The tale of Napoleon himself is interesting, but there were quite a few colorful characters under his control like Murat, Ney and other famous marshals, as well as political and other figures.
Meanwhile, his opponents had the charm of a dried rye bread. Wellington is well known in the English speaking world, more so in the Commonwealth countries and less so in USA, but there are not too many stories about him.
Lev Tolstoy wrote War and Peace to commemorate the expulsion of Napoleon's forces from Russia. He tried to write something about Kutuzov, the Russian general chiefly responsible for that feat, but he did not find too much to write about the general so he wrote the story using fictional characters based upon his extended family instead, saying the entire Russian people, not some general, was responsible for victory over France. For that attitude his family was allowed to keep his estate during the days of USSR, which still exists despite of Guderian occupying it for some time in 1941, and a descendant of his is now a good toady of Putin.
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The 2nd generation had a lot of interesting characters. There are simply too many to list, it will bore everyone. Virtually all members of SNSD and Big Bang, Jokwon of 2AM and Leeteuk of Super Junior were national figures, and there were simply many others too long to list here.
The 3rd Gen still had interesting characters at the beginning, with Luhan of Exo, Irene of Red Velvet, Solar of Mamamoo (Hwasa became famous later), Yuju of Gfriend and of course Tzuyu of Twice. At that time the BTS members were not well known.
But Luhan returned to China with a big mess and there were no one else in EXO who could stand out, and 2 years later the Huang An shit, from which Tzuyu has never recovered, occurred.
Sana's fame during the Cheer Up era was probably the last gasp, but since then the all fan ethos, in which fans of a group are expected to support every single member of a group, instead of just an individual member, has prevailed.
So , ironically, individual members who tended to shine came from minor acts which were much less known , such as Sejeong of IOI/Gugudan, Chaeunwoo of Astro and Chuu of Loona. Their groups were not well known so there were not enough forces to make people support all members of their groups, so they stood out, while members from more famous acts remained more or less unknown outside of their fanbases.
Individual members of BlackPink began to outshine everyone else, but because of YG's policy of restricting their activities, they dominated on their own niches but did not get to dominate the whole industry.
Although BTS had conquered the world, until Jungkook last year, the members remained largely generic on them. Few non-Armies could name a single BTS member, which is why people were not too enthusiastic supporting them in Korea. All of them looked more or less alike to the general public and so they could not identify with it.
4th gen is even worse. Other than maybe Jang Wonyoung, few people outside of the acts' fandoms can name a single member of a huge group. There has been not really a leading figure everyone could identify with, and everyone is now generic, under an act's name, with few people having the chance of knowing or caring about their individual idiosyncrasies.
Even the 2nd Generation's chief adversary was colorful; she, who still resides at the left of this post, was the chief adversary of the 2nd Generation, and then the 3rd Generation. But because there has been no standout members from the 4th Gen to stand out in the public, she still continues on the position of the adversary of KPop , against the 4th Gen nowdays.
The members will be more generic, as the all fan ethos has become mainstream. I
