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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })History's Crime Wave is when historical villains — criminals or tyrants — are used in a work of fiction. This may involve Historical Villain Upgrade. The villains don't have to be on Earth; they just have to be historical, though this can also extend to mythological villains. Should not be confused with criminal organizations that really have survived throughout much of history, such as various incarnations of The Mafia. See also Jury of the Damned, Archived Army, and Army of The Ages. Historical Rap Sheet is similar, but it need not involve real figures, and may instead attribute real events to fictional figures. |
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In one The Mighty Thor comic he goes to the demon Mephisto's realm and encounters a group of villains. | |
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One Treehouse of Horror had Billy the Kid reviving as a zombie to terrorize Springfield (which had gotten rid of all of its guns, thanks to Lisa) and leading a gang of historical villains, including the most evil German in history — Kaiser Wilhelm II! | |
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The Simpsons: One Treehouse of Horror had Billy the Kid reviving as a zombie to terrorize Springfield (which had gotten rid of all of its guns, 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 (Flanders) put Homer on trial before his "Jury of the Damned": Benedict Arnold, Lizzie Borden, Richard Nixon note who, ironically, at the time would not die until several months later , John Wilkes Booth, Blackbeard, John Dillinger...and the starting lineup of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers. |
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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, Attila the Hun and 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. | |
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The "House of Villains" episode of Disney's House of Mouse 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 Animated Actors hypothesis. | |
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The Divine Comedy 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. | |
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An episode of Time Squad featured a team of historical bad guys, including Black Bart and Lizzie Borden. | |
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Xiaolin Showdown; In "The Sands of Time", Jack Spicer uses a time-travel Shen Gong Wu to assemble a team of history's villains to help him conquer the world; Genghis Khan, Blackbeard, Billy the Kid, and Mrs. Cornhaven, his old school teacher. | |
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In the Spider-Man (1967) series, a villain from an earlier episode, the Waxmaster Parafino, makes Wax Robots (?) of 'History's Greatest Villains. Blackbeard, Jesse James, and 'the Executioner of Paris' (?) are used, though waxworks of a masked man with a dagger, and a rich-looking man are seen. | |
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Possibly the oldest example is in The Odyssey as 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. | |
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Red Dwarf: "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 Al Capone, Benito Mussolini, Hitler, Caligula, Rasputin the Mad Monk, Richard the III, and jazz musician 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 Rupert Murdoch proved resistant to the treatment.) However, it turns out the evildoers are 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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Leading Comics #3 has the Seven Soldiers of Victory working against Dr Doome (not Victor) who has used a time machine to summon up the Time Tyrants, Alexander the Great, Emperor Nero, Napoléon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun. | |
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Inverted in 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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Star Trek: The Original Series: There's an odd In-Universe 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. Another episode offers an 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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Futurama has a Holodeck malfunction causing Amy and Kif to get attacked by Jack the Ripper, Attila the Hun, the fictional Professor Moriarty, and Evil Lincoln. | |
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In the first part of Fate/Grand Order, the Big Bad assigns the tasks of conquering the Singularities of Human History to various Heroic Spirits and past villains, including Gilles de Rais, Romulus, Jason, Makiri Zolgen, and Queen Medb. | |
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Kamen Rider X has a variation, where the Nebulous Evil Organisation G.O.D. has the 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 memetic Starfish Hitler), it also includes figures who were more ambiguous (Ishikawa Goemon, Geronimo), completely unremarkable (Benjamin Ogle), and some who were just straight-up fictional (Dracula, Arsene Lupin). | |
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In Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch, 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 Sweeney Todd and 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. | |
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In "The Ghost Robbers of the Wax Museum!!" in Big Bang Comics #6, Knight Watchman's adversary and Master of Disguise 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. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: In Adventure Comics #314, a villain called Alaktor recruits history's three greatest villains (Nero, Adolf Hitler, and ... John Dillinger) to take on the Legion. Apparently Alaktor considers bank robbery to be equal to mass genocide. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, the Daemon Prince Doombreed is said to have once been a "warlord of ancient Terra" whose acts of brutality had impressed the War God Khorne so much that he granted him immortality. While his identity is ambiguous (Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler are two popular suggestions), the time period given makes it clear that he's a historical figure. | |
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One time Judge Dredd 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. | |
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One version of the Lethal Legion, fought by the Avengers West Coast, was made by the Demon Satannish resurrecting four dead criminals and giving them powers. They were Axe of Violence - A demonically-enhanced Lizzie Borden with an axe replacing one hand. Coldsteel - A demonically enhanced Josef Stalin now an 8 ft. giant with superhuman strength. Cyana - A demonically enhanced Lucrezia Borgia with poisoned claws. Zyklon - A demonically enhanced Heinrich Himmler who can belch deadly gas fumes from his mouth. |
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In the Lois & Clark episode "That Old Gang of Mine", Mad Scientist Emil Hamilton creates clones of Al Capone, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde to demonstrate that evil is not 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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The "encores" in Legends of Tomorrow season 5 are historic villains revived by Astra. Mostly they reappear shortly after their death, and the Legends 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", Jack the Ripper, Bonnie and Clyde, Brutus, Henry VIII and the pirate Black Caesar are all brought to 1910 by Lachesis. | |
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In Knight and Squire #3, Richard III is resurrected and he proceeds to resurrect England's other 'bad' kings: William II, John, Edward I, and Charles I. The monarchs are granted genetically enhanced superpowers and each leads a criminal army to take over a different part of the UK. | |
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In Deadly Advice, Jodie is advised by a collection of Britain's most notorious murderers: Major Herbert Armstrong, Kate Webster, Dr. Crippen, George Joseph Smith, and Jack the Ripper. | |
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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 Captain America and Bucky. The Men of Evil were Captain Kidd, Jack the Ripper, Frank and Jesse James, Bluebeard, Gyp-the-Blood, and three gangsters (names unrevealed) who had died in the electric chair decades earlier. | |
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