Historical Domain Character: Difference between revisions

*** [[Charles II]]

** [[The House of Hanover]]

** [[The House of Windsor]]

** [[HM The Queen]]

* [[HBO]] has had several dramas in historical settings that make use of this trope. ''[[Deadwood]]'', ''[[Rome]]'', and ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' are period dramas with many such characters. [[Showtime]] has also mined this territory with ''[[The Tudors]]'' and ''[[The Borgias]]''.

* Frequently done (with various degrees of historical fidelity) in series involving [[Time Travel]], such as ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'' and later seasons of ''[[Quantum Leap]]''.

** The classic ''Doctor Who'' series had a few scattered around as well, particularly in the First Doctor's era-[[The Travels of Marco Polo|Marco Polo]], [[Kublai Khan]], [[Maximilien Robespierre]] and [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], Nero and [[Richard the Lion Heart]], [[Abraham Lincoln]], Catherine de Medici, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, just to name a few. The Fourth Doctor nearly had a run-in with [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. The Fifth Doctor (kind of) had a run in with King John. The Sixth Doctor also ran into George Stephenson and H.G. Wells, while the Seventh Doctor had to deal with the Rani kidnapping [[Albert Einstein]] and Louis Pasteur. References to other famous figures of history were constantly dropped by each incarnation of the Doctor.

* ''[[Jack of All Trades (TV series)|Jack of All Trades]]'', which portrayed [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] as... ah... a crazy little person foaming at the mouth.