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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]]'':
{{quote| '''Shada:''' What do you mean by "true" [history]? What does anyone mean by "true"? We all know history is [[
'''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 (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' with an aversion of this trope.
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* ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' - In an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]], in the episode "Living Witness", the history was written from the perspective of the ''losers'' who were relegated to second class citizenry, and the winning faction was very annoyed at being portrayed as vicious, bloodthirsty tyrants who slaughtered innocents and made martyrs out of people that turned out to be pirates and raiders.
** Debatable, as there were some hints that the winning side really were that bad. Most of the martyrs were those who were gunned down after being convinced by Janeway to surrender.
* {{spoiler|Tom Zarek}} uses this theory to gloss over murdering {{spoiler|Laird and The Quorum}} on ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined
** Not that it mattered {{spoiler|since history was one of the many, many things that the Colonials decided to jettison upon reaching Earth.}}
* ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]''
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== Theatre ==
* The majority of Shakespeare's Histories (That is: ''[[King John (Theatre)|King John]]'', ''[[Richard II (Theatre)|Richard II]]'', ''[[Henry IV (Theatre)|Henry IV]]'', ''[[Henry V (Theatre)|Henry V]]'', ''[[Henry VI (Theatre)|Henry VI]]'', ''[[Richard III (Theatre)|Richard III]]'' and ''[[Henry VIII (Theatre)|Henry VIII]]'') feature this to a greater or lesser degree, seeing as how Shakespeare wrote histories for the winners, his 'sponsors'. The [
* The Wizard's song "Wonderful" in ''[[Wicked (Theatre)|Wicked]]'' is all about this. ("A man's called a traitor- or a liberator. A rich man's a thief- or philanthropist. Is one a crusader, or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.") Of course, he's used this to his advantage by wielding the [[Propaganda Machine]] against his political opponents.
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