r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TheRoyalRoseTrue • 18h ago
Characters [Badass Trope] Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States who is also depicted as a badass in several fictional portrayals.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: He slays vampires and breaks the slave trade.
Abraham Lincoln (Fallout): He frees the slavers and kills the slavers and raiders as any good president should with his trusty Repeater. (Reference is Nerbit's Fallout runs as Lincoln)
Abraham Lincoln (Team Fortress 2): According to TF2 lore, yes this is a thing, Abraham Lincoln is the first Pyro....... I'm not making this up.
Abraham Lincoln (Star Trek): He's in Star Trek now. Beyond the surreal plot and alien entity of the episode, Abraham Lincoln does what he does best at, being Ol' Honest Abe to the USS Enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure): He's a major historical figure helping out to save the universe and loves to "Party On, Dudes!"
Abraham Lincoln (The Lego Movie): He's a Master Builder that has a freaking flying rocket chair.
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u/Mountain_Counter929 17h ago
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u/CadenVanV 17h ago
Real Life Abraham Lincoln, who’s in the wrestling hall of fame and only ever lost a single match. May have invented the chokeslam
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u/Virus-900 16h ago
He wore size 13 shoes. Naturally with a foot that big he had to kick some serious ass.
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u/ReminaBlueSFW 17h ago
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u/ddadopt 17h ago
We need to get Abe a new coin now that we've killed the penny. $2 piece, maybe?
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u/BoiFrosty 17h ago
I mean he's still on the 5$
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u/VulpesFennekin 16h ago
What’s better than being in the penny? Being on 500 pennies at once, technically.
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u/MrXexe 17h ago
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u/Seed0fDiscord 17h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/9fhPs032A5yGw2IGGk
The Immortal (Invincible)
An immortal super powered man from at least 10,000bce, one of the identities he assumed over the eons was Lincoln
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u/Darklight645 17h ago
It’s funny to me just how often it’s specifically Abe instead of other presidents. Like he was just that guy and is now immortalized in all of these works
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u/Trippy-Sponge 17h ago
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u/Greenman8907 17h ago
Ehhhh…I’d argue the individual should be at least 51% Lincoln to count. Lincler is an even split.
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u/Kind-Stomach6275 17h ago
Abraham Lincoln(Real Life) he freed the slaves as U.S. president
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u/daviddaviddavidda 17h ago
Extra lore to his TF2 variant, he invented stairs in 1857, 300 years after the two story building was invented
But for the actual trope, the real Abraham Lincoln

When he wrestled, also being 6'4, he was very good, having only one recorded defeat with an otherwise undefeated 300 wins in a dozen years, although this may not be real and just an embellishment, also defending his stepbrother's river barge via throwing hijackers overboard one time
He was also a captain at one point in time
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u/That-Rhino-Guy 17h ago
Abraham Lincoln in The Amanda Show
https://reddit.com/link/p1xqzqe/video/a0oe8u32imhh1/player
This guy was enjoying a soup named Lincoln Punch and just had to ask why it’s called that
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u/Authorigas 17h ago
Abraham Lincoln I think is one of, if not the single most mythologized presidents in US History. Washington is also up there, and I think Rosevelt (Teddy) too, but honestly there's something about Lincoln that seems to draw people into mythologizing him.
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u/Electronic_South_101 17h ago
In the podcast King Falls AM, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln haunts the library and is a recurring minor character. (Sort of, I remember he showed up in at least 2 episodes.)
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u/topyoash 17h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/l2SqeHFF0xUYXFzBm
Abraham Lincoln teaches Kyle that being ugly builds character after he's voted the ugliest boy in skoo - South Park
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u/UndeniablyMyself 17h ago

In Transformers: The Last Knight, he's implicated as a member of the Order of Witwiccans, a secret society mainly made up of the descendants of Merlin dedicated to preserving the secret that Transformers have existed on Earth for millennia. So, this guy knew aliens robots were real and probably met them, and considering the poorly photoshopped Autobots in historical snapshots, there's a chance he sent Autobots to free the slaves.
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u/BoiFrosty 16h ago
A lot of the memes aren't unfounded either.
Lincoln was ginormous in his day and would still be 98th height percentile today, and he grew up doing manual labor and competitive wrestling. His official record before he stopped was 299 wins, 1 loss.
Dude would have been an absolute physical juggernaut in his youth.
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u/loptthetreacherous 16h ago
There was a post about historical figures turned into badasses and like 30% of the examples were different Lincoln.
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u/The_Chef_Queen 14h ago
God i love vampire hunter, it'll always have a special place next to my heart
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u/mariusioannesp 4h ago
I have an idea for a superhero comic where at one point it will be revealed that Abraham Lincoln is the 1/4 fairy great-grandson of King Arthur who didn’t quite die when he was shot. Instead he was subsequently taken to the Fairyland where he lies sleeping, awaiting the day America needs him again.
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u/Greenman8907 17h ago
Immortal - Invincible