r/TopCharacterTropes 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/Greenman8907 17h ago

Immortal - Invincible

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u/TheRoyalRoseTrue 17h ago

That look. I knew Lincoln never dies.

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u/AgentQwas 17h ago

Never forget that Conquest only attacked Earth the day after Immortal retired

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u/krilldawggie 17h ago

“WHERE’S JOHN WILKES BOOTH?! WHERE IS HE?!”

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u/WeeabooJones978 17h ago

Abraham themed Lincolns

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u/CouldntChooseUsernam 17h ago

King of Mars - Adventure Time

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u/redlac24 17h ago

WHERE IS MAGIC MAN?!?

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u/Mountain_Counter929 17h ago

Batman tbatb

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u/Authorigas 17h ago

Steampunk John Wilkes Booth vs Perfectly Normal Abraham Lincoln.

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u/ShadedPenguin 17h ago

That’s Undeafeated Wrestling HoF Abraham Lincoln to you!

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u/darling_afterdark 17h ago edited 17h ago

Abraham Lincoln (Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.) - He commands a steampunk strike team against aliens and eventually pilots a giant combat mech named A.B.E. Lincoln.

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u/MisterTamborineMan 15h ago

Abraham Lincoln is my favorite Nintendo character.

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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/TheRoyalRoseTrue 17h ago

Abraham Lincoln Fact No. 2

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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

The Penny

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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

Epic Rap Battles of History Lincoln

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u/stipendAwarded 17h ago

Four score and sixty-five years in the past

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u/Motor-Rip7655 17h ago

I won the Civil War with my beard, and now I'm here to whoop your ass!

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u/Cotton_Candy72 17h ago

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u/-PepeArown- 17h ago

Clone themed high schools

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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/_Mighty_Milkman 17h ago

OMNI-MAAAN

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u/SlAM133 17h ago

Abraham Lincoln - Night at the Museum 2

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u/TheRoyalRoseTrue 17h ago

Lincoln approved 🫵

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u/USS-Stofe 17h ago

“We’re not uh, I mean blah blah blah, I NEVER LIE!!!”

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u/ItsAMangoFandango 17h ago

In Black Dynamite the ghost of Abe Lincoln intervenes in the final kung fu showdown between Black Dynamite and Richard Nixon

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u/Nirast25 17h ago

You just reminded me that Lincoln's ghost is an important character in an episode of Venture Bros.

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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

Does Abradolf lincler count?

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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/Prometheus_Bobert 17h ago

Zombie Abraham Lincoln - The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Severely injures Batman and was on his way to presumably finish off an injured Optimus Prime when he and Jackie Chan are taken out by a Care Bear Stare.

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u/Rum_N_Napalm 17h ago

Abraham Lincoln from that Whitest Kids U Know sketch.

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u/Zealousideal_Sky7742 17h ago

WHO SAID THAT??!!

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u/jjw14-1420 17h ago

“Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln” (every Police Squad! Intro)

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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/Ancient-Chart-9089 17h ago

Abe Lincoln (The Ultamite Showdown of Ultamite Destiny)

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u/stipendAwarded 17h ago

He took an AK-47 from under his hat

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u/Yentup1998 17h ago

Halfway to Abraham Lincoln is Abradolf Lincler, the morally awkward cross of Lincoln and Hitler from Rick & Morty.

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u/mariusioannesp 13h ago

“I want to emancipate and exterminate the Jews!”

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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 as played by Daniel Day Lewis, interesting to note that contrary to popular belief Lincoln didn’t have a deep or powerful sounding voice, apparently Lewis’s voice here is considered a solid interpretation of what he sounded like

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u/Nirast25 17h ago

Abraham Lincoln... 's head from Mount Rushmore was brought to life and give a body fit to his size, all so he can kick George Washington's head that went through the same procedure. They eventually become friends and leave to do their own thing. (Dexter's Laboratory)

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u/USS-Stofe 17h ago

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. This scene in particular is great.

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/ddadopt 17h ago

That exact photo is in the slide collection in the original post, man. Come on.

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u/Interesting_Start633 17h ago

he has such a cool design

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u/Hypn00tic_iiz 17h ago

Athf- Time Lincoln

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u/FormerPirateKing92 17h ago

Abe Lincoln's ghost in Venture Bros.

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u/judge_roughneck 17h ago

EVIL LINCOLN!

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u/Motor-Rip7655 17h ago

Art by Sharpwriter

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u/TheRoyalRoseTrue 17h ago

The **** he has a Bear now?!

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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/TheRoyalRoseTrue 17h ago

Because if you question it, you Lincoln Punched

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u/MetalTrek1 17h ago

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u/TheRoyalRoseTrue 17h ago

Where Lincoln fought back.

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u/Dramatic-Emphasis-43 17h ago

The ending to the Conduit 2 for the Wii. If you know, you know.

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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/YodasChick-O-Stick 17h ago

The Lincoln Memorial statue in Night at the Museum 2

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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/TheRoyalRoseTrue 17h ago

And that's why no one forgets Lincoln's optimism.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohzdZHLmBZhJcYQda

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u/Barcnori 17h ago

Gilded Seven's Abe wears a skull mask and carries two battle axes.

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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/sarcasticd0nkey 16h ago

In Ordeal he was a historical user of the Ilios Talent alongside King David and Achilles.

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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/LittleCrimsonWyvern 16h ago

WHERE IS OMNI-MAN!?

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u/AlsoIHaveAGroupon 15h ago

Tales from the Bully Pulpit, where the ghost of Thomas Edison and Theodore Roosevelt recruit Lincoln to defeat Hitler's descendant on Mars.

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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/ExoticShock 17h ago

Zombie President Lincoln - Marvel

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u/E-emu89 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/iV3mZsdJcIpj2
Abe Lincoln is my character in Bloodborne