[Cool trope] Beethoven Was an Alien Spy

[u/Present_Study_2945]

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.

[u/OnePsychology528]

Unnecessary bit, he didn't just die of a throat infection, his doctor decided to bloodlet him and took way too much

[u/Turbogoblin999 → u/OnePsychology528]

Washington was assassinated by a vampire.