History Main / BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy

* ''NewVindicators'' features an immortal Isaac Newton as a recurring character.

** One of the novels claimed that Music/ElvisPresley was an immortal and had to 'die' because he got too famous-which would explain the sightings over the years.

* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' is all about secret historical weirdness, {{Hand Wave}}d by history becoming "unstable" as it "ages". This apparently leads to stuff like Ludwig van Beethoven becoming a professional wrestler, Eli Whitney inveting the flesh-eating robot instead of the cotton gin, and Albert Einstein giving up his work as a physicist to take on the identity of a boisterous used-car salesman.
* The founder of GravityFalls was Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III, the 8th & 1/2 president of the USA, who was the most ridiculous president of the US that he was kicked out of office and erased from history his term was replaced by William Henry Harrison (the official 9th and thus why Trembley was "8th & 1/2), and the government made some waste shoveling village idiot the founder of Gravity Falls. Oh and Ben Franklin was a woman.
* ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' reveals astronauts never landed on the moon, they just thought they did. The KND hacked the transmission and sent them to a fake moon so the adults wouldn't find out about their Moonbase. Also, according to a tie-in comic, the Great Wall of China was built to be the world's biggest water slide.

* In ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' Creator/AmbroseBierce's mysterious disappearance is explained as him having been turned into a vampire, now allied with the Tepes clan. [[spoiler:Princess Anastasia Romanova was rescued by the Tepes clan and turned, and [[RasputinTheMadMonk Grigori Rasputin]] was an alias of the vampire lord Ivanovic.]]

* In ''Film/PacificRim'', dinosaurs were the Kaijus' first attempt at taking Earth.

* In ''AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'', Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is found alive and trapped in an extremely aged shell of a body, kept alive by magic. An optional side-quest allows you to rescue him, and is required to be done for the 'good ending'. Johann Weyer is a character that's mentioned and heard, but never met in person, he's implied to have been a pupil of Agrippa.

* In ''Series/Gilligan'sIsland'' there is a "James Bond" dream-sequence spoof episode that does this almost literally. Gilligan (as Agent 014) explains to his boss (the Skipper) that the greatest secret agent ever was...Beethoven. Skipper: "I didn't know Beethoven was a secret agent!" Gilligan: "See how good he was?"

** Houdini also figured prominently in a DC {{Elseworlds}} special, "{{Batman}}: The Devil's Workshop", where a 1920s Batman teamed up with Houdini to fight vampires. Other Elseworlds books had historical appearances; "Dark Allegiences"(1930s) featured a plot [[spoiler: to assassinate both Hitler and Roosevelt, and install a fascist leader in the White House, who would ally the US with the Axis during WWII]], while "Detective 27" also featured FDR and Babe Ruth(talk about your [[IncrediblyLamePun Bat-Man!]])

* ''LightNovel/{{Haiyore Nyarko San}}'' has the various Lovecraftian abominations exist as alien species. [[HPLovecraft HPLovecraft]] wrote his stories based on what a Nyarlahotepian friend of his told him.

* The AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio ''The Kingmaker'' paints Creator/WilliamShakespeare in rather a different light, revealing that he was, later in life, actually Richard III. (He'd traveled back in time to goad the pragmatic and unpleasant-but-not-actually-villainous Richard into following the version of history outlined in his play, and ended up victim of a case of mistaken identity at Bosworth thanks to a broken arm and wounded leg. The Doctor sent the real Richard back to Stratford with some play outlines.)\\
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Richard, for his part, had many experiences with aliens, having been visited regularly since his youth by time-tourists, who routinely pestered him about whether or not he was going to kill his nephews, and ran away if he mentioned doctors. And the Princes in the Tower? Well, they were actually girls, and following his relocation, Richard/Shakespeare raised them as his daughters.

* In ''Film/{{The Raven|2012}}'', Creator/EdgarAllanPoe is recruited by the police to solve a series of murders based on his stories.

* In the ''WayneAndShuster'' spoof "The Tail-light Zone", Johnny Wayne plays a man who has secretly been prolonging his youth for centuries. When told he knows more about the past than the scientist who found the Dead Sea Scrolls, he bursts out laughing. When asked why, he says, "I'm the one who lost them!"

* Creator/OrsonScottCard's Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker series has a subtle variant, since it takes place in an AlternateHistory of 19th century America where folk magic and supernatural "knacks" are accepted parts of everyday life. Among other tidbits, NapoleonBonaparte's military career is made possible because he has a knack that makes people trust and obey him, Creator/WilliamBlake becomes a great poet because he has a knack for prophetic visions, and Tenskwatawa becomes a revered Shawnee leader because he's a genuinely powerful prophet and Earth wizard.

* Marvel's 2010 ''{{SHIELD}}'' series gives us LeonardoDaVinci: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. In fact, ''all'' [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist polymath geniuses]], from Zhang Heng to Galileo to Isaac Newton, were agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Which was founded by Imhotep.

* In ''[[ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose Tarot Witch Of TheBlack Rose]]'' '''every''' President we've had, including our [[BarackObama current one]] was an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/IronMan. Turns out it was [[GeorgeWashington Washington's]] ''PoweredArmor'' that was wood, not his teeth.

In ''[[ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose Tarot Witch Of TheBlack Rose]]'' '''every''' President we've had, including our [[BarackObama current one]] was an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/IronMan. Turns out it was [[GeorgeWashington Washington's]] ''PoweredArmor'' that was wood, not his teeth.

* In Kim Newman's ''Bad Dreams'' Joe [=McCarthy]], Roy Cohn and Ayn Rand are all pawns of a vampire.

* The film ''[[BubbaHoTep Bubba Ho-Tep]]'' posits that Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy (who has been turned into an African-American to disguise his identity) are secretly still alive in a Texas retirement home. Fighting mummies.

* There's a comic lying around out there (it might even still be ongoing) about Jesus getting fed up with God's "let's watch and see what happens" attitude towards all this suffering going on down on earth, so he kick-starts the Second Coming a little early so that he can go out in the middle of WorldWarII and fuck up some Nazi shit. Ernest Hemingway comes along to give him a hand, and he needs it, because Hitler is a ''werewolf''. [[WebComic/AxeCop Ethan Nicolle]] drew it, but damned if I can remember the title.
** [[http://www.jesuschriststory.com/?p=35 Jesus Christ: in the name of the gun.]] Volume 2 has started.

* In ''[[{{Fanfic/Q-Basic Gorillas}} Q-Basic Gorillas: Beneath the Golden Dome]]'', both Muhammad and Solomon knew about the Ethermangs. The Dome on the Rock was built to hide the underground tomb in which they were being kept as [[SealedEvilInACan prisoners]].