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* ''Ender's Shadow'' retells ''[[Ender's Game]]'' from the perspective of Bean, who is revealed to have been [[Man Behind the Man|responsible for a lot of Ender's successes]], making him this trope in a fictional setting. (And provoking some people to consider him a [[Canon Sue]].)
* John Jakes' ''Kent Family Chronicles'' could own this trope. Starting with ''The Bastard'', it takes its young French hero through young manhood - where his best friend is the Marquis de Lafayette - sends him to England in search of his true parentage, then fleeing to the Colonies when framed by unscrupulous relatives, and arriving in Philadelphia just in time to meet and take advice from Benjamin Franklin (he even becomes a successful printer!). This continues through several novels and even more generations, as he and his descendants frolic through an all-star reading of history.
* Elias Vaughn in the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]. Introduced in the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine
* In ''[[Time Cat]]'' the protagonist, Jason, travels through time [[Cats Are Magic|via magic]] and ends up being a part of many historical events and meeting and influencing various famous figures from the past.
* In ''[[H. Beam Piper|Uller Uprising]]'', the heroes get much-needed information from a porn novel whose author is a stickler for [[Shown Their Work|historical detail]] mixed in with the pornography. The main character of the novel is a very HOT Gump.
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'' is practically made of these. Every episode the viewers are nearly guaranteed a reference to when any of the Griffins or their ancestors did something that altered history in some way.
* The ''[[Animaniacs]]'', of course. Due to their ability to [[Universal Adaptor Cast|exist in several time periods]], have had run ins with several historical figures and had a big influence over their achievements. They've inspired Albert Einstein to write E=MC^2, helped Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, and inspired Picasso.
* Similarly, [[Histeria
* In a "what if" episode of [[The Boondocks]] (in which Martin Luther King, Jr. awakens from a coma), it is revealed that Robert "Grandad" Freeman was originally part of Rosa Parks' bus sit-in, but was completely ignored. Ever since then, Grandad felt that Parks "stole his thunder" and left her harassing phone calls right up until her death. Oh, and he never did get his five dollars from Malcolm X.
** And he was supposed to be one of the protesters Bull Connor turned firehoses on, but he went home to get a raincoat and missed the march. Robert gets a lot of these related to the civil rights movement.
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