History Characters / ItCantHappenHere

* GovernmentInExile: The core of one.

* BigGood: Of an overarching sort to Americans opposed to Windrip and the Corpos. He doesn't appear personally once he escapes, but he serves as a face for the resistance to both downtrodden Americans and the Canadian government.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When the Minute Men come to arrest him, Trowbdrige ''invites them to a barbeque''. Trowbridge waits until his would-be captors are all blackout drunk, whereupon a plane lands on his large farm. He then absconds to Winnipeg under the cover of fireworks, taking a loyal members of the military and a solid cache of military materiel with him.
%%* TheExile
%%* GovernmentInExile
%%* NobleFugitive

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When the Minute Men come to arrest him, Trowbdrige ''invites them to a barbeque''. Trowbridge waits until his would-be captors are all blackout drunk, whereupon a plane lands on his large farm. Trowbrdige then absconds to Winnipeg under the cover of fireworks, taking a loyal members of the military and a solid cache of military materiel with him.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When the Minute Men come to arrest him, Trowbdrige ''invites them to a barbeque''. He then waits until his would-be captors are all blackout drunk, whereupon he absconds to Winnipeg via plane under the cover of fireworks. Not bad for pasty career politician.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When the Minute Men come to arrest him, Trowbdrige ''invites them to a barbeque''. He then waits until his would-be captors are all blackout drunk, whereupon he absconds Winnipeg via under the cover of fireworks. Not bad for pasty career politician.

* ThreeDegreesOfMurder: He shoots two innocent men, Dr. Schmidt and Rabbi de Verez, in a drunken rage. The shooting is what galvanizes Doremus into publicly speaking out against the regime.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite all the oppression and atrocities he brought about, he spends the rest of his life in peaceful exile in France.

* RetiredMonster: When he lives as an exile in France.

%%* AssholeVictim

%%* TheManBehindTheMan

%%* TheStarscream

* TheExile: After [[spoiler: Haik assassinates Saranson]], he flees to Haiti and lives in the mountains.

%%* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini]]

%%* KillItWithFire

-->"'You want to watch that cuss Haik, Lee,' said Macgoblin. 'He's ambitious, he's a gorilla, and he's a pious Puritan, and that's a triple combination I'm scared of. The troops like him.'"

* TheStarscream: To Windrip, and later Saranson. [=MacGoblin=] even tries to warn Saranson that Haik is bad news.
-->"You want to watch that cuss Haik, Lee," said [=Macgoblin=]. "He's ambitious, he's a gorilla, and he's a pious Puritan, and that's a triple combination I'm scared of. The troops like him.''


!!Dr. Hector [=MacGoblin=]

* TheVamp: A nonsexual example. She pretends to befriend Shad so as to glean information from him.

%%* {{Badass}}

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's an exaggerated version of HueyLong.

%%* BlondGuysAreEvil

* CoolOldGuy

* [[spoiler: TheExile: After Lorinda helps him escape from Trianon, he flees to Canada and lives among other American exiles for a time.]]

* IntrepidReporter
* KnightInSourArmor
* [[spoiler: NobleFugitive: At the end of the novel.]]

* TheSmartGuy

* {{Housewife}}

* PluckyGirl

* ActionGirl
* {{Badass}}
* [[spoiler: DeterminedWidow: She redoubles her resistance to the Windrip regime after it claims the life of her husband.]]

* KindlyHousekeeper

* AffablyEvil

* CorruptPolitician

* GloriousLeader
* GoodOlBoy

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Despite all the oppression and atrocities he brought about, he spends the rest of his life in peaceful exile in France.]]

* [[spoiler: RetiredMonster: When he lives as an exile in France.]]

* AllGaysArePromiscuous
* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]

* BlondGuysAreEvil

* DepravedHomosexual

* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: After seizing power in a coup, Haik assassinates him and seizes power himself.]]
* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedKarma]]
* TheManBehindTheMan
* [[spoiler: MeetTheNewBoss: Nothing really changes after he exiles Windrip and takes power.]]
* [[spoiler: RevolvingDoorRevolution: He's assassinated shortly after taking power from his predecessor in a coup.]]
* [[spoiler: TheStarscream]]

* [[spoiler: TheStarscream: To Windrip, and later Saranson. [=MacGoblin=] even tries to warn Saranson that Haik is bad news.]]

* [[spoiler: TheExile: After Haik assassinates Saranson, he flees to Haiti and lives in the mountains.]]

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini]]

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]

* BlackShirt

* {{Jerkass}}
* JerkJock
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: After he is imprisoned at the Trianon camp, his old victims vow revenge. Several of the prisoners set fire to his room, and Shad burns to death, screaming.]]
* [[spoiler: KillItWithFire]]
* LaserGuidedKarma
* LowerClassLout
* SmugSnake

* BrainyBrunette

* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Gal]]

* TheExile
* GovernmentInExile
* NobleFugitive

* SmugSnake

* FromNobodyToNightmare

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her real name is Cecilia, but everyone calls her Sissy.

!!Sissy Jessop

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her real name is Cecilia, but everyonme calls her Sissy.

* MagnificentBastard

* AcePilot: [[spoiler: Galvanized by her husband's murder and her father's incarceration, she joins the Corpo Women's Flying Corps and trains as a bomber pilot. She is later assigned to escort District Commissioner Swan's place to Washington. She crashes her plane into Swan's, killing Swan, his aides, and herself.]]

* ColdBloodedMurder: He shoots two innocent men, Dr. Schmidt and Rabbi de Verez, in a drunken rage. The shooting is what galvanizes Doremus into publicly speaking out against the regime.
* EvilDoctor: A surgeon by trade.

* [[DeterminedWidow: She redoubles her resistance to the Windrip regime after it claims the life of her husband.]]

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: His administration is characterized by ruthless internal politics and jostling for power. Doubly so near the end of the book, when [[Saranson sends him to exile in Europe, and Haik later assassinates Saranson.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: He, MacGoblin, and Haik walk into Windrip's bedroom at night. Saranson raises a knife to stab Windrip, but Windrip begs for his life and reminds Saranson of kindnesses he did for him. Saranson cannot bring himself to kill Windrip, and exiles him instead.]]

* EvilEvilHasStandards: Haik seems to disapprove of greed. [[spoiler: After his rise to power]], he kicks out M.M. commissioners "who had garnered riches too easily and too obviously."

* [[spoiler: TheStarscream: To Windrip, and later Saranson. MacGoblin even tries to warn Saranson that Haik is bad news.]]
-->"You want to watch that cuss Haik, Lee," said Macgoblin. "He's ambitious, he's a gorilla, and he's a pious Puritan, and that's a triple combination I'm scared of. The troops like him.''


!!Dr. Hector MacGoblin

* ColdBloodedMurderer: He shoots two innocent men, Dr. Schmidt and Rabbi de Verez, in a drunken rage. The shooting is what galvanizes Doremus into publicly speaking out against the regime.

* DirtyBusiness: The novel implies that he feels guilt over some of the unjust acts of the Corpos. After [[spoiler: Julian's death]], he cannot make eye contact with Mary. Similarly, when testifying against Doremus, he looks down, his usual cockiness gone.

* SkewedPriorities: She's more concerned about practical matters than oppression, much to Doremus' chagrin. Even when M.M.'s charge into her home and drag off Doremus, she;s more upset by the mess the M.M.'s made than her husband's incarceration.

* NaiveEverygirl

* Badass

* Jerkass

* ScarsAreForever: His back is covered in crosscross scars from the whippings he received at Trianon.

* ApatheticMasses: She never seems to grasp how destructive the Windrip regime truly is, being more concerned about mundane matters.

* Housewife