George Washington

George Washington functions in the series as a powerful historical touchstone: the canonical founding leader and military commander invoked by characters to claim revolutionary legitimacy. Though never present, his reputation for leading an independence movement supplies rhetorical cover for insurgent impulses and moral arguments about armed resistance. In the current episode Finn summons Washington’s name to equate his violent campaign with a celebrated struggle for self-determination, turning Washington from a distant emblem of nationhood into an immediate, contested standard that shapes characters’ ethical responses.