that after 14 years, there are still only two views and two comments.
YouTube channel History Buffs is all about this trope: the presenter reviews historical films and TV shows, with particular emphasis on their historical accuracy.
The web channel The Cynical Historian, which is an Analysis Channel did a video "Things Movies Cannot do Accurately" on May 02, 2019 highlighting what he calls "necessary inaccuracies". He cites "Troop Sizes, Distance of Action, Equipment, Omissions'' as examples. He points out that no war movie even the ones that uses hundreds and thousands of extras can actually convey the troop sizes of large-scale battles. Actual shootout scenes in gun battles in war and other places take place over a large distance, to the point that most soldiers barely see their enemy except as some dot in the distance, but in a movie for dramatic reasons, opposing sides have to brought closer in range for audiences to tell what's going on. The equipment is almost always hard to do right and usually has to be kitbashed and madeup to look era-appropriate and properly identifiable as protagonist and antagonist factions. There's also omissions where since one cannot tell every part of a person's life and conduct over a large time, some form of narrative focus is placed, even in so-called cradle-to-death movies that Biopic resemble, which by nature omits some parts in favor of others.
If Disney Cartoons Were Historically Accurate touts itself on historical accuracy, being a pastiche of all the awful things about the Middle Ages that Disney fantasies leave out, but there are some prominent shortcomings:
Witch-burning was not actually a thing in the Middle Ages; while burning at the stake was a punishment frequently carried out against heretics, the Catholic Church's official stance was that supernatural witches did not exist, and opposed blaming witches for natural disasters and plagues.
Although cousin marriages were the norm in the past, there was never any point in European history where parent-child incest was socially acceptable.
Raccoons are native to the New World and would not be found in Europe until after the Age of Exploration.
Medieval European nobles may have had strange taste in foods, but horse vagina was not a delicacy they enjoyed.
DarkMatter2525: Done intentionally to the point of satire in “Why We Are DOOMED”, which takes the voice of a hypothetical right-wing pundit so determined to equate Christianity with everything good about Western civilization and its absence with everything bad that he inverts real history wherever possible and even contradicts himself multiple times within the same speech, depending on what distortion of history is more profitable for his argument at the time. Though the commenters assumed it was a satire of PragerU, it’s more primarily making fun of right-wing theists like Pat Buchanan, whose conservatism causes them to hold inconsistent values.
article on a Tarot poker game in a fantasy novel claims that the Tarot deck is the ancestor of the modern playing card deck. Modern European playing cards only appeared sometime around 1370, and the earliest Tarot decks appeared circa 1440.
