Victorian British colonialism was NOT all bad. In India they ended the practice of Suttee and Thuggee and their bureaucrats were not half as corrupt and greedy as the native rajahs. In their African possessions they ended cannibalism. They were the first European nation to make slavery and slave trading illegal. The Royal Navy tried to stop slave ships going to the southern U.S. slave states.
The portraits of these company commanders of curaissiers, arquebusiers, and pikes depict elite troops similar to the Sardaukar of the Padishah Emperor in Dune.
In the 1950s the large, pointed tail fins on Cadillacs would impale bicycle riding children who crashed into them.