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If you think the deathly serious popcorn film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's alt-history novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is the first cross-genre riff on America's greatest president, we've got a stovepipe hat's worth of speculative exercises for you to check out.
We still haven't seen the Illinois Railsplitter blasting aliens with a railgun, but we've collected some of Honest Abe's best (and strangest) appearances from comic books, TV shows and movies in this genre-hopping gallery.
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Star Trek's 'The Savage Curtain'
Placed near the end of the original Star Trek's somewhat clumsy third (and final) season, "The Savage Curtain" opens with a seated Lincoln floating through space, and concludes with a good-versus-evil endgame conducted by a volcanic rock come to life called an Excalbian. While Lincoln's interstellar reality isn't fully established, he's evidently real enough to be felled by a spear in the back. From John Wilkes Booth to "The Savage Curtain," evidently no assassin in the universe has the stones to confront the president face to face.Blowback: Honestly, What's Your Favorite Abe Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln has popped up in too many genre vehicles to count – even Wikipedia can't round up all of them. What's your favorite version of Honest Abe from TV, comics, the movies or other pop culture outposts? Let us know in the comments below.
