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{{quote|'''Eddard Stark:''' My lord, what you're proposing is treason!
'''Littlefinger:''' Only if we lose.|''[[Game of Thrones]]''}}
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** In the ''Taligoian Ballad'', his distant descendant Ramiro Alva was killed by Alan Oakdell for regicide and betraying the Cabitela City to the Maragonian Bastard. 400 years later, the last will of the "murdered" king was found and revealed that the king himself ordered Ramiro to give up the city.
* Subverted...kind of...in ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'':
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::Most people will take any excuse they can get to have had a glorious victory, but meh...this is the Discworld, after all. And the quote is from a tortoise.
** Another Discworld example, from ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', as Susan tells a bedtime story:
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* A couple examples from [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' universe where victors wrote the original history of a colony world:
** In ''A Gift From Earth'', the official histories say that the social stratification of Plateau was initially agreed upon by the crew and colonists because the crew had done the work and taken the risks. {{spoiler|In fact, the original crew "convinced" the original colonists at gunpoint.}}
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* In ''[[The Egyptian]]'' Sinuhe muses that due to Horemheb's rewriting of history no one will ever remember the three Pharaohs that preceeded him: Ay, Tutankhamon and Achenaton. Horemheb was, obviously, less than successfull.
* Addressed but averted in [[Timothy Zahn]]'s ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Vision Of The Future]]'':
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'''Jorj Car'das:''' History is also written by the bystanders... peoples who had no park or stake in what happened. Would you accuse them ''all'' of lying? }}
* ''The Sundering'' reimagines ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' with an aversion of this trope.
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** ''Legacy Of Kain: Defiance'' This is what Raziel says upon finding out {{spoiler|what the Hylden have to say about their war with the Ancients}}.
** In ''Blood Omen 2'', Kain combines this with [[In Their Own Image]];
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* This point is made by {{spoiler|Captain Price}} [[Meaningful Echo|and]] General Shepherd in ''[[Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare 2]].'' One of them is very much counting on it.
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* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' posits that all of history is deliberately distorted by [[The Knights Templar]] to strengthen their position, cover up their existence, and vilify the Assassins. This [[Hand Wave]] permits the dev team to stuff the series with exquisite research while still taking creative license with history when necessary for the sake of the story.
* Invoked in the ''[[Thief]]'' series, as the [[Ancient Tradition|Keepers]]' motto is "[[Propaganda Machine|Propaganda]] is written by the winners. History is written by the observer."
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* In European history it is quite common for histories of a large war to come from everyone concerned. That is because despite all of Europe's wars it is rare that a major state is actually eliminated. Usually they just hold a [[Peace Conference]], exchange provinces and then get back to plotting their next evil deeds.
* Invoked by [[Winston Churchill]], who is also the [[Trope Namer]]
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