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* Think the real [[Jackie Robinson]] was a badass athlete and a civil rights pioneer? In ''[[Lovecraft Country]]'', he ''literally'' [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punches out Cthulhu!]] With [[Batter Up|a baseball bat]], naturally.

** This may have, in fact, been an analogy, as the episode was loaded with them. [[Word of God|leading actor Jonathan Majors]] claimed that Robinson was supposed to be "the manifestation of Black heroism at the time".

* In the Netflix [[Biopic]] ''[[Narcos]]'' the historical Bolivian police leader Hugo Martínez is split into the fictional Horacio Carrillo, who is willing to authorize torture and execution of ~~opposing~~ narcos (an act Martínez was accused of with strong but non-definitive evidence), and Hugo Martínez, who is shown as a [[By-The-Book Cop]]. This was presumably done because Martínez was still alive at the time the series aired and to do otherwise would have been asking for a lawsuit.

* In the Netflix [[Biopic]] ''[[Narcos]]'' the historical Bolivian police leader Hugo Martínez is split into the fictional Horacio Carrillo, who is willing to authorize torture and summary execution of narcos in the Colombian Drug War (an act Martínez was accused of with strong but non-definitive evidence), and Hugo Martínez, who is shown as a [[By-The-Book Cop]]. This was presumably done because Martínez was still alive at the time the series aired and to do otherwise would have been asking for a lawsuit.

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