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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* '' [[Hark! A Vagrant]]'' often does this for laughs, such as [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=25 this] comic about [[Genghis Khan]].
* In-Universe example in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', where Nina writes an essay on Queen Lamia Asra-pa Quintessa, portraying her as [[Not Evil, Just Misunderstood]] and a [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]. (Lamia's cat was, in fact, a demonic familiar and accomplice to Lamia's crimes, which included genocide.) Nina doesn't get a very good grade. {{spoiler| She really has no sinister motive trying to portray Lamia positively, simply doing so because she is naive and loves cats herself, although when it is suspected she might be the reincarnation of Lamia herself, this incident seems to be evidence to confirm it. (She is not.)}}
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** Japan is a good example. But so are the other Imperial powers. That means, America, Britain, France, Spain and many others often get toned down.
* Various historical dictators will have their atrocities glazed over by the modern apologists, for political reasons.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110116100648/http://www.canadianlegends.ca/Products.asp This] action figure of [[wikipedia:John A. Macdonald|Sir John A. Macdonald]] comes with a brief biography (obviously written for children) in which it is stated that he and [[wikipedia:Louis Riel|Louis Riel]] "[[Understatement|did not get along very well.]]" The fact of the matter is that Macdonald and Riel fought two wars against each other at the conclusion of which Riel was executed.
* In media based on the New Testament of [[The Bible]], Pontius Pilate is often portrayed as reluctant to sentence Jesus to execution. This is unlikely given that Pilate was recalled to Rome because the ''[[The Empire|Romans]]'' though he was too brutal.
* [[wikipedia:Gilles de rais|Gilles de Rais]] was one of [[Joan of Arc]]'s companions, an [[Rated "M" for Manly|all-around man's man]], and a succesful soldier. That's the [[Theme Park Version]] anyway, the fact that he was also a serial rapist and killer of ''children'' tends not to be mentioned in kid's history books. [[Darker and Edgier|For older readers, however...]]
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