Margaret Thatcher/Margaret Thatcher in Fiction: Difference between revisions

[[File:face-of-evil.jpg|link=Spitting Image|frame| A comparatively mild portrayal.]]

 

 

 

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== Fan Works ==

* The ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' doujinshii ''From the New Earth, with Love'' has [[Hot Scientist|a young and Moe-looking Margaret Thatcher]] as {{spoiler|one of the caretakers of England, who survived his duel to death with America parallel to [[World War Two]]... only to fall in a coma due to his injuries.}} She chats with America over some soft ice cream, and he asks her to step forward into politics; some pages later, her older self is featured as already Prime Minister. {{spoiler|As Thatcher becomes a full-fledged leader, England finally recovers from his coma.}}

* [[Alan Moore]] wrote ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' primarily as a rebuttal to Thatcher's more divisive policies.

** And yet she appears in ''[[Miracleman]]'' in a much more sympathetic light, {{spoiler|as another small human, arguing for the free market against a godlike superhuman}}.

* The ''[[2000 AD|Two Thousand AD]]'' strip ''Bec & Kawl'' once featured a story where Margaret Thatcher ([[No Celebrities Were Harmed|unnamed in the strip]], but the obvious caricature tells all) plotted to privatize Hell. Kawl refers to her as "The Arch-Manifestation of Evil".

* A caricatured Mrs. Thatcher appears as a fearsome Cirinist leader in ''[[Cerebus]]''. Later on Cerebus gets the better of her, in an issue that appeared just around the time the real Margaret Thatcher was coming to the end of her term in office.

'''Employee:''' 'Course he is! So's Frankenstein, the Wolfman, [[The Triple|Margaret Thatcher]]... }}

** There was also Chief Justice Hilda Margaret McGruder, who succeeded Chief Justice Griffin. After a very successful first term she made an error in judgment and went on the Long Walk, only to later have to take back her post after years of isolation and radiation exposure rapidly becoming clearly insane. Amongst many, many references she develops a [[Split Personality]], and refers to her various selves as "we", parodying Thatcher's infamous "[[Royal We|We are a grandmother]]" comment. Also of note were McGruder's more masculine physical features after her time spent in the Cursed Earth (including a beard), which would reflect Thatcher's masculine composure.

 

== Film ==

* Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher come in for some ribbing in ''[[Coupling]]''.

{{quote|'''Patrick:''' You know what? We need Maggie back!}}

* [[Fanfic|She wrote a sketch herself]] for ''[[Yes Minister]]'', which she [[Self-Insert Fic|appeared in with the cast]].

* In a world in ''[[Sliders]]'', an [[Alternate History]] Thatcher became [[The Quisling]] after Kromags (basically evolved Neandarthals) invaded. After they were successfully repelled, the word "Thatcher" remained synonymous with "selling out your kind"/"collaborating with the enemy". ''Sliders'' does have the habit of [[Acceptable Targets|hitting the British]] at every chance it makes/gets.

* ''[[Maid Marian and Her Merry Men]]'' had a house repairer character called 'Margaret The Thatcher'.

* In the opening montage of ''[[Blackadder]]'' special ''Blackadder Back and Forth'', an incarnation of Edmund Blackadder is shown giving Margaret Thatcher the finger from behind her back.

 

== Theatre ==

* The opening of the second act of ''[[Billy Elliot]]'' is a song called 'Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher', an upbeat tune with lyrics celebrating that Christmas is "one day closer to [her] death." Not to mention that poor government policy is the whole reason the town's miners are on strike.

* Even [[Monty Python|the Dead Parrot Sketch]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTV3lQc4AmQ wasn't immune to Thatcher].

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'':

** During an [[GTA Radio|radio interview]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', the [[Straw Feminist]] character mistakenly names Thatcher alongside Reagan and Gorbachev while ranting about how everything was being run by men.

* The ZX Spectrum game ''Monty on the Run'' was based on the infamous Miners' Strike against Thatcher's policies that lead to the destruction of several British industries. In the game, Monty is imprisoned by Thatcher's police for his involvement in the strike and must escape to the docks to flee to Spain.

 

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[Subnormality]]'' casts Thatcher as a [[Demonization|literal monster]] who loves two things; [[Cargo Ship|nuclear weapons]] and [[Ronald Reagan]].

 

** She also appears in ''[[Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72]]'', this time as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Once more, she is shown implementing authoritarian anti-terror measures against the PIRA. {{spoiler|However, Edward Heath gave her this job because he hopes it will break her.}}

** ''[http://www.anthonymayer.net/ah/thaxted/thaxted1.html Thaxted]'' imagines what might have happened if a young Margaret Hilda Roberts had become a Marxist instead of a Conservative.

 

 

 

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