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His experiment, using a kite, to prove that lightning is a form of electricity has been an especially popular aspect of his biography in fictional depictions.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media_about_Franklin">Media about Franklin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Media about Franklin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biographical:_Film,_television,_and_theater"><span id="Biographical:_Film.2C_television.2C_and_theater"></span>Biographical: Film, television, and theater</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Biographical: Film, television, and theater"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ben_Franklin_in_Paris" title="Ben Franklin in Paris">Ben Franklin in Paris</a></i>, 1964 theatrical musical.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_(miniseries)" title="Benjamin Franklin (miniseries)">The Lives of Benjamin Franklin</a></i>, 1974 miniseries.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_(2002_TV_series)" title="Benjamin Franklin (2002 TV series)">Benjamin Franklin (2002 TV series)</a></i>, 2002 <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> documentary series.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_(film)" title="Benjamin Franklin (film)">Benjamin Franklin (film)</a></i>, 2022 <a href="/wiki/Ken_Burns" title="Ken Burns">Ken Burns</a> documentary.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Franklin_(miniseries)" title="Franklin (miniseries)">Franklin</a></i>, a 2024 <a href="/wiki/Apple_TV%2B" title="Apple TV+">Apple TV+</a> miniseries with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Douglas" title="Michael Douglas">Michael Douglas</a> as Franklin. It depicts the eight years Franklin spent in France attempting to convince King Louis XVI to support the American Revolutionary War.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_a_supporting_figure">As a supporting figure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: As a supporting figure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Film,_television,_and_theater"><span id="Film.2C_television.2C_and_theater"></span>Film, television, and theater</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Film, television, and theater"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/Janice_Meredith" title="Janice Meredith">Janice Meredith</a></i> (1924), played by Lee Beggs.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London_(film)" title="Lloyd's of London (film)">Lloyd's of London</a></i> (1936), played by Thomas Pogue.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_(1938_film)" title="Marie Antoinette (1938 film)">Marie Antoinette</a></i> (1938), played by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Walker_(actor)" title="Walter Walker (actor)">Walter Walker</a>.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/Royal_Affairs_in_Versailles" title="Royal Affairs in Versailles">Royal Affairs in Versailles</a></i> (1954), played by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Jones_(film)" title="John Paul Jones (film)">John Paul Jones</a></i> (1959), played by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Coburn" title="Charles Coburn">Charles Coburn</a>.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/La_Fayette_(film)" title="La Fayette (film)">La Fayette</a></i> (1961), played again by Orson Welles.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/1776_(musical)" title="1776 (musical)">1776 (musical)</a></i>, 1969 theatrical musical.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/1776_(film)" title="1776 (film)">1776 (film)</a></i>, 1972 musical film.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Adams_Chronicles" title="The Adams Chronicles">The Adams Chronicles</a></i>, 1976 <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> series.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/A_More_Perfect_Union_(film)" title="A More Perfect Union (film)">A More Perfect Union</a></i>, 1989 film.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/Liberty!" title="Liberty!">Liberty! The American Revolution</a></i>, 1997 <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> series.</li> <li>Franklin appears in several episodes of <i><a href="/wiki/Histeria!" title="Histeria!">Histeria!</a></i> (1998-2000), voiced by actor <a href="/wiki/Billy_West" title="Billy West">Billy West</a> similarly to <a href="/wiki/Jay_Leno" title="Jay Leno">Jay Leno</a>. He is frequently shown flying his kite in a lightning storm and being electrocuted as a <a href="/wiki/Running_gag" title="Running gag">running gag</a>.</li> <li>Franklin appears in the 2002-03 <a href="/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Broadcasting Service">PBS</a> cartoon <i><a href="/wiki/Liberty%27s_Kids" title="Liberty's Kids">Liberty's Kids</a></i> voiced by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Cronkite" title="Walter Cronkite">Walter Cronkite</a>.</li> <li>Franklin appears in the 2008 <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> miniseries <i><a href="/wiki/John_Adams_(miniseries)" title="John Adams (miniseries)">John Adams</a></i>, played by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Wilkinson" title="Tom Wilkinson">Tom Wilkinson</a>.</li> <li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_the_Mask" title="Beyond the Mask">Beyond the Mask</a></i> (2015), played by Alan Madlane.</li> <li>Franklin appears in the 2015 <a href="/wiki/History_Channel" title="History Channel">History Channel</a> series, <i><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty_(miniseries)" title="Sons of Liberty (miniseries)">Sons of Liberty</a></i>.</li> <li>Franklin appears in the 2015 play <i><a href="/wiki/Mr_Foote%27s_Other_Leg" title="Mr Foote's Other Leg">Mr Foote's Other Leg</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Colin_Stinton" title="Colin Stinton">Colin Stinton</a>.</li> <li>In the 2015 Broadway musical <i><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_(musical)" title="Hamilton (musical)">Hamilton</a></i>, Franklin's lightning experiment is referenced in the song "<a href="/wiki/Satisfied_(Hamilton_song)" title="Satisfied (Hamilton song)">Satisfied</a>" as <a href="/wiki/Angelica_Schuyler_Church" title="Angelica Schuyler Church">Angelica Schuyler</a> describes meeting <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Alexander Hamilton</a> for the first time:</li></ul> <blockquote><p>"It's a feeling of freedom, of seein' the light<br />It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite!"<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <ul><li><i>Hamilton</i> creator <a href="/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda" title="Lin-Manuel Miranda">Lin-Manuel Miranda</a> wrote a song intended for the musical, "Ben Franklin's Song", that was entirely about Franklin, but it was not included in the finished production. In 2017, it was recorded and released by <a href="/wiki/The_Decemberists" title="The Decemberists">The Decemberists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Franklin appears in the 2024 drama film <i><a href="/wiki/Here_(2024_film)" title="Here (2024 film)">Here</a></i>, played by Keith Bartlett.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Novels">Novels</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Proud Destiny</i> (1947) by <a href="/wiki/Lion_Feuchtwanger" title="Lion Feuchtwanger">Lion Feuchtwanger</a>, a novel mainly about <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Beaumarchais" title="Pierre Beaumarchais">Pierre Beaumarchais</a> and Franklin beginning in Paris in 1776.</li> <li>Franklin appears in the 1986 <a href="/wiki/Fred_Saberhagen" title="Fred Saberhagen">Fred Saberhagen</a> novel <i>The Frankenstein Papers</i>, and part of the novel is written as letters to Franklin.</li> <li>Franklin is a character in the 1997 <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/Mason_%26_Dixon" title="Mason & Dixon">Mason & Dixon</a></i>.</li> <li>A young Franklin appears in <a href="/wiki/Neal_Stephenson" title="Neal Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a>'s 2003 novel of 17th century science and alchemy, <i><a href="/wiki/Quicksilver_(novel)" title="Quicksilver (novel)">Quicksilver</a></i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fictional_interpretations_of_Franklin">Fictional interpretations of Franklin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Fictional interpretations of Franklin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternate_histories">Alternate histories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Alternate histories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Franklin appears in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Remarkable_Andrew" title="The Remarkable Andrew">The Remarkable Andrew</a></i> (1942), played by George Watts.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> cartoon <i><a href="/wiki/Ben_and_Me" title="Ben and Me">Ben and Me</a></i> (1953), based on the book by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Lawson_(author)" title="Robert Lawson (author)">Robert Lawson</a>, counterfactually explains that Franklin's achievements were actually the ideas of a mouse named Amos.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Freberg" title="Stan Freberg">Stan Freberg</a>'s comedic audio recording, <i><a href="/wiki/Stan_Freberg_Presents_the_United_States_of_America_Volume_One:_The_Early_Years" title="Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years">Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years</a></i>, depicts all of Franklin's accomplishments as having been made by his young apprentice, Myron.</li> <li>The 2004 film <i><a href="/wiki/National_Treasure_(film)" title="National Treasure (film)">National Treasure</a></i> has the main characters trying to collect clues left by Franklin to discover a treasure that he hid.</li> <li>Franklin has been portrayed in several works of fiction, such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fairly_OddParents" title="The Fairly OddParents">The Fairly OddParents</a></i>, as having lightning-and-kite-based superpowers akin to those of <a href="/wiki/Storm_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Storm (Marvel Comics)">Storm</a> from <a href="/wiki/X-Men" title="X-Men">X-Men</a>.</li> <li>The anime <i><a href="/wiki/Code_Geass" title="Code Geass">Code Geass</a></i> takes place in an alternate universe where Great Britain is known as the Holy Britannian Empire. Franklin, who was responsible with appealing to France for aid in the American war for independence, is instead bribed by the Duke of Britannia with promises of territories in the colonies and becomes an Earl. As a result, <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> is killed during the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Siege of Yorktown</a> and the American movement for independence fails.</li> <li>Sixteen-year-old Ben Franklin plays a significant role in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Age_of_Unreason" title="The Age of Unreason">The Age of Unreason</a></i>, a series of four <a href="/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">alternate history</a> <a href="/wiki/Novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Novels">novels</a> written by American <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a> author <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Keyes" title="Gregory Keyes">Gregory Keyes</a>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Bentley_Little" title="Bentley Little">Bentley Little's</a> short story <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washingtonians" title="The Washingtonians">The Washingtonians</a></i> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Masters_of_Horror" title="Masters of Horror">Masters of Horror</a></i> episode of the same name, Franklin was revealed to have been a composite of the accomplishments of several different people as opposed to one real individual.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_III" title="Assassin's Creed III">Assassin's Creed III</a></i>, Benjamin Franklin appears as a non-playable character. The player has the optional side-quest of retrieving lost pages from <i><a href="/wiki/Poor_Richard%27s_Almanack" title="Poor Richard's Almanack">Poor Richard's Almanack</a></i> for Ben. Also, he is present in the cutaway scenes involving the raising of George Washington to leader of the Continental Army and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In <i><a href="/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed:_Rogue" class="mw-redirect" title="Assassin's Creed: Rogue">Assassin's Creed: Rogue</a></i>, he has a small role as inventor and American ambassador in Paris.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_the_Mask" title="Beyond the Mask">Beyond the Mask</a></i>, Benjamin Franklin (Alan Madlane) is a significant character who, along with the protagonist Will(iam) Reynolds (Andrew Cheney), thwarts a plot by the East India Company, headed by <a href="/wiki/John_Rhys_Davies" class="mw-redirect" title="John Rhys Davies">John Rhys Davies</a>, to disrupt the signing of the Declaration of Independence with a bomb.</li> <li>Benjamin Franklin's ghost appears in several Marvel comics as a companion to the Mercenary <a href="/wiki/Deadpool" title="Deadpool">Deadpool</a>. In the comic, Franklin found a way to harness the power of electricity to turn himself into a ghost.</li> <li>Also in <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doctor_Strange" title="Doctor Strange">Dr. Strange's</a> girlfriend <a href="/wiki/Clea_Strange" title="Clea Strange">Clea</a> was seduced by <a href="/wiki/Stygyro" class="mw-redirect" title="Stygyro">a wizard (Stygyro)</a> disguised as Ben Franklin during a time travel story arc. The "real" Ben Franklin made an appearance at the end of the story.</li> <li>In the alternate history short story "The Father of His Country" by <a href="/wiki/Jody_Lynn_Nye" title="Jody Lynn Nye">Jody Lynn Nye</a> contained in the <a href="/wiki/Anthology" title="Anthology">anthology</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Alternate_Presidents" title="Alternate Presidents">Alternate Presidents</a></i>, Benjamin Franklin is elected as the first <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1788%E2%80%9389_United_States_presidential_election" title="1788–89 United States presidential election">1789 election</a> over his sole opponent <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> with <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> becoming his <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a>. As a result of this, he creates a more <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democratic society</a>.</li> <li>In the science fiction/alternate history short story "Existential Trips" by William Bevill, Benjamin Franklin appears, and is referenced throughout, as the inventor of a secret society of ghosts who fight crime in time and other dimensions of space, using items from Franklin including a stove and spectacles. Franklin's agents include Beatnik writers <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kerouac" title="Jack Kerouac">Jack Kerouac</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_S._Burroughs" title="William S. Burroughs">William S. Burroughs</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Time-travel_scenarios">Time-travel scenarios</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Time-travel scenarios"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The time-travel card game <a href="/wiki/Chrononauts" title="Chrononauts">Early American Chrononauts</a> includes a card called Franklin's Kite which players can symbolically acquire from the year 1752.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jack_Benny_Program" title="The Jack Benny Program">The Jack Benny Program</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/List_of_The_Jack_Benny_Program_episodes" title="List of The Jack Benny Program episodes">Alexander Hamilton Show</a>", <a href="/wiki/Jack_Benny" title="Jack Benny">Jack Benny</a> dreams that he is <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Alexander Hamilton</a>; <a href="/wiki/Don_Wilson_(announcer)" title="Don Wilson (announcer)">Don Wilson</a> plays Franklin.</li> <li>In an episode of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Flintstones" title="The Flintstones">The Flintstones</a></i> titled "The Time Machine" (season 5, episode 18, original airdate January 15, 1965), the Flintstones and the Rubbles travel by time machine to various periods in the future (from their perspective). One of those stops is in Philadelphia, where they meet Benjamin Franklin as he is conducting his kite-and-key experiment. When <a href="/wiki/Wilma_Flintstone" title="Wilma Flintstone">Wilma</a> says something Franklin deems worthy of writing down, he asks <a href="/wiki/Fred_Flintstone" title="Fred Flintstone">Fred</a> to hold the kite string. Naturally, the lightning picks that moment to strike the kite, electrifying Fred. In turn, <a href="/wiki/Barney_Rubble" title="Barney Rubble">Barney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Betty_Rubble" title="Betty Rubble">Betty</a>, and Wilma try to separate Fred from the kite string, only to be electrified themselves. "So that's how electricity works, eh?" says Franklin. "I'd better write this down."</li> <li>In season 3 of <i><a href="/wiki/Bewitched" title="Bewitched">Bewitched</a></i>, Aunt Clara accidentally brings him forward in time to repair a broken electrical lamp.</li> <li>The science-fiction TV show <i><a href="/wiki/Voyagers!" title="Voyagers!">Voyagers!</a></i> had the main characters helping Franklin fly his <a href="/wiki/Kite" title="Kite">kite</a> in one episode and save his mother from a fictionalized <a href="/wiki/Salem_witch_trials" title="Salem witch trials">Salem witch trial</a> in the next episode.</li> <li>Franklin appears in the <a href="/wiki/LucasArts" class="mw-redirect" title="LucasArts">LucasArts</a> Entertainment Company Game <i><a href="/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle" title="Day of the Tentacle">Day of the Tentacle</a></i>.</li> <li>A 1992 <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Parody" title="Parody">spoof</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Quantum_Leap_(1989_TV_series)" title="Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)">Quantum Leap</a></i>, "Founding Fathers", had Franklin traveling through time with <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> to help modern day Americans with <a href="/wiki/Government_budget_deficit" class="mw-redirect" title="Government budget deficit">deficit</a> reduction, only to find twentieth century <a href="/wiki/Reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Reporter">reporters</a> are only interested in <a href="/wiki/Scandal" title="Scandal">scandal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sensationalism" title="Sensationalism">sensationalism</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's novel</a> <i>Qwerty Stevens: Stuck in Time with Benjamin Franklin</i> has the main characters using their <a href="/wiki/Time_travel" title="Time travel">time machine</a> to bring Franklin into modern times and then to travel back with him to 1776.</li> <li>In a 2004 sketch on the TV show <i><a href="/wiki/MADtv" class="mw-redirect" title="MADtv">MADtv</a></i>, Franklin, played by <a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Vogt" title="Paul C. Vogt">Paul Vogt</a>, sends <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Adams" title="Samuel Adams">Samuel Adams</a>, played by <a href="/wiki/Josh_Meyers_(actor)" title="Josh Meyers (actor)">Josh Meyers</a>, to the future in a <a href="/wiki/Time_travel" title="Time travel">time machine</a> he made from a <a href="/wiki/Rolltop_desk" title="Rolltop desk">rolltop desk</a>. Franklin wanted to know if the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> was a success, but gets frustrated when Adams only comes back to tell him that <a href="/wiki/Boston_Beer_Company" title="Boston Beer Company">Samuel Adams Beer</a> is a success. The time machine also brings back a man named Jerry, played by <a href="/wiki/Ike_Barinholtz" title="Ike Barinholtz">Ike Barinholtz</a>, who is little help to Franklin.</li> <li>A <i><a href="/wiki/Saul_of_the_Mole_Men" title="Saul of the Mole Men">Saul of the Mole Men</a></i> episode titled "Poor Clancy's Almanack" uses Benjamin Franklin and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> to explain the true mainstream conflict while revealing Clancy Burrows' past. Both Franklin and Jefferson appear again in the spin-off <i><a href="/wiki/Young_Person%27s_Guide_to_History" class="mw-redirect" title="Young Person's Guide to History">Young Person's Guide to History</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Dana_Snyder" title="Dana Snyder">Dana Snyder</a> portrayed Franklin in both series.</li> <li>In the webcomic <i>Spinnerette</i>, Franklin is pulled through time by a machine into present day. Because the timeline dictated he died in 1790, he was rendered effectively invulnerable to danger by way of preternatural luck in order to avoid temporal paradoxes. He took up hero-work and became a leading member of the American Superhero Association.</li> <li>In the animated series <i><a href="/wiki/Big_Guy_and_Rusty_the_Boy_Robot_(TV_series)" title="Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (TV series)">Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot</a></i>, the titular characters secure Franklin's aid to power a damaged time machine that has brought them to colonial America on the first night of the Revolutionary War.</li> <li>Though he doesn't appear, Franklin is referred to in the <i><a href="/wiki/Ben_10:_Omniverse" title="Ben 10: Omniverse">Ben 10: Omniverse</a></i> series finale "A New Dawn", in which he is revealed to have crafted various tools for George Washington's use as part of a secret society predating the series' Plumbers, a galactic law enforcement division that deals with various alien and supernatural threats.</li> <li>A character clearly based on Franklin appears in Norm Novitsky's time-traveling film, <i>In Search of Liberty,</i> which was released in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the Kids' TV show <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fairly_OddParents" title="The Fairly OddParents">The Fairly OddParents</a></i>, Franklin appears as a side character in some episodes.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="People_compared_to_Franklin">People compared to Franklin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: People compared to Franklin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Torres_(diplomat)" title="Manuel Torres (diplomat)">Manuel Torres</a>, the first Colombian ambassador to the United States, was called "the Franklin of the southern world" by newspapers on his death in 1828. He was a revolutionary, scholar and diplomat.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters_based_on_Franklin">Characters based on Franklin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Characters based on Franklin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the webcomic <i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Dr._McNinja" title="The Adventures of Dr. McNinja">The Adventures of Dr. McNinja</a></i>, McNinja's mentor in medical school was a clone of Franklin.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man" title="Spider-Man">Spider-Man</a></i> comic books and related media, Peter Parker's <a href="/wiki/Uncle_Ben" title="Uncle Ben">Uncle Ben</a> is based on and named after Franklin.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters_named_after_Franklin">Characters named after Franklin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Characters named after Franklin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the 1904 Giacomo Puccini opera <a href="/wiki/Madama_Butterfly" title="Madama Butterfly">Madama Butterfly</a>, the lead male character is Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/M*A*S*H" title="M*A*S*H">M*A*S*H</a></i> protagonist <a href="/wiki/Hawkeye_Pierce" class="mw-redirect" title="Hawkeye Pierce">Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce</a> is named after both Benjamin Franklin and <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Pierce" title="Franklin Pierce">Franklin Pierce</a>.</li> <li>In the 1993 movie <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sandlot" title="The Sandlot">The Sandlot</a></i>, actor <a href="/wiki/Mike_Vitar" title="Mike Vitar">Mike Vitar</a>'s character is named Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Prison_Break" title="Prison Break">Prison Break</a></i> character <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Miles_%22C-Note%22_Franklin" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin">Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin</a> is named after Franklin.</li> <li>In the 2004 film <i><a href="/wiki/National_Treasure_(film)" title="National Treasure (film)">National Treasure</a></i> and the 2007 sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/National_Treasure:_Book_of_Secrets" title="National Treasure: Book of Secrets">National Treasure: Book of Secrets</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Cage" title="Nicolas Cage">Nicolas Cage</a> portrays the protagonist, Benjamin Franklin Gates, a fictional historian/treasure hunter.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Community_(TV_series)" title="Community (TV series)">Community</a></i> character <a href="/wiki/List_of_Community_characters#Ben_Chang" title="List of Community characters">Benjamin Franklin Chang</a> is named after Franklin.</li> <li>The 2013 video game <i><a href="/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V" title="Grand Theft Auto V">Grand Theft Auto V</a></i> features the character Franklin Clinton, named after Franklin.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="As_portrayed_by_fictional_characters">As portrayed by fictional characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: As portrayed by fictional characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Julian McGrath", played by <a href="/wiki/Cole_%26_Dylan_Sprouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Cole & Dylan Sprouse">Cole & Dylan Sprouse</a>, appears as Franklin in a school play in the <a href="/wiki/Adam_Sandler" title="Adam Sandler">Adam Sandler</a> comedy <i><a href="/wiki/Big_Daddy_(1999_film)" title="Big Daddy (1999 film)">Big Daddy</a></i>.</li> <li>In the 2007 episode "<a href="/wiki/Ben_Franklin_(The_Office)" title="Ben Franklin (The Office)">Ben Franklin</a>" of the sitcom <i><a href="/wiki/The_Office_(US_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Office (US TV series)">The Office</a></i>, an actor portraying Franklin is hired for an office party.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other">Other</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The c. 1816 <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_West" title="Benjamin West">Benjamin West</a> painting, <i><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Drawing_Electricity_from_the_Sky" title="Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky">Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky</a></i>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> web series <i><a href="/wiki/Epic_Rap_Battles_of_History" title="Epic Rap Battles of History">Epic Rap Battles of History</a></i> features a video where Benjamin Franklin is placed in combat against <a href="/wiki/Billy_Mays" title="Billy Mays">Billy Mays</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vince_Offer" title="Vince Offer">Vince Offer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A Benjamin Franklin impersonator appears as a playable character in the video game <i><a href="/wiki/Tony_Hawk%27s_Underground_2" title="Tony Hawk's Underground 2">Tony Hawk's Underground 2</a></i>. One of the character's special moves replicates the kite experiment.</li> <li>The mascot of the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_76ers" title="Philadelphia 76ers">Philadelphia 76ers</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> team is a dog named Franklin, after Benjamin Franklin. An alternate logo for the team depicts Franklin playing basketball.</li> <li>In the Cartoon Network comedy series Mad, Franklin appears as central character in some episodes.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Cultural_depictions_of_scientists" title="Category:Cultural depictions of scientists">Category:Cultural depictions of scientists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_named_for_Benjamin_Franklin" title="List of places named for Benjamin Franklin">List of places named for Benjamin Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lightning_rod_fashion" title="Lightning rod fashion">Lightning rod fashion</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Schocket, Andrew M. 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Congress">Second Continental Congress (1775–1776)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Founding of the<br />United States</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Join,_or_Die" title="Join, or Die"><i>Join, or Die.</i> (1754 political cartoon)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albany_Plan" title="Albany Plan">Albany Plan of Union</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albany_Congress" title="Albany Congress">Albany Congress</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutchinson_letters_affair" title="Hutchinson letters affair">Hutchinson letters affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_of_Secret_Correspondence" title="Committee of Secret Correspondence">Committee of Secret Correspondence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_of_Five" title="Committee of Five">Committee of Five</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_men_are_created_equal" title="All men are created equal">"...to be self-evident"</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Model_Treaty" title="Model Treaty">Model Treaty</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franco-American_alliance" title="Franco-American alliance">Franco-American alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Amity_and_Commerce_(France%E2%80%93United_States)" title="Treaty of Amity and Commerce (France–United States)">Treaty of Amity and Commerce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778)" title="Treaty of Alliance (1778)">Treaty of Alliance</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staten_Island_Peace_Conference" title="Staten Island Peace Conference">Staten Island Peace Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Constitution_of_1776" title="Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776">1776 Pennsylvania Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libertas_Americana" title="Libertas Americana">Libertas Americana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">Treaty of Paris, 1783</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(United_States)" title="Constitutional Convention (United States)">Delegate, 1787 Constitutional Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Pennsylvania#Government" title="Province of Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Postmaster_General" title="United States Postmaster General">Postmaster General</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Fathers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Inventions,<br />other events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franklin%27s_electrostatic_machine" title="Franklin's electrostatic machine">Franklin's electrostatic machine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bifocals" title="Bifocals">Bifocals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_stove" title="Franklin stove">Franklin stove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glass_harmonica#Franklin's_armonica" title="Glass harmonica">Glass armonica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_Stream#History" title="Gulf Stream">Gulf Stream exploration, naming, and chart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lightning_rod" title="Lightning rod">Lightning rod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kite_experiment" title="Kite experiment">Kite experiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pay_it_forward" title="Pay it forward">Pay it forward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Associators" title="Associators">Associators</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/111th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="111th Infantry Regiment (United States)">111th Infantry Regiment</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junto_(club)" title="Junto (club)">Junto club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_Company_of_Philadelphia" title="Library Company of Philadelphia">Library Company of Philadelphia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Hospital" title="Pennsylvania Hospital">Pennsylvania Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Academy_and_College_of_Philadelphia" title="Academy and College of Philadelphia">Academy and College of Philadelphia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Contributionship" title="Philadelphia Contributionship">Philadelphia Contributionship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Fire_Company" title="Union Fire Company">Union Fire Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_American_currency" title="Early American currency">Early American currency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Currency_dollar_coin" title="Continental Currency dollar coin">Continental Currency dollar coin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fugio_cent" title="Fugio cent">Fugio cent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States#Early_postal_history" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the United States">United States Postal Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_street_lighting_in_the_United_States" title="History of street lighting in the United States">Street lighting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Abolition_Society" title="Pennsylvania Abolition Society">President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Neuf_S%C5%93urs" title="Les Neuf Sœurs">Master, Les Neuf Sœurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christ_Church_Burial_Ground" title="Christ Church Burial Ground">Gravesite</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Writings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Papers_of_Benjamin_Franklin" title="The Papers of Benjamin Franklin">The Papers of Benjamin Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Founders_Online" title="Founders Online">Founders Online</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silence_Dogood" title="Silence Dogood">Silence Dogood letters (1722)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Dissertation_on_Liberty_and_Necessity,_Pleasure_and_Pain" title="A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain"><i>A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain</i> (1725)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Busy-Body_(pen_name)" title="The Busy-Body (pen name)">The Busy-Body columns (1729)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Pennsylvania_Gazette" title="The Pennsylvania Gazette"><i>The Pennsylvania Gazette</i> (1729–1790)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_American_publishers_and_printers" title="Early American publishers and printers">Early American publishers and printers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poor_Richard%27s_Almanack" title="Poor Richard's Almanack"><i>Poor Richard's Almanack</i> (1732–1758)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Drinker%27s_Dictionary" title="The Drinker's Dictionary">The Drinker's Dictionary (1737)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistress" title="Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress">"Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress" (1745)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Speech_of_Polly_Baker" title="The Speech of Polly Baker">"The Speech of Polly Baker" (1747)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Observations_Concerning_the_Increase_of_Mankind,_Peopling_of_Countries,_etc." title="Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc."><i>Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.</i> (1751)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Experiments_and_Observations_on_Electricity" title="Experiments and Observations on Electricity"><i>Experiments and Observations on Electricity</i> (1751)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Birch#Copies_of_Franklin_letters" title="Thomas Birch">Birch letters (1755)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Way_to_Wealth" title="The Way to Wealth"><i>The Way to Wealth</i> (1758)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Chronicle" title="Pennsylvania Chronicle"><i>Pennsylvania Chronicle</i> (1767)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_By_Which_A_Great_Empire_May_Be_Reduced_To_A_Small_One" class="extiw" title="s:Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One"><i>Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One</i> (1773)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_removal#Benjamin_Franklin" title="Indian removal">Proposed alliance with the Iroquois (1775)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Letter_to_a_Royal_Academy" title="A Letter to a Royal Academy"><i>A Letter to a Royal Academy</i> (1781)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noble_savage#Benjamin_Franklin's_Remarks_Concerning_the_Savages_of_North_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Noble savage"><i>Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America</i> (1784)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Morals_of_Chess" title="The Morals of Chess">"The Morals of Chess" (1786)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Address_to_the_Public" class="extiw" title="s:An Address to the Public"><i>An Address to the Public</i> (1789)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Plan_for_Improving_the_Condition_of_the_Free_Blacks" class="extiw" title="s:A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks"><i>A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks</i> (1789)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin" title="The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"><i>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</i> (1771–1790, pub. 1791)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagatelles_and_Satires" title="Bagatelles and Satires"><i>Bagatelles and Satires</i> (pub. 1845)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers#The_New_England_Courant" title="History of American newspapers">Franklin as a journalist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin%27s_phonetic_alphabet" title="Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet">Franklin's phonetic alphabet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Legacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Benjamin_Franklin" title="Bibliography of Benjamin Franklin">Bibliography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Court" title="Franklin Court">Franklin Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_House" title="Benjamin Franklin House">Benjamin Franklin House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Institute_of_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology">Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Parkway" title="Benjamin Franklin Parkway">Benjamin Franklin Parkway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_National_Memorial" title="Benjamin Franklin National Memorial">Benjamin Franklin National Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Institute" title="Franklin Institute">Franklin Institute</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Institute_Awards" title="Franklin Institute Awards">awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Medal" title="Franklin Medal">medal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Medal_(American_Philosophical_Society)" title="Benjamin Franklin Medal (American Philosophical Society)">Benjamin Franklin Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Medal_(Royal_Society_of_Arts)" title="Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts)">Royal Society of Arts medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington" title="The Apotheosis of Washington">Depicted in <i>The Apotheosis of Washington</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memorial_to_the_56_Signers_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence">Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(painting)" title="Treaty of Paris (painting)">Treaty of Paris</a></i> (1783 painting)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Drawing_Electricity_from_the_Sky" title="Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky">Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky</a></i> (1816 painting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_War_Door" title="Revolutionary War Door">Revolutionary War Door</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(Boston)" title="Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Boston)">Boston statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(Chicago)" title="Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Chicago)">Chicago statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(Columbus,_Ohio)" title="Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Columbus, Ohio)">Columbus, Ohio, statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(University_of_Pennsylvania)" title="Statue of Benjamin Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)">University of Pennsylvania statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(Portland,_Oregon)" title="Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Portland, Oregon)">Portland, Oregon, statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(San_Francisco)" title="Statue of Benjamin Franklin (San Francisco)">San Francisco statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(Stanford_University)" title="Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Stanford University)">Stanford University statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Washington, D.C.)">Washington D.C. statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Memorial#Exterior" title="Jefferson Memorial">Jefferson Memorial pediment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refunding_Certificate" title="Refunding Certificate">Refunding Certificate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_half_dollar" title="Franklin half dollar">Franklin half dollar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_one-hundred-dollar_bill" title="United States one-hundred-dollar bill">One-hundred-dollar bill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_silver_dollar" title="Benjamin Franklin silver dollar">Franklin silver dollar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington%E2%80%93Franklin_Issues" title="Washington–Franklin Issues">Washington–Franklin stamps</a> <ul><li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Benjamin_Franklin_on_stamps" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Benjamin Franklin on stamps">other stamps</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_named_for_Benjamin_Franklin" title="List of places named for Benjamin Franklin">Cities, counties, schools named for Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_College" title="Benjamin Franklin College">Benjamin Franklin College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Field" title="Franklin Field">Franklin Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Franklin_(New_Hampshire)" title="Mount Franklin (New Hampshire)">Mount Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_of_Franklin" title="State of Franklin">State of Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Ben_(MLS_supporters_association)" title="Sons of Ben (MLS supporters association)">Sons of Ben (Philadelphia Union)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Franklin" title="USS Franklin">Ships named USS <i>Franklin</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect" title="Ben Franklin effect">Ben Franklin effect</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">In popular culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ben_and_Me" title="Ben and Me"><i>Ben and Me</i> (1953 short)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Franklin_in_Paris" title="Ben Franklin in Paris"><i>Ben Franklin in Paris</i> (1964 musical play)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1776_(musical)" title="1776 (musical)"><i>1776</i> (1969 musical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1776_(film)" title="1776 (film)">1972 film</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_(miniseries)" title="Benjamin Franklin (miniseries)"><i>Benjamin Franklin</i> (miniseries)</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_More_Perfect_Union_(film)" title="A More Perfect Union (film)"><i>A More Perfect Union</i> (1989 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty!" title="Liberty!"><i>Liberty!</i> (1997 documentary series)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty%27s_Kids" title="Liberty's Kids"><i>Liberty's Kids</i> (2002 animated series)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_(2002_TV_series)" title="Benjamin Franklin (2002 TV series)"><i>Benjamin Franklin</i> (2002 documentary series)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Adams_(miniseries)" title="John Adams (miniseries)"><i>John Adams</i> (2008 miniseries)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty_(miniseries)" title="Sons of Liberty (miniseries)"><i>Sons of Liberty</i> (2015 miniseries)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_(film)" title="Benjamin Franklin (film)"><i>Benjamin Franklin</i> (2022 documentary)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_(miniseries)" title="Franklin (miniseries)"><i>Franklin</i> (2024 miniseries)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Age of Enlightenment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Enlightenment" title="American 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