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{{presidents|[[William McKinley]]|[[William Howard Taft]]}}
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{{quote|[[Badass Boast|"Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."]]
▲{{quote|"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."|'''Theodore Roosevelt'''}}
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▲{{quote|[[Badass Boast|"Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."]]|'''Vice President Thomas Marshall'''}}
Theodore Roosevelt (also known as "Teddy" or "T.R.") is known for having been in the cavalry, leading the Rough Riders' charge on San Juan Hill, commissioning the Panama Canal, creating the US National Park System, and saying "speak softly, but carry a big stick" (the aircraft carrier ''USS Theodore Roosevelt'' is called "the big stick" by its crew). Before he became the 26th President of the United States, he was a [[Expansion Pack Past|governor, historian, adventurer, police chief, cavalryman, cowboy, explorer, hunter, naturalist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, author of 35 books, conservationist, etc.]] He was a larger-than-life figure with a bombastic reputation as a total [[Badass]].
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[[wikipedia:Theodore Roosevelt#Assassination Attempt|He was once shot in the chest on the way to give a speech]]. Fortunately for him, [[Pocket Protector|his eyeglass case and the folded speech were in the path of the bullet]]. Since he wasn't [[Blood From the Mouth|coughing blood]] afterwards, he figured he was fine<ref>When he eventually ''did'' get the gunshot wound looked at, he rightfully predicted that he could catch (and die from) an infection that would come with the surgery, and elected to leave the bullet where it was</ref>, and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|delivered the hour-and-a-half long speech before seeking medical attention]].
He was a [[Real Life]] example of [[Reassignment Backfire]]; the Republican Party (specifically, the corrupt political machines that grafted votes from immigrants) became sick of his grandstanding as a Governor of New York and appointed him Vice President, [[Kicked Upstairs|where it was assumed that he'd be powerless]]. Less than a year later, President McKinley was assassinated, making Teddy President, and stirring several comments along the lines of "That damn cowboy is gonna be the president?!" Teddy went on to be elected in his own right in 1904 (the first "Accidental President" to do so), won the Nobel Peace Prize (while still in office) for brokering a peace deal between the warring Japanese and Russian Empires (becoming the first US President to win the award), sent a US fleet on a nonviolent global cruise (which was more of a global series of parties really) to show the naval strength of the US, then stepped aside at the end of his second term so that William Howard Taft could be elected President.
Over the next four years, however, Roosevelt grew to dislike Taft and his governing (Taft drifted towards the conservative wing of the Republicans, while Teddy was of the liberal, Progressive wing), and decided to challenge him for the Republican nomination. When that didn't work, Roosevelt actually [[Start My Own|formed his own political party]] (the Progressive Party, also known by the more badass name of the Bull Moose Party) so that he could run against Taft in the 1912 election. This wound up splitting the vote and allowing Woodrow Wilson to win the election (thus showing why third parties don't last long on the national stage), but Teddy did end up getting more votes than Taft -- the second and last time (not counting the spectacularly messed-up [[Abraham Lincoln|election of 1860]]) that a third-party candidate placed second or higher in a US Presidential election. (Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 on the Union Party ticket, although that is also kinda messed up.<ref>The Union Party was a temporary alliance of the Republican Party and pro-war Democrats, while the "official" Democratic Party was composed of the "Copperheads" in favor of a negotiated peace. Those familiar with Commonwealth history should recall Britain and Canada during [[World War I]]. This change was forgotten almost as soon as the war ended.</ref>)
Ironically enough, [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|the other president to have that last name was a Democrat]], whereas Teddy was a Republican (they were fifth-cousins; Franklin's wife Eleanor was actually TR's niece). Franklin, in fact, went with the Democratic Party in order to avoid being drowned out by his distant cousin's reputation in the Republicans.
Teddy was also a real-life example of a [[Gentleman Adventurer]] and [[Egomaniac Hunter]]. He was a big conservationist, eager to make sure he'd always have something to hunt. The "teddy bear" is named after him, because he refused to shoot a black bear cub just for the sake of it. The bear was put down -- the rest of his family had been already shot. Foreign ambassadors dreaded meeting him, as it usually meant that they would have to accompany him on his strenuous daily jog, with him making fun of them when they inevitably ran short of breath and started lagging behind. Edith Roosevelt, Teddy's second wife, was a real-life example of a [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] -- she had been a childhood playmate of his.
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[[More Information Than You Require|After he was through with it, it had to be renamed the River of UNQUESTIONABLE CERTAINTY!]]
Notable for being the youngest US President at 42 years old and, until the inauguration of [[Donald Trump]], the only President born in New York City. (He is ''not'', however, the youngest US President to be ''elected''. That's [[John F. Kennedy]], who was 43. Teddy was elected at 46.)
In case it wasn't clear by now, he was made of pure, condensed [[Badass]], and is often portrayed as ''[[Memetic Badass|even more so than he already was]]''. ''Within his own lifetime'', historian Henry Adams ''[[Blasphemous Boast|explicitly compared him to God]]''. In fiction, he is frequently portrayed as a [[Large Ham]], in keeping with his [[Boisterous Bruiser|boisterous]] nature and public persona. At her wedding, his daughter, Alice, stated that "My father wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening." But she was giving as good as she got: Alice was a notorious handful, rambunctious, and known to the press as "Princess Alice." Her father had earlier snarked, "I can either run the country, or attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both." Teddy also had a son whom he named Kermit ([[More Information Than You Require|THAT SHOWED HIM]]) who joined him on some of his expeditions.
Film of President Roosevelt can be found [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=907E60DC86957669 here] as he was the first President to have most of his professional career documented on film; from the Rough Riders
Compare [[Andrew Jackson]].
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==== It Takes More Than Examples To Stop a Bull Moose! ====▼
* [[Animal Motifs]]: The Bull Moose.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Sort of, although he kicked ass for some time before he had any authority.
** [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: A huge part of the reason his political career in New York was able to progress so far despite the fact that the political bosses hated him, was due to the fact that the public admired TR's heroic willingness and ability to face down the corrupt interests in the NY political machine.
* [[Badass]]: Doesn't even begin to describe him.
** [[Ambadassador]]: He won the Nobel Peace Prize for overseeing negotiations between Russia and Japan to help end the Russo-Japanese War.
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** [[Colonel Badass]]: He led the Rough Riders as a colonel during the Spanish-American War.
** [[Handicapped Badass]]: He was blind in one eye as a result of a boxing match. But did that ''ever stop him?'' The injury prompted him to take up a safer hobby: ''[[Only a Flesh Wound|judo.]]''
*** Gets even better than that. He had
*** He famously had a severe coffee habit, which in light of his asthma makes perfect sense, since caffeine is an effective bronchodilator. He was self-medicating.
*** [[Cracked
** [[Badass Family]]: Teddy's sons went off to perform their own badass exploits.
*** His son, [[The Brigadier|Brigadier General]] Theodore Roosevelt Jr, landed on [[World War II|Utah Beach]] during the first wave of the Normandy Invasion... when he was [[Badass Grandpa|56]], and [[Handicapped Badass|suffering from heart disease and arthritis]]. His actions on Utah Beach lead to him being posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, after dying of a heart attack a month later.
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* [[Badass Moustache]]
* [[Big Applesauce]]: Teddy Roosevelt was born and raised in New York City, and had the [[Brooklyn Rage]] to prove it. He later became a crusading [[New York City Cops|NYPD Commissioner]], and famously took on corruption, even going to the lengths of personally patrolling the streets to ensure that his officers were doing their job of protecting the people. His crusade against corruption infuriated and confounded the local political bosses. He also instituted mandatory requirements for cops to stay in physical shape. He also personally walked through the slums of the city alongside muckraking journalist Jacob Riis. Riis later wrote in his autobiography:
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* [[Bigger Stick]]: Pseudo-[[Trope Namer]], by way of [[Looney Tunes|"Ballot Box Bunny"]].
* [[Blood Knight]]: He had elements of this. He loved boxing and hunting and said that he didn't start any wars when he was president because he couldn't stand the thought of being stuck in the White House while American soldiers fought on the front lines. See [[Boisterous Bruiser]] and [[Colonel Kilgore]] below.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: And what a bully [[Catch Phrase]] it was!
* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: [[Trope Namer]]
* [[Colonel Kilgore]]: He
* [[Cool People Rebel Against Authority]]: He was despised by the political bosses in New York--including those within his own party--because he insisted on rebelling against their corruption, even when they were the leaders of his own party. The bosses attempted to neutralize his influence by kicking him upstairs to the often-powerless position of Vice President. Then President McKinley died. And
* [[Crazy Awesome]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: For starters: [http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time_p5.html Everything he ever did, ever.] Well, if you want specifics...
** He was once shot in the chest just before a campaign speech and [[Pocket Protector|was saved by the copy of the speech and his glasses case in his jacket pocket]], but went ahead and ''gave the speech with a bullet wound in his chest.''
*** You may be interested to know the bullet ended up ''lodged in his lung.'' The opening line of his speech was "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
*** He later ran for President on the Bull Moose Party ticket. Raise your hand if you have a political party named after your [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. Yeah, that's what I thought.
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*** And then to the "Roosevelt River".
** His boat was stolen once; he built another boat and hunted the thieves down. Instead of shooting them in the middle of the woods, he hauled them to town for court, going 40 hours without sleep. He read Tolstoy to keep himself awake.
*** Even better: when he finished reading Tolstoy, Roosevelt literally forced one of the robbers to lend him a book that ''he'' had been carrying. The guy who'd tried to get away with robbing TR was now forced to "volunteer" his book for his intended victim's reading leisure. This--on top of arresting him--pretty much means that Teddy completely and utterly humiliated the robbers.
*** This would seem to be counter-productive, which makes it all the more awesome.
** After he received letters from army cavalrymen complaining about having to ride 25 miles a day for training, in response, Teddy rode horseback for 100 miles, from sunrise to sunset, at 51 years old, effectively rescinding anyone's right to complain about anything, ever again.
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** [http://www.governor.nd.gov/theodore-roosevelt-rough-rider-award How about creating a group of people so badass that an award is named after them?]
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Passed it when his [[Parental Favoritism|favorite and youngest son]], Quentin, was killed in [[World War I]]. His health began to plummet immediately as the sheer force of will that almost literally held his body together began to fail.
** [[Death
* [[Determinator]]: He started life as a sickly home-schooled child, but managed to become the single most manly creature in existence through sheer force of will.
** [[Cracked.com|Did we mention he had asthma growing up? He did, and after he beat asthma to death, he ate asthma's raw flesh and ran 100 straight miles off the energy it gave him.]]
* [[Egomaniac Hunter]]: Actually a ''subversion''; he loved to hunt, but he was also a staunch conservationist who probably did more to protect nature and wildlife than anyone else.
** More preserved nature = more stuff to kill later. In other words, he may have enjoyed hunting, but he wanted to do so ''sustainably''.
*** But is that a bad thing?
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: He ''really'' didn't like being called "Teddy". However, it wasn't because he hated it-- [[Tear Jerker|it was reportedly the pet name his first wife, Alice, gave to him]]. Roosevelt never really got over her [[Death
* [[Flaunting Your Fleets]]: He sent the Great White Fleet (called so for its white paint job) on what amounted to a gigantic naval review voyaging all the way around the world. Naturally several naval badasses of the twentieth century were junior officers on that cruise.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Sure, he was a black belt in jujitsu and had a history as a champion boxer, but as mentioned above, he was also a fucking genius. Listing his ''intellectual'' achievements would take far too long, just go [[wikipedia:Theodore Roosevelt|to The Other Wiki]] and look at the "education" and "writer" sections.
* [[Gentleman Adventurer]]
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* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Well, not ''exactly'', but he did ascend to the highest office in the land by proving himself ''way'' less killable than his predecessor.
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Made of Iron]]: More like Adamantium given the fact he survived a bullet wound to the chest, malaria, and asthma.
* [[Mega Corp]] Buster: He built up a reputation as a trustbuster when he took on the trusts (which were the [[Mega Corp|Mega Corps]] of their day) and ''won''.
* [[Memetic Badass]]: Especially on [[
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160219193636/http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/3/2/2/40322.jpg?v=1 The last thing Death sees before a brutal asskicking].
** In a History Channel documentary he is credited as being an inspiration for director [[The Dark Knight Saga|Christopher Nolan's adaptation]] of [[Batman|Bruce Wayne]].
*** "To me, the key to understanding the character, is that Bruce Wayne is Teddy Roosevelt."
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: The man loved his coffee and would drink at least a gallon on a slow day. Heck, Maxwell House Coffee's slogan, "Good to the last drop", came from a comment Theodore made about the brand, making him a [[Trope Namer]] of sorts.
* [[My Real Daddy]]:
* [[New York City Cops]]: He was the president of the board of New York City Police Commissioners from 1895-1897. During his time he reformed the department by sweeping up corruption, creating a bicycle squad, standardizing the use of firearms, setting up officer fitness standards, and would personally walk the streets making sure police officers were on duty.
* [[Nice to
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: On one occasion, a nutjob shot Roosevelt while he was making a campaign speech. Most Presidents would respond to this by letting their bodyguards rush them to the nearest hospital. But Roosevelt, being a [[Badass Bookworm]], correctly deduced (in what must be one of the biggest [[Badass Bookworm]] moments ever) that since he wasn't coughing up blood he could therefore afford to wait a while. He basically just told the crowd "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; [[Badass Boast|but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose]]," and calmly continued his speech, not stopping until he was completely finished. Only ''then'' did he leave. He spoke for a total of 90 minutes--a full ''hour and a half''--after being shot before he left. Truly one of the most badass moments in Presidential history.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: 100% President Action, although [[Mark Twain]] thought he was a President Lunatic.
** [[Crazy Awesome|He can't be both?]]
* [[Peace Through Superior Firepower]]: He believed in this. See the quotes page on that trope for his opinion.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]] / [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: See the page
* [[Reassignment Backfire]]: As Mark Hanna was attributed as saying, "I don't believe it - the goddamn cowboy's President!" (He was, though, always against the New York Republicans making TR vice-president for that very reason.)
* [[Renaissance Man]]: It's easier to list what accomplishments Teddy Roosevelt was
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Manly. [[William Howard Taft]] is the sensitive one.
* [[Specs of Awesome]]: Roosevelt took the awesome [[Up to Eleven]] in his lifetime. See above what happened to the guy that called him "Four-Eyes".
* [[Stout Strength]]
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: He drank his cups of coffee with seven lumps of sugar in them and had a passion for peaches and cream, devouring a soup-bowl-sized serving every morning when peaches were in season.
* [[Trope Namer]]:
* [[Ubermensch]]: His eyeglasses and moustache are even vaguely Neitzcheian.
* [[Unexpected Successor]]: Really, his enemies [[Should Have Seen It Coming]], considering that there had been Vice Presidents that were absolutely the
* [[Values Dissonance]]: Engineered the overthrow of Colombia's government purely because it was economically advantageous to the US, and didn't bother trying to pretend otherwise. A president that openly tried this today would
** You go ahead and
** To be fair though, TR viewed his support of Panamanian revolutionaries against the Colombian government as being in the long-term best interests of all mankind. His belief was that by supporting the creation of Panama and building the Panama Canal there (the Panamanian revolutionaries were sympathetic to the idea of building the Canal through the isthmus, unlike the Colombian government), he would essentially be facilitating the creation of one of history's greatest infrastructure projects, one that could allow the whole world to trade more freely and thus improve the global economy and somewhat mitigate the effects of starvation and poverty, in his view. One may agree or disagree with this view, but at the very least, TR viewed it as an [[I Did What I Had to Do]] moment, and in later years still repeatedly declared his belief that the construction of the Panama Canal as his greatest accomplishment. [[Your Mileage May Vary]], obviously, which is why this does count as [[Values Dissonance]], and historians debate the merits of this idea to this day.
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Sort of. While you'd expect someone as [[Badass]] as TR to have a deep, booming voice, the single existing audio recording of him (which is of a brief speech he gave to a group of high
* [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant]]: Certainly the most [[Badass]] example.
** When humorist Finley Peter Dunne called Theodore a WASP, Roosevelt insisted that he was [[Freestate Amsterdam|Dutch]]. This also means that he could kick ass in a pair of wooden shoes.
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** Theodore Roosevelt was a real-life example of [[Conan the Barbarian|the Riddle of Steel]].
{{examples|Theodore Roosevelt in Fiction}}
== Comic Books ==
▲=== Theodore Roosevelt in Fiction ===
* Teddy is the star of ''[[Tales From the Bully Pulpit]]'', widely considered one of the most awesome graphic novels ever written. He and the ghost of Thomas Edison steal H.G. Wells' time machine to slaughter Nazis on Mars in the future. And considering Teddy's strength and machismo, the concept works.▼
* In [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', Scrooge meets Theodore Roosevelt a number of times on the road to making his fortune.▼
** And in this series, TR is nearly as badass as Scrooge himself. Before you get confused, let me remind you that this is Don Rosa's young Scrooge McDuck, who, in a fit of rage, [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4283775 tore an entire steamship in half] and threw a grand piano through a window, and regularly took on the most badass men in the world. The fact that TR came close to beating him in a one-on-one brawl is a mark of honor.▼
== Film ==
* T.R. was played by [[Robin Williams]] in the [[Ben Stiller]] vehicle ''[[Night
** A less-celebrated fact of T.R.'s life is that he reformed the New York Police Department. Which is why his statue is in the Natural History Museum there.
* [[Brian Keith]] gave a very true-to-life portrayal in John Milius' ''[[The Wind and
* The ''[[Atlantis:
* [[Martin Scorsese]] has had a biopic of Roosevelt in [[Development Hell]] for years now,{{when}} with the intention of
* At the end of ''[[Newsies]],'' then
== Literature ==
* In the ''Timeline-191'' [[Alternate History]] series by [[Harry Turtledove]], Roosevelt is a main character in the original novel ''How Few Remain'' and in the subsequent ''Great War'' trilogy. In How Few Remain he funds and leads his own militia regiment (The Unauthorized Regiment) in rural Montana fighting against Canada in the Second Mexican War (Canada being allied to the Confederacy). In the Great War trilogy he is the (Democratic) President during [[World War
** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|After having finally led the United States to victory over their long-time enemies in the Confederacy, the US reannexed certain parts of territory from the CSA... including one little portion in Virginia where Robert E. Lee's house lies. Roosevelt's dying request is to be buried in front of Lee's house, spiting the Confederates one last time by soiling the memory of their hero. General Custer also gets buried in the same plot of land, and it was his strategies that led to the Confederacy's defeat.}} Theodore is hailed as the greatest Union president in (alternate) history.▼
*** [[Truth in Television]]: You know what that little plot of land is called in our current history? ''Arlington National Cemetery''!▼
* Mike Resnick wrote a series of short stories about Theodore Roosevelt called "The Other Teddy Roosevelts". Among his adventures, Teddy goes after [[Jack the Ripper]] ("Redchapel"), takes on a vampire lord in New York ("Two Hunters in Manhattan"), and leads the resurrected Rough Riders into WWI {{spoiler|[[Reality Ensues|and gets slaughtered]].}} ("Over There")▼
* ''[[More Information Than You Require]]'' grants T.R. full [[Memetic Badass]] status.▼
{{quote|
** Entirely [[Truth in Television]], as seen [http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p5.html here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20091201161042/http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.com/Essay.asp?ID=1 here.]▼
* In the [[Alternate History]] work ''[[Fight
* ''[[Monster Hunter International]]'' attributes the creation of PUFF (Perpetual Unearthly Forces Fund), which pays bounties on dangerous monsters, to Theodore Rossevelt. The RPG expands on this and states he most likely "fought a vampire that was preying on the residents of New York City’s slums and a pack of human-eating chupacabra in Cuba", but the lack of records make what exactly he saw unclear.
== Live-Action TV ==
* T.R. was played by Tom Berenger in the 1997 miniseries ''[[The Rough Riders]]'', which was also written and directed by John Milius.
* Likely [[What Could Have Been|would have]] appeared in ''[[Deadwood]]'' had it not been canceled - the show's [[Historical Domain Character]] protagonist, Seth Bullock, was one of Teddy's [[Heterosexual Life Partners|closest friends]].▼
* Teddy went up against [[Lawrence of Arabia]] in the third season of ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]''.
== Theatre ==
* In the play ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'', Teddy Brewster believes that he is Theodore Roosevelt and behaves accordingly.
▲* Teddy is the star of ''[[Tales From the Bully Pulpit]]'', widely considered one of the most awesome graphic novels ever written. He and the ghost of Thomas Edison steal H.G. Wells' time machine to slaughter Nazis on Mars in the future. And considering Teddy's strength and machismo, the concept works.
== Video Games ==
* And, for what it's worth: [http://beatonna.livejournal.com/49290.html Theodore Roosevelt,] [[Gentleman Adventurer]].▼
* You get to rescue Teddy and his son Kermit in a portion of the [[Edutainment Game]] ''[[The Amazon Trail|Amazon Trail II]]''. He helpfully introduces himself as "Teddy Roosevelt, explorer and former President of the United States".
** This is completely inaccurate. Teddy Roosevelt would
*** It's implied he rescued himself after the player gives him some medicine. He had a pretty badly hurt leg.
*** The "badly hurt leg" actually plagued Teddy Roosevelt for the rest of his life and may have shortened it, as well. His leg was badly infected during his Amazon River voyage and most of his companions thought he wouldn't make it home, but he did, though he was never in the same health again.
** What
▲* In the ''Timeline-191'' [[Alternate History]] series by [[Harry Turtledove]], Roosevelt is a main character in the original novel ''How Few Remain'' and in the subsequent ''Great War'' trilogy. In How Few Remain he funds and leads his own militia regiment (The Unauthorized Regiment) in rural Montana fighting against Canada in the Second Mexican War (Canada being allied to the Confederacy). In the Great War trilogy he is the (Democratic) President during [[World War One]] and he leads the Union to victory against the Confederacy (the Union fighting on the side of the Central Powers, and the Confederacy on the side of the Entente).
▲** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|After having finally led the United States to victory over their long-time enemies in the Confederacy, the US reannexed certain parts of territory from the CSA...including one little portion in Virginia where Robert E. Lee's house lies. Roosevelt's dying request is to be buried in front of Lee's house, spiting the Confederates one last time by soiling the memory of their hero. General Custer also gets buried in the same plot of land, and it was his strategies that led to the Confederacy's defeat.}} Theodore is hailed as the greatest Union president in (alternate) history.
▲*** [[Truth in Television]]: You know what that little plot of land is called in our current history? ''Arlington National Cemetery''!
▲* Mike Resnick wrote a series of short stories about Theodore Roosevelt called "The Other Teddy Roosevelts". Among his adventures, Teddy goes after [[Jack the Ripper]] ("Redchapel"), takes on a vampire lord in New York ("Two Hunters in Manhattan"), and leads the resurrected Rough Riders into WWI {{spoiler|[[Reality Ensues|and gets slaughtered]].}} ("Over There")
▲* ''[[More Information Than You Require]]'' grants T.R. full [[Memetic Badass]] status.
▲{{quote| Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit explored Brazil's legendary River of Doubt. After they were done, it was renamed THE RIVER OF UNQUESTIONABLE CERTAINTY.}}
▲** Entirely [[Truth in Television]], as seen [http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p5.html here] and [http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.com/Essay.asp?ID=1 here.]
▲* In [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', Scrooge meets Theodore Roosevelt a number of times on the road to making his fortune.
▲** And in this series, TR is nearly as badass as Scrooge himself. Before you get confused, let me remind you that this is Don Rosa's young Scrooge McDuck, who, in a fit of rage, [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4283775 tore an entire steamship in half] and threw a grand piano through a window, and regularly took on the most badass men in the world. The fact that TR came close to beating him in a one-on-one brawl is a mark of honor.
* The ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]'' short "Ballot Box Bunny" (1951), Bugs dresses up as Teddy and uses his motto "I speak softly, but I carry a BIG stick," to which Yosemite Sam replies, "Well, I speak ''LOOOUUUDLY,'' and I carry a ''BIIIIIGGER'' stick! [[Batter Up|And I use it, too!]]"▼
* Another ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]'' short, "Hillbilly Hare," references him: "And just who might you be?" "Well, ah might be Teddy Roosevelt, but ah ain't."▼
▲* The ''[[Atlantis the Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' spinoff travel guide book, "Atlantis: Subterranean Tours" says Teddy was invited to Atlantis after the events of the film by Whitmore, who had established top secret trips to the lost city for celebrities, staff and colleagues of his.
* Doctor Robotnik/Eggman of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' franchise began life as a parody drawing of T.R. His appearance is about all the good doctor shares with Roosevelt.
** But at least Robotnik is still a [[Large Ham]].
* TR was featured in an episode of ''[[The Legend of Tarzan (Animation)|The Legend of Tarzan]]''. He was portrayed as a squat, obese hothead who was taught by the cast that hunting animals is wrong.▼
== Web Comics ==
▲* Likely [[What Could Have Been|would have]] appeared in ''[[Deadwood]]'' had it not been canceled - the show's [[Historical Domain Character]] protagonist, Seth Bullock, was one of Teddy's [[Heterosexual Life Partners|closest friends]].
* ''[[Hark!
▲* In the [[Alternate History]] work ''[[Fight And Be Right]]'', he becomes Governor of the American-protected Congo Free State.
* ''[[
▲* [[Hark a Vagrant|Russia, Japan, must you kill each other so?]] [http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=54 We can negotiate! Or, if you want to, we can safari!]
** They also failed because they were trying to kill the [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|other Roosevelt]].▼
▲* [[Martin Scorsese]] has had a biopic of Roosevelt in [[Development Hell]] for years now, with the intention of TR being played by [[Leonardo Di Caprio]].
== Web Original ==
▲* ''[[Subnormality (Webcomic)|Subnormality]]'' features a strip where two time-traveling neo-Nazis try to kill him. They fail, ''not'' because of [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]], but because Teddy [[Memetic Badass|is about to chuck their car at them]].
▲*
▲** They also failed because they were trying to kill the [[Franklin D Roosevelt|other Roosevelt]].
▲* At the end of ''Newsies,'' then New York Governor T. R. shows up at the end to aid the newsboys.
== Western Animation ==
▲* Teddy went up against [[Lawrence of Arabia]] in the third season of ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]''. {{spoiler|He won.}}
▲* The ''[[
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* An oil lobbyist wanted to drill in his statue's head for oil in [[The Simpsons]] episode "Mr. Lisa Wants to Go to Washington".
** Later decapitated in Itchy's gruesome tirade in "Itchy the Lucky Mouse in Manhattan Madness" in episode "The Day The Violence Died". Quite unfortunate for the Old Knickerbocker! But all in good humor!
** After brutality beaten up by Teddy, the writers give him the proper respect he deserves in the episode "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" where Bart gets inspired by T.R. to dabble in his own badassery.
== Other ==
* A single-panel cartoon, artist's name not attached, claimed that when [[The Grim Reaper]] came for Theodore Roosevelt, "the last thing Death saw before suffering a brutal asskicking" was [[Sleeping Dummy|a pillow with Roosevelt's face drawn on it]] in the bed. [[Right Behind Me|Looming behind Death's shoulder was the real T.R.]].... This was no doubt a reference to one of the page quotes above. <!-- MOD: Listed under "Other" because there isn't enough information given to sort this into either Newspaper Comics or Web Comics. If you know, please sort this example appropriately. If you can provide a link to the comic, even better. -->
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