You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain...

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain. What are some historical figures whom this applies to, Veeky Forums?

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Caesar

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Napoleon

Basically any dictator who terrorized his people and after he died people began opening up about how much he sucked.

Oswald Mosley

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Pericles

America in general.

Themistocles

Benedict Arnold

When did America stop being "good guys?" 1950s? 1910s? 1860s? 1770s?

>When did America stop being "good guys?"

after the fall of the soviet union.

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Sun Yat Sen and Lenin died early enough to be considered heroes.

this

Marius, Pompey.

Sulla may be a weird subversion of the trope.

If he had died in 2006 he'd be the GOAT PM of Turkey

Fidel Castro

should have drowned swimming across that river desu

>that jawline

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He could have been one of the greatest poet-critics of all time had he stayed off the opium

Ludendorf

>Had Mao died in 1956, his achievements would have been immortal. Had he died in 1966, he would still have been a great man but flawed. But he died in 1976. Alas, what can one say?

This one too

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Even at the time there were people who knew what kind of faggot he was, its just that it looked as if the country was developing in an economically sustainable way.

Eamon de Valera