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-> ''"BELIEVE ME, NEVER AGAIN!"''
-->-- Heimlich, in the TriumphantReprise of the title number
A fanmade JukeboxMusical script for a fanmade JukeboxMusical production centered around the songs of the heavy metal band Music/{{Disturbed}}. Set during the Holocaust, it tells the story of Heimlich Ritter, a kindhearted NaziProtagonist, and his best friend Bruno Murdoch. Together, they try to prevent the FinalSolution once and for all by organizing... ''Hitler's reformation?''
Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.
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!!''Never Again'' provides examples of:
* AnAesop: Violence can't always solve everything. Also, EVERYBODY has redeeming qualities (at least, according to Heimlich).
* AlasPoorVillain: Hitler, had he [[spoiler: killed himself.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: HEIMLICH. Throughout the whole musical. No one but Bruno understands him, and he is bullied by Hitler and the other Nazis for being in love with Devon (a Jew!). [[spoiler: This all changes after "Another Way to Die," however.]]
* AllLovingHero: Even after Hitler [[spoiler: murders Devon,]] Heimlich still thinks he's a great leader, and even believes that Hitler can be redeemed. [[spoiler: He succeeds in reformation.]]
** Additionally, he LOVES Jews. He even comforts a Jew at the start of the musical, and his girlfriend is a Jew.
* AlternateHistory: It's revealed by the end of the musical. In this version, [[spoiler: Hitler and the Nazis are reformed and Germany -- NAZI Germany, mind you -- joins the ALLIES.]]
* AngryMobSong: "Ten Thousand Fists." In this case, the Nazis are angry at Heimlich and Bruno.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In RealLife, if you were a Nazi and you disobeyed a direct order from Adolf Hitler (especially if that order was kill all the Jews in Europe), you wouldn't just be kicked out of the Nazi Party. You'd be ''killed.''
** There is very little evidence that suggests that Hitler was friends with Jews in his youth. If he was, then the Jew probably wouldn't be named Gustav Dreyfuss.
** Hitler did NOT invade Poland by himself, of course. Additionally, he invaded Poland FIRST, and ''then'' came up with Action T4.
** There are no forests in Berlin.
** Adolf Hitler did NOT create the concentration camps in 1939. He wasn't even killing JEWS in 1939. He was keeping the Jews in ghettos, however. How Devon managed to escape capture is a mystery.
** If a Nazi had a Jewish girlfriend, they would be kicked out of the party.
* BeingEvilSucks: By the second act, [[spoiler: the other Nazis,]] as well as [[spoiler: Hitler,]] have finally realized this. Heimlich and Bruno knew it from the beginning.
* BerserkButton: DO NOT MESS WITH DEVON. You will be brought down by a Gentle Giant of a Nazi.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Heimlich isn't anything like the other Nazis and is as sweet as anything. But mess with him, and he ''will'' rebel against you.
** Same goes for Bruno.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Heimlich, again.
* BigBad: Adolf Hitler, and yet Heimlich never thinks he's evil.
* {{Bookends}}: The second act begins and ends with the title song.
** For the entire musical, it begins and ends with the soldiers all doing the Hitler salute.
* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler: The Nazis]] are revealed to be this.
* BreakoutCharacter: Heimlich.
* BreakTheCutie: This happens to Heimlich after [[spoiler: Devon is supposedly killed by Hitler.]]
* BriefAccentImitation: The other Nazis do an impression of Heimlich's thick German accent.
* BSODSong: "Save Our Last Goodbye." It's Heimlich's [[spoiler: goodbye to Devon after the latter is seemingly killed.]]
** Hitler gets a ballad version of "The Vengeful One," in which he deeply regrets [[spoiler: the Jewish genocide]] and nearly [[spoiler: kills himself.]]
* BurningWithAnger: Hitler did this a LOT. Heimlich only did it ONCE: "I rage again, dispelling my anger..."
* BurnTheWitch!: "Burn her alive, inside..."
* CallingTheOldManOut: Heimlich does it when [[spoiler: Devon]] seemingly dies. Bruno does it TWICE. And then [[spoiler: THE ENTIRE PARTY]] does it, in song form, during "Who Taught You How to Hate." Guess who they all direct it at.
* CerebusRollercoaster: THE MUSICAL ITSELF. Hitler provides the drama; Heimlich and Bruno the comedy. ALL SET TO DISTURBED MUSIC.
* CharacterDevelopment: HITLER. MY GOD, HITLER. He [[spoiler: FINALLY has a HeelFaceTurn]] after "Who Taught You How to Hate."
* CharacterTics: Heimlich's German accent. He's the only Nazi to have it.
* AChatWithSatan: "Inside the Fire." Satan here being Adolf Hitler.
* ChekhovsGunman: That Jew that Heimlich and Bruno comfort at the start of the musical? Yeah, by the end, [[spoiler: he is on FDR's Cabinet and rejects the entire War Guilt Clause.]]
* TheConscience: Heimlich to Hitler, figuratively. In literal terms, [[spoiler: he has an extremely hidden one who begs with him not to kill Jews. He has denied that this part of him exists for 25 YEARS...!!]]
* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: The ballad version of "The Vengeful One"? Yeah, that's both sung by and [[spoiler: directed at]] Hitler.
* CryForTheDevil: Throughout the entire musical we see Hitler as, well, Hitler. Then the sad music starts, the childhood flashback begins, and we see [[spoiler: a young Hitler playing with Gustav Dreyfuss- ''a Jew''- and then the flashback fades as Hitler finally rediscovers who he once was... Yeah. No wonder he was DrivenToSuicide.]]
* CrowdSong: "Immortalized," "Another Way to Die," and "Who Taught You How to Hate."
* CuriousQualmsOfConscience: Hitler [[spoiler: denies its existence, but he has a conscience.]] As revealed in the second act.
** "And whispered in the sound... of silence..."
* DealWithTheDevil: "Inside the Fire." Heimlich doesn't accept it.
* DeathSong: "Prayer," "Inside the Fire," "Save Our Last Goodbye," and "The Animal."
* DefectorFromDecadence: Heimlich and Bruno are both against Aktion T4. They're also both Nazis- who later on rebel against Hitler. Peacefully.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Devon.]] And later, due to cyanide masks being out of stock, EVERY SINGLE JEW.
** And then [[spoiler: Hitler.]]
* DistantDuet: "Sacrifice."
* DrivenToSuicide: It happens with [[spoiler: Hitler, who, out of deep regret, holds up a gun after "Vengeful One" and almost shoots himself. Thankfully, the other Nazis talk him out of it.]]
** Also, in "Inside the Fire," Hitler tries to make a deal with Heimlich that he will have to kill himself in order to see [[spoiler: Devon]] again. Thankfully, Heimlich does not accept the deal.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A song in which the main KnightTemplar antagonist, who is an authority figure to the main protagonist, sings a VillainSong about his desire to kill the female lead, who is part of a race that the antagonist considers inferior. Now where have we seen that before...? [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Oh right:]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: HITLER.]] AND HOW.
* TheElevenOClockNumber: "THE VENGEFUL ONE." Big time.
* EmbodimentOfVice: Hitler. Duh.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The VERY first thing Heimlich says when Hitler announces he'll kill all the Jews in Europe: [[FunetikAksent "Don't you sink zat's a bit of a bad idea...?"]] Oh, and then he goes on to COMFORT A JEW. THAT SHOWS HIS CHARACTER.
* EtTuBrute: Hitler says this word-for-word when [[spoiler: the entire Nazi party]] rebels against him.
** Additionally, this is, in-universe, the reason why Adolf Hitler became an Anti-Semite: [[spoiler: his Jewish friend, Gustav Dreyfuss, refused his acceptance to the Vienna Art School because he believed that Hitler wasn't his friend anymore.]] To Hitler, this felt like the ''ultimate'' betrayal, and he was so overcome with rage that he read a whole book on Anti-Semitism.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Expect Heimlich to love the Fuhrer no matter what, even if he [[spoiler: seemingly KILLS his Jewish girlfriend.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hitler has a [[spoiler: CONSCIENCE]] that he has refused to listen to for nearly 2 decades.
* EvilFeelsGood: Hitler's initial belief before his [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn.]]
* FinalSolution: This IS a Holocaust Rock Opera, after all.
* {{Flashback}}: Hitler has one in Act Two, and it turns out [[spoiler: he wasn't always the evil dictator that you know him as...]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: This line from Hitler:
-->'''Hitler:''' ''[in shock]'' What if my entire party rebels against the things I've done?
* FriendshipSong: "The Light."
* FreudianExcuse: All of the Nazis had been [[spoiler: brainwashed by Hitler]] when they came into power. EXCEPT Heimlich and Bruno... who were against Hitler's plans the whole time.
* FunetikAksent: Heimlich, in ze script for ze musical production.
* GoodFeelsGood: What [[spoiler: the Nazis]] eventually realize. And later, what [[spoiler: Hitler]] realizes.
* GriefSong: "Save Our Last Goodbye." Doubles as a BSOD Song.
* HeelFaceTurn: First [[spoiler: the Nazi Party,]] then [[spoiler: HITLER.]]
* HeelRaceTurn: The [[spoiler: entire PARTY]] gets this in "Another Way to Die."
* HeelRealization: The [[spoiler: other Nazis]] get this in "Another Way to Die" when Heimlich makes them all grow consciences. [[spoiler: Then Hitler gets it... and falls into a HUGE VillainousBSOD, gets a BSODSong, nearly ''kills himself,'' and insists that he is deserving of death. We never thought we'd say this, but poor Fuhrer, ''indeed.'']]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Subverted.]] Devon is the heroine, and she [[DisneyDeath gets revived.]]
* TheHeroSucksSong: "Prayer."
* HeroicBSOD: Heimlich gets this after [[spoiler: Devon]] dies. "I'm Alive" breaks him out of it.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: Hitler. He has an extremely hidden conscience, but due to his philosophies and the fact that he never got to be an artist has never bothered to listen to it for 2 decades until the Nazi Party turns against him. Secretly, he deeply regrets what he's done to the Jews, but denies his regret and his conscience even existing.]]
* IAmBecomingSong: "The Vengeful One"/"Indestructible."
* IAmSong: "I'm an indestructible master of war...!" As sung by Heimlich.
* IncrediblyLongNote: "Be immortalized!!!!!!"
** Also "Just drop the judgement and all of your pseudo-involvement in my liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!!"
*** Then there's "Prayer," "The Light," "I'm Alive," "Inside the Fire," "The Animal," "Deify," "Who Taught You How to Hate," "The Vengeful One," and "Indestructible." IN THAT ORDER.
* InterruptedSuicide: "Vait! My Fuhrer! Don't do it!" Said by Heimlich before Hitler is about to [[spoiler: kill himself.]]
* IronicEcho: "CONSCIENCE!! COME BACK TO ME, CONSCIENCE!!" The first time it's said, Hitler is trying to get answers regarding his Conscience's vision. [[spoiler: The second time, it's a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment in which he finally accepts its existence.]]
* {{Irony}}: It's revealed that Hitler became who he did due to his Jewish best friend from childhood rejecting both his friendship and his admission to the Vienna Art School. [[spoiler: In the end, it is that very thing- rejection by Gustav Dreyfuss, this time of Hitler's plan- that allows the Nazi leader to finally have an epiphany about the Jews.]] The first word he says upon this happening? [[HeelFaceTurn "CONSCIENCE!!!!"]]
* IrrelevantActOpener: "Never Again," despite being about the Jews' hatred of the Holocaust, has nothing to do with Heimlich or Bruno, nor does it really have anything to do with the main plot. It does, however, get a TriumphantReprise.
* ItsAllMyFault: Said by [[spoiler: Hitler when he finally has his HeelFaceTurn and accepts his conscience's existence.]]
* IWantSong: Heimlich's "Just Stop," in which he sings about how he 1): wants to see Hitler end his prejudice and 2): wants TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!!
** Devon also has one in "Land of Confusion," during which she pleads to the Nazis that what they are doing is the wrong thing. It's her version of "God Help the Outcasts."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: The Nazis, secretly. Turns out they weren't evil- they'd been brainwashed by the Fuhrer into thinking the Jews were horrible people.]] In reality, all of them have had relations with Jews. And then, due to a flashback, [[spoiler: Hitler]] becomes this.
* JukeboxMusical: The entire soundtrack is set to Disturbed music.
* KillHimAlready: "KILL THE FUHRER! KILL THE FUHRER!"
* KnightTemplar: Hitler. Before [[spoiler: the reformation.]]
* MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber: "Tyrant." In it, the Nazis decide to kill Hitler, while Heimlich and Bruno beg them to stop and give Hitler a chance to make amends. Meanwhile, Hitler is contemplating whether [[spoiler: his friendship with Gustav Dreyfuss]] can be resolved, and Devon prays for Germany to be saved.
* MeaningfulName: Heimlich's last name, Ritter, is German for "knight," and it implies his kindhearted personality as well as him being a NaziProtagonist.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: HEIMLICH. By far. His line about him being an "Anti Nazi-Nazi" sums it all up. Bruno also counts.
* MotorMouth: Heimlich. He will NOT. STOP. TALKING.
* MoralityPet: Heimlich and [[spoiler: the Conscience]] to Hitler.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Despite EVERYTHING that Hitler did to Heimlich, Devon, and the Jews, Heimlich STILL feels no ill will towards him. Why? Because he's a Nazi, of course!
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The [[spoiler: Nazi Party]] gets this in "Another Way to Die" after realizing they were friends with [[spoiler: Jews who they seemingly killed. Yes, the ''entire'' Nazi party.]]
** Oh, and then [[spoiler: HITLER]] gets it. BIG TIME.
* NaziProtagonist: Of course.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Bruno believes this. So much so that he frees a group of Jews after Hitler lies to him and Heimlich.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: After [[spoiler: Devon]] is revealed to be alive and well, Hitler proclaims that she was deserving of death, and vows to kill her again.
* NotSoDifferent: This is TheReveal.
* NowWhat?: At the end of the musical, Heimlich asks Hitler what they should do about the war. This question is then answered by Hitler: [[spoiler: they'll be joining the Allies.]] Heimlich and everyone else is delighted.
* OhCrap: Hitler gets this reaction when he sees that [[spoiler: Devon]] is actually alive and well.
* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: Devon.]]
* OpeningChorus: "Immortalized."
* PerpetualSmiler: Heimlich. With a few notable exceptions...
* PowerTrio: Heimlich, Devon, and Bruno.
* PunchClockVillain: Turns out [[spoiler: the Nazis]] were this all along. They never wanted to believe that the Jews were horrible people, but Hitler brainwashed them. Now it's their job to think so.
* PurityPersonified: Heimlich. Of course it had to be Heimlich.
* TheReveal:
** Every single Nazi in the Party? Yeah, they all used to be [[spoiler: friends with Jews until Hitler brainwashed them into thinking otherwise.]]
** And speaking of him, there's actually another reveal: [[spoiler: that he used to be friends with Jews himself. The flashback in Act Two is what allows him to have his HeelFaceTurn in the end.]]
* RousseauWasRight: Heimlich and Bruno's belief. It's outlined in Heimlich's 5 philosophies.
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: "THE FOLLOWING MUSICAL IS FICTIONAL AND WAS NOT INTENDED TO PRESENT THE HOLOCAUST WITH AN OPTIMISTIC LIGHT. NOR WAS IT INTENDED TO CHANGE YOUR OPINION ABOUT ADOLF HITLER OR PRESENT ADOLF HITLER AS A GOOD PERSON. WE ALL KNOW THE HOLOCAUST WAS A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AND THAT HITLER DID TERRIBLE THINGS. IF YOU READ THIS SCRIPT OR WATCH THIS MUSICAL AND ARE OFFENDED BY ANYTHING SEEN, WE SINCERELY APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE."
* TitleDrop: "I implore you... LET ZIS HAPPEN NEFER AGAIN!"
* TragicVillain: As this musical reveals, there's a reason Hitler is who he is. What happens in the Act Two flashback will make you pity him.
* TriumphantReprise: Of "Never Again," celebrating [[spoiler: the Nazis' reformation and them joining the Allies, while also hoping that things like what happened in the Holocaust never happen again.]]
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Heimlich does this all the time. He forgives HITLER- his own commanding officer- for everything that he did to the Jews after finding out that he was friends with one of them. He never refers to anything Hitler did as unforgivable, nor does he tell Hitler he hates him.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even if Heimlich and Bruno are nothing like Hitler and the other Nazis and disapprove of Hitler's plans, ''they are still loyal Nazis'' who would never want to see their ruler dead.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: HITLER.]] The reason he became who he did was due to rejected admission to art school by his Jewish friend from childhood, Gustav Dreyfuss. To add insult to injury, Gustav also rejected their friendship, because when [[spoiler: Hitler]] left for Vienna, Gustav thought he had left without saying goodbye. This angered [[spoiler: Hitler]] so much that when he got home, he read a book on Anti-Semitism immediately. And in-universe, ''Mein Kampf'' was SPECIFICALLY written with Gustav in mind.
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-->-- Heimlich, in the TriumphantReprise of the title number
A fanmade JukeboxMusical script for a fanmade JukeboxMusical production centered around the songs of the heavy metal band Music/{{Disturbed}}. Set during the Holocaust, it tells the story of Heimlich Ritter, a kindhearted NaziProtagonist, and his best friend Bruno Murdoch. Together, they try to prevent the FinalSolution once and for all by organizing... ''Hitler's reformation?''
Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.
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!!''Never Again'' provides examples of:
* AnAesop: Violence can't always solve everything. Also, EVERYBODY has redeeming qualities (at least, according to Heimlich).
* AlasPoorVillain: Hitler, had he [[spoiler: killed himself.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: HEIMLICH. Throughout the whole musical. No one but Bruno understands him, and he is bullied by Hitler and the other Nazis for being in love with Devon (a Jew!). [[spoiler: This all changes after "Another Way to Die," however.]]
* AllLovingHero: Even after Hitler [[spoiler: murders Devon,]] Heimlich still thinks he's a great leader, and even believes that Hitler can be redeemed. [[spoiler: He succeeds in reformation.]]
** Additionally, he LOVES Jews. He even comforts a Jew at the start of the musical, and his girlfriend is a Jew.
* AlternateHistory: It's revealed by the end of the musical. In this version, [[spoiler: Hitler and the Nazis are reformed and Germany -- NAZI Germany, mind you -- joins the ALLIES.]]
* AngryMobSong: "Ten Thousand Fists." In this case, the Nazis are angry at Heimlich and Bruno.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In RealLife, if you were a Nazi and you disobeyed a direct order from Adolf Hitler (especially if that order was kill all the Jews in Europe), you wouldn't just be kicked out of the Nazi Party. You'd be ''killed.''
** There is very little evidence that suggests that Hitler was friends with Jews in his youth. If he was, then the Jew probably wouldn't be named Gustav Dreyfuss.
** Hitler did NOT invade Poland by himself, of course. Additionally, he invaded Poland FIRST, and ''then'' came up with Action T4.
** There are no forests in Berlin.
** Adolf Hitler did NOT create the concentration camps in 1939. He wasn't even killing JEWS in 1939. He was keeping the Jews in ghettos, however. How Devon managed to escape capture is a mystery.
** If a Nazi had a Jewish girlfriend, they would be kicked out of the party.
* BeingEvilSucks: By the second act, [[spoiler: the other Nazis,]] as well as [[spoiler: Hitler,]] have finally realized this. Heimlich and Bruno knew it from the beginning.
* BerserkButton: DO NOT MESS WITH DEVON. You will be brought down by a Gentle Giant of a Nazi.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Heimlich isn't anything like the other Nazis and is as sweet as anything. But mess with him, and he ''will'' rebel against you.
** Same goes for Bruno.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Heimlich, again.
* BigBad: Adolf Hitler, and yet Heimlich never thinks he's evil.
* {{Bookends}}: The second act begins and ends with the title song.
** For the entire musical, it begins and ends with the soldiers all doing the Hitler salute.
* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler: The Nazis]] are revealed to be this.
* BreakoutCharacter: Heimlich.
* BreakTheCutie: This happens to Heimlich after [[spoiler: Devon is supposedly killed by Hitler.]]
* BriefAccentImitation: The other Nazis do an impression of Heimlich's thick German accent.
* BSODSong: "Save Our Last Goodbye." It's Heimlich's [[spoiler: goodbye to Devon after the latter is seemingly killed.]]
** Hitler gets a ballad version of "The Vengeful One," in which he deeply regrets [[spoiler: the Jewish genocide]] and nearly [[spoiler: kills himself.]]
* BurningWithAnger: Hitler did this a LOT. Heimlich only did it ONCE: "I rage again, dispelling my anger..."
* BurnTheWitch!: "Burn her alive, inside..."
* CallingTheOldManOut: Heimlich does it when [[spoiler: Devon]] seemingly dies. Bruno does it TWICE. And then [[spoiler: THE ENTIRE PARTY]] does it, in song form, during "Who Taught You How to Hate." Guess who they all direct it at.
* CerebusRollercoaster: THE MUSICAL ITSELF. Hitler provides the drama; Heimlich and Bruno the comedy. ALL SET TO DISTURBED MUSIC.
* CharacterDevelopment: HITLER. MY GOD, HITLER. He [[spoiler: FINALLY has a HeelFaceTurn]] after "Who Taught You How to Hate."
* CharacterTics: Heimlich's German accent. He's the only Nazi to have it.
* AChatWithSatan: "Inside the Fire." Satan here being Adolf Hitler.
* ChekhovsGunman: That Jew that Heimlich and Bruno comfort at the start of the musical? Yeah, by the end, [[spoiler: he is on FDR's Cabinet and rejects the entire War Guilt Clause.]]
* TheConscience: Heimlich to Hitler, figuratively. In literal terms, [[spoiler: he has an extremely hidden one who begs with him not to kill Jews. He has denied that this part of him exists for 25 YEARS...!!]]
* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: The ballad version of "The Vengeful One"? Yeah, that's both sung by and [[spoiler: directed at]] Hitler.
* CryForTheDevil: Throughout the entire musical we see Hitler as, well, Hitler. Then the sad music starts, the childhood flashback begins, and we see [[spoiler: a young Hitler playing with Gustav Dreyfuss- ''a Jew''- and then the flashback fades as Hitler finally rediscovers who he once was... Yeah. No wonder he was DrivenToSuicide.]]
* CrowdSong: "Immortalized," "Another Way to Die," and "Who Taught You How to Hate."
* CuriousQualmsOfConscience: Hitler [[spoiler: denies its existence, but he has a conscience.]] As revealed in the second act.
** "And whispered in the sound... of silence..."
* DealWithTheDevil: "Inside the Fire." Heimlich doesn't accept it.
* DeathSong: "Prayer," "Inside the Fire," "Save Our Last Goodbye," and "The Animal."
* DefectorFromDecadence: Heimlich and Bruno are both against Aktion T4. They're also both Nazis- who later on rebel against Hitler. Peacefully.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Devon.]] And later, due to cyanide masks being out of stock, EVERY SINGLE JEW.
** And then [[spoiler: Hitler.]]
* DistantDuet: "Sacrifice."
* DrivenToSuicide: It happens with [[spoiler: Hitler, who, out of deep regret, holds up a gun after "Vengeful One" and almost shoots himself. Thankfully, the other Nazis talk him out of it.]]
** Also, in "Inside the Fire," Hitler tries to make a deal with Heimlich that he will have to kill himself in order to see [[spoiler: Devon]] again. Thankfully, Heimlich does not accept the deal.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A song in which the main KnightTemplar antagonist, who is an authority figure to the main protagonist, sings a VillainSong about his desire to kill the female lead, who is part of a race that the antagonist considers inferior. Now where have we seen that before...? [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Oh right:]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: HITLER.]] AND HOW.
* TheElevenOClockNumber: "THE VENGEFUL ONE." Big time.
* EmbodimentOfVice: Hitler. Duh.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The VERY first thing Heimlich says when Hitler announces he'll kill all the Jews in Europe: [[FunetikAksent "Don't you sink zat's a bit of a bad idea...?"]] Oh, and then he goes on to COMFORT A JEW. THAT SHOWS HIS CHARACTER.
* EtTuBrute: Hitler says this word-for-word when [[spoiler: the entire Nazi party]] rebels against him.
** Additionally, this is, in-universe, the reason why Adolf Hitler became an Anti-Semite: [[spoiler: his Jewish friend, Gustav Dreyfuss, refused his acceptance to the Vienna Art School because he believed that Hitler wasn't his friend anymore.]] To Hitler, this felt like the ''ultimate'' betrayal, and he was so overcome with rage that he read a whole book on Anti-Semitism.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Expect Heimlich to love the Fuhrer no matter what, even if he [[spoiler: seemingly KILLS his Jewish girlfriend.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hitler has a [[spoiler: CONSCIENCE]] that he has refused to listen to for nearly 2 decades.
* EvilFeelsGood: Hitler's initial belief before his [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn.]]
* FinalSolution: This IS a Holocaust Rock Opera, after all.
* {{Flashback}}: Hitler has one in Act Two, and it turns out [[spoiler: he wasn't always the evil dictator that you know him as...]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: This line from Hitler:
-->'''Hitler:''' ''[in shock]'' What if my entire party rebels against the things I've done?
* FriendshipSong: "The Light."
* FreudianExcuse: All of the Nazis had been [[spoiler: brainwashed by Hitler]] when they came into power. EXCEPT Heimlich and Bruno... who were against Hitler's plans the whole time.
* FunetikAksent: Heimlich, in ze script for ze musical production.
* GoodFeelsGood: What [[spoiler: the Nazis]] eventually realize. And later, what [[spoiler: Hitler]] realizes.
* GriefSong: "Save Our Last Goodbye." Doubles as a BSOD Song.
* HeelFaceTurn: First [[spoiler: the Nazi Party,]] then [[spoiler: HITLER.]]
* HeelRaceTurn: The [[spoiler: entire PARTY]] gets this in "Another Way to Die."
* HeelRealization: The [[spoiler: other Nazis]] get this in "Another Way to Die" when Heimlich makes them all grow consciences. [[spoiler: Then Hitler gets it... and falls into a HUGE VillainousBSOD, gets a BSODSong, nearly ''kills himself,'' and insists that he is deserving of death. We never thought we'd say this, but poor Fuhrer, ''indeed.'']]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Subverted.]] Devon is the heroine, and she [[DisneyDeath gets revived.]]
* TheHeroSucksSong: "Prayer."
* HeroicBSOD: Heimlich gets this after [[spoiler: Devon]] dies. "I'm Alive" breaks him out of it.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: Hitler. He has an extremely hidden conscience, but due to his philosophies and the fact that he never got to be an artist has never bothered to listen to it for 2 decades until the Nazi Party turns against him. Secretly, he deeply regrets what he's done to the Jews, but denies his regret and his conscience even existing.]]
* IAmBecomingSong: "The Vengeful One"/"Indestructible."
* IAmSong: "I'm an indestructible master of war...!" As sung by Heimlich.
* IncrediblyLongNote: "Be immortalized!!!!!!"
** Also "Just drop the judgement and all of your pseudo-involvement in my liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!!"
*** Then there's "Prayer," "The Light," "I'm Alive," "Inside the Fire," "The Animal," "Deify," "Who Taught You How to Hate," "The Vengeful One," and "Indestructible." IN THAT ORDER.
* InterruptedSuicide: "Vait! My Fuhrer! Don't do it!" Said by Heimlich before Hitler is about to [[spoiler: kill himself.]]
* IronicEcho: "CONSCIENCE!! COME BACK TO ME, CONSCIENCE!!" The first time it's said, Hitler is trying to get answers regarding his Conscience's vision. [[spoiler: The second time, it's a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment in which he finally accepts its existence.]]
* {{Irony}}: It's revealed that Hitler became who he did due to his Jewish best friend from childhood rejecting both his friendship and his admission to the Vienna Art School. [[spoiler: In the end, it is that very thing- rejection by Gustav Dreyfuss, this time of Hitler's plan- that allows the Nazi leader to finally have an epiphany about the Jews.]] The first word he says upon this happening? [[HeelFaceTurn "CONSCIENCE!!!!"]]
* IrrelevantActOpener: "Never Again," despite being about the Jews' hatred of the Holocaust, has nothing to do with Heimlich or Bruno, nor does it really have anything to do with the main plot. It does, however, get a TriumphantReprise.
* ItsAllMyFault: Said by [[spoiler: Hitler when he finally has his HeelFaceTurn and accepts his conscience's existence.]]
* IWantSong: Heimlich's "Just Stop," in which he sings about how he 1): wants to see Hitler end his prejudice and 2): wants TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!!
** Devon also has one in "Land of Confusion," during which she pleads to the Nazis that what they are doing is the wrong thing. It's her version of "God Help the Outcasts."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: The Nazis, secretly. Turns out they weren't evil- they'd been brainwashed by the Fuhrer into thinking the Jews were horrible people.]] In reality, all of them have had relations with Jews. And then, due to a flashback, [[spoiler: Hitler]] becomes this.
* JukeboxMusical: The entire soundtrack is set to Disturbed music.
* KillHimAlready: "KILL THE FUHRER! KILL THE FUHRER!"
* KnightTemplar: Hitler. Before [[spoiler: the reformation.]]
* MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber: "Tyrant." In it, the Nazis decide to kill Hitler, while Heimlich and Bruno beg them to stop and give Hitler a chance to make amends. Meanwhile, Hitler is contemplating whether [[spoiler: his friendship with Gustav Dreyfuss]] can be resolved, and Devon prays for Germany to be saved.
* MeaningfulName: Heimlich's last name, Ritter, is German for "knight," and it implies his kindhearted personality as well as him being a NaziProtagonist.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: HEIMLICH. By far. His line about him being an "Anti Nazi-Nazi" sums it all up. Bruno also counts.
* MotorMouth: Heimlich. He will NOT. STOP. TALKING.
* MoralityPet: Heimlich and [[spoiler: the Conscience]] to Hitler.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Despite EVERYTHING that Hitler did to Heimlich, Devon, and the Jews, Heimlich STILL feels no ill will towards him. Why? Because he's a Nazi, of course!
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The [[spoiler: Nazi Party]] gets this in "Another Way to Die" after realizing they were friends with [[spoiler: Jews who they seemingly killed. Yes, the ''entire'' Nazi party.]]
** Oh, and then [[spoiler: HITLER]] gets it. BIG TIME.
* NaziProtagonist: Of course.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Bruno believes this. So much so that he frees a group of Jews after Hitler lies to him and Heimlich.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: After [[spoiler: Devon]] is revealed to be alive and well, Hitler proclaims that she was deserving of death, and vows to kill her again.
* NotSoDifferent: This is TheReveal.
* NowWhat?: At the end of the musical, Heimlich asks Hitler what they should do about the war. This question is then answered by Hitler: [[spoiler: they'll be joining the Allies.]] Heimlich and everyone else is delighted.
* OhCrap: Hitler gets this reaction when he sees that [[spoiler: Devon]] is actually alive and well.
* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: Devon.]]
* OpeningChorus: "Immortalized."
* PerpetualSmiler: Heimlich. With a few notable exceptions...
* PowerTrio: Heimlich, Devon, and Bruno.
* PunchClockVillain: Turns out [[spoiler: the Nazis]] were this all along. They never wanted to believe that the Jews were horrible people, but Hitler brainwashed them. Now it's their job to think so.
* PurityPersonified: Heimlich. Of course it had to be Heimlich.
* TheReveal:
** Every single Nazi in the Party? Yeah, they all used to be [[spoiler: friends with Jews until Hitler brainwashed them into thinking otherwise.]]
** And speaking of him, there's actually another reveal: [[spoiler: that he used to be friends with Jews himself. The flashback in Act Two is what allows him to have his HeelFaceTurn in the end.]]
* RousseauWasRight: Heimlich and Bruno's belief. It's outlined in Heimlich's 5 philosophies.
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: "THE FOLLOWING MUSICAL IS FICTIONAL AND WAS NOT INTENDED TO PRESENT THE HOLOCAUST WITH AN OPTIMISTIC LIGHT. NOR WAS IT INTENDED TO CHANGE YOUR OPINION ABOUT ADOLF HITLER OR PRESENT ADOLF HITLER AS A GOOD PERSON. WE ALL KNOW THE HOLOCAUST WAS A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AND THAT HITLER DID TERRIBLE THINGS. IF YOU READ THIS SCRIPT OR WATCH THIS MUSICAL AND ARE OFFENDED BY ANYTHING SEEN, WE SINCERELY APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE."
* TitleDrop: "I implore you... LET ZIS HAPPEN NEFER AGAIN!"
* TragicVillain: As this musical reveals, there's a reason Hitler is who he is. What happens in the Act Two flashback will make you pity him.
* TriumphantReprise: Of "Never Again," celebrating [[spoiler: the Nazis' reformation and them joining the Allies, while also hoping that things like what happened in the Holocaust never happen again.]]
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Heimlich does this all the time. He forgives HITLER- his own commanding officer- for everything that he did to the Jews after finding out that he was friends with one of them. He never refers to anything Hitler did as unforgivable, nor does he tell Hitler he hates him.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even if Heimlich and Bruno are nothing like Hitler and the other Nazis and disapprove of Hitler's plans, ''they are still loyal Nazis'' who would never want to see their ruler dead.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: HITLER.]] The reason he became who he did was due to rejected admission to art school by his Jewish friend from childhood, Gustav Dreyfuss. To add insult to injury, Gustav also rejected their friendship, because when [[spoiler: Hitler]] left for Vienna, Gustav thought he had left without saying goodbye. This angered [[spoiler: Hitler]] so much that when he got home, he read a book on Anti-Semitism immediately. And in-universe, ''Mein Kampf'' was SPECIFICALLY written with Gustav in mind.
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