Historical Villain Downgrade: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** The Soviets after the first game. The first game gives what many accounts would consider an accurate depiction of Stalin's regime, but in the next two games they're just a joke.

** A bigger case is the Empire of the Rising Sun in RA 3, who are clearly modeled after [[Imperial Japan|Imperialist Japan]], which in real life was infamous for its war crimes, which include pointless mass murders by the hundreds of thousands, enslavement of tens of thousands of women as sex slaves, and performing medical experiments on prisoners from their colonies that killed thousands of people. Even the whole honor aspect that's presented as a joke in the game was a scary thing in real life; they considered surrender dishonorable and would execute or use enemies who surrendered as slave labor, and fed their civilians propaganda about the Allies that drove them to commit suicide by the tens of thousands when America invaded the Japanese home islands. All of these thing are of course never brought up in the game and the Empire is simply presented as an over-the-top comedic organization, though interestingly it is brought up in an in-progress mod called ''[[Red Alert 3 Paradox]]'' where in the mod's version of RA 3 events, the Empire butchered a major Soviet city.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* As the page quote suggests, this is [[Lampshaded]] by [[Pinky and The Brain]] while discussing Caligula in one episode.

* One episode of ''[[Histeria (Animation)|Histeria]]'' indicated that the World's Oldest Woman had met Hitler. Granted, the scene showed her shouting down to him in what was clearly [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]].