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* The Rosetta Stone's discovery, allowing for Egyptian hieroglyphics to be read.
* Jewish emancipation
* He singlehandedly doubled the size of [[the United States]]
* His campaigns are still studied by military students
* 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).
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* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Famously disparaged what was then the more modern guns and the steam engine, believing both to be fads at best. He didn't live to see the second take off.
* [[Just the First Citizen]]: A role he played up until crowning himself Emperor. Even after that he was a major proponent of liberal reforms, making his monarchy based on legal system that rewarded merit and put all parties under an equal system of law that abolished feudal distinctions.
* [[Only in It For the Money]]: Downplayed regarding the Louisiana Purchase. On the surface, he made the offer to sell the entire territory (the United States initially only offering to buy the port city of New Orleans) to fund his conflict with Britain, although it is rumored he was also counting on the United States becoming an additional threat to Britain, something he certainly would benefit from.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Went out of his way to do this for Jewish people, pointing out anyone could [[Kick the Dog|oppress them]], but it took a better person to assimilate them.
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: He needed the Catholic Church to at least not antagonize him, so he mended fences with them enough to avoid it as leader of France. He still made sure he held the whip hand, but was determined to make sure the Catholic lobby would not undermine his control of France.
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* Napoleon, what's left of him, cheers [[Rocko's Modern Life|Rocko]] on when he decides to meet the girl of his dreams at the top of the Eiffel tower.
* His clone in ''[[Clone High]]'' is a short and short-tempered shopkeeper who makes Abe and Gandhi's Christmas holidays a living hell. "MANGEZ LA VERRE!!!" <ref>"Eat the glass!"</ref>
* In the five-part ''[[G.I. Joe|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' story "Arise, Serpentor Arise!" he was one of many historical figures whose DNA was spliced to create Serpentor.
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