Editing British Empire (section)

==British Empire Analogs in Fantasy==
[[File:Its on now.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Picking a fight with the British Empire is generally a bad idea.]]
*The Holy Britannian Empire from Code Geass is the anglosphere unified basically a what if america and britain were one nation scenario they reject equality as an illogical concept and focus on achieving progress through industry.
*The Empire in the Elder scrolls series is a mash up of Roman and British Empire culture. Examples of this include the "East Empire company", based off the British East India company.
**Note for discussion: the Praetorian and Varangian Guard are both Roman Empire (or East-Roman aka Byzantine) concepts.
*Dwarfs in fantasy typically have an isolationist view of the world which parallels with Britain's "Splendid Isolation" wherein it did little to make alliances and focused on expansion. They are also were modeled after Yorkshire stereotypes.
*The gunpowderphiliac [[Giff]] race in D&D's [[Spelljammer]] setting are so British they may as well have been birthed of Queen Victoria herself. Aside from being giant anthropomorphic hippos.
*Bretonnia was blatantly named after Brittania, a national personification of the United Kingdom, but otherwise the region is pretty blatantly French, due to being Warhammer's pastiche of the [[Arthurian Mythos]].
*The Empire in Warhammer Fantasy is based more on the German Holy Roman Empire, but certain elements of it are certainly British; Altdorf takes influence from both Vienna and every bad stereotype of London (ala Ankh-Morpork, except less funny), and every single Empire character is given a British accent in every Warhammer Video game (see Mark of Chaos and Total Warhammer: War).
*The High Elves in Warhammer Fantasy has a lot of similarity to the British Empire. Back before [[Malekith]]'s betrayal as well as the war of the beard, High Elves have settled across the globe through their seafaring superiority and have established trade with various races like the Dwarfs. Just like the British Empire, they've built colonies on islands all over the world, be it near Cathay or Lustria. Like the English, they are viewed as perfectly mannered, well dressed, arrogant, suffering from a superiority complex and easily corrupted (corruption exists in all society really, but high elves suffered the most because of their higher sensitivity to magic). They even have their own American counterpart called the Dark Elves, a race of cruel Elves who enjoys war, automatic weapons (darkshards), sail on giant aircraft carrier ship (Black Ark) and lived on a continent that is similar shaped to America. The High Elves are also known for their expansionist attitude similar to the British in that era and love to look down on the minor races, which (with a little help from Malekith) led them to fought the most devastating war against their equally strong ally (the Dwarfs), similar to how the British Empire fall. It doesn't take much imagination to see the High Elves, especially the more arrogant ones, as satirical portrayals of posh high-class Tories from the 80s. Also, their capital is called Londo... erm, Lothern. 
*A posh British accent is often used in fantasy settings to show a character's wisdom, experience, nobility or evil nature.
*A cockney British accent is often used in fantasy settings to show a character's shittiness, untrustworthiness, scumminess, toughness, lovability, or just to make them as annoying as possible. Most commonly the latter two, because cockney accents are always either the most lovable thing in a setting, or the single most ear-gratingly annoying thing in the setting.
** On the same note, northern, scottish or just generally lower-class British accents and dialects are often used to show low social standing of any given character.
*Many wargaming companies are/were originally based in the UK such as [[Games Workshop|Games Worskhop]]. Truly the <strike>best</strike> <strike>worst</strike>  <strike>best</strike> worst thing to come out of the Empire.
*The city of Dunwall in [[/v/|Dishonored]] is heavily influenced by Victorian Liverpool and London.