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* ''WebVideo/EdgarAllanPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty'': As part of the series' overall AnachronismStew, multiple famous historical authors interact at the same party at Edgar Allan Poe's home during the 1800s, despite a number of them being either too young to be famous (George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott) or not yet alive (Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Ernest Hemingway, Agatha Christie) to have been there during Poe's lifetime. This is not explained or commented on by the series at all.
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* ''WebVideo/EdgarAllanPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty'': As part of the series' overall AnachronismStew, multiple famous historical authors interact at the same party at Edgar Allan Poe's home during the 1800s, despite a number of them being either too young to be famous (George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott) or not yet alive (Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Ernest Hemingway, Agatha Christie) to have been there during Poe's lifetime. This is not explained or commented on by the series at all.
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* In the WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries episode "Lost and Founded", the climax involves Aladdin, Abis Mal and other characters fighting each other while a rip in time causes them to gain an outfit and equipment from different time periods (Aladdin becomes a knight, Abis Mal gets futuristic armor with a RayGun and JetPack, etc.)
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* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' had these as Jack Spicer's army in a time travel episode: UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun, UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, most likely UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid or some other famous western villain, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Jack Spicer's first-grade teacher]]. (Don't be fooled, she's the worst of the bunch.)
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* The premise of ''Sharehouse Nile'' is reincarnated versions of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoniette, UsefulNotes/CheGuevara, UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, and Creator/PabloPicasso live together as roommates in modern-day Japan.
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* In the ''Series/LoisAndClark'' episode "That Old Gang of Mine", MadScientist Emil Hamilton creates [[CloningBlues clones]] of Al Capone, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde to demonstrate that evil is not [[VillainousLineage hereditary]]. It doesn't work out that way. (There was a comic book storyline at around the same time that may have been the inspiration, but it used fictional gangsters.)
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* ''Series/LoisAndClark'': In the ''Series/LoisAndClark'' episode "That Old Gang of Mine", MadScientist Emil Hamilton creates [[CloningBlues clones]] clones of Al Capone, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde to demonstrate that evil is not [[VillainousLineage hereditary]]. It doesn't work out that way. (There was a comic book storyline at around the same time that may have been the inspiration, but it used fictional gangsters.)
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* In ''[[http://dragonblond_04.tripod.com/fanfictions/MotherMayI.htm Mother, May I (Take Over The World)]]'' ({{MSTing}} [[http://cardcaptor_schlueter.tripod.com/Card_Captor_Science_Theater_3000-Episode_19.htm here]]), a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] FanFic, the world's most evil people -- among them UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, Hitler, [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]], and an increasingly bemused Martin Luther King, Jr. -- take over the world.
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* In ''[[http://dragonblond_04.tripod.com/fanfictions/MotherMayI.htm Mother, May I (Take Over The World)]]'' ({{MSTing}} [[http://cardcaptor_schlueter.tripod.com/Card_Captor_Science_Theater_3000-Episode_19.htm here]]), a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] FanFic, the world's most evil people -- among them UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, Hitler, [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]], and an increasingly bemused Martin Luther King, Jr. -- take over the world.
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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' has a bad guy bring wax figures of UsefulNotes/JesseJames, UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, and an old-timey executioner to life to fight Spider-Man.
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* Just like the Fate franchise, ''VideoGame/EiyuuSenkiTheWorldConquest'' features historical and legendary figures from all over the world ([[HistoricalGenderFlip all of whom are female]]) coexisting at the same time. [[spoiler:It was made that way by the design of the BigBad.]]
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* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' has a pair of eccentric high-schoolers travel through time collecting historical figures to help with their history report. Much hilarity ensues when they get back to the modern age.
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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and its prequel ''LightNovel/FateZero'' is pretty much the mythological version of this, although some (like Gilles de Rais and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat) were historical people.
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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and its prequel ''LightNovel/FateZero'' ''Literature/FateZero'' is pretty much the mythological version of this, although some (like Gilles de Rais and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat) were historical people.
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** "Meltdown" has the crew encounter a "wax-droid" museum planet, where the wax-droids have become self-aware, and the "Good" and "Bad" characters have gone to war. The "Bad" characters include UsefulNotes/AlCapone, UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, Hitler, Caligula, UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk, Richard the III, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking jazz musician]] [[TakeThat James Last]].
** In "Cured", the crew encounter a scientific base where Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, and Messalina have been recreated through cloning and cured of 'evil'. (Lab notes reveal that UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch proved resistant to the treatment.) However, it turns out the evildoers are [[spoiler:actually androids who were originally the medical staff of the base who have been reprogrammed to believe they are historical villains]].
** In "Cured", the crew encounter a scientific base where Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, and Messalina have been recreated through cloning and cured of 'evil'. (Lab notes reveal that UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch proved resistant to the treatment.) However, it turns out the evildoers are [[spoiler:actually androids who were originally the medical staff of the base who have been reprogrammed to believe they are historical villains]].
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** "Meltdown" "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVMeltdown Meltdown]]" has the crew encounter a "wax-droid" museum planet, where the wax-droids have become self-aware, and the "Good" and "Bad" characters have gone to war. The "Bad" characters include UsefulNotes/AlCapone, UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, Hitler, Caligula, UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk, Richard the III, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking jazz musician]] [[TakeThat James Last]].
** In"Cured", "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIICured Cured]]", the crew encounter a scientific base where Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, and Messalina have been recreated through cloning and cured of 'evil'. (Lab notes reveal that UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch proved resistant to the treatment.) However, it turns out the evildoers are [[spoiler:actually androids who were originally the medical staff of the base who have been reprogrammed to believe they are historical villains]].
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** There's an odd InUniverse example when the Excalbians create duplicates of various criminals who are "historical monsters" from the perspective of the ''Enterprise'' crew, with Genghis Khan the only real-world historical "villain," and set them against a group of Historical Heroes, of whom the only real-world counterpart is Abe Lincoln.
** One episode offers an [[InvertedTrope Inversion]] in which another bunch of aliens create psychic images of the Earps and Doc Holliday, popularly remembered as the ''heroes'' of the OK Corral gunfight, and put Kirk and his landing party in the roles of the "villainous" Clantons and [=McLowrys=].
** One episode offers an [[InvertedTrope Inversion]] in which another bunch of aliens create psychic images of the Earps and Doc Holliday, popularly remembered as the ''heroes'' of the OK Corral gunfight, and put Kirk and his landing party in the roles of the "villainous" Clantons and [=McLowrys=].
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** There's "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E6SpectreOfTheGun Spectre of the Gun]]" offers an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion, as the Melkotians create psychic images of the Earps and Doc Holliday, popularly remembered as the ''heroes'' of the OK Corral gunfight, and put Kirk and his landing party in the roles of the "villainous" Clantons and [=McLowrys=].
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain The Savage Curtain]]" has an odd InUniverse example when the Excalbians create duplicates of various criminals who are "historical monsters" from the perspective of the ''Enterprise'' crew, with Genghis Khan the only real-world historical"villain," "villain", and set them against a group of Historical Heroes, of whom the only real-world counterpart is Abe Lincoln.
** One episode offers an [[InvertedTrope Inversion]] in which another bunch of aliens create psychic images of the Earps and Doc Holliday, popularly remembered as the ''heroes'' of the OK Corral gunfight, and put Kirk and his landing party in the roles of the "villainous" Clantons and [=McLowrys=].Lincoln.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain The Savage Curtain]]" has an odd InUniverse example when the Excalbians create duplicates of various criminals who are "historical monsters" from the perspective of the ''Enterprise'' crew, with Genghis Khan the only real-world historical
** One episode offers an [[InvertedTrope Inversion]] in which another bunch of aliens create psychic images of the Earps and Doc Holliday, popularly remembered as the ''heroes'' of the OK Corral gunfight, and put Kirk and his landing party in the roles of the "villainous" Clantons and [=McLowrys=].
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* ''Fanfic/CivilizationVPeaceWalker'' gets into this, setting Snake circa ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' against various historical leaders, from UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat to UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga to UsefulNotes/ShakaZulu.
* This is the feel of the later ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' games, which gives the historical figures leading the civs more distinct personalities. Want to see what happens when you dump UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi, [[UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} Caesar Augustus]], UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, and UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun on the same continent? Did we mention that [[BewareTheNiceOnes Gandhi]] has [[NukeEm nukes]]?
* The Nexus in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' does this, pretty much literally, but with simulacra of characters from Blizzard's various [=IPs=]. Their fighting skills, personalities and such are translated into the Nexus albeit somewhat imperfectly. They have been chosen to fight these battles on behalf of the shadowy rulers of the Nexus: such as the Grave Keeper and the Lady of Thorns. You and your friends can assemble your QuirkyMinibossSquad, to fight with an opponent's similar squad. To make your squad extra quirky, you can summon alternate-universe versions of some characters: which may have very different looks and themed powers, or even different voices. The alternate universes tend to have wacky themes like Professional Wrestling, Christmas, or Robots: meaning even the characters from more GrimDark settings can get silly skins. Other times a character will get a new skin because of AscendedFanon: like Jaina's Dreadlord skin.
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* The Nexus in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' does this, pretty much literally, but with simulacra of characters from Blizzard's various [=IPs=]. Their fighting skills, personalities and such are translated into the Nexus albeit somewhat imperfectly. They have been chosen to fight these battles on behalf of the shadowy rulers of the Nexus: such as the Grave Keeper and the Lady of Thorns. You and your friends can assemble your QuirkyMinibossSquad, to fight with an opponent's similar squad. To make your squad extra quirky, you can summon alternate-universe versions of some characters: which may have very different looks and themed powers, or even different voices. The alternate universes tend to have wacky themes like Professional Wrestling, Christmas, or Robots: meaning even the characters from more GrimDark settings can get silly skins. Other times a character will get a new skin because of AscendedFanon: like Jaina's Dreadlord skin.
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MonsterMash is fun and all, but it's just a little too cheesy. Hey, we've got all these colorful historical figures, why not throw them all together, even if they never interacted with each other in real life?
This may involve HistoricalHeroUpgrade or HistoricalVillainUpgrade. The historical figures don't have to be on Earth; they just have to be historical, though this can also extend to in-universe historical figures. Justified in different ways: They could be simulacra, clones, or magically reanimated. Or brought forward in time. Related to JuryOfTheDamned and StupidJetpackHitler. Could be the result of [[HistoricalDomainSuperperson superpowered historical figures teaming up]].
See also ArmyOfTheAges, for fighting forces composed of warriors from different eras who aren't famous figures.
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* ''Manga/{{Drifters}}'' has this on [[GreyAndGrayMorality both sides]] in a [[CrapsackWorld crapsack fantasy world]] - the [[SociopathicHero good]] guys summoned there at the verge of death while the [[OmnicidalManiac bad]] guys were those who historically died tragically.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and its prequel ''LightNovel/FateZero'' is pretty much the mythological version of this, although some (like Gilles de Rais and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat) were historical people.
** With some exceptions, the heroes summoned were all real people at some point. Their appearance and personality may change based on perceptions, however.
* ''Manga/{{Nobunagun}}'' has the E-Genes, the essence of famous figures ranging from Jack the Ripper to Oda Nobunaga to Mahatma Gandhi extracted at the point of death. Certain people in the present day have inherited these E-Genes and are able to draw out powers based on them (guns for Nobunaga, an axe for Geronimo, gravity control for Isaac Newton, etc.), while also communing with their spirit from time to time.
* ''Anime/ReadOrDie'': The I-Jin are all made up of famous figures from the past, most notably Music/LudwigVanBeethoven. They're cloned.
* ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'''s concept.
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* In ''All-Select Comics'' #7, the sorcerer Terdu summons a group of villains from the past, whom he dubs the 'Men of Evil', to battle ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and Bucky. The Men of Evil were Captain Kidd, UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, Frank and UsefulNotes/JesseJames, Literature/{{Bluebeard}}, Gyp-the-Blood, and three gangsters (names unrevealed) who had died in the electric chair decades earlier.
* In ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'' #38, the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica investigate Gotham City murders claimed to be performed by historical villains. Though they turn out to be the disguises of an insane wax museum guard, he succeeds in killing every member in the issue except ComicBook/WonderWoman, who has to use the purple ray to bring them back to life. The villains are UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, Goliath, Captain Kidd, Cesare Borgia, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun.
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': One iteration of the Lethal Legion villain team, enemies of the Avengers, was composed of history's greatest murderers, given superpowers by hell. They were [[Characters/TheBorgias Lucrezia Borgia]], UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, and [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Heinrich Himmler]]. Lucrezia was codenamed "Cyana", granted [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue skin]], AbsurdlySharpClaws coated with [[PoisonousPerson poison]], and a literal KissOfDeath. Lizzie was codenamed "Axe of Violence", granted light red skin, [[ArtificialLimbs her right hand was replaced by a double-headed axe]], and she carried two other double-headed axes used as throwing weapons. Josef was codenamed "Coldsteel", becoming a ChromeChampion with a body made of living steel, granting him SuperStrength and SuperToughness. Heinrich was codenamed "Zyklon", granted a PoweredArmor which allowed him to [[JetPack fly]]. He released DeadlyGas from his mask and gauntlets.
* In "The Ghost Robbers of the Wax Museum!!" in ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'' #6, Knight Watchman's adversary and MasterOfDisguise Mr. Mask commits a series of robberies while adopting the identities of some of history's greatest villains: Jesse James, Blackbeard, Attila the Hun, Adolf Hitler, and Jack the Ripper.
* There is a comic by the Finnish comic artist Petri Hiltunen where a man brings a supply of weaponry to a group of outlaws who turn out to be the immortal revenants of various historical villains. Their leader plans to kill the man instead of paying, but the man tells him that's not going to work because he is Judas Iscariot, the man who betrayed Jesus, and thus also immortal. As the man is leaving, one of the revenants runs up to his leader to inform him that the man was lying. How does he know? [[ConfrontingYourImposter Because]] ''[[ConfrontingYourImposter he]]'' [[ConfrontingYourImposter is Judas Iscariot]].
* One time ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' faced a crime wave committed by famous criminals out of history and literature. The ultimate culprit turned out to be the manager of a museum full of animatronics - the museum was going under, so he sent out the exhibits of criminals to bring in money for him. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to reprogram them to commit crimes other than what they historically did (A graverobber would only rob graves, etc), so his crimes weren't paying even before Dredd caught up with him.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': One comic has the JSA fighting what appears to be a band of villains out of history: UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, Goliath, Captain Kidd, Cesare Borgia, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun. It turns out to be one guy (a guard at a wax museum) masquerading as all these figures. However he succeeds in killing the entire male membership of the Society in that issue. [[ComicBookDeath They get better]].
* Kid Eternity had could summon heroes from history as his superpower, along with invisibility. There was also his evil counterpart, Master Man, who could summon villains from history.
** In a crossover with ''[[{{ComicBook/Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'', Dr. Sivana revived several villains to oppose them. It didn't work out--Benedict Arnold betrayed him, as not even the British liked him for his treachery.
* In ''ComicBook/KnightAndSquire'' #3, UsefulNotes/RichardIII is resurrected and he proceeds to resurrect England's other 'bad' kings: [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy William II]], [[UsefulNotes/KingJohnOfEngland John]], [[UsefulNotes/EdwardTheFirst Edward I]], and UsefulNotes/CharlesI. The monarchs are granted genetically enhanced superpowers and each leads a criminal army to take over a different part of the UK.
* ''Leading Comics'' #3 has the ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory working against Dr Doome (not Victor) who has used a time machine to summon up the Time Tyrants, UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': In ''Adventure Comics'' #314, a villain called Alaktor recruits history's three greatest villains (UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, and ... [[UsefulNotes/JohnDillinger John]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Dillinger]]) to take on the Legion. Apparently Alaktor considers bank robbery to be equal to mass genocide.
* This was the gimmick of Creator/MarvelComics villain Immortus. He would summon someone from out of the time stream (usually someone who could work as a suitable contrast to whomever he was fighting at the time) to act as his champions. The FridgeLogic that pops up when he summons Hercules, who's got an ongoing career as a superhero in modern times, got addressed by claiming they aren't ''really'' the historical characters, just duplicates. Also he's just a possible future version of Kang the Conqueror using advanced technology.
* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'':
** Dracula keeps the heads of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, Saladin and a future Martian conqueror to plan his strategies.
** The elite vampires (people who committed great atrocities in life) include UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory (Dracula's wife), UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun, and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre. [[spoiler:If you're wondering why UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler isn't there, he's a kind of superweapon: when killed, all his victims AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
** Ghouls did evil while persuading themselves they did good. Their ranks include Edgar J. Hoover and Oppenheimer.
** The Archeologists did evil ForScience, it's implied one of them was Josef Mengele.
* The ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory once fought a villain with a time machine who brought forward UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun, and UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte to serve as commanders in his army of conquest.
* ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}'': Captain Marvel villain Ibac could be considered a type of this trope. Lucifer gave a crook the ability to turn into Ibac, with the powers of Ivan the Terrible, Borgia, UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun and UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}. (Note that Ibac's name, like Shazam's, is an acronym of those four's first initials.) This doesn't explain how he gains enormous strength and durability, considering that logically he should only be about as strong as several men.
* Inverted in ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}''; as a boy, Supreme was a member of the League of Infinity, which is comprised of heroes from history (some folkloric, some real, some made up by the comic). Uh, and they're all teenagers. Its eclectic membership includes Kid Achilles, a young Wild Bill Hickok, famed strategist Chu-Ko Liang, Mata Hari, mad scientist Wilhelm Reich, Aladdin, mutant caveman Giganthro, Witch Wench, the Germanic swordsman Siegfried, and team leader Zayla "Future Girl" Zarn. Their opposite number the League of Infamy presumably play this straight, but never make a full appearance.
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* In ''[[http://dragonblond_04.tripod.com/fanfictions/MotherMayI.htm Mother, May I (Take Over The World)]]'' ({{MSTing}} [[http://cardcaptor_schlueter.tripod.com/Card_Captor_Science_Theater_3000-Episode_19.htm here]]), a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] FanFic, the world's most evil people -- among them UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, Hitler, [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]], and an increasingly bemused Martin Luther King, Jr. -- take over the world.
* ''Fanfic/XCOMResurrection'' has the [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown XCOM Project]] bringing back historical warriors in order to fight aliens. The first squad consists of UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, UsefulNotes/SimoHayha, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, and [[Literature/RagnarLodbrokAndHisSons Ragnar]] [[Series/{{Vikings}} Lothbrok]]. They also get UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla to head up the science department.
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* A TomeOfEldritchLore brings Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Albert Fish, the Zodiac Killer, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper (or, more aptly, ''Jill'' the Ripper) back to life in ''Film/TheButchers''.
* In ''Film/DeadlyAdvice'', Jodie is advised by a collection of Britain's most notorious murderers: Major Herbert Armstrong, Kate Webster, Dr. Crippen, George Joseph Smith, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
* The second ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' movie features animated statues of UsefulNotes/IvanTheTerrible, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, and UsefulNotes/AlCapone as henchman to the {{Big Bad}}, an Egyptian King. [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] and [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] tried to join in as well, but are rejected (Vader because of aesthetic and Oscar because he isn't actually evil).
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* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' has a much larger number in the Inferno section, some known to us only through the poem. Oddly, it also includes some scattered mythological villains, like Antaeus.
* ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'' features an invasion from TheLegionsOfHell in a SpaceOpera setting... A disproportionatly large portion of whom hail from the 20th century, potentially leading to massive {{Narm}} on the reader's part. There were enough people from other eras (past and future) so that (apart from the [[RuleOfFunny multiple Elvises]]) it could plausibly just be a statistical blip. And one of them's [[UsefulNotes/AlCapone Al freakin' Capone]].
* ''Literature/TheOdyssey'': Odysseus goes to the Underworld and sees mythological villains being punished for their crimes, like the trickster Sisyphus, the husband-murdering daughters of Danaë, and the cannibalistic Tantalus.
* ''Return to Groosham Grange'' has the waxworks of Hitler, a French Revolutionary and others brought to life from Madame Tussaud.
* In ''Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch'', London suffers from a crime wave committed by the magically-animated waxworks from Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors. The felons thus unleashed are a mix of historical criminals like Dr Crippen and George Joseph Smith and fictional (but real in-universe) villains like Theatre/SweeneyTodd and [[Literature/TheWomanInWhite Sir Percival Glyde]]. Among other incidents, Crippen tries to poison the punch at a society party, Sweeney Todd cuts the throat of a famous entertainer, and Glyde attempts to menace a young lady only for her to demonstrate decisively that young ladies in the 20th century are more bold and enterprising than the fainting maidens of his day.
* In ''Literature/TimeRiders'', the team are joined by the likes of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and the apparent Myth/RobinHood. However, they can't stay permanently.
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* ''Series/KamenRiderX'' has a variation, where the NebulousEvilOrganisation G.O.D. has the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villan Monsters]], made by combining animal DNA with the DNA of historical figures. However, their list is all over the place: while it includes a few recognized villains like Al Capone, Genghis Khan, and Adolf Hitler (who resulted in the [[MemeticMutation memetic]] Starfish Hitler), it also includes figures who were more ambiguous (UsefulNotes/IshikawaGoemon, Geronimo), completely unremarkable ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ogle Benjamin Ogle]]), and some who were just straight-up fictional (Dracula, Arsene Lupin).
* The "encores" in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' season 5 are historic villains revived by Astra. Mostly they reappear shortly after their death, and the Legends [[TimeTravel go to them]], but in "Mortal Khanbat" Genghis Khan spent centuries making his way out of his tomb and emerged in the 1990s, and in "The Great British Fake-Off", UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, Bonnie and Clyde, [[UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus Brutus]], UsefulNotes/HenryVIII and the pirate Black Caesar are all brought to 1910 by Lachesis.
* In the ''Series/LoisAndClark'' episode "That Old Gang of Mine", MadScientist Emil Hamilton creates [[CloningBlues clones]] of Al Capone, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde to demonstrate that evil is not [[VillainousLineage hereditary]]. It doesn't work out that way. (There was a comic book storyline at around the same time that may have been the inspiration, but it used fictional gangsters.)
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** "Meltdown" has the crew encounter a "wax-droid" museum planet, where the wax-droids have become self-aware, and the "Good" and "Bad" characters have gone to war. The "Bad" characters include UsefulNotes/AlCapone, UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, Hitler, Caligula, UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk, Richard the III, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking jazz musician]] [[TakeThat James Last]].
** In "Cured", the crew encounter a scientific base where Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, and Messalina have been recreated through cloning and cured of 'evil'. (Lab notes reveal that UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch proved resistant to the treatment.) However, it turns out the evildoers are [[spoiler:actually androids who were originally the medical staff of the base who have been reprogrammed to believe they are historical villains]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
** There's an odd InUniverse example when the Excalbians create duplicates of various criminals who are "historical monsters" from the perspective of the ''Enterprise'' crew, with Genghis Khan the only real-world historical "villain," and set them against a group of Historical Heroes, of whom the only real-world counterpart is Abe Lincoln.
** One episode offers an [[InvertedTrope Inversion]] in which another bunch of aliens create psychic images of the Earps and Doc Holliday, popularly remembered as the ''heroes'' of the OK Corral gunfight, and put Kirk and his landing party in the roles of the "villainous" Clantons and [=McLowrys=].
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* In the Gamescience adventure ''The Future King'', Doc Holliday, UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}}, Creator/BruceLee, Harald Hardraada, Owen Glendower and Cyrano de Bergerac are gathered together to find and wake King Arthur.
* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the Daemon Prince Doombreed is said to have once been a "warlord of ancient Terra" whose acts of brutality had impressed the WarGod Khorne so much that he granted him immortality. While his identity is ambiguous (UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler are two popular suggestions), the time period given makes it clear that he's a historical figure.
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' expansion "Mothership Zeta" has you team up with several cryogenically-preserved warriors on the alien spaceship: a military doctor from Operation Anchorage, a contemporary slaver, a wild west cowboy, and a samurai.
* In the first part of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', the BigBad assigns the tasks of conquering the Singularities of Human History to various Heroic Spirits and past villains, including UsefulNotes/GillesDeRais, Romulus, [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Jason]], [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Makiri Zolgen]], and [[Myth/CelticMythology Queen Medb]].
* In ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' spin-off game ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', TimeTravel lets an incarnation of Link and Zelda battle alongside heroes (and villains) from the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Era of the Hero of Time]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess the Era of Twilight]], and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword the Era of the Sky]]. The developers have said it's basically ''Zelda'''s version of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}'' has Mitama, the spirits of heroes devoured by oni across the ages that have been freed by Slayers. Slayers can commune with these spirits to gain special powers and the PlayerCharacter has the unique[[note]]One non-combatant NPC shares it.[[/note]] power of communing with a very large number of them.
* If you stretch it a bit, this is basically the concept of the ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'' series -- bringing together legendary warriors from China's Three Kingdoms Period, others from Japan's Warring States Era, and a few guys from mythology for good measure -- just so Orochi can have a decent challenge. Certainly, a teamup of Masamune Date, Lu Bu and [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]] invokes the same sort of feeling...
* The Nexus in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' does this, pretty much literally, but with simulacra of characters from Blizzard's various [=IPs=]. Their fighting skills, personalities and such are translated into the Nexus albeit somewhat imperfectly. They have been chosen to fight these battles on behalf of the shadowy rulers of the Nexus: such as the Grave Keeper and the Lady of Thorns. You and your friends can assemble your QuirkyMinibossSquad, to fight with an opponent's similar squad. To make your squad extra quirky, you can summon alternate-universe versions of some characters: which may have very different looks and themed powers, or even different voices. The alternate universes tend to have wacky themes like Professional Wrestling, Christmas, or Robots: meaning even the characters from more GrimDark settings can get silly skins. Other times a character will get a new skin because of AscendedFanon: like Jaina's Dreadlord skin.
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* The eponymous Chitra of ''Webcomic/{{Chitra}}'' is rewarded for completing quests in the RPGMechanicsVerse she's been [[{{Isekai}} isekai'd]] into with coupons for pulls in [[LootBox The Gods' Exclusive Gacha System]]. Prizes from the gacha are attractive male supporters to aid her in administering and expanding her territory. The high-level prizes are all in-universe famous warriors, mages, and strategists from the past; like Radelk the famous Warrior Butler, Tyrex the Battle Mage, and Tornian "the genius war strategist and military tactician". (While its not made clear how so many historically important figures ended up sealed away in magical gems dispensed as prizes from a celestial slot machine, awaiting the day when a new master would summon them into service, there are also various [[ArmyOfTheAges average soldiers and tradespeople]] from the past available as lower-level prizes.)
* In the old comic ''Webcomic/LifeOfRiley'', when Jezebel strikes against her opponents in an all-out paintball war ([[ItMakesSenseInContext it's a long story]]), she uses the memories of various souls that have fallen to her over the ages. The first few eras - your Caesars, your Napoleons, et cetera - weren't all that effective against modern tactics. Eventually, though, she moved onto ''blitzkriegs'', which ... also weren't that effective in the end, but for different reasons.
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* This is the idea behind ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness has cloned many of history's greatest leaders to rule the world somehow.
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when [[HoloDeckMalfunction the Holo-shed malfunctions]] and UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun, UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Professor Moriarty]], and Evil Lincoln become real and attack Kif and Amy.
* The "House of Villains" episode of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' could be considered this in-universe, since many of the Disney villains are either dead or presumed dead in their own continuities - unless, of course, you buy the AnimatedActors hypothesis.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' had an episode where Johnny brought back several historical figures, including UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun and a caveman, to create the most powerful hockey team.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** One ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' had UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid reviving as a zombie to terrorize Springfield ([[PacifismBackfire which had gotten rid of all of its guns]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero thanks to Lisa]]) and leading a gang of historical villains, including the most evil German in history -- Kaiser Wilhelm II!
** An earlier Halloween episode had Satan [[PlayingAgainstType (Flanders)]] put Homer on trial before his "JuryOfTheDamned": Benedict Arnold, Lizzie Borden, Richard Nixon [[note]] who, ironically, at the time would not die until several months later [[/note]], John Wilkes Booth, Blackbeard, John Dillinger...and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the starting lineup of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' series, a villain from an earlier episode, the Waxmaster Parafino, makes Wax Robots (?) of 'History's Greatest Villains. UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, UsefulNotes/JesseJames, and 'the Executioner of Paris' (?) are used, though waxworks of a masked man with a dagger, and a rich-looking man are seen.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' has a bad guy bring wax figures of UsefulNotes/JesseJames, UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, and an old-timey executioner to life to fight Spider-Man.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperGlobetrotters'', the Time Lord assembled "the greatest criminals in history" into a gang.
* There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' titled "Creator/LeonardoDaVinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!", featuring a team of famous inventors, including da Vinci, UsefulNotes/ThomasAlvaEdison, UsefulNotes/JohannGutenberg, George Washington Carver, and the cavewoman who invented the wheel.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' featured a team of historical bad guys, including Black Bart and UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E4EscapeToTheHouseOfMummiesPartII Escape to the House of Mummies Part II]]" has the Venture crew inexplicably team up with UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe (and a time-duplicated Brock Samson). It's never quite explained how the team-up happened, [[UnInstallment as it is the second part of an episode for which the first part was never made]].
* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' had these as Jack Spicer's army in a time travel episode: UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun, UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, most likely UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid or some other famous western villain, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Jack Spicer's first-grade teacher]]. (Don't be fooled, she's the worst of the bunch.)
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