2,186
edits
World War I: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 120:
* [[Feuding Families]]: Since virtually all the European monarchies were by now related, the whole war was technically this. Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas II, second cousins, called one another [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Willy-Nicky_Telegrams "Willy" and "Nicky"] before things went too far downhill for diplomacy. Both were first cousins of King George V, then current monarch of England, as was Nicholas' wife Alexandra, whose grandmother was Queen Victoria.
** To drive this home, [http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/254/2/f/in_coburg_by_alixofhesse-d49klk6.png this picture] shows [[Queen Victoria]] at Coburg inn 1894 with her some of her extended family. In that picture you have two future British Kings, as well as the last Kaiser (of Germany) and the last Czarina (of Russia), and those are just children and grandchildren.
* [[Flanderization]]: World War I more often than not [[Hollywood History|tends to be associated with trench warfare and other harrowing scenes from the Western Front]], sidelining the other aspects of the conflict.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
{{quote|"War will come over some damn thing in the Balkans." - Germany's Chancellor [[Otto von Bismarck]], about two decades before the war
Line 255 ⟶ 256:
* Inn ''[[Code Geass]]'', a picture of C.C. can be seen running around a WWI battlefield.
* The shoujo ''[[Candy Candy]]'' is set before and during this time period.
* Part of the final episodes of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|first ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' adaptation]] has Edward stumbling {{spoiler|in London, circa 1917}}.
Line 370 ⟶ 372:
* The second season of ''[[Downton Abbey]]'' is set during the war.
* ''Birdsong'' An adaptation of the book by Sebastian Faulks.
* Part of [[Downton Abbey]] is set in the backdrop of the war, along with the various social upheavals this causes.
Line 406 ⟶ 409:
== [[Video Games]] ==
'''Special note :''' One weird thing about the representation of WWI in games is that... well, [[The Greatest History Never Told|there aren't many WWI titles in general]], which is particularly strange when compared with the more numerous representations in other media. Some gamers and game critics blame this on the somewhat more static nature of the war or the ignorance of developers and most gamers, [[Did Not Do the Research|who often assume]] that "[[Hollywood History|WWI = only muddy and unmoving
* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' has a chapter that takes place in a church-turned-hospital in 1916 France. The premise of the chapter is that the Ancients and Pious Augustus instigated the war so the amount of people who died in the war would inevitably speed up the unleashing of the respective ancient (and keep the artifact guardian in check, apparently consuming far more than can be provided).
* [[RTS]] [[wikipedia:Historyline|History line: 1914-1918]] is one of the few dedicated [[World War One]] games.
| |||