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{{quote|''"[[Rousing Speech|We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air]], [[Heroic Resolve|we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills]]; [[Determinator|we shall never surrender]], and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, [[Day of the Jackboot|this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving]], then [[The British Empire|our Empire beyond the seas]], armed and guarded by the [[Brits With Battleships|British Fleet]], [[You Are Not Alone|would carry on the struggle]], until, in God's good time, [[America Saves the Day|the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.]]"''|Speech in the House of Commons, 4 June 1940}}
'''Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill''' (1874-1965). [[Knight Fever|Knight of the Garter, Order of Merit, Companion of Honor, Territorial Decoration, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society]], first Honorary Citizen in United States history, and almost the Duke of London.
British Prime Minister, 1940-1945, 1951-55. Helped win [[World War II]], then won a Nobel Prize for writing about it in a six-volume [[Doorstopper]].
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Winston Churchill was notably a child of a binational marriage; his mother Jeanette Jerome was an [[The United States|American]] [[Socialite]] from [[New York City|Brooklyn]]. Compare [[Barack Obama]].
[[Authors of Quote|Many of Churchill's quotes are rightly legendary]], including
* "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is [[A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside An Enigma]], but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
* "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
* "If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
* "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an [[Iron Curtain]] has descended across the Continent."
* "In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
* "One can always trust the United States to do the right thing, once every possible alternative has been exhausted."
* "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few."
* "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
* ""An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
* "[[Sorting Algorithm of Evil|If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.]]"
* [http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/winston_churchill.html And so many more.] You can get a lot of chapter titles from his quotes.
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* [[The Eternal Churchill]]
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* [[A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside An Enigma]]
* [[Written by the Winners]]
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* [[Anticlimax]]: His second tenure as Prime Minister, 1951-55.
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** A common criticism of Churchill is that he brought in London Metropolitan policemen to break up a strike at Tonypandy in Wales. While this is true, it ignores the fact that firstly Churchill did sympathise with the strikers, and secondly the rest of the government had wanted to send in ''[[Disproportionate Retribution|the army]]''.
** There's also the matter of him getting rather chummy with [[Benito Mussolini]] (mostly because Churchill admired the Italian dictator's anti-communist actions).
** The Bengali famine aside, Churchill was a passionate opponent of Indian independence and a true believer in Britain's right to rule over brown people around the world. Observe what he said about [http://www.hindu.com/mag/2005/06/05/stories/2005060500170300.htm India in general] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131019061104/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2005/06/19/stories/2005061900060300.htm Gandhi in particular]. Churchill's "wilderness years" when he was a powerless backbencher did not happen because he was against appeasing Hitler; he dropped out of leadership in the Conservative Party before Hitler came to power, because Churchill was opposed to Indian Home Rule.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Sometimes. Though not of course when he was [[I Did What I Had to Do|Doing What He Had To Do]].
* Had a ''[[Hot Mom]]''
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** Although, ironically enough, he was one of some to openly congratulate [[Benito Mussolini]] on his policies (mainly because Mussolini was no threat to British supremacy, and even despite that he showed remorse for doing that later on).
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Mrs. Everest, his childhood governess, who, as with most good Victorian households, handled most of the actual child-rearing.
* [[Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With]]: An [[Urban Legends|Urban Legend]] attributed to Churchill deals with this. Supposedly some bureaucrat wrote a memo in which he tortured his sentences greatly in order to avoid ending them with a preposition. Churchill is said to have scrawled the following [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|apocryphal quote]] on the memo:
{{quote|"That is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."}}
* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]: With the caveat that a streak of eccentricity is considered tolerable in this as long as it is done with style.
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{{examples|Churchill in fiction:}}
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Pretty much anything set in Britain during [[World War II]].▼
* Gets a [[Historical Villain Upgrade]] as [[Axis Powers Hetalia|England's]] boss/dictator in ''[[All He Ever Wanted]].''▼
== Film ==
* Makes a [[One-Scene Wonder|short appearance]] in ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''.▼
* In the film,''[[The King's Speech]]'', about the abdication of Edward VIII and the ascension of George VI to the throne, Churchill was played by [[Timothy Spall]].▼
* ''[[The Eagle Has Landed]]'' was a fictionalized account of a real Nazi plot to kidnap Churchill on his native soil.▼
* ''[[Churchill: The Hollywood Years]]'' is an satire of [[Hollywood History]] where Winston Churchill is actually an American commando attempting to stop Hitler from marring into the [[British Royal Family]]. The Churchill the world knows was just an actor called Ray Bubbles.▼
== Literature ==
* In ''[[Anno Dracula|The Bloody Red Baron]]'' by [[Kim Newman]], set during [[World War I]], Churchill makes a brief appearance as a member of the War Cabinet.
* The young war correspondent Churchill guest-stars in the [[Time Wars]] novel ''The Khyber Connection'', and is attacked by time-travelling assassins.
* Appears in ''[[Time Squad]]'', in which the main characters must go back in time and stop him from being a nudist.▼
* In the [[Time Travel]] / [[Alternate History]] novel ''The Proteus Operation'', people from a different United States go back in time to the 1930s to save the world from the Nazi Empire which defeated Britain. They need to find someone in politics to work with to save the UK. When the name Winston Churchill comes up they are about to dismiss him as all washed up and his career over. Then they think more about it and realize that he is untarnished with the defeatism and appeasement of so many others.
* In the Doctor Who [[Past Doctor Adventures|spin off novel]] ''Players'', the Sixth Doctor meets Churchill in two time periods—1899, when
* When the cast of ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'' camps out on the floor one night, Mr Grainger does an impression of Churchill giving one of his famous speeches.▼
* A playable leader in ''[[Civilization]] IV''. His traits are Charismatic/Protective.▼
▲* Makes a [[One-Scene Wonder|short appearance]] in ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''.
* Appeared in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E03 Victory of the Daleks|"Victory of the Daleks"]], the third episode of the 2010 series of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. {{spoiler|He and the Doctor are apparently old friends, and he keeps trying to swipe the TARDIS key from the Doctor.}} He also turns up in the season finale [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E13 The Wedding of River Song|"The Wedding of River Song"]] in an corrupted version of the universe where every time is happening at once, where {{spoiler|he intrinsically trusts the Doctor due to feeling echoes of their friendship in the proper timeline.}}▼
** Interestingly, in the latter, he is not prime minister; he is [[Anachronism Stew|Holy Roman Emperor]].▼
▲* In the Doctor Who [[Past Doctor Adventures|spin off novel]] ''Players'', the Sixth Doctor meets Churchill in two time periods—1899, when Churhill is a reporter during the Boer War; and in 1930's England, just prior to the abdication of Edward VIII. Churchill also meets the Second Doctor, but that's [[Timey-Wimey Ball|another story]].
* [[The Ghost|Frequently mentioned but rarely seen]] in the [[Timeline-191]] [[Alternate History]] series by [[Harry Turtledove]]. When Britain allies with the Confederacy and loses the [[First World War]], he becomes Prime Minister in a coalition with [[Those Wacky Nazis|Oswald Mosley's]] Blackshirts on a platform of revanchism. {{spoiler|He is forced to resign when London, Brighton and Norwich are destroyed by German atomic bombs and the British counterattack is defeated}}. Every time he is mentioned, characters reflect on his gift of the gab (EVERY TIME).
** You really shouldn't be surprised, this ''is'' Turtledove after all. Like how every time Sam Carsten comes back to the fore we have to be told how easily he burns, and how pale his skin is, and how he always has to wear zinc oxide cream while on deck duty, and how he's sensitive to the Sun, etc, etc. If he thinks something's worth saying, Turtledove says it over and over again.
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*** Probably not as it would have required a lot of blood and even he was tired of war by then. He would have liked to if he could snap his fingers and get rid of Stalin though.
*** I think the fact that military intervention in the USSR could only be considered and not acted upon is summed up by the name of the British plans for such an eventuality: Operation Unthinkable
▲* In the film,''[[The King's Speech]]'', about the abdication of Edward VIII and the ascension of George VI to the throne, Churchill was played by [[Timothy Spall]].
* Ken Follett's [[Doorstopper]] novel ''Fall of Giants'' features Churchill during [[World War I]].
== Live-Action TV ==
▲* When the cast of ''[[Are You Being Served?
▲* Appeared in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E03 Victory of the Daleks|"Victory of the Daleks"]], the third episode of the 2010 series of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. {{spoiler|He and the Doctor are apparently old friends, and he keeps trying to swipe the TARDIS key from the Doctor.}} He also turns up in the season finale [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E13 The Wedding of River Song|"The Wedding of River Song"]] in an corrupted version of the universe where every time is happening at once, where {{spoiler|he intrinsically trusts the Doctor due to feeling echoes of their friendship in the proper timeline.}}
▲** Interestingly, in the latter, he is not prime minister; he is [[Anachronism Stew|Holy Roman Emperor]].
* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', after Leslie had to pull down her pants on TV to prove her innocence in sex scandal, she says this in a [[Confession Cam]]:
{{quote|''"It's gotten a lot harder to work in government. You think Winston Churchill ever had to pull his pants down and show his butt? No. But would he have? Yes. Now ''could'' he have? Well, maybe not towards the end of his life. But he would have. Because he loved his job."''}}
▲* [[The Eagle Has Landed]] was a fictionalized account of a real Nazi plot to kidnap Churchill on his native soil.
== Music ==
* [[William Shakespeare|Will]] becomes Churchill's speech writer in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''.▼
* "[[
* ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' gives him a [[Historical Villain Upgrade]], in which he was a member of [[The Knights Templar]] and actually helped ''masterminded'' World War II along with FDR and Hitler.▼
* The [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] series imply that he was a son of the Big Three; Hades, Poseidon or Zeus. Its Wiki reveals that he is the son of Poseidon▼
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Gets a [[Historical Villain Upgrade]] as [[Axis Powers Hetalia|England's]] boss/dictator in ''[[All He Ever Wanted]].''
▲* "[[Suppers Ready|There's Winston Churchill dressed in drag, he used to be a British flag]]. [[Genesis|Plastic bag]], [[Rhyming with Itself|What a drag]]".
▲* ''Churchill: The Hollywood Years'' is an satire of [[Hollywood History]] where Winston Churchill is actually an American commando attempting to stop Hitler from marring into the [[British Royal Family]]. The Churchill the world knows was just an actor called Ray Bubbles.
* A political cartoon on the 7/7 attacks showed [[Tony Blair]] darting [[Superman|into a phone booth]] ... and '''flying''' out as Churchill (cigar in mouth) with the word "Resolve" across the chest of his [[Superheroes Wear Tights|Spandex suit]].
== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' gives him a [[Historical Villain Upgrade]], in which he was a member of [[The Knights Templar]] and actually helped ''masterminded'' World War II along with FDR and Hitler.
== Web Comics ==
▲* [[William Shakespeare|Will]] becomes Churchill's speech writer in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''.
== Western Animation ==
▲* Appears in ''[[Time Squad]]'', in which the main characters must go back in time and stop him from being a nudist.
▲* The ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' series imply that he was a son of the Big Three; Hades, Poseidon or Zeus. Its Wiki reveals that he is the son of Poseidon
== Multimedia ==
▲* Pretty much anything set in Britain during [[World War II]].
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