Maximilien Robespierre: Difference between revisions

* [[Historical Domain Character]] - [[Historical Villain Upgrade]] in most works.

* [[French Revolution]]: Obviously.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: He was eventually executed via guillotine, the fate he and his regime assigned to so many others.

* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Going from 'lawyer highly respected by the common people' to 'main figure in a [[Reign of Terror]] who winds up being [[Hoist By His Own Petard|Hoisted By His Own Petard]]' would be bad enough, but a little bit of [[Verbal Irony|irony]] makes it [[It Got Worse|worse]]: in the early phases of the Revolution, Robespierre wrote a little pamphlet about ''how the death penalty is wrong, and should not be used''<ref>He went very quickly from 'maybe it can be justified, in certain extreme circumstances' to 'it is a useful tool', thus ''Jumping Off'' The Slippery Slope</ref>.

* ''The Gods are Thirsty''

* ''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|The Sandman]]'', "Thermidor"

* ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' has the Havenite political leader Rob S. Pierre running the Committee of Public Safety.

 

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