Charles Schulz's Real Self

Many Peanuts readers are familiar with Charlie Brown having a lot of misfortune. However, in 2015, it was revealed that Charlie Brown and Peanuts author Charles M Schulz were one and the same. This was officially confirmed by Charles Schulz's son Craig Schulz, who revealed that Charlie Brown was Charles Schulz's real self, while Snoopy was what the Peanuts author wanted to be.

Perhaps one day Pokemon fans will find out Ash Ketchum and his namesake Satoshi Tajiri were one and the same all along. This could change everything we know about the Pokemon series, and it may not be in a positive way...

If Japan Captured Snoopy...

Forget the Red Baron and his Flying Circus. If Snoopy was captured by the Japanese in 1942, they would definitely show no mercy to him...

Even if Germany committed a lot of war crimes in both World Wars, Japan's war crimes were even worse. The Nanjing Massacre, Comfort Women, the bullying of Zainichi Koreans, even the maltreatment of prisoners of war during the construction of the Death Railway. Had Snoopy been defeated by the Japanese, he would be forced to work on the Death Railway, and would probably have died without seeing the end of World War 2...

The Cruel Reality About 1942

Today marks the 80th Anniversary of the surrender of (Colonial) Singapore. A day of infamy that proves that Japan was a more fearsome opponent than Germany in World War 2.

Let's face it. The Red Baron and his Flying Circus (with the exception of the Red Baron's wingman) would be nowhere near as bad as the Imperial Japanese Army. Had Snoopy been defeated by the Japanese, he would have no chance of crying away or to even say "How Embarrassing!" because being captured by the Japanese means it's off to the Death Railway in Burma, and many people who were forced to work on the Death Railway did not survive to see the end of the war. If Snoopy was sent to Burma's Death Railway as forced labour, he would wish that he was defeated by the Red Baron and his Flying Circus instead of the Empire of Japan. No wonder Peanuts author Charles M. Schulz gave the name "World War 2" to a mean cat. Snoopy was actually what Schulz wanted to be, but the war the Peanuts author fought in altered his life. The German Army was fearsome, but the Japanese were a totally different level. If Snoopy fought against a Zero Fighter instead of a Fokker Triplane, he would have been torn to shreds, and he would not survive getting captured. Scary, isn't it?

Allied Vengeance

Historical Fact: The last original Fokker Dr.I Triplane was once piloted by Manfred von Richthofen a.k.a. the Red Baron. It was destroyed by an Allied bombing raid in World War 2.

If you, just like me, want to get unduly upset and throw tantrums over Snoopy failing to truly defeat the Red Baron, just remember that the last original Fokker Dr.I Triplane got destroyed by Allied bombs in World War 2. So much for the long wait for justice and vengeance. And yes, I used the Allied symbol from Red Alert 3 to depict the Allied bombs destroying the Red Baron's Fokker Triplane.

Just to let you know that if I were the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, I would have sent captured German Panzers (including Panthers, Tigers and King Tigers) and U-Boats to suffer the same tragic fate that befell Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Operation Crossroads. How's that for justice? Because I would like to destroy a King Tiger tank by electrocuting it with a Tesla Coil or blasting it into oblivion with an atomic bomb. If you think villains don't deserve to perish so horribly, you might as well end up on the floor next to Georgi Kukov.

Remembering 1942

15th of February, 1942. A day which will live in infamy on the same level as the day World War 2 started.

Winston Churchill called the Fall of (Colonial) Singapore the worst military defeat in British history, proving that Japan could actually succeed where Germany failed.

As upsetting as Snoopy losing to the Red Baron in the World War 1 saga of the Peanuts comic strip without any genuine success in defeating him sounds, Snoopy should be fortunate that his recurring nemesis came from Germany, because Britain's worst military defeat was to Japan, whose armed forces in 1942 were often seen as second-rate compared to British and German forces at that time. Talk about humiliation...

Japan's victory over the British in 1942 was also the reason Singapore conceived the idea of Total Defence 42 years later. To this day, the Public Warning Signal siren sounds away every 15th of February.