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[[File:180px-The_Sun_(Gotcha).png|link=British Newspapers|frame|Bullseye]]

 

{{quote|'''The Empire Strikes Back'''|''Newsweek'' headline (19 April 1982), after declaration of war.}}

 

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== Comics ==

* ''[[Bloom County]]'' did a plot-arc set on the islands during the war, with the resident penguins offering perplexed comments on the fighting. Opus' mother seemingly perished in the Falklands War. {{spoiler|However, she survived with amnesia and was taken by a cosmetics company.}} (Despite this, Opus was originally from Antarctica, not the Falklands.)

* In the final episode of ''[[The New Statesman]]'', Alan B'Stard arranges to have a porn director stage a fake French invasion of the Falklands in order to trigger a war that will a) drive the value of his shares through the roof, b) secure an election victory for his new party, and c) let him declare himself Lord High Protector and effectively take over Britain for life.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'' has a special that has the British hosts try to get to Argentina by traveling down South America. In an [[Off the Rails|unscripted]] bit this ends poorly and the trip is cut short by rioters triggered one of the vehicles having a (random, non-vanity) plate that read "H982 FKL".

 

== Literature ==

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