Basic Trope: A Historical Domain Character is given superpowers in a fictional work.
- Straight: In Trope Tales: Founding Fathers, George Washington can shoot Eye Beams.
- Exaggerated: "Washington" is just the persona of a Physical God who won the Revolutionary War single-handedly and then gave everyone Fake Memories to cover his tracks.
- Downplayed: Washington has incredible intelligence and charisma that are presented as Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane.
- Justified: The series takes place in an Alternate Universe where a present-day superhuman went back in time and accidentally caused a Mass Empowering Event that affected the Founding Fathers.
- Inverted: If there were superpowers in real life, the inversion would be a superpowered historical figure who gets depicted without powers in fiction.
- Subverted: The eye beams are just propaganda, spread to make George seem tougher.
- Double Subverted: ...he lets people believe it is just propaganda, but he secretly does have eye beams.
- Parodied: The show is a parody of the X-Men and each Founding Father has the abilities of one of the X-Men.
- Zig-Zagged: He can shoot eye beams, but he's not the real George Washington. He's an empowered shapeshifter who, knowing Washington's impact on history, replaces him after a villain from the future kills him.
- Averted: Standard Historical Domain Character.
- Enforced: The producers of Trope Tales decide that they need to make history more exciting in order to catch kids' attention, so they order that all of the historical figure characters get superpowers to make them cooler.
- Lampshaded: After witnessing Washington using his eye beams, the Audience Surrogate character asks "since when could you do that!?"
- Invoked: A time-traveler offers Powers as Programs to historical figures they like, including giving the eye beam ability to Washington.
- Exploited: ?
- Defied: ?
- Discussed: ?
- Conversed: ?
- Deconstructed: Power corrupts, and Washington's laser vision turns him into a tyrannical monarch who ensures slavery persists in America for much longer.
- Reconstructed: The discovery of the supernatural completely changes Washington's perspective on life and helps him become a better leader rather than worse. Also, when Washington's children don't inherit his superpowers, people affirm that 'noble bloodlines' are a lie and all men are truly created equal.
- Played for Laughs: Washington is a Captain Patriotic who makes references to American things that don't even exist in his time period. "Taste the Coca-Cola of justice, Redcoat!"
