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* TheComicallySerious: Takes Hynkel's antics rather casually.



* VillainInAWhiteSuit: His dress uniform is largely white.
* PunnyName: His name is relly close to "garbage".
* TheSocialDarwinist
* SpockSpeak
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: He has at least two lines in latin (one in a speech and one while talking to Hynkel alone), and is definitely more intelligent than Hynkel and Herring.
* TheComicallySerious: Takes Hynkel's antics rather casually.




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* MoreDespicableMinion: He frequently urges Hynkel toward harsher policies.
* PunnyName: His name is very close to "garbage".
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: He has at least two lines in Latin (one in a speech and one while talking to Hynkel alone), and is definitely more intelligent than Hynkel and Herring.
* TheSocialDarwinist
* SpockSpeak
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: His dress uniform is largely white.

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* RunForTheBorder: Escapes to mr. Jaeckel's brother's wineyard in Osterlich with mr. and mrs. Jaeckel.

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* RunForTheBorder: Escapes to mr. Mr. Jaeckel's brother's wineyard in Osterlich with mr. Mr. and mrs.Mrs. Jaeckel.



* FaceDeathWithDignity: After finding a coin in his budding during the SuicideAttack lottery, mr. Jaeckel solemly declares to have found the coin - unlike all the other men at the table who, thanks to Hannah, also found coins in their buddings and were franctically trying to hide them or slip them to each other. However the plan falls through and nobody carries out the attack.
** Earlier when the stormtroopes come to the ghetto and residents flee to his house, mr. Jaeckel sends the women and children inside and goes to the yard with the men, encouraging them to TheLastStand.

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* FaceDeathWithDignity: After finding a coin in his budding during the SuicideAttack lottery, mr.Mr. Jaeckel solemly declares to have found the coin - unlike all the other men at the table who, thanks to Hannah, also found coins in their buddings and were franctically trying to hide them or slip them to each other. However the plan falls through and nobody carries out the attack.
** Earlier when the stormtroopes come to the ghetto and residents flee to his house, mr. Mr. Jaeckel sends the women and children inside and goes to the yard with the men, encouraging them to TheLastStand.make a LastStand.



* RunForTheBorder: Escapes to mr. Jaeckel's brother's wineyard in Osterlich with her husband and Hannah.

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* RunForTheBorder: Escapes to mr.Mr. Jaeckel's brother's wineyard in Osterlich with her husband and Hannah.
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An elderly Jew who takes Hannah in adter her father dies in the war and her mother dies some time later. He is the renter of the barber salon.

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An elderly Jew who takes Hannah in adter after her father dies in the war and her mother dies some time later. He is the renter of the barber salon.

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* VillainInAWhiteSuit: His dress uniform is largely white.



* GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand: In the film's SignatureScene, he plays with a globe like it were a beach ball.

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* GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand: In His ambition to rule over the film's SignatureScene, he plays world is exemplified by him playing with a globe like it were a beach ball.




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* VillainInAWhiteSuit: His dress uniform is largely white.
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->'''Played by:''' Jack Oakie

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->'''Played by:''' Jack OakieCreator/JackOakie
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* NiceHat: A dark fedora.
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* SkunkStripe: The main physical difference between Hynkel and the Barber is that the Barber has a white stripe in his hair.
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* OfficerAndGentleman

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* OfficerAndGentlemanOfficerAndAGentleman
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* AnOfficerAndGentleman

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* AnOfficerAndGentlemanOfficerAndGentleman
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Downplayed. But The Barber initially manages to avoid getting in trouble with the soldiers, due to being friends with Commander Schultz.

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* GeneralFailure
* InsigniaRipoffRitual
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: His dress uniform is largely white.



* FatBastard

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* FatBastard
FatBastard: What do you expect of a Goering parody? He's gotta have a large body for all those medals, and he isn't the Minister of War for being nice.
* GeneralFailure: He demonstrates the new weapons for Hynkel, and they all end in failure.
* InsigniaRipoffRitual
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: His dress uniform is largely white.
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* ButtMonkey: His repeated failures to develop new equipment get him Hynkel's disdain; eventually, after clearing the room to let his Phooey and Napaloni speak, Hynkel orders '' him'' out, too.

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