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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}}
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Switched political parties twice in his very long career (Conservative to Liberal, then back again). A very much beloved British Prime Minister, he is famous for his [[Deadpan Snarker|constant wit]] (e.g. Bessie Braddock MP: "You, sir, are drunk!" Churchill: "And you are ugly. Tomorrow morning, madam, I shall be sober."), his cigar-smoking (his scowl in the famous portrait, shown above, is because the photographer took his cigar away) and the Victory salute ("the bird" inverted, although ''he'' didn't invert it.)
Winning a world war (and funding the invention of the [[Tank Goodness|tank]]) will get a lot of people to forget your less popular policies, and some were very unpopular. He resigned from the War Cabinet in [[World War One]] after the failure of Gallipoli and his opposition to Indian autonomy played a large part in his isolation in the 1930s. Furthermore, [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|his second term as Prime Minister is generally regarded a lot less favourably than his first; the general rule is that he's considered a fine wartime leader, but not very suited to peacetime.]] In 1943, while PM, he did nothing to solve a [[wikipedia:Bengal famine of 1943|famine in Bengal]], which eventually killed 4 million
[[Officer and a Gentleman|He'd been in the army before going into politics]] and was also a [[Intrepid Reporter|war correspondent]]. As well as his Nobel Prize-winning book on the [[Second World War]] (not the most reliable source, but an invaluable memoir), he wrote [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a history of the English-speaking peoples]] and a largely forgotten political thriller called ''Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania''.
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* 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
* [[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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