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* [[One Head Taller]]: George Washington (6' 2" ft) and Mary Curtis (5' ft).
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: The result of wooden dentures, making him look uncommonly grim in pictures. Washington's scary countenance so frightened [[John Adams]] that he refused to wear dentures himself.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Had a bristled relationship with his mother, Mary Ball Washington.
=== Washington in fiction ===
* [[Manly Wade Wellman]]'s short fantasy story "Vandy, Vandy" features an appearance not of the actual Washington's ghost, but the evil-smiting myth-encrusted figure described above.
* In the ''Masters of Horror'' episode "The Washingtonians," Washington and his descendants are revealed to be cannibals, though its more of a "campy and ridiculous" sort of horror than a real scary one. (Note that the real Washington was probably sterile.)
* In one of the [[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]' [[Timey
* The cartoon ''[[Time Squad]]'' always portrayed Washington as [[The Cape]] whenever he appeared... except for the episode that opened with him [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|going on a psychotic rampage in the Squad's space station]]. (It was an [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]], simulating what would happen if they dropped [[The Masquerade]] for him.)
* Highly ambiguous character in the ''[[Illuminatus]]'' trilogy.
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