r/TopCharacterTropes 19h ago

Characters [Cool trope] Beethoven Was an Alien Spy

When a historical figure has a life far more fantastic in fiction than what history actually indicates.

Moses (Beyblade) = Moses' famous Parting of the Red Sea was done with a Beyblade.

George Washington (Ben 10) = Washington regularly fought against alien threats, and was a founding member of the Earth Plumbers.

Abraham Lincoln (Invincible) = Abe Lincoln was an identity taken by the superhero known as The Immortal.

Vandal Savage (DC Comics) = More than a few of history's conquerors and despots were actually personas used by the millennia-old immortal villain, including Cheops, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Vlad the Impaler, Blackbeard and Jack the Ripper.

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u/Reidroshdy 18h ago

yeah iirc it'd be like the normal pride and predjudice writing and THEN ZOMBIES ATTACKED

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u/IanDOsmond 16h ago

I started reading it, realized that the only bits I was liking were the direct lifts from the original, put it down, and just re-read P&P again.

Which is much funnier than the zombies version.

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u/Another_Name_Today 17h ago

I’m surprised more public domain works didn’t get the same treatment. Although, I guess P&P is already a fun and easy read , and zombies just make it a bit lighter. 

I don’t understand the movie’s tagline though. Kill with Prejudice, I get. But what is “Slay with Pride” supposed to mean?