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* [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] has revealed, among other things, that the San Francisco earthquake was caused by a time traveling X-Club; Hitler's rise to power was backed by a cabal of sorcerers in an attempt to summon Dormammu, who had previously caused the Great Fire of London in battle with the Ancient One; the Hindenburg crashed in an attempt to prevent the unleashing of demonic entities onto Earth; Hitler was killed by the Human Torch when he tried to blow up Berlin; and Deep Throat was really the alien who crashed at Roswell.
** This can cause problems as some events are explained in obscure stories leading to multiple explanations - the Salem Witch trials, for example, have been explained to have been due to the influence of Dracula, the influence of an ancient sorcerer who wanted to feed on the victims, a manipulative time traveler and many genuine witches (both good and evil).
* A [[Dark Horse]] comic involved the Hindenburg, [[Doc Savage]], and Prof. Reinstein (the inventor
* The ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' graphic novels had Mindy Sprague accidentally causing the 1978 blizzard over the Northeastern United States in an attempt to avert a meltdown at Three Mile Island.
** Also, apparently Benjamin Franklin survived his kite experiment because he had electrical superpowers.
** And the Egyptians apparently used superpowers to build the Pyramids.
* [[Alan Moore]]'s [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/comics/2000adstrips/drandquinch/drandquinch01.shtml first] ''[[DR and Quinch]]'' comic strip for ''[[2000
* Want to know how Amelia Earhart disappeared? According to ''[[Empowered]]'', Imperial Pimpotron Alpha abducted her for a cosmic emperor's harem.
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' has the character of The Big Topper, a man who butts in on conversations and pretends like he did bigger and better things. Usually, his boastings include him introducing things to famous people. Dilbert calls him out on it once. The response?
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* One ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' comic had the duo traveling through time to find Wallace's missing slipper. At one point, Wallace attempts to prevent primitive roller-skates from causing too much havoc by providing a far more angular design to his caveman counterpart, Ug-Wallace, who proceeds to get the design completely wrong and invent Stonehenge.
* [[Lucky Luke]] has been involved in pretty much every major event in the history of the West-
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