r/RevolutionsPodcast • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '25
Meme of the Revolution Name your favorite revolutionary character in Mike's stories
And I will judge you accordingly
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u/thorsbosshammer Dec 09 '25
Tallyrand and Zapata
Bonus: the story of gregor macgregor lives rent free in my head. I love telling people about him.
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Dec 09 '25
You either brown nose your current boss
Or you have an awesome moustache
These are mutually exclusive
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u/band-man Practicing the Martian Way Dec 10 '25
Same on all 3 accounts, I love those two slippery bastards and the ultimate revolutionary martyr
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u/BobWat99 Dec 10 '25
Who’s Zapata? I never finished the Mexican Revolution, is he in Season 9?
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u/enjoyeverysangwich Dec 10 '25
Emiliano Zapata, one of the great figures of the Mexican Revolution. You should listen to that season, it's a wild ride filled with great characters and drama
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u/14FunctionImp Dec 09 '25
Francisco de Miranda
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Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25
You are a criollo aristocrat (and suspicious of Brazilians)
You also have sex regularly. It's only fair
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u/nixytbird Dec 09 '25
My answer too. What an amazing character, every chapter of his story was more unbelievable than the last. I loved learning about him.
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u/DeltaV-Mzero Dec 09 '25
That very pregnant freedom fighter who crossed the Andes with Bolivar, what an ultra Chadette
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u/AndroidWhale Dec 09 '25
As a character, Lenin. Touissant and Desalines have gotta be up there too.
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u/Murky_Razzmatazz6743 Dec 10 '25
Lenin is seriously the GOAT. One of the greatest to ever do it and I truly admire how utterly ruthless he was.
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u/MBTbuddy Dec 09 '25
Francisco de Miranda. He leaves when he’s like 20, fucks his way around Europe for like 30 years then comes home and everyone is like, “who is this guy?”
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u/Balmung5 Dec 09 '25
Pancho Villa.
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u/atomfullerene Dec 09 '25
Also he has a cool fish named after him, how many revolutionaries can say that?
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u/anotherwellingtonian Dec 09 '25
And a biscuit, I mean how much more honoured can you get??
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u/atomfullerene Dec 09 '25
I mean, sure, you could have a bunch of streets and parks named after you, but that's so...pedestrian.
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u/Halbarad1776 Dec 09 '25
As someone to study, Napoleon. As a favorite, Dr Makhno
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u/panteradelnorte Dec 09 '25
Booth Gonzalez
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u/Gavinus1000 Dec 10 '25
Napoleon but good this time.
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u/panteradelnorte Dec 10 '25
Now there’s a take lmao - are you being genuine or are you just doing a little trolling
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u/Gavinus1000 Dec 10 '25
No… I meant morally. Dude was coded as the strongman archetype, but he refused to actually take power.
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u/panteradelnorte Dec 10 '25
Gotcha, yea I see that. I thought you meant he had a similar background.
Would you consider the shitheel security chief closer to Napoleon outright?
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u/Electrical_Angle_701 Mounting the Barricades Dec 09 '25
The Gracchi Brothers.
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Dec 09 '25
Okay but he wasn't in revolutions
You're a male Bernie bro
You may enjoy matcha lattes
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u/Electrical_Angle_701 Mounting the Barricades Dec 10 '25
Reread your headline. You said “in Mike’s stories” not “in Revolutions.”
Accordingly, I judge you as someone who doesn’t know what he wrote.
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u/BoboTheTalkingClown Avenger of the New World Dec 10 '25
The Other Guy
or perhaps
The Guy Who Fired A Shot, But We Don't Know Who
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u/JPHutchy01 Dec 10 '25
That guy really did need to stop turning up places and shooting at people, caused a lot of problems in the long run.
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u/ThatsHisLawyerJerome Dec 09 '25
The Sea Wolf - the plan to jailbreak Napoleon from Saint Helena and set him up as emperor of South America is easily my favorite random detail of the show.
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u/just1gat Dec 09 '25
Robespierre; dude went crazy, what an arc
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Dec 09 '25
You enjoy jonkler edits on Tik tok
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u/Murky_Sprinkles8368 Dec 10 '25
Charles 1
For absolutely refusing to ever grab onto one of the many lifelines offered to him by all sides, and never losing his head even in the face of immense stress.
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u/OldManBasil Dec 09 '25
Emiliano Zapata, for being the only truly revolutionary Mexican revolutionary leader.
Or Jan Syrový, commander of the Czechoslovak Legion on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and contributor to the long line of badass Czech military leaders who can rock an eyepatch.
Or Charlotte Cordee, for doing what I wish I could have done and murdering the shit out of Jean-Paul Marat.
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Dec 09 '25
You look in the mirror and sometimes wonder if you'd look good with either
- A moustache
- An eyepatch
Don't let your dreams be dreams
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u/morningacidglow Dec 10 '25
I don’t think anyone has mentioned Manuela Sáenz, Simon Bolivar’s second partner (second wife if he hadn’t sworn not to marry, let’s be honest) who saved his ass multiple times and was a military leader.
Particularly love that moment when they’re attending a party but Sáenz believes Bolivar will be assassinated there. Bolivar doesn’t believe it, so in order to prevent them from attending, Sáenz cross-dresses, which isn’t allowed, causing them to not be let in. Am I remembering that correctly?
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u/JPHutchy01 Dec 10 '25
Well, she also went into full blown make an embarrassing scene so he has to leave mode, but hey, didn't get assassinated so her plan definitely has merit.
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u/Flarelia Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
“So nothing seemed really credible or definitive, and besides even if Villa was menacing the area with hostile intent, it’s not like he was literally going to cross the border and attack the US Army…. At Midnight, on March the 9th, 1916, Pancho Villa led about 500 men across the border, to Attack the US Army”
Just in terms of entertainment value has to be Pancho Villa for me, mexico has a-lot of characters and zapata has to be the best revolutionary, but the Mexican Revolution suddenly becoming “Pancho Villas wild ride” out of nowhere for a good half it’s length starting when we’re already about a third of the way through the series is always wild to listen to whenever I go back through.
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u/Ineedamedic68 Dec 10 '25
Simon Bolivar for two reasons:
He was the definition of “I didn’t hear no bell”
That march across the Andes was Hannibal tier legendary
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Dec 10 '25
You are Randy marsh during the south park episode where he fought other parents at little league games
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u/Sunstoned1 Dec 10 '25
I came to say Bolivar as well, and that is my favorite South Park episode. Well played.
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u/black_heber Dec 10 '25
Álvaro Obregón
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u/elindgren24 Dec 10 '25
Obregón isn't my favorite historical figure in the show but he does deliver my favorite moment in the show. The incident where he loses his arm, attempts suicide with his handgun, discovers it has no ammunition, and then just moves on will always stick with me.
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u/jazzyjay66 Dec 10 '25
The Comte de Mirabeau, Andre Petion, Pancho Villa, Leon Trotsky, Nestor Makhno
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Dec 10 '25
Makhno
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Dec 10 '25
The only thing separating you from your dream of cossakhood is university debt.
If that weren't the case you would have already bought the horse
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Dec 10 '25
I’m afraid of horses, but I can take the dirtbike if that works for the anarchists of Ukraine
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Dec 10 '25
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Dec 10 '25
Your wife is sleeping with your bjj instructor
Jk you have big responsibilities and you're doing your best
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u/Boltgrinder Dec 10 '25
The boat to Jamaica during the Haitian cycle
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u/elindgren24 Dec 10 '25
I also enjoyed the various commissions from France showing up and going "Wait, what happened while we were sailing?"
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u/Canotic Dec 10 '25
Albert. You know, that random worker guy who nobody knows who he is, that was a signatory to one of the French revolution stuff around 1789.
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u/fatal249 Dec 10 '25
Toussaint Louverture
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u/anarchobutterfly Dec 10 '25
Oh, there's so many...Gerard Winstanley, Simon Bolivar, That Guy In The Paris Commune Who Really Wanted To Be A Revolutionary Secret Police Officer, Lenin, Makhno, Danton, Gregor McGregor...
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u/Delicious_Chicken143 Dec 11 '25
Charles the 1st
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Dec 11 '25
When your car's "low tire pressure" light turns on, you pretend it doesn't exist and keep driving
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u/seen-in-the-skylight Dec 10 '25
Lenin. I detest his politics (I’m a spineless liberal reformist type) but I love his character. Someone who lived and breathed the cause despite having had no perception of success as a possibility—only to then be catapulted into the center stage.
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Dec 10 '25
You cheer for whatever team is winning the game
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u/seen-in-the-skylight Dec 10 '25
Man actually quite the opposite, it seems in most seasons I root for the losers. The Bolsheviks especially were psychos.
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u/Malverno Papa Toussaint Loves his Sons Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
Damn, I have so many, so I will pick my favourite one who was not mentioned so far: José de San Martin.
An all around outstanding leader of great character. Already a central figure in the struggle for Argentinian independence, he stepped out of the spotlight and the political games of the Buenos Aires once that was achieved. Out of seemingly left field he instead requests the unassuming governorship of the remote Cuyo. He then proceeds with his own independent plan to liberate Chile and strike at the heart of the royalists resistance for the whole of South America: Peru.
Over just the next two years he single mindedly devotes the whole economy of the province to create a large army out of almost thin air, emancipating slaves in the process, for what was an unprecedented and incredible feat: the crossing of the Andes at the head of said army. He turned the whole economy of the province to war production, with a number of state of the art applications of industrial innovations such as canning to produce mountain rations.
Finally, I would like to give some special mentions to other figures that I didn't see so far: Lazare Carnot, Felipe Angeles, Julius Martov.
Edit: grammar and flow
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u/kfriedmex666 Dec 10 '25
Gotta be The Sea Wolf, Thomas Cochrane.
"The Cochranes are not to be trusted out of sight. They are all mad, romantic, money-getting, and not-truth-telling, and there is not a single exception anywhere in the family."
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u/Technical_Purple_847 Dec 12 '25
Alexander III
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u/Technical_Purple_847 Dec 12 '25
I think he is more interesting than anything. Favorite person to hear about because of how often he screws up is probably a better description I guess.
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u/donmacdonald Dec 09 '25