History Main / ApocalypseHitler

** Hitler surviving was also brought up in the Hellboy movie.

* TheMovie of ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'' (in Literature below), of course.

* Averted by the Hitler clone in ''MeineLiebeAfterschoolCharisma'', a [[CheerfulChild cute little boy]] who is terrified of turning out like his predecessor.

* Averted by the Hitler clone in ''AfterschoolCharisma'', a [[CheerfulChild cute little boy]] who is terrified of turning out like his predecessor.

* ''SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' pits a far-future Man of Steel against the DNA Diktators, a pair of Hitler clones who Superman declares to be responsible for all the Earth's ills just before unloading on them [[MoreDakka with the most ridiculously huge BFG imaginable.]] ([[SpoofAesop The story then ends on an anti-gun Aesop.]])

* {{Marvel}} has had multiple [[YouClonedHitler Hitler Clones]] running around, the most famous dressing up in a purple KKK outfit and calling himself the Hate-Monger.

* Subverted in an issue of DC Comics ''[[BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'', where a clone of Hitler is decanted, shown films of the "accomplishments" of his predecessor [[DrivenToSuicide and then shoots himself out of horror]].
* In ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' and ''SavageDragon'' Hitler lived until 1952, when Hellboy killed him. And then [[KillerGorilla his brain was transplanted into a gorilla]].

* Deconstructed in ''Kessler'' (the sequel to ''SecretArmy''). Although there's concern throughout the series that Kessler could use his [[NaziGold ill-gotten gains]] for some sort of Nazi renaissance, his fellow war criminals scoff at the idea, one draping a Nazi flag on Kessler. "Here, cover yourself with glory!" After discovering his fanatical daughter has been killed (after being mistaken for the NaziHunter protagonists) Kessler lies down on the flag and shoots himself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', a group of villains who want to resurrect Hitler (through cloning, and a dog reincarnation of him) are featured in the first episode of season four. It's {{played for laughs}}, of course. Brock kills the dog, then remarks that he can check one more thing off the list of cool stuff he never thought he'd get to do.

* ''Flesh Feast'', the last film of poor [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Lake Veronica Lake]], is about a MadScientist who creates a breed of man-eating maggots (under the pretense of using them for "regeneration research") and helps the bad guys resurrect Hitler [[spoiler:just so she can kill him personally with her maggots by throwing them in his face, as revenge for her political prisoner parents' deaths in the Holocaust]]. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext And that's about it, really]].

* Given a subtle nod in ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'', where Professor Bruttenholm casually gives a date for Hitler's death much ''later'' than 1945 - and, more concretely, establishes that Hitler had indeed [[{{Ghostapo}} used the power of legendary artifacts such as the Spear of Longinus]] to cement his power base.

** The ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' GameMod ''Spear Resurrection'' plays it straight, with the Spear of Destiny being used to resurrect Hitler (partially, you get to kill him again before he's fully corporeal).

Orchestrator of genocide, enemy of the free world, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a really, really bad artist to boot.]] The man's resume reads like a long, uninterrupted list of MoralEventHorizon crossings. Thank goodness he killed himself in that bunker back in 1945, right? Right?

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* There's at least one popular myth floating around that Hitler's own grandnephews (through his half-nephew William Patrick Hitler, 1911-1987) supposedly vowed not to have children in order to seal the Hitler bloodline. Alexander, the oldest one (b. 1949) attests that there was no such pact among himself and his three brothers, but doesn't exclude the possibility that one might have been concluded between the others.
** Hermann Goering's great-niece actually had herself sterilised so she couldn't, as she put it, "pass on the blood of a monster." The irony is that blood being a reason why people do good or bad things is Nazi ideology 101.

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* ''SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' pits a far-future Man of Steel against the DNA Diktators, a pair of Hitler clones who Superman declares to be responsible for all the Earth's ills just before unloading on them [[MoreDakka with the most ridiculously huge BFG imaginable.]] ([[BrokenAesop The story then ends on an anti-gun Aesop.]])

* In the ''FactionParadox'' novel ''Warlords of Utopia'', which involves a war between a parallel universe where AncientRome never fell and a parallel universe where [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazis won WWII]], ends with the son of Hitler, raised from birth to be [[UpToEleven Hitler times a thousand]], escaping to ''our world'', planning to wreak havoc. [[spoiler: He is hunted down by the protaganist, who finds him in a small villa in Brazil. He is, for all his education and pure distilled evilness, little more than just another pathetic white supremacist. He's squashed like a bug]].

* Deconstructed in ''Kessler'' (the sequel to ''SecretArmy''). Although there's concern throughout the series that Kessler could use his [[NaziGold ill-gotten gains]] for some sort of Nazi renaissance, his fellow war criminals scoff at the idea, draping a Nazi flag and telling Kessler "Here, cover yourself with glory!" After discovering his fanatical daughter has been killed (after being mistaken for the NaziHunter protagonists) Kessler lies down on the flag and shoots himself.

[[GodwinsLaw Why,]] AdolfHitler, of course!

* Mentioned by Professor Farnsworth in ''{{Futurama}}'':

->''"Mr. Vollmer, I was making speeches before you could read them. I was fighting battles when your only struggle was to climb out of a '''womb.''' I was taking over the world when your universe was a crib! And as for being in '''darkness''', Mr. Vollmer, I '''INVENTED''' darkness!"''

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** That wasn't just a clone; that was Hitler himself, cheating death by [[MadScientist Arnim Zola]] putting his mind in a clone body.

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* ''BobTheAngryFlower'' has subverted this trope for comic effect in [[http://www.angryflower.com/goodhi.gif This]] strip. It's hard to be cloned Hitler [[TheAtoner when you wish to atone for your sins]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', a group of villains who want to resurrect Hitler (through cloning, and a dog reincarnation of him) are featured in the first episode of season four. It's {{played for laughs}}, of course. Brock kills the dog, then remarks that he can check one more thing off the list of cool stuff he never thought he'd get to do.

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Orchestrator of genocide, enemy of the free world, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and he couldn't even get into art school.]] The man's resume reads like a long, uninterrupted list of MoralEventHorizon crossings. Thank goodness he killed himself in that bunker back in 1945, right? Right?

* ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' had Hitler in [[StupidJetPackHitler a mecha suit]], [[{{Ghostapo}} and several different legions of ghosts, mages, and what have you.]]
** Arguably justified, since Wolfenstein is supposed to take place ''during'' WW2, so not so much a case of a clone Hitler as an alternate version of the real one.
** The ''Wolfenstein 3-D'' GameMod ''Spear Resurrection'' plays it straight, with the Spear of Destiny being used to resurrect Hitler (partially, you get to kill him again before he's fully corporeal).

Of course, in reality, Hitler was a mere mortal rather than the very spirit of evil given human form, and bringing him back from the dead would in all likelihood not make TheLegionsOfHell TakeOverTheWorld. As a matter of fact, the reason why an ''InglouriousBasterds''-type situation didn't happen in reality is because the Allies realized that [[PointyHairedBoss Hitler's incompetent leadership]] was practically winning the war ''for'' them.

** And kinda, [[OppositeSexClone Girl Hitler]].

* In the {{Fundamentalist}} "End Times" novel ''The Fourth Reich'', Hitler ''is'' {{the Antichrist}} - [[spoiler: ''and'' literally Hitler reborn. He's the Russian President, who turns out to be a clone of Hitler, and is indwelt by the soul of the original Hitler, who's been released by Satan from Hell to do his dirty work]]. This book is one of the more entertaining [[SoBadItsGood (for sufficiently twisted values of "entertaining")]] "End Times" fictions around, and is also notable for a take on eschatology that differs ''sharply'' from the Premillennial Dispensationalist viewpoint with which most people will be familiar. There is much fun to be had in watching Hitler scream "''Nie wieder! Nie wieder!''" as his evil plans are frustrated, and watching him explain each failure to a furious {{Satan}}. In other words, the work is "Christian" End Times fiction [[InNameOnly in advertising only.

* TheMovie of ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'' (in Litterature below), of course.

Think of evil. Not [[CardCarryingVillain Saturday Morning Cartoon evil]], or Hollywood Blockbuster evil, but festering, seething, irredeemable evil. Take the concept of CompleteMonster and turn it UpToEleven. Who do you think of?

* The disaster spoof ''Earthdoom!'' by John Grant and DavidLangford features all possible apocalypses happening simultaneously, including an army of Hitler clones.