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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the Kaiserreich timeline, Reed never fell ill in Moscow and returned to the United States alive in 1921 after the Whites forced the Reds out of Moscow. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that he health deteriorates only a few years into the game and he succumbs to complications of cancer.

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the Kaiserreich timeline, Reed never fell ill in Moscow and returned to the United States alive in 1921 after the Whites forced the Reds out of Moscow. Moscow and takes the helm of the Combined Syndicates of America party after its initial head dies a few months into the game. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that he his health deteriorates only a few years into the game and he succumbs to complications of cancer.

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!!''Douglas MacArthur''

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!!Huey Long

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!!Huey Long!!''Huey Long''
* {{Catchphrase}}: Many of Long's slogans and programs double as catchphrases, prominently "Share the wealth" and "Every man a king, but no one wears a crown", often shortened simply to "Every man a king".



* TheHorseshoeEffect: Despite being vociferously opposed to syndicalism, his extremely distributionist policies leave him occasionally accused of being a syndie himself.

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* TheHorseshoeEffect: Despite being vociferously opposed to syndicalism, his extremely distributionist distributist policies, which fall well to the left of the prevailing economic policies of the time, leave him occasionally often accused of being a syndie himself.himself.
* KeystoneArmy: Unlike the Combined Syndicates of America, the America First Union Party isn't based around an ideology, but rather solely around Huey Long. As such, if Garner has Long assassinated ''and'' successfully defuses tensions with the CSA, the AFP dissolves and civil war can be averted as neither the CSA nor AFP will have enough strength left to do more than carry out localized riots.
* {{Nepotism}}: Much as in RealLife, Long can and does appoint family members to high offices in the AUS.
* PresidentForLife: In the American Union State, Long rules for life, even if lower offices face election.
* RedBaron: Long is still known by his historical nickname "the Kingfish".
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Long's philosophy on governance is that the rules are more or less guidelines and he refuses to let them get in the way of his populist progressive agenda, though it becomes more like ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem once the American Union State is formed.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: If elected president, Long will tire of the partisan gridlock and various rules of the federal government preventing him from enacting his agenda and suppressing the Combined Syndicates, and declare the United States to be dead and declare a new American Union State in the south, while [=MacArthur=] assumes the now-vacant position of POTUS.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In Kaiserreich, one of Huey's bodyguards successfully took the bullet that ended his life in RealLife in 1935. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that Long may still be assassinated either in 1937 by Garner and [=MacArthur=] or after the Second American Civil War at the hands of William Dudley Pelley and his goons.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After the Second American Civil War is concluded, Pelley will try to have Long assassinated so that he can seize power. Whether Pelley's plot succeeds is up to the player, provided, of course, that they are playing as the AUS.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Seeks to extend Jim Crow laws all over America

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Seeks to extend Jim Crow laws all over AmericaAmerica and explicitly favors whites and Christians over all other races and religions.


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!!''John "Jack" Silas Reed''
* DealWithTheDevil: If the Second American Civil War is going poorly for the CSA and AUS, Reed and Long can set aside their mutual loathing and team up against the USA, only to immediately resume hostilities as soon as the USA has been defeated.
* IllBoy: Reed has seen better days and his poor health will usually claim him by mid-1940.
* IntrepidReporter: Before becoming leader of the Combined Syndicates, Reed gained fame as a reporter, especially for his coverage of the Russian Revolution.
* NiceHat: In earlier versions of Kaiserreich, Reed's portrait was taken from a photo from long before the game began and featured him in a wide-brimmed fedora.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the Kaiserreich timeline, Reed never fell ill in Moscow and returned to the United States alive in 1921 after the Whites forced the Reds out of Moscow. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that he health deteriorates only a few years into the game and he succumbs to complications of cancer.
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!!Huey Long
* DealWithTheDevil
** First, Huey has formed political alliances of necessity with racists he holds little common ideological ground with, such as William Dudley Pelley and Charles Coughlin.
** Second, if the Second American Civil War is going poorly for both him and the Combined Syndicates, they can form an EnemyMine alliance against the United States despite his mutual loathing with Jack Reed, only to resume fighting each other as soon as the United States capitulates.
* DemocracyIsBad: Huey Long has often been described as a social democrat... without the democrat part.
* TheHorseshoeEffect: Despite being vociferously opposed to syndicalism, his extremely distributionist policies leave him occasionally accused of being a syndie himself.
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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: With careful diplomacy and compromise, Curtis can appease most of the Combined Syndicates' base, which is necessary to prevent a civil war.
* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: Unlike the Combined Syndicates, Huey Long will not pursue compromise with Curtis and cannot be talked down. Instead, the only way to keep Long from starting a civil war is to have him assassinated.

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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: If elected, Garner is President Iron, and it is his refusal to compromise that makes civil war unavoidable, as he only exacerbates tensions with both the Combined Syndicates and the America First Party.
!!''Charles Curtis''
* {{Expy}}: Curtis's "Fair Deal" bears many similarities to FDR's New Deal and marks a transition of his party from a centrist position (Market Liberals) to a center-left position (Social Democrats)
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: If elected, Curtis is President Personable, or perhaps less charitably, President Focus Group. Either way, he's the only man in the election who is willing to make the compromises necessary to prevent a civil war.
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* HistoricanVillainUpgrade: The real Rosa Luxembourg was known to be a libertarian Communist, in the mod however she is one of the totalists that could seize power with the death of Felix Dzerzhinsky.

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* HistoricanVillainUpgrade: HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The real Rosa Luxembourg was known to be a libertarian Communist, in the mod however she is one of the totalists that could seize power with the death of Felix Dzerzhinsky.

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!!''Rosa Luxembourg''
* CommieNazis: Subverted, while a totalist, her form of governance is based around Trotskyist concepts such as World Revolution rather than a combination of Ultranationalist and Stalinist worldviews.
* ChummyCommies: Averted, despite her real life reputation as one of the more democratically leaning Communists. See the HistoricalVillainUpgrade entry below for details.
* HistoricanVillainUpgrade: The real Rosa Luxembourg was known to be a libertarian Communist, in the mod however she is one of the totalists that could seize power with the death of Felix Dzerzhinsky.
* TheSpymaster: Establishes a international Syndicalist spy ring in her path in the Polish National Focus tree.
* StateSec: Establishes the "Ministry of Public Security" in her path in the Polish National Focus tree.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Seeks to bring fourth "world revolution".



* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Is heavily hinted to be behind the assassination of president Emiliano Zapata

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!!''The Sorelians''
* CommieNazis: As a Totalist, their ideology combines Stalinst-esque policies with revanchism against Germany
* ThePurge: Launches one against the Jacobins if they take power.
* {{Revenge}}: Their foreign policy is the one that most revolves around seeking vengeance against the Germans for causing France's defeat in the Weltkrieg

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->''After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.'
-->--attributed to '''George V''' about Edward, Duke of Wales



* EvilChancellor: Can be appointed as a prime minister by Korlinov and consolidates power after his death
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While he was a self-hating SR terrorist and a Russian chauvenist in his later years
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He's the leader of a Nazi-esque political party in Russia and the closest thing the mod has to a Hitler analogue.

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* EvilChancellor: Can be appointed as a prime minister by Korlinov and consolidates power after his death
death.
* KnightTemplar: Savinkov believes that by the elimination of the Bolshevik threat (his definition of a Bolshevik can vary) and revanschist wars for the lost territories, no matter what costs, Russia will achieve the lost greatness.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While he was a self-hating SR terrorist terrorist, had ambitions of a military dictator and became a Russian chauvenist chauvinist in his later years
years, he wasn't IRL a full-blown fascist (though he positively spoke about Mussolini's regime); neither he had the opportunities to be the Russian Hitler.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He's the leader of a Nazi-esque political party in Russia and the closest thing the mod has to a Hitler analogue. It's worth noting, however, that racial questions don't matter for him and his followers, and more simular to the real life Fascist movements in their vehement Anti-Communism, revanchistic nationalism and militarism.



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* ReluctantRuler: After the Weltkrieg, he prefers more to spend time with family rather than rule over Germany and usually comes to Reichstag just to approve the decisions of the Chancellor.



* TheFundamentalist: One of the focuses in his path in the Focus Tree for the American Union State establishes Christianity as the state religion for the AUS



* DemocracyIsBad: Does not oppose democracy in general.........but seeks to completely limit it to whites only

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* DemocracyIsBad: Does DemocracyIsFlawed: In contrast to Long, he does not oppose democracy in general.........general... but seeks to completely limit it to whites only



* TheFundamentalist: One of the focuses in his path in the Focus Tree for the American Union State establishes Christianity as the state religion for the AUS



* DragonInChief: Kornilov himself isn't competent in the questions of policies and interested only in military affairs. Savinkov, on the other hand, is experienced in terms of the political struggle and uses his position to advance his own ultranationalist agenda.
* EnemyMine: This trope pretty much sums up the relationship between Savinkov and general Lavr Kornilov. While they aren't fond of each other, they have to tolerate their disagreements in order to save Russia from the Syndicalist threat together.
* EvilChancellor: Can be appointed as a prime minister by Korlinov and consolidates power after his death
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While he was a self-hating SR terrorist and a Russian chauvenist in his later years



* EvilChancellor: Appointed prime minister by Korlinov and consolidates power upon his death
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* EvilChancellor: Appointed prime minister NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: His rule in game is alluded to Hitler's in some ways, as he is appointed in cabinet by Korlinov the popular World War I hero and consolidates power upon starts his death
reign with ThePurge of the leftist branch of his (former) party.
* HistoricalVillainUpgradePeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: He leads the party named "People's Republican Party of Russia".



* RedScare: His ideology of National Renewal emphasies anti-Bolshevism more than anything else.



* DirtyCommies: While the Commune of France is Syndicalist, and Bolshevism was discredit with the failure of the Russian Revolution, the Jacobins seek to turn France into a Communist state.

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* DirtyCommies: While the Commune of France is Syndicalist, and Bolshevism was discredit discredited with the failure of the Russian Revolution, the Jacobins seek to turn France into a Communist state.state and absolutely.



* CommieNazis: As a Totalist("National-Syndicalist"), his ideology blends his OTL fascism with Stalinist-esque policies

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* ReligionIsWrong: Establishes state atheism in his path in the focus tree.
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* PoliceState: Establishes this to deal with the threat from the far-right and the far-left in America

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* DirtyCommies: They can turn France into a full-fledged Communist government if they take power

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* DirtyCommies: CommieLand: They can turn France into a full-fledged Communist government if they take powerpower.
* DirtyCommies: While the Commune of France is Syndicalist, and Bolshevism was discredit with the failure of the Russian Revolution, the Jacobins seek to turn France into a Communist state.
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* CommieNazis: Subverted. While they are totalist, which blends totalitarian Communism with elements of Fascism, the Jacobin faction is more inspired by Leninist-esque principles.

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* CommieNazis: Subverted. While they are totalist, which supposedly blends totalitarian Communism with elements of Fascism, the Jacobin faction is more inspired by Leninist-esque principles.



* TakeOverTheWorld: They want to spread Syndicalism as far as possible.

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* TakeOverTheWorld: They want to spread Syndicalism Syndicalism, or rather, Communism, as far as possible.
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!!''The Jacobins''
* CommieNazis: Subverted. While they are totalist, which blends totalitarian Communism with elements of Fascism, the Jacobin faction is more inspired by Leninist-esque principles.
* DirtyCommies: They can turn France into a full-fledged Communist government if they take power
* TakeOverTheWorld: They want to spread Syndicalism as far as possible.
* ThePurge: Launches one against the Sorelians if they take power.
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* DemocracyIsBad: In his efforts to maintain the status quo instead of enacting favorable reforms, he only makes the situation worse

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* DemocracyIsBad: In his efforts to maintain the status quo instead of enacting favorable reforms, he only makes the political situation worse



* CommieNazis: As a Totalist("National-Syndicalist"), his ideology blends his OTL fascism with Stalinism

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!!''John Nance Garner''
* DemocracyIsBad: In his efforts to maintain the status quo instead of enacting favorable reforms, he only makes the situation worse
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* DemocracyIsBad: Does not oppose democracy in general.........but seeks to completely limit it to the white men

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* DemocracyIsBad: Does not oppose democracy in general.........but seeks to completely limit it to the white menwhites only
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!!''William Dudley Pelley''
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He's a racist and the leader of the National Populist faction of the America First Party
* DemocracyIsBad: Does not oppose democracy in general.........but seeks to completely limit it to the white men
* KnightTemplar
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Seeks to extend Jim Crow laws all over America
* TheFundamentalist: One of the focuses in his path in the Focus Tree for the American Union State establishes Christianity as the state religion for the AUS
* TheStarscream: Launches a coup against Long to take power if the AUS wins the Civil War.
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* BigBad: From a left-wing prespective, as he is one of the founders of the Totalist manifesto and seek to override the democratic syndicalist governance of the Union of Britain to usher in a totalitarian government

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* BigBad: From a left-wing prespective, both an anti-Syndicalist and moderate Syndicalist perspective, as he is one of the founders of the Totalist manifesto and seek to override the democratic syndicalist governance of the Union of Britain to usher in a totalitarian government
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* WarIsGlorious/BloodKnight: Has the "Warmonger" trait

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!!''King Edward IV''

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* GonzoJournalism: As a socialist newspaperman, Mussolini participated to the early stages of the Italian Revolution, calling for revolt and resistance against the Central Powers in his newspaper, and going for sabotage operations in Austrian-occupied North Italy.
* InSpiteOfANail: Averted, while he can still come to power, the situation surronding his ascent to power is far different than the events leading to the emergence of Fascism in Europe in real life.
* WarIsGlorious/BloodKnight: Has the "Warmonger" traight

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* GonzoJournalism: As a socialist newspaperman, Mussolini participated to the early stages of the Italian Revolution, calling for revolt and resistance against the Central Powers in his newspaper, and going for sabotage operations in Austrian-occupied North Italy. \n When the occupation authorities finally decided reprisals and that the Syndicalist revolution broke out in Sicily and Naples, Mussolini quickly escaped to the South and was appointed colonel in the quite inexperienced Italian Republican Army, having a few success in Campania but being defeated, along with his fellows, at the Battle of Anzio.
* InSpiteOfANail: Averted, while he can still come to power, the situation surronding surrounding his ascent to power is far different than the events leading to the emergence of Fascism in Europe in real life.
* WarIsGlorious/BloodKnight: Has the "Warmonger" traighttrait
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!!''Benito Mussolini''
* CommieNazis: As a Totalist("National-Syndicalist"), his ideology blends his OTL fascism with Stalinism
* GonzoJournalism: As a socialist newspaperman, Mussolini participated to the early stages of the Italian Revolution, calling for revolt and resistance against the Central Powers in his newspaper, and going for sabotage operations in Austrian-occupied North Italy.
* InSpiteOfANail: Averted, while he can still come to power, the situation surronding his ascent to power is far different than the events leading to the emergence of Fascism in Europe in real life.
* WarIsGlorious/BloodKnight: Has the "Warmonger" traight
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!!''Kaiser Wilhelm II''
* BigBad: Seen as this by Syndicalists and to a lesser extent, the Entente Nations. On the flip side......
* BigGood: All of Germany looks upon him as a strong ruler who brought prosperity and victory.
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!!''King Edward IV''

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!!''Plutarco Elias Calles''
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While the real life Calles was authoritarian and responsible for the repression of Catholics under his presidency, Kaiserreich makes him a full-fledged totalist dictator willing to kill his own president to seize power.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Is heavily hinted to be behind the assassination of president Emiliano Zapata

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* KnightTemplar: Believes his actions can help restore Russia to glory

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* KnightTemplar: StateSec: His "Combat Squads". Even before he officially takes power as Vozhd they are used by the Kornliov Junta to crack down on leftists if he is appointed prime minister, and are responsible for the assassination of Maria Spiridonova
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
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* TakeOverTheWorld: Seeks to recreate the Mongolian Empire and conquer as much territory as he can

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!!''Douglas MacArthur''
* MilitaryCoup: Leads one against Long or Reed if they get into office and stay in power long enough, kickstarting the Second American Civil War.
* StateSec: Can turn the FBI into one through the COINTELPRO program directed against Syndicalists
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Unless he gives up power at the end of the Civil War
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Depending on how you play, and he could give up power and restore democracy
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!!''Boris Savinkov''
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He's the leader of a Nazi-esque political party in Russia and the closest thing the mod has to a Hitler analogue.
* EvilChancellor: Appointed prime minister by Korlinov and consolidates power upon his death
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!!''Oswald Mosley''
* BigBad: From a left-wing prespective, as he is one of the founders of the Totalist manifesto and seek to override the democratic syndicalist governance of the Union of Britain to usher in a totalitarian government
* CommieNazis: His ideology, Totalism blends Stalinism with far-right traits such as Nationalism and Revanchism
* DystopiaIsHard: [[spoiler: Seeking to enforce Totalism on the Union of Britain can lead to other Syndicalists, such as Eric Blair or T.E. Lawrence turning against him, and could result in a military coup against his faction.]]
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!!''Ungern Sternburg''
* AxCrazy
* BloodKnight
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: If he proves to be too brutal and warmongering, his own generals will depose him in a coup]].
* TakeOverTheWorld: Seeks to recreate the Mongolian Empire and conquer as much territory as he can
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One of the main features of Kaiserreich is its large cast of historical characters. Many of these are political figures who never rose to prominence in our timeline, such as Huey Long and Oswald Mosley. Others may become famous as they did historically, albeit for different reasons. This page lists the historical figures that appear in Kaiserreich and the tropes they are associated with ''in the mod''.

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