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Pisthetairos Since: Apr, 2018
2019-09-10 17:48:28

If we're talking in-universe examples, autobiographies would fall under Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue".

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2019-09-10 19:18:10

What if it was a real one? Bias Steamroller maybe?

Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2019-09-11 17:58:56

See also Poe's Law and The Tyson Zone when they're so off the deep end that its hard to tell what is and isn't made up.

Nero is an example from the ancient world: he probably didn't have part of Rome burned, but he did build his new palace in the cleared land via ambiguously legal real estate deals and fund it with public money. He probably didn't kill people who refused to show up, but he did apparently put on extremely long Giftedly Bad one man shows that you were obligated to show up to and praise if you wanted to curry favor.

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2019-09-12 20:58:41

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Edited by Bootlebat
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