History Characters / JojoRabbit

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->'''Played by:''' Roman Griffin Davis

->'''Played by:''' Creator/ScarlettJohansson

->'''Played by:''' Creator/ThomasinMcKenzie

->'''Played by:''' Creator/TaikaWaititi

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/SamRockwell

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-->'''Played by:''' Creator/RebelWilson

-->'''Played by:''' Archie Yates

-->'''Played by:''' Creator/StephenMerchant

* TookALevelInJerkass: Gradually, he goes from being Jojo's silly imaginary friend [[spoiler: to a raving maniac]].

* AffablyEvil: Spends much of the film as a kooky genuine friend to Jojo, despite being a manifestation of one of the evilest men in history. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|trope}} hard once Jojo starts to see Nazism for what it really is, at which point the venomous monster he really is fully rises to the surface.]]

See [[Characters/CagingSkies here]] for the book's character sheet.

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->'''Played by:''' Creator/TaikaWaititi

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* VillainousBreakdown: His final appearance (after Jojo learns about the real Hitler's suicide) depicts him as a desperate disheveled wreck with fresh entry and exit bullet wounds in his head, and he begins by trying to angrily bully Jojo into putting his Nazi armband back on. When Jojo rejects him, he's reduced to stammering and begging pathetically for a "little heil" for old time's sake, which Jojo responds to by [[DestinationDefenestration kicking him out the window.]]

* PsychopathicManchild: He's a mass murdering dictator, but he acts like a whimsical teenager to Jojo. [[spoiler: He loses the whimsy after his blistering tirade to Jojo, but still acts petty and petulant, angrily kicking the table after telling Jojo to act ten]].

* TheHeavy: He is the leader of the unit to which Jojo and his fellow Nazis belong.

* CheshireCatGrin: He sports one before leaving Jojo's home. [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/rotten_k/28560669/23728696/23728696_800.jpg Look]].

* FauxAffablyEvil: He is a smug, smirking Gestapo officer who is thoroughly polite while shaking down the family of a suspected resistance member. The way he considers Jojo's answers about Rosie very carefully and looms menacingly over Klenzendorf make it pretty clear that he's just a creep hiding behind a false smile.
* KarmaHoudini: He is seen in the background, wearing civilian clothes, generally ignored by American soldiers who have German soldiers as prisoners.
* KnightOfCerebus: Though he is LaughablyEvil, his appearance and the interrogation scene following are notably tenser than anything else in the movie up to that point, and it's only afterwards that things start taking a dark turn for Jojo, [[spoiler: starting with discovering his mother's death.]] He's even this InUniverse to an extent, as Jojo is left noticeably withdrawn and intimidated when around him, and it's after meeting him and getting an idea of what a 'real' Nazi is like that [[spoiler:Jojo's vision of Adolf starts updating to fall more in line with the real thing, as the facade of Nazism is laid bare to Jojo.]]

* SecretPolice: He's an officer in the Gestapo, and shows up at Jojo's house to snoop around for any signs of treason.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: As a result of Waititi refusing to dignify Hitler by doing research, several of this Adolf's quirks go against the real one's values. For one, he's a smoker, when Hitler hated smoking.

* CanonForeginer: He has no counterpart in ''Literature/CagingSkies''.

* CanonImmigrant: He has no counterpart in ''Literature/CagingSkies''.

* PranksterParent: She enjoys playfully teasing her son, retorting his self-loathing remarks by gushing about how she herself is cursed with being "incredibly attractive", and responding to his blind fanaticism by pointing out the ridiculousness of what he's saying. At one point she even ties his shoes together and jokes about leaving him behind.

-->'''Elsa:''' You're not a Nazi, Jojo. You're a 10-year-old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: As we see in Jojo's Hitler Youth training, he just doesn't have it in him to be the remorseless killer the Nazis expect him to be, despite his devotion to the cause. See IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten above.