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Nixon!!

and if you can change genders: Yoko Ono!!

Paynesgrey:
The Yoko Oni's of ancient Japanese myth could come to life...oh, wait.  It's been done....

thausgt:

--- Quote from: belial.1980 on March 14, 2009, 03:50:14 AM ---Quick and dirty: I'm writing a story where a character lives in various incarnations throughout history. He's been reincarnated 6-7 times between the time of Christ and modern times. Each incarnation is a anti-hero/misunderstood hero that history and folklore have penned as a villain. I could really use some suggestions for building an ecclectic gathering of legendary villains from different time periods and places that he's been in past lives. The only two I've got so far:

Simon Magus (Quick synopsis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus)

Koschei the Deathless (Quick synopsis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koschei)

If somebody can offer suggestions something along these lines I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Oliver Cromwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell Might not be quite what you're looking for, since a lot of people considered him a hero, but the fact that he was exhumed 7 years after his death and his body was decapitated...

Do you have any particular time-periods in which the previous incarnations lived? That might help narrow your search.

I've noticed that a lot of stories in this vein tend to jump straight from Rome to England. What would you say to having your character fighting on the Saracen side of Charlemagne's Iberian campaign? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne#Roncesvalles_campaign Your challenge would be to describe the actions in such a way that it makes your character's nature and participation clear without being too hard for victims of the American educational system like my humble self to understand. Meaning, you won't have to give a chapter-length summation of the precursors to the event and the ramifications thereafter; establishing that the armed group was taken by surprise should be a good start.

Any others?

Good luck!

The Corvidian:
Sir Mordred, or his brother Aggravain.
Talleyrand

intergal:
Yoshitsune no Minamoto
Gengis Khan
Caligula

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