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In the novel the two occupation zones are called the United States of America (Nazi) and Pacific States of America (Japanese)
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* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Works for the GNR military to weaken anti-government resistance forces.]]
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* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Works [[spoiler:Secretly working for the GNR military Nazis to weaken anti-government resistance forces.]]
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The Man in the High Castle is known publicly in the GNR, the JPS and in the RMS for writing an anti-fascist book.
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The Man in the High Castle is known publicly in across all three parts of the GNR, former United States as the JPS and in author of the RMS for writing an anti-fascist book.book ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy''.
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The ex-husband of Juliana Frink. He is secretly Jewish and hides his name for fear of being hunted and arrested by the GNR.
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The ex-husband of Juliana Frink. He is secretly Jewish and hides his name for fear of being hunted and arrested by the GNR.
deported to Nazi-controlled territory for extermination.
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A Japanese Trade Minister representative living in the JPS.
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A Japanese Trade Minister representative living in the JPS.PSA.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given the minister's position as a Trade Minister representative in the JPS.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given the minister's position as a Trade Minister representative in the JPS.PSA.
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* PreventTheWar: Tagomi wants to prevent a shooting war between the GNR Nazis and the JPS.Japanese.
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A Japanese Trade Ministry employee and the aide of Tagomi in the JPS.
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A Japanese Trade Ministry employee and the aide of Tagomi in the JPS.
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* PreventTheWar: Agrees with Tagomi that they should prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
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* PreventTheWar: Agrees with Tagomi that they should prevent a shooting war between the GNR Nazis and the JPS.Japanese.
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Note that, because trope titles are not whited out, there may be spoilers if you read past the character descriptions
[[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeries The character sheet for the series is here]], and [[Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle the trope page for the book is here]].
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!!Characters from the novel:
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[[folder:Rocky Mountain States residents]]
!!Joe Cinnadella
A truck driver who fought with the Italians during WWII.
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Works for the GNR military to weaken anti-government resistance forces.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Juliana kills him after discovering he is a Nazi agent.]]
!!Charley
The cook/manager of a diner.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Charley puts on an 'asian' accent to tease Juliana.
!!Juliana Frink
A Judo instructor formerly married to Frank Frink.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:When she discovers that Joe Cinnadella, with whom she has been in a sort-of relationship for most of the book, is a Nazi agent, she does not take it well and it ends with his SlashedThroat.]]
* UpTheRealRabbitHole: In the last scene of the book the ''I Ching'' tells her [[spoiler:and Abendsen that ''The Grasshopper'' is actually true: Germany and Japan really lost the war.]]
!!The Man in the High Castle [[spoiler:aka Hawthorne Abendsen]]
The Man in the High Castle is known publicly in the GNR, the JPS and in the RMS for writing an anti-fascist book.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: He's a minor character.
* ShroudedInMyth: He's known for writing a 'fictional' anti-fascist book where the Nazis and Japanese lose WWII.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Japanese Pacific States residents]]
!!Frank Frink aka Frank Fink
The ex-husband of Juliana Frink. He is secretly Jewish and hides his name for fear of being hunted and arrested by the GNR.
* PassFail: Frank Frink is actually Jewish, with the birth name "Frank Fink".
!!Ed [=McCarthy=]
A colleague of Frank Frink in a San Francisco factory, he works in creating replica American souvenirs for Japanese residents to buy a relic of American history.
!! Mr [=Wyndam-Matson=]
A manager of the factory where Frank works.
!!Robert Childan
A dealer in Americana who owns a world famous store.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: While outwardly he is quite sycophantic toward the occupying Japanese (and has gone so far as even ''thinking'' like them according to an introduction included with some editions of the book), inwardly he is quite racist and regards German culture as superior, with all the implications this brings.
!!Nobusuke Tagomi
A Japanese Trade Minister representative living in the JPS.
* DealWithTheDevil: Minister Tagomi and Kotomichi have to do this when they learn about the impending [[spoiler: nuclear destruction of Japan]] at the hands of the German Army.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given the minister's position as a Trade Minister representative in the JPS.
* PrecisionFStrike: The reserved Tagomi saying "Chicken shit" in the middle of an intense political discussion.
* PreventTheWar: Tagomi wants to prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
* PunchClockVillain[=/=]AntiVillain: He never really does anything evil throughout the course of the book, but given who he's working for, he qualifies as this.
* TookALevelInBadass: Mr. Tagomi uses a (replica) Civil War revolver to kill two American Nazi agents. He has a HeroicBSOD following this.
* UpTheRealRabbitHole: Near the end of the book [[spoiler:he's temporarily drawn into what is either our universe or the universe of ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' after focussing on a piece of American folk art.]]
!! Paul Kasoura
A young Japanese national working for the Standard of Living for Unfortunate Areas Planning Commission of Inquiry, and living in the San Francisco area.
!! Betty Kasoura
The wife of Paul, she shares his interest in American culture.
!!Kotomichi
A Japanese Trade Ministry employee and the aide of Tagomi in the JPS.
* DealWithTheDevil: Like his superior, he understands the reluctance of Tagomi when [[spoiler:he learns of the Nazi plans to destroy Japan with nukes.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given his position as a Trade Ministry employee in the JPS.
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[[folder:German Residents]]
!!Rudolph Wegener
A Nazi official from Berlin, he travels usually under the assumed name of Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. He knows Tagomi from way back.
* CrazyPrepared: Travels under a fake name.
* MrExposition: Serves as this in providing Tagomi (and the audience) on what's happening in Germany.
* PassFail: Wegener is Jewish and has undergone plastic surgery to make himself look more "Aryan". An ever-present theme in the book is, at which point do you become what you're pretending to be? Although he may have been lying about that, to mess with Lotze. Or was he?
* PreventTheWar: Agrees with Tagomi that they should prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
* PunchClockVillain[=/=]AntiVillain: Like Tagomi, he never really does anything evil throughout the course of the book, but given who he's working for, he qualifies as this.
[[/folder]]
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[[Characters/TheManInTheHighCastleSeries The character sheet for the series is here]], and [[Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle the trope page for the book is here]].
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!!Characters from the novel:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Rocky Mountain States residents]]
!!Joe Cinnadella
A truck driver who fought with the Italians during WWII.
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Works for the GNR military to weaken anti-government resistance forces.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Juliana kills him after discovering he is a Nazi agent.]]
!!Charley
The cook/manager of a diner.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Charley puts on an 'asian' accent to tease Juliana.
!!Juliana Frink
A Judo instructor formerly married to Frank Frink.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:When she discovers that Joe Cinnadella, with whom she has been in a sort-of relationship for most of the book, is a Nazi agent, she does not take it well and it ends with his SlashedThroat.]]
* UpTheRealRabbitHole: In the last scene of the book the ''I Ching'' tells her [[spoiler:and Abendsen that ''The Grasshopper'' is actually true: Germany and Japan really lost the war.]]
!!The Man in the High Castle [[spoiler:aka Hawthorne Abendsen]]
The Man in the High Castle is known publicly in the GNR, the JPS and in the RMS for writing an anti-fascist book.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: He's a minor character.
* ShroudedInMyth: He's known for writing a 'fictional' anti-fascist book where the Nazis and Japanese lose WWII.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Japanese Pacific States residents]]
!!Frank Frink aka Frank Fink
The ex-husband of Juliana Frink. He is secretly Jewish and hides his name for fear of being hunted and arrested by the GNR.
* PassFail: Frank Frink is actually Jewish, with the birth name "Frank Fink".
!!Ed [=McCarthy=]
A colleague of Frank Frink in a San Francisco factory, he works in creating replica American souvenirs for Japanese residents to buy a relic of American history.
!! Mr [=Wyndam-Matson=]
A manager of the factory where Frank works.
!!Robert Childan
A dealer in Americana who owns a world famous store.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: While outwardly he is quite sycophantic toward the occupying Japanese (and has gone so far as even ''thinking'' like them according to an introduction included with some editions of the book), inwardly he is quite racist and regards German culture as superior, with all the implications this brings.
!!Nobusuke Tagomi
A Japanese Trade Minister representative living in the JPS.
* DealWithTheDevil: Minister Tagomi and Kotomichi have to do this when they learn about the impending [[spoiler: nuclear destruction of Japan]] at the hands of the German Army.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given the minister's position as a Trade Minister representative in the JPS.
* PrecisionFStrike: The reserved Tagomi saying "Chicken shit" in the middle of an intense political discussion.
* PreventTheWar: Tagomi wants to prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
* PunchClockVillain[=/=]AntiVillain: He never really does anything evil throughout the course of the book, but given who he's working for, he qualifies as this.
* TookALevelInBadass: Mr. Tagomi uses a (replica) Civil War revolver to kill two American Nazi agents. He has a HeroicBSOD following this.
* UpTheRealRabbitHole: Near the end of the book [[spoiler:he's temporarily drawn into what is either our universe or the universe of ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' after focussing on a piece of American folk art.]]
!! Paul Kasoura
A young Japanese national working for the Standard of Living for Unfortunate Areas Planning Commission of Inquiry, and living in the San Francisco area.
!! Betty Kasoura
The wife of Paul, she shares his interest in American culture.
!!Kotomichi
A Japanese Trade Ministry employee and the aide of Tagomi in the JPS.
* DealWithTheDevil: Like his superior, he understands the reluctance of Tagomi when [[spoiler:he learns of the Nazi plans to destroy Japan with nukes.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Given his position as a Trade Ministry employee in the JPS.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:German Residents]]
!!Rudolph Wegener
A Nazi official from Berlin, he travels usually under the assumed name of Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. He knows Tagomi from way back.
* CrazyPrepared: Travels under a fake name.
* MrExposition: Serves as this in providing Tagomi (and the audience) on what's happening in Germany.
* PassFail: Wegener is Jewish and has undergone plastic surgery to make himself look more "Aryan". An ever-present theme in the book is, at which point do you become what you're pretending to be? Although he may have been lying about that, to mess with Lotze. Or was he?
* PreventTheWar: Agrees with Tagomi that they should prevent a shooting war between the GNR and the JPS.
* PunchClockVillain[=/=]AntiVillain: Like Tagomi, he never really does anything evil throughout the course of the book, but given who he's working for, he qualifies as this.
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