History Characters / WolfensteinBJBlazkowicz

* ByronicHero: Blazkowicz has shades of these in ''The New Order''. Though charismatic, handsome and [[WarriorPoet eloquent in his monologues]], he's clearly damaged goods by all of the suffering he's endured throughout the war, whether it'd be all of the horrors committed by the Nazis or the deaths of those under his command. He even fears that once his fight with the Nazis will be over, that he may never be fit to live a normal life ever again. [[spoiler:''The New Colossus'' gives him a new purpose: Anya is pregnant with his twins, and B.J. is gonna make damn sure he'll kill every last Nazi so that his kids won't be born into a living hellhole run by goose-stepping, jackass fascists and [[DirtyCoward spineless]] greedy [[TheQuisling Quislings]]. He also promised himself to be a far better father than his own piss-poor, waste-of-space, sorry-ass excuse of a father Rip ever was; when confronting his dad, B.J. notes he expects to be dead soon, and he'd still be a better father than Rip was. Sadly despite killing Dethshead and Engel, those Nazi jackasses are still in power by the 1980s, depriving his daughters of anything resembling a normal childhood. Only a literal ResetButton will make things right for B.J. and his family.]]

* ImplacableMan: He is an absolute killing machine, able to go OneManArmy on entire armies of Nazis and just never stops from there. [[spoiler:For fuck's sake, the man got his head cut off with an sword during a public execution, and he STILL comes back.]]

* JustOneMan: Some Nazis think that just because they're up against one man, they'll be able to take him out. They usually don't last long. This even earns him the nickname "Terror Billy" by the Nazis, and his reputation as an ImplacableMan makes him TheDreaded among the Third Reich, as throwing the best they have at BJ doesn't seem to slow him down. [[spoiler:Even getting his head cut off with an axe in a public execution still doesn't stop him!]]

* ImplacableMan: He is an absolute killing machine, able to go OneManArmy on entire armies of Nazis and just never stops from there. [[spoiler:For fuck's sake, the man got his head cut off with an axe during a public execution, and he STILL comes back.]]

* HeroicBSOD: At the start of "The New Colossus" he is depressed over how broken his body is and [[spoiler:Caroline's death]] and noticeably more glum than in the previous game. Wyatt even lampshades that B.J. is basically on cruise control waiting to hit a wall. [[spoiler:He gets better after having a new body.]]

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Is on the receiving end of this by Frau Engel in "The New Colossus". Thankfully, Set Roth got him a new body.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: In The New Colossus, a flashback shows him finding a rat drowning in a bucket and he laughs at it suffering, not understanding why his friend is freaking out about it. It's only when it stops moving does he start to realise what he did wrong. Considering how his father acted throughout his childhood, it's little surprise that he's so used to cruelty, and makes his capacity for cruelty (such as letting a soldier run on foot in an area about to be blown up by a nuke, or his slower hatchet executions) somewhat tragic with this link to his childhood.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Averted as of ''The New Colossus'' - B.J.'s Jewishness was speculated at for most of the Wolfenstein games, but it was finally confirmed (ethnically at least, his actual religious beliefs, if any, is still up in the air).

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Averted as of ''The New Colossus'' - B.J.'s Jewishness was speculated at for most of the Wolfenstein games, but it was finally confirmed.

* NotSoDifferent:
** In ''The New Order'', B.J. is notably a very large individual, dual wields weapons, and is a borderline AxCrazy OneManArmy, much like [[spoiler:Hans Grosse]]. The only real difference is [[spoiler:they're on separate sides]].
** In ''The New Colossus'', he's shown to have suffered abuse as a kid at the hands of one of his parents and to be determined not to be like that, much how Sigrun Engel is with her [[BigBad mother]].

-->'''B.J.:''' Was a time I was scared of you. Was a time I would piss myself having a gun pointed at my head. You know what I feel right now? ''[Rip cocks the gun. B.J. doesn't even break eye contact]'' Not a God-damned thing. ''[B.J. pushes the gun away before Rip fires]''

** Comes to [[IncrediblyLamePun a head]] in ''The New Colossus'', where he flat out breaks down at least once and is running on fumes after all he's been through. [[spoiler:getting a new body]] and the help of his teammates helps him pull out of this, [[HesBack with spectacular results]].

* AnimalMotif: Wolves. He patiently stalks his prey like a wolf chasing its target and waits for the opportunity to strike nazis when they are at their most vulnerable. Also, while he gives his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[BigBadWannabe Frau Engel]] as he brutally kills her with a hatchet, he tells the dying nazi that she is “among wolves now.”

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He’s a perfectly civil, polite and all-round NiceGuy. Who wages a one-man war against the entirety of the Nazi Regime and is [[OneManArmy winning]].

* FromNobodyToNightmare: According to flashbacks in New Colossus, B.J. goes from abused farm boy in Texas who couldn’t even fight back to becoming a one man army that leaves Nazis soiling themselves in fear. After acquiring a new super soldier body, he becomes even more feared than before that even hulking Nazi super soldiers became afraid of him.

* {{Manchild}} : Despite being a veteran nazi killer and borderline superman in his 40s, he still has immature moments. In ''The New Order'' during a mission to clear out a checkpoint, B.J. can find a half-disassembled car; he can sit in it, pretend to drive it (complete with his own engine and horn sound effects) and pretend-hit on a girl. Later on, he gets genuinely jealous of Max's toy blocks, robot, and truck, huffing out "All I had was a pinecone and a box of matches".

* NervesOfSteel: He faces down small armies of heavily-armed Nazis on a regular basis without budging an inch. But the the most notable moment is during the [[spoiler:moonbase mission, where he finds a scalpel and begins carving along the concentration camp tattoo on his arm, and rips the skin off like an old band-aid. He never once winces in pain. That’s some high pain-tolerance.]]

* {{Manchild}} : Despite being a veteran nazi killer and borderline superman in his 40s, he still has immature moments. In ''The New Order'' during a mission to clear out a checkpoint, B.J. can find a half-disassembled car; he can sit in it, pretend to drive it (complete with his own engine and horn sound effects) and pretend-hit on a girl. Later on, he gets genuinely jealous of Max's toy blocks, robot, and truck, huffing out "All I had was a pinecone and a box of matches.".

* {{Polyglot}}: He's able to speak German and a little bit of Polish. Some of the documents that can be found are printed in various other languages, such as Chinese, meaning that he can at least translate these. Justified in that, as an OSS agent, being able to speak various languages would be of benefit.

** Prevalent in ''The New Order.'' Who'd have thought he can play guitar?

* JustOneMan: Some Nazis think that just because they're up against one man, they'll be able to take him out. They usually don't last long.

* NaziHunter: The TropeCodifier. As of ''The New Order'' there no shortage of them to hunt down.

* {{Omniglot}}: If ''The New Order'' is any indication, thought it's also subverted - He fluently speaks English, can speak and comprehend Polish, (Though he admits he's not very good) he's fluent in German, he can read Hebrew, and is evidently able to read French, Japanese and Chinese. That said, as of ''The Old Blood'', he's terrible at speaking German with a convincing accent.

-->'''B.J.:''' You tired? Man, fuck you! I got kids on the way! And I'll be damned if I'm gonna raise them in a world run by these Nazi assholes!

* RedBaron: By ''The New Colossus'', those who know him by reputation call him "Terror Billy".

* ShrugOfGod: Whether or not he is meant to be the aforementioned Allied Soldier from ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein''.

** [[spoiler:Possibly due to his new Ubersoldat body, the only signs of his aging in Youngblood is a little grey hair. He is otherwise just as ripped as he was in New Colossus.]]

* TerrorHero: The Nazis are scared to death of him, and have every right to be; B.J. is quite content putting the fear of death into his enemies. By the time that ''New Colossus'' comes around, he's earned the nickname "Terror Billy" from the Reich.

* PapaWolf:
** On his way to becoming one in ''The New Colossus''. Anya's pregnant with two twin girls.
** B.J. is very much DentedIron in the game, knowing that he'll be dead soon and that he can barely keep going. But the thing that keeps him going is wanting to make sure Anya and his kids will have a future without the Nazis in them, even though his kids haven't been born yet.
** While trying to motivate Horton into joining the resistance, B.J. says he's got kids on the way, and he's going to make sure they aren't born in a world run by Nazis.

* {{Eagleland}}: Even putting aside his [[BerserkButton Nazi]] [[OneManArmy killing]], he's an all-American soldier who, in his own words, fights for "freedom, justice, and the American Way" and despises "goddamn Bolshevik traitors." Like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica with guns and vulgarity.

* HeroicMime: In ''Wolf-3D'', ''Spear of Destiny'' and most egregiously in ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein''. He is SuddenlyVoiced for further games in the series, though it takes until ''The New Order'' before he starts speaking outside of the occasional cutscene.

* ImplacableMan: He is an absolute killing machine, able to go OneManArmy on entire armies of Nazis and just never stops from there. [[spoiler:For fuck's sake, '''''this man had been decapitated and he STILL came back.''''']]

* {{Manchild}} : Despite being a veteran nazi killer and borderline superman in his 40s, he still has immature moments. In ''The New Order'' during a mission to clear out a checkpoint, B.J. can find a half-disassembled car; he can sit in it, pretend to drive it (complete with his own engine and horn sound effects) and pretend-hit on a girl. Later on, he gets genuinely jealous of Max's toy blocks and train, huffing out "I never had cool toys like this when I was a kid.".

* PlotArmor: He manages to escape every capture and survive every execution throughout the series. Special mention goes to [[spoiler:his execution in ''The New Colossus'', where he is decapitated. But his head is retrieved by his allies and [[CameBackStrong transplanted into a SuperSoldier body]], and proceeds to kick the Nazi's ass again.]]

* {{Adorkable}}:
** Has his moments. One example in ''The Old Blood'' has him pulling an AlasPoorYorick on a skull he finds in Rudi's room, only accidentally drop it and awkwardly place it back on the desk he found it on. Then there's him trying to use that coffee machine on the train...
** After [[spoiler:being gifted with a new Super Soldier body to replace his old, dying one]], B.J. becomes a lot more enthusiastic and cheerful. At one point he excitedly presents Set Roth with a couple of defeated Nazi robots, and seems disappointed when Set is too busy focused on something else to share his enthusiasm, making him come off like a kid showing off some cool new toys he found.

* ParentalIssues: With his father, who is an unrepentant racist and con artist who terrorized his family for most of BJ's childhood, even forcing BJ to kill his own dog. BJ lived in constant fear of his wrath and was helpless to protect his mother amidst all the abuse, and grew up vowing he'd never be the man his father was. Upon his return to his childhood home in ''The New Colossus'', he confronts his father for the final time and it is shown he is willfully aligned with the Nazis, even selling out BJ's mother to them. As his father holds him at gunpoint, Blazkowicz completely disavows his father for the final time, and he makes him answer for a lifetime of abuse with an axe to the arm behind burying it into the bastard's chest.