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!!Vladimir Putin in fiction
* French NewsParody and {{satire}} {{puppet show|s}} ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' portrayed him as a man of very few words with a ''very'' [[DeathGlare intimidating stare]], with other world leaders being generally too cowardly to confront him.
* In ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'', the President of Russia, Viktor Petrov is an obvious NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Petrov is played by Creator/LarsMikkelsen.
* Putin appears in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E3SpiesReminiscentOfUs Spies Reminiscent of Us]]". He's unexpectedly portrayed as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS03E22 A Man Without a Country]]": In a plot RippedFromTheHeadlines, the episode features Russian President Kimov, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Kimov has, in the episode, orchestrated a 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The VillainOfTheWeek Trofim Sarkov is an oligarch and one of his former lackeys who ripped him off and is now trying to get back in his good graces.
* French NewsParody and {{satire}} {{puppet show|s}} ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' portrayed him as a man of very few words with a ''very'' [[DeathGlare intimidating stare]], with other world leaders being generally too cowardly to confront him.
* In ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'', the President of Russia, Viktor Petrov is an obvious NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Petrov is played by Creator/LarsMikkelsen.
* Putin appears in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E3SpiesReminiscentOfUs Spies Reminiscent of Us]]". He's unexpectedly portrayed as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS03E22 A Man Without a Country]]": In a plot RippedFromTheHeadlines, the episode features Russian President Kimov, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Kimov has, in the episode, orchestrated a 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The VillainOfTheWeek Trofim Sarkov is an oligarch and one of his former lackeys who ripped him off and is now trying to get back in his good graces.
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!!Vladimir Putin in fiction
* French NewsParody and {{satire}} {{puppet show|s}} ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' portrayed him as a man of very few words with a ''very'' [[DeathGlare intimidating stare]], with other world leaders being generally too cowardly to confront him.
* In ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'', the President of Russia, Viktor Petrov is an obvious NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Petrov is played by Creator/LarsMikkelsen.
* Putin appears in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E3SpiesReminiscentOfUs Spies Reminiscent of Us]]". He's unexpectedly portrayed as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS03E22 A Man Without a Country]]": In a plot RippedFromTheHeadlines, the episode features Russian President Kimov, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Kimov has, in the episode, orchestrated a 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The VillainOfTheWeek Trofim Sarkov is an oligarch and one of his former lackeys who ripped him off and is now trying to get back in his good graces.fiction:
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* French NewsParody and {{satire}} {{puppet show|s}} ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' portrayed him as a man of very few words with a ''very'' [[DeathGlare intimidating stare]], with other world leaders being generally too cowardly to confront him.
* In ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'', the President of Russia, Viktor Petrov is an obvious NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Petrov is played by Creator/LarsMikkelsen.
* Putin appears in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E3SpiesReminiscentOfUs Spies Reminiscent of Us]]". He's unexpectedly portrayed as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS03E22 A Man Without a Country]]": In a plot RippedFromTheHeadlines, the episode features Russian President Kimov, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Kimov has, in the episode, orchestrated a 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The VillainOfTheWeek Trofim Sarkov is an oligarch and one of his former lackeys who ripped him off and is now trying to get back in his good graces.
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* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS03E22 A Man Without a Country]]": In a plot RippedFromTheHeadlines, the episode features Russian President Kimov, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Kimov has, in the episode, orchestrated a 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The VillainOfTheWeek Trofim Sarkov is an oligarch and one of his former lackeys who ripped him off and is now trying to get back in his good graces.
* In ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'', the President of Russia, Viktor Petrov is an obvious NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Putin. Petrov is played by Creator/LarsMikkelsen.
* French NewsParody and {{satire}} {{puppet show|s}} ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' portrayed him as a man of very few words with a ''very'' [[DeathGlare intimidating stare]], with other world leaders being generally too cowardly to confront him.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Putin has been impersonated on the show multiple times, once by Creator/WillFerrell, and by Creator/BeckBennett in every appearance afterwards. Bennet's version [[WalkingShirtlessScene never wears a shirt]].
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* Putin appears in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E3SpiesReminiscentOfUs Spies Reminiscent of Us]]". He's unexpectedly portrayed as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
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Bad Vlad, as he is known, has also gained significant MemeticBadass stature on the intrawebs, due to carefully perpetuating the image of a tough as nails [[RatedMForManly manliness incarnate]] known for his personal attention to pressing problems, practicing extreme sports and other forms of peril-fraught recreation and having a fondness for snow leopards of all things. The stories of his KGB days, his expertise in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and other martial arts, and the fact that he looks like Creator/DanielCraig help this. This is slightly undermined by the fact that he also looks like [[Film/HarryPotter Dobby]].
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Bad Vlad, as he is known, has also gained significant MemeticBadass stature on the intrawebs, due to carefully perpetuating the image of a tough as nails [[RatedMForManly manliness incarnate]] incarnate known for his personal attention to pressing problems, practicing extreme sports and other forms of peril-fraught recreation and having a fondness for snow leopards of all things. The stories of his KGB days, his expertise in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and other martial arts, and the fact that he looks like Creator/DanielCraig help this. This is slightly undermined by the fact that he also looks like [[Film/HarryPotter Dobby]].
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Bad Vlad, as he is known, has also gained significant MemeticBadass stature on the intrawebs, due to carefully perpetuating the image of a tough as nails [[RatedMForManly manliness incarnate]] known for his personal attention to pressing problems, practicing extreme sports and other forms of peril-fraught recreation and having a fondness for snow leopards of all things. The stories of his KGB days, his [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking expertise in]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and other martial arts, and the fact that he looks like Creator/DanielCraig help this. This is slightly undermined by the fact that he also looks like [[Film/HarryPotter Dobby]].
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Bad Vlad, as he is known, has also gained significant MemeticBadass stature on the intrawebs, due to carefully perpetuating the image of a tough as nails [[RatedMForManly manliness incarnate]] known for his personal attention to pressing problems, practicing extreme sports and other forms of peril-fraught recreation and having a fondness for snow leopards of all things. The stories of his KGB days, his [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking expertise in]] in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and other martial arts, and the fact that he looks like Creator/DanielCraig help this. This is slightly undermined by the fact that he also looks like [[Film/HarryPotter Dobby]].
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[[AwesomeMcCoolName Bad Vlad]], as he is known, has also gained significant MemeticBadass stature on the intrawebs, due to carefully perpetuating the image of a tough as nails [[RatedMForManly manliness incarnate]] known for his personal attention to pressing problems, practicing extreme sports and other forms of peril-fraught recreation and having a fondness for snow leopards of all things. The stories of his KGB days, his [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking expertise in]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and other martial arts, and the fact that he looks like Creator/DanielCraig help this. This is slightly undermined by the fact that he also looks like [[Film/HarryPotter Dobby]].
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* Putin appears in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Spies Reminiscent of Us". He's unexpectedly portrayed as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
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[[http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2013/10/30/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2013/ He was ranked as the world's most powerful man in 2013 according to Forbes.]] He’s also likely one of the richest people on the planet but the exact worth of his assets is a bit hard to calculate. In the same year, he was granted an honourary ''ninth''-degree black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24925270 by World Taekwondo Federation]], which meant that he exceeded Creator/ChuckNorris (eighth-degree) in badassery -- at least until [[https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/vladimir-putin-taekwondo-black-belt-b2025031.html it was revoked during the events of 2022]].
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In February 2022, he recognized the independence of the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk Republics and launched an invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945. The invasion was preceded by months of global tension, with Putin demanding that Ukraine never join NATO and that NATO withdraws from several nations in Eastern Europe. The invasion quickly tanked Putin's international reputation and the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and other nations retaliated with sanctions against Russia, including some on Putin himself and his inner circle (the blow of which he at least partially anticipated by seeking reinforced commercial and technological ties with China). In response [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Putin ordered the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, his nuclear weapons, on high alert]]. At home, he also clamped down on anti-war protests and non-state run media in unprecedented fashion, with thousands of arrests of protesters. Given its international and global consequences, it's possible that the invasion of Ukraine may be the defining moment of the [[TheNewTwenties 2020s]] (in conjunction with the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic), much like how UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror defined the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]].
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In February 2022, he recognized the independence of the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk Republics and launched an invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945. The invasion was preceded by months of global tension, with Putin demanding that Ukraine never join NATO and that NATO withdraws from several nations in Eastern Europe. The invasion quickly tanked Putin's international reputation and the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and other nations retaliated with sanctions against Russia, including some on Putin himself and his inner circle (the blow of which he at least partially anticipated by seeking reinforced commercial and technological ties with China). In response [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Putin ordered the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, his nuclear weapons, on high alert]]. Given its international and global consequences, it's possible that the invasion of Ukraine may be the defining moment of the [[TheNewTwenties 2020s]] (in conjunction with the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic), much like how UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror defined the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]]. He also clamped down on anti-war protests and media in his country in unprecedented fashion.
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In February 2022, he recognized the independence of the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk Republics and launched an invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945. The invasion was preceded by months of global tension, with Putin demanding that Ukraine never join NATO and that NATO withdraws from several nations in Eastern Europe. The invasion quickly tanked Putin's international reputation and the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and other nations retaliated with sanctions against Russia, including some on Putin himself and his inner circle (the blow of which he at least partially anticipated by seeking reinforced commercial and technological ties with China). In response [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Putin ordered the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, his nuclear weapons, on high alert]]. At home, he also clamped down on anti-war protests and non-state run media in unprecedented fashion, with thousands of arrests of protesters. Given its international and global consequences, it's possible that the invasion of Ukraine may be the defining moment of the [[TheNewTwenties 2020s]] (in conjunction with the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic), much like how UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror defined the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]]. He also clamped down on anti-war protests and media in his country in unprecedented fashion.\n
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In February 2022, he recognized the independence of the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk Republics and launched an invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945. The invasion was preceded by months of global tension, with Putin demanding that Ukraine never join NATO and that NATO withdraws from several nations in Eastern Europe. The invasion quickly tanked Putin's international reputation and the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and other nations retaliated with sanctions against Russia, including some on Putin himself and his inner circle. In response [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Putin ordered the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, his nuclear weapons, on high alert]]. Given its international and global consequences, it's possible that the invasion of Ukraine may be the defining moment of the [[TheNewTwenties 2020s]], much like how UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror defined the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]] (in conjunction with the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic).
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[[http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2013/10/30/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2013/ He was ranked as the world's most powerful man in 2013 according to Forbes.]] He’s also likely one of the richest people on the planet but the exact worth of his assets is a bit hard to calculate. Also in the same year, he's granted ''ninth''-degree black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24925270 by World Taekwondo Federation]]-- which means he exceeds Creator/ChuckNorris (eighth-degree) in badassery.
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[[http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2013/10/30/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2013/ He was ranked as the world's most powerful man in 2013 according to Forbes.]] He’s also likely one of the richest people on the planet but the exact worth of his assets is a bit hard to calculate. Also in In the same year, he's he was granted an honourary ''ninth''-degree black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24925270 by World Taekwondo Federation]]-- Federation]], which means meant that he exceeds exceeded Creator/ChuckNorris (eighth-degree) in badassery.
badassery -- at least until [[https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/vladimir-putin-taekwondo-black-belt-b2025031.html it was revoked during the events of 2022]].
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In February 2022, he ordered the invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945, and when Russia was heavily sanctioned by the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and other nations, including some on Putin himself and his inner circle, [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Putin ordered the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, his nuclear weapons, on high alert]], threatening to unleash WorldWarIII.
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In February 2022, he ordered recognized the independence of the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk Republics and launched an invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945, 1945. The invasion was preceded by months of global tension, with Putin demanding that Ukraine never join NATO and when Russia was heavily sanctioned by that NATO withdraws from several nations in Eastern Europe.
The invasion quickly tanked Putin's international reputation and the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and othernations, nations retaliated with sanctions against Russia, including some on Putin himself and his inner circle, circle. In response [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Putin ordered the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, his nuclear weapons, on high alert]], threatening to unleash WorldWarIII.
The invasion quickly tanked Putin's international reputation and the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and other
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In February 2022, he ordered the invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945, and when Russia was heavily sanctioned by the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and other nations, including some on Putin himself and his inner circle, [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Putin ordered the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, his nuclear weapons, on high alert]], threatening to unleash [[World War III]].WorldWarIII.
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In February 2022, he ordered the invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945.
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In February 2022, he ordered the invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945.1945, and when Russia was heavily sanctioned by the USA, UN, NATO, the EU, and other nations, including some on Putin himself and his inner circle, [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Putin ordered the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, his nuclear weapons, on high alert]], threatening to unleash [[World War III]].
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* French NewsParody and {{satire}} {{puppet show|s}} ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' potrayed him as a man of very few words with a ''very'' [[DeathGlare intimidating stare]].
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* French NewsParody and {{satire}} {{puppet show|s}} ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' potrayed portrayed him as a man of very few words with a ''very'' [[DeathGlare intimidating stare]].stare]], with other world leaders being generally too cowardly to confront him.
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In February 2022, he ordered the invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, in the biggest military operation in Europe since 1945.
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In February 2022, he ordered the invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, in the biggest a military operation of a scale unseen in Europe since 1945.