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* [[Abusive Parents]]: His father, Frederick William, gave him [[Training
** His father also physically beat him, humiliated him in front of their subjects, tried to force him to give up his artistic hobbies and made it clear to him he was a disappointment.
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: As noted above, all kinds of German imperialists whom Frederick would personally have ''loathed'' were fond of invoking his name to support their imperialist policies.
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* [[Asexuality]]: One of the many, many theories surrounding the reason Frederick did not produce heirs. However historians widely consider Frederick's alignment, whatever it was, to be a moot point that in no way detracts from his Badassery.
* [[Badass Bureaucrat]]: One of the best royal bureaucrats in history
* [[Beneath the Mask]]: Frederick spent his youth battling with his father over whether he should be an artistic philosopher (whom he wanted to be) or an ascetic, ruff soldier (what his father wanted him to be). While the adult Fredrick seems to have been both, he was mentally damaged by his ordeals, and felt need to appeal to people by putting on a mask and playing a role to them. He admitted to a close friend he felt himself to be "a mirror, afraid to be what the nature had made it to be".
* [[Big Book of War]]: His instructions to his officers became a military classic.
** ''Frederick's Instructions'' have peculiar advantages for an [[Armchair Military|Armchair General]]. Many a [[Big Book of War]] is about general principles which means of course that enemy officers can read it too, leaving little net gain except possibly to make history books a more interesting read after the war. Frederick's Instructions were written for the special circumstances of [[Prussia]] and thus help remind a would be [[Armchair Military|Armchair General]] that every army has special circumstances.
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* [[Byronic Hero]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Par for the course for German monarchs.
* [[Cool Versus Awesome]]: Frederick the Great ''vs.'' [[Maria Theresa]].
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: The Battle of Leuthen in which he marched one wing of the Prussian army ''all the way across'' the Austrian front to catch them by surprise.
** It wasn't just a wing, it was the bulk of the army—and ironically, the Austrian front had been so long ''because'' the commander was attempting to prevent a Prussian flanking! Frederick had some of his cavalry feint on the Austrian right flank, causing the Austrian commander (coincidentally, Maria Theresa's brother-in-law) to commit his reserve ''and'' cavalry to that direction, while the Prussian army moved behind the cover of hills until it was at a right angle to the now-weakened Austrian left flank... not only was it quickly rolled up, but it took ''over an hour'' for Austrian troops on the right flank to reposition, and when the Austrian cavalry attempted to take the Prussian army's own left flank, the Austrian cavalry were themselves outflanked by the now-charging Prussian cavalry.
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*** Just as well; they would probably have gotten along ''even worse''.
* [[Folk Hero]]: To [[Imperial Germany]].
** Curiously there is a town in Pennsylvania called ''King-of-Prussia''. According to one legend it was a patriotic celebration of an ally in the [[Seven Years' War]]. Another version was that there was a tavern there that served German Auxiliaries during [[The American Revolution]] and some of these had served in Frederick's army.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Prussia would later unite most of the German lands into a North German Empire.
* [[Gratuitous French]]: His German was considered wretched by some contemporaries; [[Foreign Culture Fetish|he vastly preferred French, and wrote extensively in that language]].
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: He was famous for his walking stick.
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* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: He conquered and schemed to improve Prussia's position, and was not [[Ax Crazy]] like many conquerors.
* [[Prussia]]: [[Captain Obvious|Durr.]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: He was famous for his fondness for his hounds.
** He is buried next to them at Sanssouci. Visitors to his grave will often see potatoes on it, as he did a lot to further the cultivation of potatoes in Prussia.
* [[Rebel Prince]]: In his youth. Not as romantic as you'd think.
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