Napoleon Bonaparte: Difference between revisions

* His efforts, however, have not overcome [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]. He was after all, somewhat Italian (Corsica became French only within a few years of his birth).

 

 

[[The Napoleon]] and [[Napoleon Delusion]] are both named after him. Ironically, the former doesn't really apply (since he was average height), and he himself can't by definition have had a [[Napoleon Delusion]]. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Since, you know, he]] ''[[Don't Explain the Joke|was]]'' [[Don't Explain the Joke|Napoleon]]. The famous hand-in-jacket pose, much used and parodied by actors portraying him, can be seen in the page picture, by the French painter Jacques-Louis David (who also painted a famous picture of the Emperor's coronation in 1804).

** His alleged Napoleonic sympathies are what sends Edmond Dantes to jail in ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]''. Bonaparte himself is a secondary character.

** [[Les Misérables|Marius Pontmercy]] becomes a Napoleon fanboy after learning that his late father fought at Waterloo. The battle is described in detail in the book.

* He and his invasion of Russia plays a big role in ''[[War and Peace]]''. Tolstoy tells his low opinion on him in his [[Author Tract|Author Tracts]].

* He is a prominent figure in Jeanette Winterson's ''The Passion,'' wherein he has [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|a midget horse groomsman, a lewd Irish priest for a lookout]], and a whole staff of cooks making chicken 24/7 because he doesn't want to wait if he happens to want one. Oh, and he eats them whole.

== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''[[Look to the West]]:'' Napoleon proper doesn't exist, but an alternate history sibling of his is taken with his family when they flee Corsica for England. There he is bestowed with the Anglicized name "Leo Bone." He joins the Royal Navy, and eventually becomes the non-monarch head of Restored Royal France. And much crosstime irony is had for all.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] once met Napoleon in the 1956 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short, "Napoleon Bunny-Part."

* Playing on the height stereotype, the Brain is mistaken for him in an episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''. Brain also sings of him in 'A Meticulous Analysis of History'.

* In ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' episode about friction, he makes an extremely short and extremely silly cameo in in Dorothy Ann's physics lecture--as does the entire British army.