History Creator / LeonardoDaVinci

Leo died in 1519. He ''probably'' was not an [[Franchise/StarTrek immortal]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} alien]]... or [[Series/DoctorWho friends with a Time Lord]]... or [[Literature/TheDaVinciCode a sacred feminine worshiping cryptologist]]... or an [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII ally of an order of assassins]]. And he was ''definitely'' not a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja turtle]]. Or an ancestor of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]]. And we're decently sure he never [[Series/DavincisDemons traveled to South America in search of a magical book of knowledge.]]

Leo died in 1519. He ''probably'' was not an [[Franchise/StarTrek immortal]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} alien]]... or [[Series/DoctorWho friends with a Time Lord]]... or [[TheDaVinciCode a sacred feminine worshiping cryptologist]]... or an [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII ally of an order of assassins]]. And he was ''definitely'' not a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja turtle]]. Or an ancestor of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]]. And we're decently sure he never [[Series/DavincisDemons traveled to South America in search of a magical book of knowledge.]]

* The title characters ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and their female accomplice]]) of ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' visit DaVinci do have him do some repairs on their time machine, while also inadvertently inspiring the MonaLisaSmile by making Leonardo's disgruntled model laugh with their antics.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Some works portray him/his expy this way.

* The titular character in ''Series/DoctorWho'' visits him in the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath "City of Death"]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels by Terry Pratchett, a recurring character is the befuddled genius inventor Leonard of Quirm is an obvious parody him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Stewie's evil(er) brother Bertram traveled through time to murder Stewie's ancestor (who turned out to be Leonardo da Vinci) in a ''[[Franchise/TheTerminator Terminator]]''-style scheme. Unbeknownst to him, due to a TimeyWimeyBall Stewie was accidentally responsible for the Big Bang and, thus, creating the universe, and thus his actions ended up destroying everything, except for Brian and Stewie who managed to survive by stepping outside of normal time and space. When they go back to stop him, they try to reason with him by telling him that he will destroy everything if he does this - Bertram thinks for a second, then declares "WORTH IT!" and tries to kill Leonardo anyway. [[spoiler:He succeeds, but Stewie creates a StableTimeLoop by taking his place]].

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Also note that people called him Leonardo (not da Vinci) back then. Da Vinci means "of Vinci", so it would be somewhat like saying "What would [[UsefulNotes/JesusChrist Of Nazareth]] do?"

* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': Battled alongside Raphael, Donatello and Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
* Hollywood actor Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was named after him.
* ''Series/{{Leonardo}}'' is named after him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Stewie's evil(er) brother Bertram traveled through time to murder Stewie's ancestor (who turned out to be Creator/LeonardoDaVinci) in a ''[[Franchise/TheTerminator Terminator]]''-style scheme. Unbeknownst to him, due to a TimeyWimeyBall Stewie was accidentally responsible for the Big Bang and, thus, creating the universe, and thus his actions ended up destroying everything, except Brian and Stewie who managed to survive by stepping outside of normal time and space. When they go back to stop him, they try to reason with him by telling him that he will destroy everything if he does this - Bertram thinks for a second, then declares "WORTH IT!" and tries to kill Leonardo anyway. [[spoiler: He succeeds, but Stewie creates a StableTimeLoop by taking his place]].
* Doctor Who visits him in the episode ''City of Death''
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels by Terry Pratchett, a recurring character is the befuddled genius inventor Leonard of Quirm (an obvious parody of real-world Renaissance Italian inventor and painter Leonardo da Vinci).
* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'', a Franco-Belgian comic clearly inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.

* ''DaVincisDemons'' is a fictionalized account of Leonardo's early life, with the addition of mystical elements.

* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'', a Franco-Belgian comic clearly inspired on Leonardo da Vinci.

!! Shout-outs in popular culture:

!! Da Vinci's life and work provide examples of:
* TheAce: As the ultimate RenaissanceMan, this goes without saying.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Leonardo's sexuality is still a matter of dispute. He was arrested for sodomy and once wrote: "The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions." Even the women in his paintings have a certain androgynous style over them and he drew a lot of idealized male bodies, including his Vitruvian man.
* BadassBeard: People remember him mostly as a bearded man in old age, because most portraits depict him that way. It also seems to play in with the notion of the bearded wise man.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Leonardo did a lot of scientific work that was centuries ahead of his time. He was dissecting corpses to study human anatomy before Andreas Vesalius did it. He wrote about inventions such as tanks, flying machines, helicopters, submarines,... that would only become fully developed in the 19th and 20th century.
* ForeignersWriteBackwards: In his case literally. Leonardo wrote all his scientific findings down in his local dialect and backwards! Some say he did this to prevent others from reading it. Others say it was a result of his dyslexia.
* GadgeteerGenius: Made many drawings for inventions he never actually made or tried out.
* HeroicBastard: Which is why he didn't have a surname.
* LIsForDyslexia: Believed to have suffered from it.
* MonaLisaSmile: TropeNamer. The way he painted the mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa has intrigued countless people over the centuries.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: The areas of his interest include: aeronautics, anatomy, astronomy, botany, civil engineering, chemistry, geology, geometry, hydrodynamics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics, pyrotechnics and zoology.
* RenaissanceMan: The TropeCodifier.
* TheRival: Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti, though only in the field of art. In science he had no real rivals.
* SmallReferencePools:
** Usually the first name people think of when they name a Renaissance artist. Ironically Leonardo didn't finish that many of his paintings and sculptures and spent more time doing science.
** Similarly, the ''Mona Lisa'' is our standard idea of ''a'' painting or a valuable painting for that matter. Countless stories about art theft will have a thief break in the Louvre and try to steal the Mona Lisa.

* MainstreamObscurity: Everybody knows he was a versatile genius who painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. His other paintings are remembered far less well, save perhaps for the Vitruvian Man. And despite everybody knowing he was also a groundbreaking inventor and scientist most people would be able to name any of the stuff he invented, save perhaps for technically accurate anatomical drawings and wings to fly- which didn't work quite as smooth as film adaptations tend to show.

* UrbanLegend: It's popular belief that Leonardo actually ''hated'' how the Mona Lisa turned out, that he considered it a failure partway through which is why he never finished it (obvious in the background of the painting). However, as mentioned under SmallReferencePools, Leonardo didn't finish ''most'' of this paintings as his passion was science, and there has never been an actual reference towards his personal feelings on the Mona Lisa, positive, negative, or otherwise.

** Similarly, the ''Mona Lisa'' is our standard idea of ''a'' painting or a valuable painting for that matter. Countless stories about art theft will have a thief break in the Louvre and try to steal the Mona Lisa.

Leo died in 1519. He ''probably'' was not an [[Franchise/StarTrek immortal]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} alien]]... or [[Series/DoctorWho friends with a Time Lord]]... or [[TheDaVinciCode a sacred feminine worshiping cryptologist]]... or an [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII ally of an order of assassins]]. And he was ''definitely'' not a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja turtle]]. Or an ancestor of [[FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]]. And we're decently sure he never [[Series/DavincisDemons traveled to South America in search of a magical book of knowledge.]]

* BornInTheWrongCentury: Da Vinci did a lot of scientific work that was centuries ahead of his time. He was dissecting corpses to study human anatomy before Andreas Vesalius did it. He wrote about inventions such as tanks, flying machines, helicopters, submarines,... that would only become fully developed in the 19th and 20th century.
* ForeignersWriteBackwards: In his case literally. Da Vinci wrote all his scientific findings down in his local dialect and backwards! Some say he did this to prevent others from reading it. Others say it was a result of his dyslexia.

** Usually the first name people think of when they name a Renaissance artist. Ironically Da Vinci didn't finish that many of his paintings and sculptures and spent more time doing science.

* Leonardo of the TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles is of course named after him.

* WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory: Battled alongside Raphael, Donatello and Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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* TheRival: Creator/MichelangeloBuonarotti, though only in the field of art. In science he had no real rivals.

Also note that people called him Leonardo (not da Vinci) back then. Da Vinci means "of Vinci", so it would be somewhat like saying "What would [[{{Jesus}} Of Nazareth]] do?"

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Leo died in 1519. He ''probably'' was not an [[Franchise/StarTrek immortal]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} alien]]... or [[Series/DoctorWho friends with a Time Lord]]... or [[TheDaVinciCode a sacred feminine worshiping cryptologist]]... or an [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII ally of an order of assassins]]. And he was ''definitely'' not a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja turtle]]. Or an ancestor of [[FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]].