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Famous Dead in Mortal Kombat

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Slightly inspired by this thread: http://forum.sealionpress.co.uk/index.php?threads/if-those-who-had-died-in-their-time-had-lived-longer-if-oscar-wilde-had-seen-wwi-and-other-ideas.2145

The idea is to list some people who (after 1700) had lives cut short by the matter of their death during a war, and then maybe add what they could have accomplished if they hadn't died. The rule is that they must have died during a war that their country was involved, but they don't have actually had to have fought in said war.

To start with an example:

Joseph P. Kennedy II, died in 1944 but could have been a future President (as he was in For All Time, the last normal President before the madness truly began).
 
People often say that, but if Daddy gives you literally everything you need to be president, you’d pretty much have to be the world’s biggest Jeb! to fuck it up.
 
Nile Kinnick, who was not in fact a mispronunciation of the fifth-best PM we never had, was a college football star in the Thirties who gained plaudits from the press for his patriotic speech upon accepting the Heisman Trophy. This (and possibly his descent from a Governor of Iowa) ended up leading to him introducing Wendell Wilkie at rallies, and some were touting him as a rising political star before his plane crashed in the Gulf of Paria due to an oil leak.

Had he lived, he might have become important in the post-war Republican Party, and almost certainly would be a favourite-son candidate from Iowa at some point. Anything more? Who really knows.
 
TR1996 said:
On the topic of political dynasts who died in aerial combat- would Quentin Roosevelt have amounted to anything if he wasn't killed in WWI?
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None of this brothers did but he was supposedly smarter. I wouldn't say he's guaranteed a shot at the White House but he might make Governor of New York. Or peak as say Hoover's Assistant Secretary of War for Air.
 
Oh and for these sorts of things I always like to toss out the like, one singular instance, that I can play Canadian AH: Talbot Mercer Papineau.

Great-grandson of the the revolutionary leader he was in the trenches of WWI, and made a name for himself not only on the battlefield but in writing letters to newspapers debating other relatives who were taking anti-war stances. Killed at Passchendale.

Certainly an interesting contrast figure considering that William Lyon Mackenzie King was the descendant of the Other Canadian Rebel Leader of 1837.
 
Here’s another one: Lazare Hoche, died in 1797. Was considered to be a great general who died too early, and he was used by Thande in LTTW. Maybe if he had lived the Revolution could have taken a different turn...
 
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