There have been some colorful "history war" controversies of late, featuring a diverse cast of fictional and historical characters.
In Britain there was a Telegraph op-ed brawl about Yasukuni Shrine, war remembrance and militarism between the Japanese and Chinese ambassadors to the United Kingdom. In their mutual denunciations, both invoked Voldemort, the evil wizard of "Harry Potter" fame.
Then the British minister for education, Michael Gove, provoked an angry debate with a Daily Mail article claiming that left- wing myths about World War I belittled patriotism. One prime suspect in Gove's case: "Blackadder," a World War I comedy series starring Rowan Atkinson, better known as Mr. Bean.