Alfred Nobel

. . . History will deem the most vile villain to have been a Great Person if they create some sort of charity to perpetuate their name after spending a lifetime living it up on the bulk of their ill-gotten gains. PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY: ALFRED NOBEL deals with serial secretary seducer who never married any of his victims to avoid having heirs who might contest his plans for posthumous self-aggrandizement by squandering his war profiteering fortune on annual "prizes" named after himself. Rubbing in salt to injury is the bitter irony that one of these violence-subsidized trinkets is for "Peace." An evangelistic atheist, had he lived long enough, Nobel would have encouraged The Fuhrer to rehabilitate his post-WWII Legacy by endowing annual artistic "Adolf" trophies and blue ribbons to be doled out to the future Rockwell's, Wyeth's and Warhol's of this world.

. . . rooting out History's most unsavory characters in order to play Enabler-in-Chief as he aids and abets their Crimes against Humanity. Like most canines, Peabody has a nose for rot, making sure to stir up Trouble wherever he goes. This ALFRED NOBLE detour is par for Mr. P's wayward course of meandering malignancy. In Real Life, Noble was of course the doofus who failed to see the farcical aspect of creating super weapons and then using some of the resulting proceeds from arming warmongers to dole out peace prizes named after himself. This would be akin to the captain of the Titanic surviving to make his fortune shilling ice-making machines.