History Tropers / Betterthanstrawberry

Betterthanstrawberry is an aspiring speculative fiction writer, artist, amateur filmmaker, guitarist [[hottip:*:Not very good at it though.]], and all-around troublemaker. Though "self-absorbed jerk who thinks that he's much smarter than he is" would probably describe me just as well. When not having my life ruined at TVTropes, I enjoy playing the guitar, studying two languages [[hottip:*:Arabic and Russian, as well as a number of useful phrases from other languages.]], being insane, and many other activities [[hottip:*:The vast majority of them somewhat lacking in sanity.]].

Having accumulated some degrees of experience with GIMP [[hottip:*:which is generally less idiot-proof than Photoshop, but free.]] and gone through four months of planning, I'm currently working on an alternate history sci-fi/fantasy webcomic series[[hottip:*:Not that the chances of succeeding are high.]] at the moment still in the doodles and research phase[[hottip:*:"Research" in this case includes doing things such as studying a rare variant of the Soviet Mi-24 Hind helicopter from grainy footages of the Chernobyl disaster cleanup. Sshh, don't tell anyone.]]. Production has not been scheduled.

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[[caption-width-right:257: [--Thanks for [[RuinedForever forever]] [[HitlerAteSugar ruining]] [[RedArmbandOfLeadership armbands]], [[GoodHairEvilHair toothbrush mustaches]], [[NoSwastikas swastikas]], the [[MemeticHandGesture Roman salute]], RichardWagner, the [[MusicToInvadePolandTo Königgrätzer Marsch]], the {{Ubermensch}} concept, [[NietzscheWannabe the philosophy of]] FriedrichNietzsche, the office of [[EvilChancellor Chancellor]], the [[AllGermansAreNazis entire nation of Germany, German nationalism as a whole]], [[JustTheFirstCitizen the German word "Führer"]], [[TheSocialDarwinist the word "Aryan", the Theory of Evolution]][[hottip:*:despite banning Darwin's work]], [[GodwinsLaw nine out of ten internet discussions]], the [[HitlerCam Worms Eye View]], [[http://history1900s.about.com/b/2008/10/29/cooking-hitlers-favorite-meal.htm trout with butter sauce]], [[http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,634758,00.html this tree]], anti-smoking policies, (list of ruined things go on for ''pages'') and the [[OneMarioLimit first name Adolf]] and ''[[OneMarioLimit especially]]'' [[OneMarioLimit the surname Hitler]] for us, [[YouMonster you]] {{asshole}}![[hottip:*:Great. [[InsultToRocks Now the word "asshole" is ruined also.]]]] [[hottip:**:Strangely, Volkswagen cars and the emo hairstyle also haven't suffered the same fate.]]--] ]]

->''"That such a man could go so far toward realizing his [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitions]]--that is a phenomenon the world will ponder for centuries to come."''
-->-- Modern introduction to '''''[[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mein-Kampf/Adolpf-Hitler/e/9780395925034/?itm=1 Mein Kampf]]'''''

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Born in Braunau am Inn in Austria, Hitler was a man [[FreudianExcuse with an unhappy childhood]]. His father [[hottip:*: [[IncestIsRelative whose wife (Hitler's mother) was his niece, also making Adolf his grand-nephew]], [[YouAreWhatYouHate and who was possibly Jewish]]]] [[AbusiveParents beat him frequently]], inculturating young Adolf into violence and domination. He spent the rest of his childhood in Vienna with his mother, who led a Bohemian lifestyle, and his younger siblings, whom he bullied and bossed around.

With his mother dead and himself rejected from art school twice (which he blamed on Jews and modern art), he avidly took up arms in WorldWarI and fought on the front lines, but joined the Imperial German army instead of the Austrian one, since he didn't want to fight side by side with Slavs. He was decorated with an Iron Cross for bravery, wounded, returned to the front lines, [[TheGogglesDoNothing blinded by a gas attack]], and returned to the front again. His war experiences would remain with him his entire life.

[[BlatantLies Or Not.]]

Hitler fabricated much of his war record, with the help of a few cronies who either were there with him or pretended to be, and the Nazis viciously sued anyone who remembered things differently for slander. He didn't join the Austrian army because when they caught up to him (he fled Austria to avoid conscription), he was rejected for being medically unfit; and he claimed rather audaciously that he had to get the personal approval of the King of Bavaria in order to serve in the German Forces (neither he, nor the hundreds of other Austrians in Bavaria who joined up, did or needed to do such a thing). Notably also, the famous picture of "war euphoria" (that was taken by Hitler's future personal photographer) where Hitler is seen cheering in the middle of a crowd was carefully edited to put him more centrally than he was, and most of the square was actually empty. War euphoria ''did'' happen and Hitler ''was'' just one of thousands who volunteered after it broke out, but it was also exaggerated, and the Nazis helped to do that for their own ends.

He served as a Regimental messenger runner (as opposed to the far more dangerous Battalion messenger runner), which meant he spent most of the war behind the front lines in relative comfort with regimental command. His Iron Crosses were almost certainly due to his proximity to a command position as many genuinely brave and heroic soldiers were overlooked where he was not, and many recipients had subsequently testified to that reality, that contacts determined reward. Most of the soldiers in his regiment hated him as a layabout, self-righteous sycophant and he avoided all but one of his regiment's reunions (the one where they made it clear they still didn't like him). He also displayed a callous, frankly psychopathic indifference to the suffering around him in his letters from the period (to his landlord and his landlords family- he had next to no contact with his siblings, except for money his sister sent him). His rank during this time is often mistranslated as Corporal, but was actually more equivalent to a high-ranked Private; despite an old myth, Hitler ''was'' offered promotion several times ''in spite'' of the belief of his superiors that he [[{{Irony}} "lacked leadership qualities"]], but always turned it down because he liked where he was (and probably wanted to avoid too many responsibilities). His gas attack blinding late in the war was diagnosed as psychosomatic by the doctors.

Despite his hopes, the war was lost... and lost in a way which did ''not'' see the German Army fully defeated in the field, but, in not only Hitler's mind but also those of the many who would later follow him, via the cowardly surrender of the nation's politicians. In the aftermath, the nation was [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown forced to make concessions]] that would damage it for decades. German lands were stripped, and areas with German citizens who spoke German and wanted to ''remain'' German were seized and occupied. Germany refused to pay the reparation debt, and turned to inflationary monetary policy to pay Germans who refused to work in the occupied territories as a reward/incentive. And a few years later, the Great Depression came, plunging entire nations into hyperinflation and bringing Germany closer to being a [[WorldHalfEmpty Nation Half Empty]]. Long story short, Germany was a nation with a ''huge'' chip on its shoulder; the only thing it needed was a [[DarkMessiah charismatic leader]] to stir up its [[PatrioticFervour xenophobic nationalism]] and get a really focused rebuilding effort started. Hitler was that man, and in 1938 he was named Time Magazine's Man Of The Year in recognition of his highly successful and (supposedly) peaceful reconstruction policies. Of course, this was ''before'' anyone knew he was a [[EddieIzzard genocidal fuckhead]] (well, except paranoid scaremongers who read ''Mein Kampf'', published 1925-26, and took it at face value), and, as always, it's worth noting that Time's "Man of the Year" designation recognizes a person's ''influence'' on the world and is not an award for good behavior.

Hitler believed in one of the [[ValuesDissonance since-disreputable]] major assumptions of the late-19th century [[EvilutionaryBiologist eugenics]] movement, that of the supposed inherent genetic superiority of the North Europeans supposedly descended from pseudo-historical "Aryan" forebears; he really, ''really'' believed in it. At the time, genetic science was in its infancy and was poorly understood even by the finest minds in the emerging field. The Nazi leadership in fact sent sample collection teams to Tibet on the theory that [[YouFailBiologyForever "Aryan" seeds would result in crops that were hardier, more resistant to disease, and more fruitful]] than non-Aryan seeds. The general idea that the strong had to conquer, subdue and/or kill the weak was the foundation of Hitler's thinking. But it's not entirely clear what he imagined to be the ''purpose'' of this conquering and killing. A [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans better world]] for the strong? The birth of a "[[{{Ubermensch}} superior]]" species? The [[BecauseDestinySaysSo fulfillment]] of some natural law? He said different things at different times.

There can be no doubt that Hitler loved Germany - or at least, [[SelectiveObliviousness the Germany of his imagination]]. The tribal Germany that smashed the Roman Empire and superseded it, the Germany of pagan myth - strong, respected, and grandiose. He commissioned great public works in Berlin seeking to dwarf the capital cities of other nations. Hitler's dream Germany was pure and unsullied, strong in body and mind, without [[AcceptableTargets Jews or blacks or homosexuals or gypsies or Poles or communists or disabled people or "asocials" or "loose" women or jazz or]]... well, you get the idea. Adolf was obsessed with notions of purity. Racial purity, political purity, even religious purity. Everything and everyone that was less than perfect by Hitler's standards, simply had to go. [[TheHero And he saw himself as a hero]], [[TheMessiah a savior]], [[AGodAmI perhaps even something like a god]]. When he finally realized he had lost the war - about a year ''after'' everyone else in the world realized it - he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, and take all of Germany with him. At the end of the war, Hitler [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]] just as his greatest enemies, the Soviets, were advancing to within a stone's throw of his bunker. The whole thing must have seemed to him like RichardWagner's ''[[DerRingDesNibelungen Götterdämmerung]]'' come to life. To the rest of the world, it seemed like an apocalyptic effort to take down a sort of Lucifer-esque figure - a madman who believed himself superior to everyone and everything.

When he shot himself with a [[JamesBond Walther PPK]], the remaining senior Nazis burnt his body, but didn't do it successfully. When the RedArmy arrived, they finished the job off and chucked the ashes in a river, deciding that they didn't want a shrine to the guy (though they did keep fragments of what they believed was his skull archived somewhere in Moscow... [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8281839.stm and they seemed to have been mistaken]].)

An estimated 29 million people died because of him, and his genocidal insanity is legendary to this day. There are at least 553 published works of written fiction involving him, as well as over 10,000 nonfiction works of differing levels of detail. Hitler [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_100:_The_Most_Important_People_of_the_Century#Person_of_the_Century might have been]] TIME magazine's first choice for ''Person of the Century'', as the most influential single human being in the twentieth century, dismissed either due to [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad political influence]] or a criterion technicality. Recent DNA results say that [[{{Irony}} he had some Jewish and African ancestry.]]

Compare/contrast to JosefStalin. See BenitoMussolini for his less famous and considerably more incompetent Italian counterpart.

See the NaziGermany page for the rest of the most (in)famous Nazis.

Some side notes:
* Hitler's famous rasping voice was the result of the injuries sustained in WorldWarOne.
* It is not clear whether he was complete in the genitalia department, as few people really got to check, and Eva Braun was silent on the issue.
** Given that enemies of England tend to suffer the same injury, (Napoleon was rumored to be monorchid as well) this was likely allied propaganda of an informal sort.
* He had no children.
* Under the direction of his private brain care specialist, Theodor Morell, he was reputedly on a dozen doses of intravenous meth and cocaine ether a day by the end of the war.
* Little known fact, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFA-rOls8YA&feature=fvwrel also a dope on the mic.]]

!!TropeNamer for:
* ApocalypseHitler
* HitlerAteSugar
* HitlerCam
* [=~Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act~=]
* SpringtimeForHitler
* StupidJetpackHitler
* YouClonedHitler

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!!Other tropes involving Hitler in some way:
* FinalSolution
* GodwinsLaw
** GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel
* {{Reichstropen}}
* ThoseWackyNazis
* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer

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!!Adolf Hitler also provides examples of the following:

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]] - Hitler's father beat him when he was younger.
* AcceptableTarget - [[GodwinsLaw For pretty much everyone]].
** Hitler himself had several: Jews, communists, Slavs, oopposing political parties, the left wing of the Nazi Party, homosexuals, gypsies, blacks, "loose women", disabled people...
*** He basically considered anyone outside of Northern Europe, and the French, to be fair game. Yes, even his erstwhile Japanese allies.
* AffablyEvil - Home videos show that he was actually a pretty nice guy in person...before his sanity started deteriorating, at least, and as long as you didn't hold a single personal quality that he virulently hated
** Well, those videos were made by Eva Braun specifically to portray him this way, so YourMileageMayVary.
* AGodAmI - Nazism tends to portray him as a MessianicArchetype in an almost cultish manner.
* AllThereInTheManual - ''[[{{Doorstopper}} Mein Kampf]]'' was long, boring, poorly-written... and spelled out all of Hitler's future goals in unmistakable clarity, more than a decade before he had the chance to do any of them. Unfortunately, nobody paid any attention until it was too late.
* {{Asexuality}} - Some documentaries state that in the years that he was with Eva Braun, the housekeepers never saw any signs of sexual intercourse in either of their beds. Although some historians have come up with [[ArmouredClosetGay different]] [[DepravedHomosexual interpretations]] regarding this. Distressingly, some have also used these theories in HitlerAteSugar arguments against non-heterosexuals, [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment so please take care when bringing them up]].
** He did once say "[[MarriedToTheJob I am married to Germany]]." He also once said that he ''[[IAmTheTrope was]]'' Germany.
* AteHisGun - Averted. According to [[WordOfDante Otto Günsche]], Hitler shot himself in the right temple.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: It must be admitted, unfortunately. His first name stands for ''"[[BigBadassWolf noble wolf]]"''. His last name is not particularly notable (before it became synonymous with pure evil, that is), but the trope becomes apparent when one considers that he might have been named "[[FailOSuckyname Adolf Schicklgruber]]" if his father, then called Alois Schicklgruber, had not petitioned to be recognized as the son of his adopted (and possibly true) father, Johann Hiedler/Hitler, just thirteen years before Adolf's birth. From William L. Shirer's ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'':
-->There may not be much or anything in a name, but I have heard Germans speculate whether Hitler could have become the master of Germany had he been known to the world as Schicklgruber. It has a slightly comic sound as it rolls off the tongue of a South German. Can one imagine the frenzied German masses acclaiming a Schicklgruber with their thunderous "Heils"? "Heil Schicklgruber!"? Not only was "Heil Hitler!" used as a Wagnerian, pagan-like chant by the multitude in the mystic pagaentry of the massive Nazi rallies, but it became the obligatory form of greeting between Germans during the Third Reich, even on the telephone, where it replaced the conversational "Hello." "Heil Schicklgruber!"? It is a little difficult to imagine.
** There is a distinct possibility that the name Hitler/Hiedler/Hidler (naming rules were a bit lax in previous centuries) [[{{Irony}} was derived from the Slavonic (Czech) ''Hidlar'' or ''Hidlarcek'']]. Some of his family members attested that that there were Moravians in the family line.
* BeyondTheImpossible: The death toll of WWII and the various nazi crimes speak of themselves. See the quote at the top of the page.
* BigBad: One of the - if not ''the'' - biggest bad RealLife has seen.
* BigBadassWolf: He seemed to have had an affinity of some sort for wolves. His first name derives from ''Athalwolf'', Old High German for (as stated above) "noble wolf", and for this reason "Wolf" [[CardCarryingVillain became his childhood nickname]]. He later used it as a pseudonym for himself in the 1920s, ostensibly for security reasons. When his sister Paula Hitler asked him for financial support around 1930 (she was fired from her job in Vienna when her employers found out who her brother was) he granted her request, but insisted that she go under the assumed name "Paula Wolf" from then on. Some of his military headquarters were named ''Wolfsschanze'' ("wolf's lair"), ''Wolfsschlucht'' ("wolf's chasm"), and ''Wehrwolf'' (lit. "defense wolf", probably a play on words with ''Werwolf'' i.e. "{{werewolf}}").
* BlackAndGrayMorality - While Hitler's treatment of civilians is widely reviled (for good reason), pretty much every country on either side had its own share of atrocities.
* BlingBlingBang: He apparently owned a [[http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/WestPointMilitaryMuseum/WorldWarII/pages/24AdolphHitlersLilliputPistol.htm gold-plated gun]] which he carried with him regularly, which was taken as booty at the end of the war and is now in the possession of the West Point Military Museum.
* BrilliantButLazy - One of his teachers described Adolf as "having unlimited talent" but he was too much of a dreamer.
* BritishTeeth - Apparently he had very bad teeth due to his love of sweets.
* CompellingVoice - He had a knack for whipping his supporters into a frenzy, which he allegedly learned from [[{{Irony}} (Jewish)]] magician and clairvoyant [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jan_Hanussen Erik Jan Hanussen]].
* [[BrokenPedestal Completely Smashed Pedestal]] - Most Germans were probably aware that their Jewish neighbors had not simply moved on to happy new lives in a faraway land of peace and prosperity, but even many who were glad to be rid of them were horrified when the full story of what had been going on in the camps came to light.
* ChosenOne: He considered himself as one for the German people.
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* ConspiracyTheorist - Hitler's views on Jews are common knowledge.
** There are also many ''many'' conspiracy theories involving Hitler, like the tropes NaziOccultism and StupidJetpackHitler. It also doesn't help that many American companies funded the Third Reich and supported it with technology and research. Nor does it help that Henry Ford was a personal correspondent of Hitler, nor does it help that Prescott Bush, GeorgeHWBush's father and GeorgeWBush's grandfather, got indicted under the Trading With The Enemy Act...
** There are people who believe that it was not Hitler's body discovered in the bunker and that Hitler escaped to South America, in a weird inversion of KingInTheMountain.
** Hitler's religion is another source of conspiracy theories. He didn't seem quite sure himself. Some days he denounced Christianity and other days he embraced it. He repeatedly denounced Christianity's meekness and slave morality, even saying that Germany would have been better if it was Islam instead, yet sometimes claimed to be Catholic (although that might be reference to the Nordic and Gothic influences on Catholicism). Some of his top men were obsessed with the occult, and tried to use magical means to assure success in politics and warfare.
* CulturePolice - The Nazis banned jazz, cabarets and avant garde music--the only thing allowed was classical "Germanic" music such as RichardWagner. Even classical composers like FelixMendelssohn were banned, because they were Jews.
* CyanidePill - How he and Eva Braun killed themselves; and just to be sure, they shot themselves too.
* DarkMessiah - To the [[CrapsackWorld Depression-era Germans]].
* DidNotDoTheResearch - About FriedrichNietzsche: see NietzscheWannabe below.
** The entire world DidNotDoTheResearch, for over a decade. Every general concept that he believed in and ultimately carried out, he had told the whole world about in his book. Every single one.
* DisproportionateRetribution -- One German diplomat is assassinated. Retribution: 91 Jews murdered, up to 30,000 arrested and placed in concentration camps, 267 synagogues destroyed, and thousands of homes ransacked or burned down. This riot was called "Kristallnacht." Oh, and afterward the Jews had to pay for the caused damages themselves, and one billion marks as an additional punishment.
** Hitler's hatred of Jews in general was viewed as this during his time as Führer. While anti-Semitism was by no means uncommon during that time (for ''many'' reasons, none of which have ever or ''should'' ever be justified), plenty of ''outspoken anti-Semites'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards thought he was taking it way too far.]]
** This trope was standard operating procedure by the Germans throughout Occupied Europe, although it varied somewhat from region to region (Poland would for instance be treated far more brutally than say, France). If a single German soldier, army or security officer or local official was killed (sometimes even for merely wounding them) by resistence groups they tended to round up anything from 10-200 people to be killed in reprisals.
** Reinhard Heydrich certainly applies in that regard. In retaliation for his assassination via a car bomb, the towns of Lidice and Ležáky were ''annihilated''. Lidice in particular was horrifically disproportionate - all male residents over 16 were executed, the town was demolished and burned to the ground, and even the graveyard was dug up and all buried remains destroyed. Hitler's original orders were even more extreme. They called for the rounding-up of 50,000 random Czechs and executing them before the rest of the nation, which ''Himmler'' (the architect of the friggin' Holocaust mind you) [[ShockingSwerve advised him to downgrade]] to "just" completely razing two villages and killing its inhabitants, but only so that [[PragmaticVillainy economic productivity in the region would be maintained]].
** On a smaller scale, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeatine_massacre Ardeatine Massacre]] (fictionalized in the movie "Massacre in Rome"). An attack by Italian resistance groups that lead to the death of 32 German policemen patrolling in Rome was met with the execution of 335 (actually 320 were intended: 10 Italians were to be killed for every dead German policeman) randomly and hastily selected people in Rome (which included civilians, convicts, and prisoners of war).
* DoomsdayDevice - Hitler ordered development of many of these, because he [[CompensatingForSomething was in love with]] the RuleOfCool. Unfortunately for his army, all were [[AwesomeButImpractical inefficient and expensive]], and did not secure any strategic advantage.
** [[{{BFG}} The Dora Gun]] was an artillery battery so huge, one shell could level 4 city blocks, 23 miles away. Too bad it could only move on specially built parallel railroad tracks, and took days to be assembled for use. [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9mlahWKCkv4/SH48W08spsI/AAAAAAAAAXI/49uucrln-B0/s1600-h/6f9771a0d06154374733ea069233e69d_full.jpg Here it is.]].
*** Dora was only one of two, the other was called the Schwerer Gustav(Heavy Gustav). They were designed to take down the French Maginot Line, but the Germans passed it anyway so it was turned against Russia. Their eventual fate was that Dora was scrapped to keep the Russians off it and Gustav was captured by the US.
** The V2 rocket was the first ballistic missile. It travelled faster than the speed of sound, so if you heard one fall, it meant that it had already exploded. It terrified the British, but fortunately it was very hard to aim at anything smaller than a city. Featured in ''GravitysRainbow''. Even though it was more dangerous than the V1, it's predecessor (which was basically a pilotless plane turned into a warhead), it also cost as much as at least 20 V1s.
*** Not to mention the slave labor used to make, assemble, and launch it. Meaning some of them would explode on the launchpad. More people were killed constructing V2s than were killed by its deployment.
* DrivenToSuicide
* TheEmpire - He created one of the most infamous RealLife examples.
* EnemyCivilWar - In addition to the Night of The Long Knives, where he had the SA purged and made an impotent organization because he saw their ambition as a threat to his power, Hitler constantly pitted his top lieutenants and subordinates against each other so they could never overthrow him. This was both to ensure his own supreme power and because he believed it was a kind of positive Social Darwinism.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas - He said that his mother Klara was his warmest memory.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hitler didn't feel this way himself, but he inspired this trope in Wilhelm II, the last German Kaiser. Wilhelm was himself a bombastic, short-tempered anti-Semite, but even he was disgusted by the Kristallnacht, and according to ThatOtherWiki Wilhelm claimed that the incident made him ashamed to be a German.
** Example with Hitler himself: Hitler, having been blinded with mustard gas as a soldier, forbade the use of mustard gas on the battlefield, even when the Germans had thousands of tons of stockpiled gas ready to be used on the Russian troops advancing on Berlin. It was fully applied in the concentration camps against Jews and other groups however.
* EvilerThanThou - A telegram to Martin Bormann has him saying that all this racial supremacy stuff is rubbish; in reality, he's out to crush the Jews as an ethnic minority in the cultural sense, reasoning that notions like peace and love were introduced by and tied to them, and it was those notions that he was out to destroy. If that's true, then he was even more coldly rational and dangerous than previously thought. This was not ForTheEvulz, but a form of social engineering -- he wanted to create a modern-day Sparta or Imperial Rome, and to that end he had to radically change Germany's cultural values. Getting rid of the Jews was his way.
** He actually admitted as much when he discussed the relation between Nazi racism and science with a common farmer: "I know perfectly well that in the scientific sense there is no such thing as race. But you, as a farmer and cattle breeder, cannot get your breeding successfully achieved without the conception of race. And I as a politician need a conception which enables the order which has hitherto existed on historic bases to be abolished and an entirely and new anti-historic order enforced and given an intellectual basis... and for this purpose the conception of race serves me well. With the conception of race, National Socialism will carry the revolution abroad and re-cast the world."
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Shines through in his assessments of some other countries' motivations for getting involved in the war. He kept insisting that the Americans would annex Canada if Britain were to become weak, that the British would annex French Africa if France became weak, that the Soviets (although {{YMMV}} on the "good" part with that one) would annex India if Britain became weak, that the British and Americans would try to destroy each other to attain world hegemony, etc. He basically believed that every other country besides his was also operating as a backstabbing, expansionistic empire, not seeing that Britain absorbing colonies from their defeated French ally for instance would have been inconceivable to them on moral grounds alone.
* EvilChancellor - The TropeCodifier. So well known by now that every time a science fiction, fantasy or horror story contains the equivalent of a Chancellor maneuvering his way into becoming an EvilOverlord, the audience will automatically assume it's yet another Hitler, unless [[WordOfGod specifically denied]] by the WordOfGod... and sometimes even then, regardless.
* EvilForeigner - If you are hapless enough to bring up the subject of Hitler to a real live German, they will be quick to point out that he was ''really'' from Austria. And what do the Austrians say? They claim Hitler was German, since he actually hated the Austrian state and loved Germany more.
** In fact, for a while he was neither. Hitler renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925, but gained German citizenship only in 1932. He remained stateless for those 7 years, also blocking his political (or whatever you wish to call them) ambitions, as not being a German citizen, he could not run for public office.
** The compromise on TheOtherWiki is that he was an "Austrian-born German politician". As a pan-Germanist, he wanted both to be the same country anyway, and made it so.
* EvilIsCool - Look at those [[EvilCostumeSwitch sweet trenchcoats]] the SS were sporting! Is that styling or ''what''?
-->'''{{Angel}}''': You're a Nazi?
-->'''Spike''': What? Oh, no, I just ate one.
** And those ''amazing'' leather jackets that U-boat captains got! The [[ChristopherEccleston Ninth]] [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]] wore one because it was amazingly stylish, though he would likely object to any other connection to Nazis, especially considering their similarities to the Daleks (who were actually based on Nazis)
** The clothing for the SS was made by top German clothing company [[AwesomeMcCoolName Hugo Boss]], so there's a reason they looked cool despite being linked with such horrible things.
* EvilIsHammy
** MilkingTheGiantCow - Seen in speeches.
* EvilIsNotAToy / NotSoHarmless - The Nazis were considered a joke at first. When Hitler gained power, his enemies thought they could tame and control him. They were ''dead'' wrong.
* EvilIsSexy - Hitler was actually considered to be fairly attractive, and someone did an experiment where they digitally removed his moustache and colorized his picture (and edited the uniform) and he [[http://forums.bleachexile.com/showthread.php?t=51243 ended up getting pretty high marks on HotOrNot]].
--> "Upon releasing the links to the public at large, my score has actually gone down, to 7.4. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Meanwhile,]] [[StupidSexyFlanders that sexy bitch Hitler]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny is up to 9.1."]]
** {{Bishounen}}: The manga version of ''Mein Kampf'' portrays the younger Hitler as one. Yes, there actually exists a ''Mein Kampf'' manga.
* EvilOverlord
* EvilSoundsDeep - Hitler had a very deep voice when speaking normally, as heard in his recording with Mannerheim. When ranting during his speeches, however, he took a high, barking tone.
* EvilUncle - Hitler had a weird, controlling, excessively intimate relationship with his niece Angela "Geli" Raubal, who eventually committed suicide. With her uncle's own gun. After they'd been arguing for days. On a night when all the servants (except one who was deaf) were conveniently on vacation. Did we mention she'd been planning a trip to Vienna, where she was rumored to have a Jewish boyfriend? Even at the time there was speculation that Hitler had been in love with her and murdered her in a jealous rage (although no clear evidence exists even today).
** Hitler's father may also be an example -- his third wife, Adolf's mother, was his own niece.
** Hitler had a nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who fought in the [=US=] Navy during [=WW2=]. To William, at least, Hitler would have therefore qualified as this.
* FamilyValuesVillain
* FanArt - He drew quite a few reinterpretations of Disney characters, including MickeyMouse and [[SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Seven Dwarfs]].
* FascistButInefficient - Prior to the war years, Hitler was apparently quite fond of waking up late, taking long walks, watching movies, and otherwise being a pretty lazy totalitarian dictator. He took the view that things tended to sort themselves out if one didn't interfere too much. After failing to knock out the Soviet Union in a single blow in 1941 he went over to the opposite side because he believed the Wehrmacht was [[NeverMyFault wholly responsible]] for failing to meet the invasion's intended goals, and resolved to micro-manage every single military operation from then on.
** His policies also made the Nazi nuclear program a complete joke. It split into at least nine different programs, each actively competing with and hindering the others. Hitler's insistence that the scientists follow proper "German Physics" also crippled any real progress since it often threw out ideologically unacceptable physics essential to the nuclear program. In hindsight, said program was more of a comedy of errors than any real threat. And, for added NiceJobFixingItVillain points, the program also sapped the already overtaxed Nazi logistics, weakening the Nazi resource base further.
** On the other hand, he ''did'' take the impoverished wreck that was Depression-era Germany and rebuild it into a prosperous and powerful nation that very nearly overran the whole of Europe, so YourMileageMayVary on the "inefficient" part.
* ForWantOfANail - Out of the six children of his parents, only him and his younger sister survived into adulthood. He narrowly survived several near-death experiences, and several failed and aborted assassination attempts after becoming ''Führer''. He also narrowly survived a shell explosion in WorldWarOne. His army buddies in the war used to think hanging around him was a decent way to live longer.
** He almost went into opera stage production, under the written recommendation of then-major Viennese organizer Alfred Roller, in February 1908...but backed out at the last minute after being intimidated by Roller's stature on the Vienna art scene. In 1942, he told his personal staff that if he had taken Roller up on his offer, things might have turned out differently.
** Not to mention that if he had managed to pass math in high school, he could have had a real shot getting into architectural school (he was specifically praised for his architectural drawings in his art school rejection letter).
** There is a popular speculation that if Hitler had been accepted into art school, the great atrocities of the 20th century might have been avoided: that his financial problems following his final rejection led him to the slums of Vienna and later Munich, where he was exposed to poverty, desperation, and most significantly, ethnic minorities that fueled his hatred. Art school might have shaped his perceptions differently, or at least would have kept him occupied with something other than stewing in his own resentment during his formative years. Of course, [[{{YMMV}} as with all speculations...]]
** There's a book called "Third Reich Victorious" which has ten self-contained alternate history scenarios that end with [[WhatItSaysOnTheTin Germany winning the war]]. The first has Hitler joining the navy instead of the army, and becomes a well-disciplined officer of the fleet, transforming his mild anti-Semitism of the time into hatred merely of the British, and builds up a powerful fleet that manages to take on the Royal Navy when World War II comes around. It's actually a pretty good read.
* {{Flanderization}} - There is an unfortunate tendency among history enthusiasts to look at the magnitude of his crimes and paint Hitler as an inhuman monster, whereas the sad, sad truth is that he was a very human and easily repeatable creature. Banality of evil, anyone?
** Hitler is often painted as a coward and a GeneralFailure, when in fact he was decorated for bravery in WorldWarOne and came up with some of the tactics that overcame the Belgians in 1940. His real GeneralFailure moment was more for political propaganda reasons later in the war when he insisted that troops on the Eastern Front shouldn't retreat -- which [[JosefStalin Stalin]] had also done earlier on.
*** Historians now have access to Hitler's war record, whereas the previously had to rely heavily on ''Mein Kampf'' and the dubious testimony of Nazi sympathisers who were with him (and, sometimes, not). It turns out that yes, he really ''was'' a coward or at least nowhere near as brave as he made himself out to be, spending almost the entirety of the first war relatively safe behind the front lines in Regimental HQ, and turning down promotions probably to avoid more dangerous work (or work, period -- he spent days at a time not doing much). His Iron Crosses came more from sycophantic ass-kissing than bravery.
**** Certainly not as brave as his propaganda painted him, yes, but on the other hand he participated in four big battles (Ypres, Somme, Arras, Passchendaele) and was wounded in action twice, so calling him a coward is a bit of a stretch.
***** Actually, he barely participated at all. His regminent was involved in those battles, though mostly as reserves and on or near the sidelines. Hitler himself, as said, was a Regimental runner, not a Battalion runner, so he did next to no fighting at all, either in those battles or any other time. He spent the ajority of the war safe in regminetal [=HQ=] far behind the front lines, mostly sitting around reading, resting or painting while awaiting orders. He was twice wounded, but "wounded in action" is a little misleading.
***** A regimental runner is still well within artillery range, and indeed it was artillery attacks (conventional and poison gas) that wounded him. Besides, don't forget that a regimental runner may have to deliver a message under bombardment while a front-line soldier is still in his dugout. Also note that the "historians" mentioned above in fact refers to Dr. Thomas Weber, who stressed that while Hitler was regarded as "cold-shouldered" and a "rear-area pig" by some soldiers in his regiment, he was also a good soldier in that he showed "steadfast and often courageous loyalty" when carrying out the orders his officers gave him (and the term "rear-area pig" was an insult used by front-line soldiers against pretty much anyone who wasn't at the front lines - it was not like Hitler was ''singled out'' here).
* ForScience: The excuse used for the Zyklon B experiment at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The Nazis wanted to find out whether a substance previously used for killing rodents will work on people. In 1941 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 sick Polish prisoners were put in the gas chambers and used as guinea pigs. It worked, unfortunately - and it worked incredibly efficiently. The victims died within 20 minutes. The Zyklon B gas was commonly used from then on in the concentration camps for exterminating what were mostly Jews.
* FountainOfExpies - Just look at the ANaziByAnyOtherName page.
* FreudianExcuse: He had a horrible childhood. However, he did ban Freud's work.
* FromNobodyToNightmare - Certainly the most nightmarish example ever. See the quote at the top of the page.
* {{Gasshole}} - [[http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article10240701.aspx He had serious stomach problems.]]
* GeneralFailure: Though not technically a general (he didn't acquire a military office himself until December 1941, and even then exercised his authority as the Führer, i.e. Head of State, rather than as a military officer), Hitler became this when he assumed direct command of the German military in the aftermath of the Battle of Moscow. Following this, the consummate professionalism of the Wehrmacht officer corps and the ability of its soldiers was wasted due to Hitler's demented strategies and tactics. Many of Germany's worst defeats are directly attributable to Hitler's interference.
* GloriousLeader
* HeteronormativeCrusader - Hitler banned the gay subculture that previously existed in Weimar Germany, and "sexual deviants" were sent to concentration camps where they had to wear a pink triangle on their clothes.
** Note that some scholars claim Hitler was not ''particularly'' hateful of homosexual men, and that the chief architect of the Nazi campaign against gays was in fact Heinrich Himmler. Also note that lesbians did not suffer such discrimination.
* HilariousInHindsight - Hitler's birthday was April 20. April 20 (written as 4/20) is now often recognized as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture) "Weed Day"]].
* [[HumansAreCthulhu Hitler Is Cthulhu]][=/=]TheAntichrist[=/=]GodOfEvil- Probably the most common depiction of Hitler is Hitler-as-Cthulhu, the ultimate evil who have come here to wage war and spread chaos and insanity against the world. This is subverted in real life; Hitler was a war hero, a patron of the arts, did not smoke, was nice to his secretary, had a relationship with Eva Braun and other women, and was very close to several members of his extended family. He had a pet dog, for christsake. There's no excusing his hideous crimes, but Hitler was ''one of us'' -- a human. An important lesson to remember.
** There was actually a homemade film found of a cookout at Hitler's home, with [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes him happily spending time with friends, playing with his dog, etc.]] Many people wanted the film destroyed so nobody would see it, because they thought Hitler being shown to be a regular person would horrify people too much.
** Actually it is known that movies of him away from work were made as propaganda specifically to dispell any notion that he was not human.
** Just look at this picture. That's right people, [[http://color-her-world.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2uap2d Hitler was a baby too.]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Station Attendant]] - Hitler with [[FromNobodyToNightmare his story, his decisions,]] [[VisionaryVillain and his honest belief in his own agenda]] is HighOctaneNightmareFuel personified.
* HoYay: Just look at the way [[CloudCuckoolander Rudolf]] [[NumberTwo Hess]] gazes at him in TriumphOfTheWill. Perhaps it was one-sided love interest by Hess. Anyway... {{Squick}}.
* ICantDance: More like he refused to because he believed it was effeminate.
* IconicCharacters - Just try to find a fictional dictator created since the end of WWII who doesn't owe at least a ''little'' to him.
* IdiotBall: Plenty of people in the Soviet Union would have joined the Nazis if only Hitler's armies would have treated them humanly.
* IfICantHaveYou - when it seemed likely that the Allies forces were about to retake Paris, Hitler personally ordered the German garrison stationed in there to burn the city to the ground. The final days of the German occupation of finds General Dietrich von Choltitz fielding phone call after call from an enraged Hitler demanding "Brennt Paris?" over and over. He ignored the order.
** Sort of makes sense in terms of his psychology -- forcing every last German to die for him in a doomed last stand would've been straight of out one of the apocalyptic Wagner operas he loved so much.
** Also, he ordered himself to be burnt after his suicide, so that nobody could display his corpse as a spoil of war.
* IronicDeath - He allegedly shot himself while biting down on a capsule filled with hydrogen cyanide...also known as Zyklon B, the same poison used to gas millions of Jews to death in the Holocaust, which Hitler ordered.
* {{Jerkass}} - Understatement of the century.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe - ''Mein Kampf'', published in 1925-1926, told the world exactly how he believed the Jews controlled everything and exactly how he planned to stop them. Too bad no one paid attention or maybe just [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt refused to believe it]].
** Hitler specifically refused the publication of ''Mein Kampf'' in France, given it clearly sets up the goal of taking revenge upon it (and contains some racist opinions about French people, too). In 1934, a French editor tried and published it to warn his fellow citizens. Hitler sued him... and won ''[[LawfulStupid upon violation of copyright]]''. There was finally an approved translation published in 1938, which was of course ''heavily'' edited, to the point of falsification. Logically, ''Mein Kampf'' was also completely banned in France under German military occupation, for fear of feeding LaResistance.
* KneelBeforeZod - Demanding that France sign their armistice to Germany in the same train car that the armistice of 1918 was signed in, at the exact same location. In a further show of disdain to the French he just stood up and left in the middle of negotiations, leaving [[YesMan his military lackey Keitel]] to finish the discussions with the French delegates. All before taking the car back to Berlin and blowing up the entire site bar French Marshal Foch's statue, just so Foch would look over a wasteland. And then, at the end of the war, blowing up the train car in order to prevent it being done to ''them''.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll - While he was quite knowledgeable on some topics (architecture and oratory, for instance), he feigned aptitude in numerous other fields of which he had only surface mastery, and had an arrogant opinion on virtually everything, which he usually insisted on lecturing his cohorts on. He seriously maintained for instance that the inhabitants of New Zealand were a tree-dwelling species of humanoid. [[CriticalResearchFailure Without irony]].
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt - Many anti-Semites were actually shocked by the Final Solution, even if they had sometimes proposed things like that themselves. ''Himmler'' tried to talk Hitler out of it.
** Quite a lot of Jews said it -- that's why most of them didn't manage to jump ship before it was too late.
* MadArtist - Aspired to be.
* MadeOfIron - Despite being the target of around 40 assassination attempts and lots of idiotic medical and dietary decisions, ''and this guy still refused to die''! He eventually had to do himself in, and he apparently had to redo his own death because he semi botched the first half, and his own men had to finish the job.
* LuckyBastard - History's most infamous example, to the point where the term "Devil's Luck" was coined because of him.
* MagnificentBastard - Played straight, then subverted. For about 10 years from 1933 until late '42 Hitler was on an absolute roll, eliminating his enemies, outplaying (not to mention out-charming) foreign politicians and men of influence, digging Germany out of the shithole that is the Great Depression and building up a seemingly unstoppable war machine and achieving in a matter of months a conquest of Europe that took Napoleon several years. Some military experts regard him as a gifted amateur -- his problem was he was too aggressive and [[TacticalWithdrawal incapable of accepting losses]], for example refusing to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm yield conquered land even when it was tactically expedient to do so]]. His gigantic ego, failing mental health and his marriage to the VillainBall came down on him later. ''Hard''.
** His policies for getting Germany out of the Great Depression were actually quite asinine. The Keynseian-style economics employed was actually the brainchild of Hjalmar Schacht, the Economics Minister, but he protested because Hitler focused too much on public works and especially military re-armament. Since both are run by the state, this meant that though unemployment was driven down the German economy wasn't actually gaining all that much capital and was set for another economic disaster a few years down the road. Conquering other countries and stealing their resources was the only way the army could pay for this. Of course, Hitler planned for war all along, so that wasn't a problem for him, but the economic imperative -- if he even understood it -- was not his reason for wanting war. In fact Hitler said on more than one occasion that he did not care about economics and considered that fact one of his strengths -- his economic policy was pretty much based around ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime.
* MayDecemberRomance - Eva Braun, who was 23 years his junior.
* MillionMookMarch
* MisBlamed - He's often held up as an example of the inevitable moral bankruptcy of atheism...''and'' as an example of the inherently intolerant and oppressive nature of Christianity. This is actually sort of understandable, since both his public and private statements about religion are so contradictory that it's just about impossible to figure out what he believed. (The general scholarly consensus is that although he didn't mind using the Jews' supposed complicity in the Crucifixion to justify his antisemitism to others, his personal attitude toward Christianity was actually fairly contemptuous. He wasn't a strong atheist or anything, though, nor was he particularly opposed to religion in general.)
* ModernMajorGeneral - Hitler was many things, but a military genius was not one of them. His army's early victories came about due to the brilliant leadership of generals like Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian. Once Hitler started trying to personally direct the war effort out of fear that his stellar generals might overshadow him, he began replacing them with Nazi yes-men who had more loyalty than talent. That's about the time everything started to go downhill.
** However, this is often Flanderised. Hitler was described as a "gifted amateur" tactically (not strategically), certainly more than you'd expect for someone who never rose above corporal in the army. His reputation was in part made by an idea he had to deal with the Belgian border fortresses during the invasion of the Low Countries -- the Belgians had made the turrets so huge and impenetrable, ''the Nazis could just land gliders full of commandoes on top of them''.
* MommasBoy - a few pop-psychologists attributed his deep hatred for the Jews to the death of his mother, who died of cancer while being treated by a Jewish doctor.
** But on the other hand, Hitler specifically ordered said doctor ''not'' to be killed. While the above sounds like a good FreudianExcuse, he didn't actually seem to blame the doctor, although he was truly desperate when his mother died - the doctor claimed he had never seen a young man so desperate in the same situation.
*** After the Anschluss, the doctor, Eduard Bloch, actually wrote to Hitler and asked for help after his practice had been closed. He came under Gestapo protection and was allowed to live undisturbed until the paperwork for his and his wife's immigration to the US had been finished.
* MookPromotion - Hitler was a {{mook}} in WorldWarI before progressing to BigBad
* [[BeardOfEvil Moustache Of Evil]] - Unless you're doing a CharlieChaplin cosplay [[GoodHairEvilHair you'll get in trouble for using that.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution - No pun intended.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong - Rather creepily, Hitler became a firm believer in this by the end of the war. Because the Soviets had defeated the Germans in the Great Patriotic War his racist and Social Darwinian attitudes led him to conclude that the "eastern races" were obviously more deserving of survival, and thought they would ultimately complete world conquest after destroying the "decadent democracies of the west". It's one of the reasons he came to denounce the entire German nation, and deemed them unfit to even survive as a people – trying to effect this by [[TakingYouWithMe ordering the destruction of all German infrastructure and even the bare means of survival]].
* NamesTheSame: There was apparently a US soldier during the time of WorldWarTwo who was also named Adolf Hitler. When asked if he was going to change his name, he replied "let the other guy change his name."
* NaziGermany - TropeMaker and TropeCodifier.
* NiceToTheWaiter - His secretary, Traudl Junge (while admitting that he was evil) said that he was "a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend".
* NietzscheWannabe - Hitler liked to throw around stuff about FriedrichNietzsche, the {{Ubermensch}} concept and the "will to power", even though Nietzsche would have certainly despised the Nazis' nationalism, antisemitism and herd mentality. The term ''Übermensch'' as used by the Nazis was also used to refer to something completely different from Nietzsche's actual philosophy: the supposed racial "superiority" of the Aryan race and the German people (the "master race"), as opposed to the "inferior" ''Untermenschen'' ([[SlaveRace sub-humans]]) such as the Jews, Slavs, gypsies, etc. This led to a HitlerAteSugar mentality regarding Nietzsche (though Nietzsche seems to have largely recovered from this).
* OedipusComplex - Well the rivalry against his father and the attachment to his mother (which was Hitler's warmest memory especially during his Vienna years, but unfortunately died) were what what led to his FreudianExcuse.
* OhCrap - The defeat at Stalingrad. Hitler's record of military victories began to fall apart from there. [[NeverMyFault Hitler blamed anyone but himself, and urged the German people to fight to the bitter end.]]
* OlderThanTheyThink: So Hitler invented all this Nazism stuff, right? Wrong. Many of Hitler's ideas that made up the ideology of Nazism were unoriginal and rooted in Germany's past; all Hitler did was put them together as one ideology. First of all, Hitler's idea of a Volksgemeinschaft (people's community) was to bring the "pure" German people together, under a strong national unity government controlled by one, unquestionable leader. This was based on the fact that Germany had never had a democracy before the Weimar Republic, and that all the Weimar governments were made up of coalitions and were very indecisive - and as a result many people wanted a strong, centralized leadership. Hitler's racism is based on the ideas social Darwinists and eugenicists, such as Alfred Ploetz and Lanz von Liebenfels. The idea of antisemitism has its roots deep in the past, stretching as far back as the middle ages. Lebensraum, which literally means "living space" was also an old idea of expanding Germany's land towards the east, forming a Greater Germany, and using the Slavs, who inhabited that area, as slaves.
* OneMarioLimit - As the caption atop the page shows, it's hard to find someone named Adolf after him let alone someone with the surname "Hitler". Or both. In 1939 there were 4500 people with the surname Hitler in the New York phone directory. By 1945, there were three. Surviving relations in America changed their names.
* ParentalIncest - He had a creepy, obsessive, excessively intimate relationship with his niece, who probably committed suicide to escape his control. Although there's no clear evidence, even before his downfall Hitler was widely rumored to be in a romantic relationship with her.
* PetTheDog - Fairly literal example, Hitler (like some other senior Nazis) [[HitlerAteSugar loved his pet dog]] and had a strong appreciation for animal rights - [[ValuesDissonance while sending humans to the gas chambers.]]
** Then he had the dog killed to test his own poison capsules. Though, to be fair, he might just not have wanted Blondi to fall into the hands of the Soviets, as there's no telling what they might've done to his personal pet.
* PlayingTheVictimCard - And the "oppressors" are the Jews and those who participated in the Treaty Of Versailles.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain - And serves as the [[TropeCodifier template]] for most in fiction.
* PropagandaMachine - With many of their methods being copied by a majority of the world's politicians.
* PsychoSupporter - Hitler had plenty of them, both in Germany and outside.
* RuinedForever: [[HitlerAteSugar Everything he touches, to the extent that it has its own trope]].
* SecretPolice - The Gestapo. And the SD. Heck, there was a whole ''network'' of [[StateSec private security forces]] such as the SS and the earlier SA, largely given the job of eliminating social "undesirables" and dissenters. But above all, they were created to protect Hitler's power.
* SmugSnake: Actually, yes. He pretended to be a MagnificentBastard, but really the only reason he was so terrifying was the VillainousValor of the [[BadassArmy Wehrmacht]]. We wouldn't think of him as a BigBad if he had been dictator of a less powerful and efficient state. Although he seemed like a MagnificentBastard when everything was going right, like all {{Smug Snake}}s, his overconfidence ultimately caused his [[{{Downfall}} downfall.]]
* SocialDarwinist - Used to justify his Eugenics programs and invading of other countries. However, even though he was a staunch ''Social'' Darwinist who might have believed in Survival of the Fittest, he publicly and repeatedly denounced the theory of evolution as false (probably this has something to do with the original Darwinist theory of adaptation, rather than outright Survival of the Fittest, which the Nazis advocated). The Nazis' interpretation of evolution was simply EvolutionaryLevels taken to a genocidal extreme. CharlesDarwin would not be amused.
* StartOfDarkness - Probably his [[WorldWarOne war experiences]]. Maybe his childhood.
* StraightGay- Possibly. Various people who have investigated his life have found certain things that may point to this including an alleged argument with a room mate where he told the room mate not to go see women because the room mate was supposed to be in love with Hitler.
* SurroundedByIdiots - Inverted. Most of Hitler's staff were actually quite competent. Hitler in the meantime created a convoluted chain of command that kept every branch from working in concert, with himself at its head, so that the military couldn't coordinate very well. Not to mention that he ''insisted'' that the D-Day invasion would happen at the Pas de Calais, despite many ''many'' reports that proved otherwise. He didn't do anything to try and stop the Normandy landings until after the breakout, and by then the Allies were well into France.
* TakeOverTheWorld - According to his unpublished sequel to ''Mein Kampf'' (released after the war as ''Zweites Buch'' or "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Second Book]]"), Hitler envisioned that after [[WorldWarII his new war]] would be over European Russia would've been annexed to Greater Germany, and the rest of Europe subjugated to a German-Italian-British alliance. Together with Britain he then desired to initiate a final war on the United States at some indeterminate point in time.
* TaremeEyes: He has these kind of eyes, despite being evil.
* TheBeard - Some people have alleged that Eva Braun was this and that she was kept around because [A. she reminded him of his mother and [B. to keep people from using his possible homosexuality as blackmail. Whether this is true or not is questionable.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt - In [[http://www.famousquotes.com/show/1018796/ Winston Churchill's speech about Hitler being a "monster of wickedness"]], he stated that once Hitler started his career of bloodshed, genocide and destruction, ''he could not stop''. Had he won the war, those of Jewish descent in Britain and countless other countries would be pretty much doomed. And if he did manage to completely exterminate Jews, Roma, the disabled, etc., [[ItGotWorse Hitler would probably have moved on to the Slavs and then any other groups he saw as standing in the way of total Germanic racial superiority]]. Who knows how far it could have gone?
* ThickerThanWater: His sister, Paula was interrogated by US intelligence officers after the war, where she said this about him: "The personal fate of my brother affected me very much. He was still my brother, no matter what happened. His end brought unspeakable sorrow to me, as his sister".
* TheStarscream - Oh so many. There were dozens of attempts by [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons the Wehrmacht]] to kill him, the most famous being the July 20 plot.
** Plus [[TheDragon Himmler]], [[FatBastard Goering]], [[CloudCuckoolander Hess]], and [[PunchClockVillain Speer]] all committing treason against him at some point.
* StraightEdgeEvil
* TheUbermensch
* TheUnSmile - During his last years.
* VillainBall[=/=]ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil - Opening a new war front with the Soviet Union before being done in the west is usually seen as an example of this.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity - In Germany, before it all came crumbling down. Many people tend to forget he was legally appointed and enjoyed popular support (albeit backed up from the start with threats of violence toward those who didn't support him), which only makes him ''more'' scary in retrospect.
** Quite a few historians have said that if Hitler had kicked the bucket around 1935-1938, he would have been remembered as one of the greatest of all German Chancellors, on par with Bismarck. He would have lost some points over antisemitism, [[ValuesDissonance but at that time it was not really all that out of place]].
*** So in other words, if Hitler hadn't started a global war, destroyed or tried to destroy whole nations, been responsible for the direct or indirect deaths of dozens of millions of innocent people, and after all that, let his country be ground into the dirt by invaders largely because of his own incompetence, historians might not have treated him so badly? After all, [[SarcasmMode everybody makes a few mistakes you know.]]
* VillainousBreakdown - [[{{Downfall}} His final days in the Führerbunker mostly involved him ranting and raving at absolutely everyone and directing armies that existed only in his head]].
** There exists a film of him just a few days before his death, and when one compares a photograph of him from 1940, he looks about 25 years older; he has a sort of hunch to his back, as if he suffered from osteoporosis, his face was pale and wrinkled-looking, his hands shook, and his walking was a sort of slow shuffle, as if he was very physically weak, and he basically looked half dead already.
* VillainByDefault - Name ''one'' non-White Supremacist work made after 1945 which portrays him as a hero unironically. We'll wait.
* VisionaryVillain: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel As horrific as it was]], he did have a vaguely coherent plan for restoring Germany's former great prestige and power, and did achieve quite a lot domestically before the inevitable defeat.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether - There were actually a number of factions in Germany who were trying to assassinate or depose Hitler for various reasons, even if it was only because they were afraid Hitler's war efforts would lead the country to ruin. Unfortunately, they were working at cross purposes and Hitler outmaneuvered them all.
* WeCanRuleTogether - To [[JosefStalin Stalin]]. Although both were just faking it, and reloading their guns for the coming war.
** The Nazi's original idea was of a grand alliance with Britain, and that the English and the Germans would "share" the world: the English holding supremacy on the seas with an overseas empire, while the Germans would hold supremacy on land with a continental empire. The Nazis had this view because the inhabitants of the United Kingdom are, after all, Anglo-Saxons and ''Germanic'' in origin (barring the Celtics of course), and so in Hitler's view they would of course be natural allies. In fact, Hitler saw the success of the British Empire as proof of the superiority of the Germanic race. Not only did this ''not'' happen (turns out the British were not at all interested in this arrangement) and the Nazis wound up going to war with their ideological ally, but Hitler found himself, at least at first, in an alliance with the Soviet Union, his ideological ''enemy''. Even so, Hitler never really gave up on the idea of an alliance with Britain, and thought that after he had won the war they could still become allies.
* WhatAnIdiot - Explain to me again your reasons for getting into a war with ''the entire world'' at the same time, Adolf?
** [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Hitler's catastrophic invasion of Russia during one of the coldest winters ever is generally viewed not only as an incredibly stupid move both militarily and politically, but as a turning point for the entire European theater of the war]]. It not only diverted a huge amount of resources and men to a front that, prior to that time, had been of no concern, but much worse for Hitler, it turned the war into a two-front fight which Germany could never have hoped to win.
*** Oh heck, at least that has ''some'' tidbits of rationality as Russia was a danger and Hitler wasn't going to conquer Britain anytime soon because [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready the Royal Navy might object]]. What about just declaring war upon America out of the blue for no other reason then that he was absurdly pleased with the Japanese for Pearl Harbor -- even though he couldn't possibly do any lasting damage beyond a few weeks of torpedoing merchantmen?
** "[[Film/ThePrincessBride Never get involved in a land war in Asia!]]"
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This is a very common trope in many AlternateHistory settings. What if Hitler decided not to invade the USSR? If the Nazis won WW2? If Hitler had become an artist or architect instead of a politician? The list is practically endless.
* WickedCultured - See also MadArtist. Because biographies of the man tend to focus almost exclusively on his political career many tend to forget this fact, making it one of his still least generally-known but [[http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Power-Aesthetics-Frederic-Spotts/dp/1590201787/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254405220&sr=8-1 most prominent areas]] of interest, to the point of absolutely refusing to shut down German cultural centers such as operas even as late as the Fall of 1944. Much of his racist dogma actually revolved around the notion that only "Aryans" could create culture, and were thus the only part of mankind that even deserved to live. He also continued to describe and regard himself as an artist "[[BlatantLies forced into politics]]" for the latter part of his life. He could allegedly quote Schopenhauer at length from memory, read Shakespeare, was an avid [[RichardWagner Wagner]] fan who encouraged his staff to attend the opera on a regular basis, and was a reasonably talented painter. [[http://www.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/explorers_history/Adolf_Hitler_watercolor_painting_artist.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/adolf_hitler.htm&h=511&w=405&sz=24&tbnid=5MkRQEmR8dhMwM:&tbnh=252&tbnw=200&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAdolf%2BHitler%2527s%2Bpaintings&zoom=1&q=Adolf+Hitler%27s+paintings&hl=nl&usg=__cCiVuYaOKJtTLCiIVsMIvzs91ow=&sa=X&ei=eBlmTd_RN8-hOt23wZAL&ved=0CB8Q9QEwAA Judge for yourself.]] He was fairly good at buildings and landscapes, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic but downright horrible at drawing people]]. The art schools where he applied always gave him the same advice: his talents would be better applied in architecture rather than art, something he steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It was a common rumor for a while that he was very uptight and deplored nudity. In truth though, his own paintings included several nudes. He also spent a lot of time with Albert Speer discussing architecture (specifically, grand, fantastical designs for the new capital Germania, a rebuilt Berlin). It should be noted that as far as his reading goes he did so only to reinforce his own biased opinions and rarely read something that he disagreed with or didn't think he'd like, unless it proved useful to him. He never read critically and even attacked that way of reading, instead espousing an utterly anti-intellectual method of memorising large chunks of a piece and perverting their meaning to back up your arguments. He was good enough at that to fool genuine intellectuals. His taste in art was pretty two-dimensional as well; basically he was cultured, but it was his own very narrow and shallow version of culture. He absolutely despised all cultural activities that weren't to his specific taste, and many unfortunate artists quickly found themselves thrown into concentration camps. Many others simply emigrated the country during the 1930s, all but sterilizing if not outright destroying the German cultural scene.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity - Poster child.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Hitler might have had Jewish ancestry.
* YouHaveFailedMe - Hitler believed ''Germany'' had failed him and tried to make sure Germany didn't survive him. Apparently losing all their young men in battle, having all their cities burnt and blasted to a pile of charred rubble, and having [[AllGermansAreNazis their reputation ruined]] for generations wasn't loyal enough service for such a [[FridgeLogic magnificent creature as him]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness - Again, to Stalin (though it turned out to be ''Hitler'' who had outlived his usefulness to Stalin). And later on (just before his death) to the entire German people.

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!!The more interesting works of fiction involving Hitler:

* ''TheGreatDictator'' is a classic CharlieChaplin film parodying Hitler and Nazi Germany. It's been stated that the dictator [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/tramp-and-the-dictator.shtml saw the film. Twice.]]
** The ''first'' American comedy film to mock Hitler, however, was ''[[TheThreeStooges You Nazty Spy!]]'', which both [[TheThreeStooges Moe and Larry]] considered their best film. Interestingly, the film shows Moe/Hitler being given power by powerful munitions concerns and things spiraling out of their control. This was a common idea among Americans at the time, based around Hitler's plans for the re-armament of Germany.
* In the bad movie ''They Saved Hitler's Brain'' Hitler's followers try to find a new body for the preserved brain (in the original film actually Hitler's ''head'') into a new body. Parodied and copied often enough (as in ''IrregularWebcomic'') to have turned into a sub-trope in itself.
** The ''IrregularWebcomic'' example of the Hitler's brain subtrope comes from the fact that {{Lego}} don't do a Hitler figure, but ''do'' do a brain in a jar.
* ''LittleNicky'' - Hitler, quite aptly in Hell, appears briefly in a French Maid's outfit and getting a pineapple forced in his ass.
* ''TheBoysFromBrazil'' by Ira Levin. Hitler is not directly a character in the book, but [[spoiler: his surviving followers, Dr. Mengele among them, have cloned Hitler, placed the boys referred in the title in various families with a husband much older than his wife, as in real Hitler's family. And to finish it off, they plan to kill the surrogate fathers while the Hitler-clones are still young.]] [[spoiler:In a TwistEnding, it appears that it succeeds with the last clone.]]
* ''TheIronDream'' by Norman Spinrad, [[FramingDevice presented as]] a novel written by ScienceFiction writer Hitler, in a [[AlternateHistory different world than ours]]. Intended as a satire of crypto-fascist SpeculativeFiction, but apparently [[MisaimedFandom the American Nazi Party didn't get the joke and put it on their recommended reading list]].
* In "Timeslides", an episode of the third season of ''RedDwarf'', the crew discover ''TimeTravel'' via entering pictures or film. Holly digs up footage from Nuremberg and Lister enters standing next to Hitler. The episode's credits feature the line "Special Guest Star: Adolf Hitler [[CharacterAsHimself as himself]]".
* "Master D" and "The Badds" in the NES game ''BionicCommando'' were really Hitler and the Nazis [[NoSwastikas with the swastikas painted over]], due to clumsy [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerization]] of the Japanese release, called ''Top Secret: The Resurrection of Hitler''.
** Not only does he cuss at you in an NES game, but you [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome get to blow up his head, in one of the greatest video game moments of all-time.]]]]
* Hitler is ubiquitous in American comic books as the number-one villain of TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks.
** In TheDCU, Hitler supposedly got hold of the Spear of Destiny (the lance that pierced Christ on the cross), which gave him power over any superhuman who set foot in the Nazi sphere of influence; this was used as an in-universe explanation for why the JusticeSocietyOfAmerica didn't simply march into Berlin and have the Spectre turn him into a bug and step on him. Granted, they -tried-, but one foot onto Axis territory and the heroes become just regular joes.
** In the MarvelUniverse, Hitler got punched out by CaptainAmerica. He was also cloned and came back as "the Hate-Monger", a supervillain dressed in a purple KKK outfit, before being KilledOffForReal. He was also shown explicitly as the Red Skull's benefactor - [[EvenEvilHasStandards something that makes the Red Skull really unpopular with the rest of the supervillain community]].
*** Also, Hitler didn't die by his own hand, but was instead [[KillItWithFire burned alive]] by the Human Torch and his sidekick Toro. Hardly IngloriousBasterds, but it works.
** In ''{{Hellboy}}'', Hitler was Rasputin's benefactor (and thus indirectly responsible for "Project Ragna Rok", which brought Hellboy to Earth), but otherwise history went the same as in our world for him. In TheMovie, on the other hand, it's noted that he faked his death and waged [[TheMasquerade an invisible war]] against American supernatural agents until being killed in the 1950s.
*** Not quite, in the comics Hitler does fake his death only to battle Hellboy sometime after the war. While Hitler's body was destroyed in the fight, his head was left intact and found by Nazi loyalists who managed to save Hitler's brain like in the eponymous film. [[spoiler: In a twist, his brain is placed in a jar, mounted on the body of an ape and gains PsychicPowers, and would go on to become TheSavageDragon villain, Brainiape (Hitler's brain also gained the ability to survive without a body and move about on it's own, for some reason).]]
** They cloned Hitler in the DCComics as well. Early issues of ''Outsiders''. Only thing is, they got a really young version, one who still had his morals. Once he figured out what the heck happened, he killed himself.
** The reason Hitler was used as a villain so often in Golden Age comics is because the comics industry in the 1930's and 1940's was one of the few illustrating jobs available to Jews, so many of the first comics writers were first or second generation American Jews with family still in Europe.
* The 2004 German film ''Der Untergang'' / ''{{Downfall}}'' is remarkable for depicting Hitler during his final days as a human being instead of a scarecrow. It took some flak for the possibility of inspiring neo-Nazis by portraying him too sympathetically and daring to show him [[PetTheDog having a measure of compassion for his secretary and underfellows]]. This seems to have been avoided, as a realistically depicted Führerbunker!Hitler is still a failed human being by all accounts.
* In ''[[{{Persona 2}} Persona 2: Innocent Sin]]'', someone starts a rumour that [[{{Ghostapo}} Hitler has been resurrected with demonic powers]] and is leading a Nazi comeback. Shame that this has to happen at a time when [[AllMythsAreTrue rumours are becoming reality]]. The highlight of the storyline is an actual boss battle against the man himself.
** Word of a re-release (Confirmed in Japan and America) has brought the gaming community wondering if, finally, they can beat the shit out of Hitler. This Jewish troper is already planning his strategy for doing just that.
** They may have disguised it a bit, and just call him Furher...but, you can.
* You also fight Hitler in the Xbox 360 tactical RPG ''OperationDarkness''.
* ''Series/HeilHoneyImHome'', a sitcom which portrayed Hitler and Eva Braun living next door to a Jewish couple. It lasted only one episode.
* Under the name "The Dictator," Hitler appeared in the twelfth ''DragonBallZ'' [[TheMovie movie]], ''Fusion Reborn''. When the gates of Hell open, Hitler (and the entire Nazi army) escapes alongside numerous prior villains of the series. Goten and Trunks make quick work of him, especially when they become Super Saiyan.
-->'''Hitler''': Blond hair? Blue eyes? Super strength? I should be ''recruiting'' them!
* During World War II Hitler was mocked repeatedly in several {{Looney Tunes}} shorts, most notably ''Russian Rhapsody'' in which his plane is hijacked by gremlins.
* ''Wolfenstein3D'' and its sequels, obviously. All of them featured Nazis, and part 3 of the original had Hitler himself as the FinalBoss.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Hitler The New Adventures of Hitler]]'' is a comic written by GrantMorrison about Hitler briefly living in Liverpool with his Half-Brother. It's, [[YourMileageMayVary well...]]
* In the Archie-published ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' comic book, Hitler's brain is used by villain Armaggon in order to power a time machine. In a latter arc, the brain is revealed to be capable of independent function, and it activates the time machine in order to travel to the tail end of World War II, where he teams up with...Adolf Hitler. After the turtles arrive to retrieve the brain, Raphael punches out Hitler Classic while saying "This small gesture is for the millions, perv... For the millions!" Afterwards, as the turtles are preparing to leave, Hitler holds them at gunpoint, accusing them of being demons, and leading to the following conversation:
--> '''Leonardo''': Welcome to hell.
--> '''Hitler''': Ja... You, demons, you...you do not speak German? You speak English like the Americans...? So, the subtleties of hell are laced with irony. No matter. You...you have come for my soul, ja?
--> '''Leonardo''': We already own your soul, fool. We have come here for your brain.
--> '''Hitler''': [Point gun to his head] Nein. Nein. You shall not take my mind... You shall not take my b--
--> '''Hitler's gun''': BLAM
* In the alternate {{Magitek}} universe novel ''Operation Chaos'', the protagonists are in Hell and at a loss to understand the identity of a mustached man with a strange armband who speaks with a strong German accent, and why the most powerful demons tremble at sight of him, or why he uses the "ancient and honorable symbol of the fylfot (swastika)". Their alternate history never had a Nazi Germany.
* [[InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen "They took out the Hitler building!]] [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Where's everyone going to go to see Hitler memorabilia?"]]
* When ''[[{{ptitle17u4r74z}} Histeria!]]'' did an episode about World War II, they of course had Hitler as the villain in it. He looked like {{Satan}} and [[HeyItsThatVoice sounded like]] [[InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]].
* ''TheSimpsons''. Bart wrecked Hitler's car. Cue Nelson's question "What did he ever do to you?"
** It was also implied (in the episode Bart makes a crank phone call to Australia) that Hitler is living in Argentina.
** Other episodes showed Hitler in Abe Simpson's flashbacks of WWII.
** Hitler's head appears in a Duff bottle on a brewery conveyer belt.
* While we're in Hitler's car, ''RatRace'' has Jon Lovitz and his family stealing Der Führer's car from Neo-Nazis. After a [[DisasterDominoes long and tragical series of events]] ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny and hilarious]]), he ends up crashing a WWII veteran convention, with a lipstick moustache and speaking in German-sounding gibberish.
* The short story ''[[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/scholes_11_07/ Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky]]'' by Ken Scholes imagines a world where Hitler's [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]] had a change of heart and showed his son some love, which encourages Hitler to pursue a career as an artist. It's actually a pretty good story; there's even a creepy [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshading]] of Hitler's true history, where this "Good Hitler" has a [[NightmareSequence nightmare]] about being a genocidal dictator and wakes up in a cold sweat afterward.
* ''InglouriousBasterds'' involves the eponymous basterds' covert mission to kill Hitler and much of the Nazi senior brass [[AlternateHistory before the D-Day invasion]]. His first, ''very'' marked appearance in the film is him [[PunctuatedPounding slamming his fists on the table]] and screaming "<NO!>" repeatedly (in full uniform, [[ErmineCapeEffect complete with a pristine white cloak]] for good measure).
** [[spoiler: Remarkably, he ''does'' get assassinated. Mostly through sheer luck, a turncoat officer, and a vengeful disguised French Jew with assassination on her mind as well.]]
* ''CaptainPlanet''. Yes, that's right, ''Captain Planet'' featured Hitler, never named and with a less distinctive moustache in 'A Good Bomb Is Hard To Find', in which two of the supervillains travelled back in time to sell the Nazis atomic weapons. He apparently was filled with so much hate that he could hurt Captain Planet ''just by staring at him''.
* In ''IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy and his father infiltrate a Nazi book-burning rally in order to recover the father's stolen diary. Indy does get it, but is accidentally shoved before Hitler himself, who autographs the book.
* Naturally he appears a lot in the AlternateHistory of HarryTurtledove:
** In ''Worldwar'', Hitler leads Germany through the expanded WW2 as the aliens invade, and is succeeded by Himmler upon his death.
** In TL-191, where Germany won WW1, he makes a brief appearance as Guderian's staff sergeant, with the implication that he would stayed an unremarkable antisemitic NCO without the public anger at the loss of the war. Unfortunately, his {{Expy}} Jake Featherston is there to start the war as leader of the Confederate States of America.
** ''In the Presence of Mine Enemies'' had him win the war, though through unspecified means.
*** The United States was never involved in the original conflict, allowing Nazi Germany to grow stronger and obtain nuclear weapons -- which were used against the United States in a crippling surprise attack a decade later.
** The short story ''Ready for the Fatherland'' is about General Manstein assassinating Hitler in 1943 in the heat of the moment (after Hitler refused to allow him to retreat from the Soviets in order to set up an encircling attack). Manstein takes over Germany and forces a stalemate peace resulting in a four-way cold war.
* Appears in the ''{{Animorphs}}'' Megamorph #3 (involving a great deal of time travel) as a lowly jeep driver during D-Day. The Animorphs discuss killing Hitler, but are unable to resolve the moral issue of killing a man who -- in that time line -- was innocent.
** Tobias ends up [[spoiler: killing the other Hitler by accident]].
** [[spoiler: I think you mean by "accident".]]
* In the short story "Southern Strategy" by Michael F. Flynn, in which Germany won WW1, Hitler has become a major political leader in Germany, and has gained massive support for his cause through his speaking skills and charismatic personality. His cause is the furthering of animal rights and the banning of tobacco.
* ''CSAConfederateStatesOfAmerica'': The Confederecy is an Axis power, but Hitler is unable to reach an agreement on whether or not to go through with the final solution or keep its victims alive as slave labor.
* I can't recall the name, but a novel presented Hitler's origins with a heavy dose of BrotherSisterIncest: A brother rapes his sister; in time he then rapes ''their daughter'', and the product of ''that'' union is Hitler. It gets worse from there.
** It was an sketch from ''The Whitest Kids You Know'', where due to a coma, time travel, and incest a woman's illegitimate son is revealed to be both Hitler AND Stalin.
** Sounds like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_in_the_Forest The Castle In The Forest]] by Norman Mailer.
* Hitler's dog Blondi is a HistoricalInJoke in ''PetshopOfHorrors'' [[spoiler: He's actually a Kirin, a magical animal that gurantees victory, in the form of an exceptionally handsome German Shepherd. Unfortunately for Hitler and the Nazis he can also be very fickle.]]
** Not sure why he'd need [[spoiler: a Kirin on top of owning the Lance of Longinus both in RealLife and in Hellboy, but whatever.]]
*** Actually, [[spoiler: the Kirin was Eva Braun's: she had wanted a child to raise as her own. The Kirin appeared to Hitler and Braun as a stereotypical Aryan child (and to everyone else as a dog). He fulfilled Eva's wishes to win Hitler's love and marry him...two days before they committed suicide.]]
* A dystopian AlternateHistory Europe where Hitler won the war is the premise of Brad Linaweaver's novel ''Moon Of Ice.''
* ''[[=~Assassin's Creed II~=]]'' posits that Hitler was [[spoiler: one of TheKnightsTemplar, and conspired with FDR, Stalin and Churchill to start World War II to establish a New World Order to TakeOverTheWorld for the Templars.]] And it would have worked, too, if it weren't for those meddling Assassins! [[spoiler:Hitler killed a body double inside the Führerbunker, only to be ambushed and killed by an Assassin who'd been waiting outside for him to make his escape attempt.]]
** I knew it! Altair IS the biggest kill-stealer in history!
* Naturally appears a lot in the various works on AlternateHistoryDotCom:
** In ''AGreaterBritain'', after the Anschluss is contested by Austria and Hitler's bluff is called, war comes before Germany is ready and it does not go well. He gets assassinated in a military coup in 1938.
** In ''WeimarWorld'' he dies as an unknown during the Austrian Civil War.
** In ''Holding Out For A Hero Gustav Stresemann Survives'' he never becomes Chancellor thanks to, well, what it says in the title.
** ''AHDotComTheSeries'', in the episode "Dinos and Nazis and Deroes, Oh My", had a surviving Third Reich in the centre of the HollowEarth, led by an aged Hitler plugged into a cyborg throne. He gets killed at the end by an exploding robot herald reprogrammed by Landshark.
* The core of Len Deighton's novel 'XPD' is the conceit that Hitler and Churchill had a conference to negotiate a cease-fire in France in 1940. This secret can not be allowed to spoil the history as agreed upon, so we get a settling of old scores in a thinly-disguised James Bond-ish romp through Europe, London and Hollywood.
* The insanely controversial novel [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portage_to_San_Cristobal_of_AH The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.]] In this novel Hitler escapes to South America, grows old and is finally captured and put on an impromptu trial in the jungle by Jewish Nazi Hunters. What made it controversial is Hitler's speech which he gives in his own behalf, claiming (among other things) that he is the Messiah and should be honored as he lead to the creation of Israel. Incidentally the author, George Steiner, is a British Jew whose parents had escaped Nazism.
* A one-off joke in ''AnsemRetort'' explains Hitler's anti-Semitism...well...
-->'''[=DiZ=]''': You turned into a rabbi and laughed at Hitler's paintings. YOU FUCKED UP PRETTY BADLY!
* The comic book ''ComicBook/FallenAngel'' features Dolf, the German-speaking bartender and proprietor of Furor's, the bar in which Liandra, the eponymous fallen angel hangs out. He is revealed to be a racist. He introduces himself thusly:
-->"I've been a painter, a writer...dabbled in politics. Made some enemies."
** He is also presented as being one of the [[RefugeInAudacity good guys]] [[CrapsackWorld within the story]], and is probably Liandra's only friend.
* Numerous appearances in ''FamilyGuy''. [[FreudianExcuse Hitler's anti-Semitism was caused by jealousy]] over a Jewish bodybuilder who attracted all the women.
* ''TheLegendOfKoizumi''. [[spoiler:SUPER ARYAN HITLER!]].
* ''TheManInTheHighCastle'' is a 'Nazis won WW2' AlternateHistory with a difference: in 1962, the Nazis have thrown Hitler in a lunatic asylum, and part of the horror of the CrapsackWorld is that even the Nazis now realise that their empire was built on insanity, but no-one dares to confront it.
* In the fantasy webcomic SupernormalStep, Hitler was [[AcceptableTargets a little green gremlin]].
* Hitler had recurring appearances in ''RobotChicken''.
* In RobertLudlum's ''Apocalypse Watch'' novel, Hitler was still alive by 1995 [judging by the publishing of the book, and is the head of the neo-Nazi movement the protagonists had to deal with.
* In ''AxisPowersHetalia'' [[CaptainObvious Hitler is Germany's boss.]] [[TheFaceless We only see his back, though.]]
* In the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's "The Intro and the Outro," the lyrics say that Hitler plays the vibes on the song. (He really doesn't; this was a joke on the part of the band.)
* Appears in Herman Wouk's [[TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance ''The Winds of War'' and ''War and Rememberence'']] epic. He is shown giving speeches, and Victor Henry meets him at least once.
* There's a doujin called ''Mein Kampf'' out now.
* Hitler is in the 2011 ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Let's Kill Hitler," where he is actually not the most evil villain, and in fact spends most of the episode [[ThatCameOutWrong in the closet]].

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* [[http://soundslikestrawberry.deviantart.com/art/TV-Tropes-Fan-Art-Stolen-202890736 Stolen By Faeries]]
* [[http://soundslikestrawberry.deviantart.com/art/TV-Tropes-Fan-Art-Milos-256489247 Milos Stefanovic]]

!To do: Please put your name here if you want one![[hottip:*:Note that as I am planning to reduce fora-related activities until the end of the year, production will be done at an extremely slow rate.]]
* @/{{Tre}}
* @/LoniJay
* @/TidalWave17
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Tropes that apply to me.]]
* AdultChild: Still no proper work experience...
* AttentionWhore: Oh yeah.
* BastardBastard: My parents married in January. I was born in April. I find this rather strange.
* BeingGoodSucks: On the very rare occasions I am not a huge jerk.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: They do get along quite well, oddly enough... it is known that chain smoking, sex-obsessed xenophobic misogynist quite often prefer to be in each other's company.
* TheBlank: As seen[[http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z382/betterthanstrawberry/-REDACTED-/bloodyhideous-2.png here.]]
* BookDumb
* {{Bookworm}}
* [[CelibateHero Celibate Person]]: [[SuperOCD Could've been easier...]]
* ChasteTeens
* DirtyCoward: The few major problems I've had, I reacted to like an utter wuss.
* DisabilityTropes: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=kvmzkrsoai93oc8v2miwncbg&page=11#254 Apparently.]]
* DisappearedDad: I was nine. It was a bad day. Lots of bad stuff happened.
* DreadfulMusician: Was originally raised as a pianist. Went on to perform a version of "[[LudwigVanBeethoven Ode to Joy]]" at a recital at the age of eight. Then stuff happened. Picked up a guitar around August 2010 and have been learning from internet guides ever since.
** [[http://bit.ly/kl84fH For reference.]]
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Inverted, to some degree.
* EpiphanicPrison
* ExtremeDoormat: [[BreakTheHaughty Driven into this]] for the better part of a decade by my parents' divorce. Decided to screw it around [[NoodleIncident March 2011]].
* FailOSuckyname: The actual surname is never referred to outside of legal documents, fortunately.
* FriendlessBackground
* HearingVoices
* {{Hypocrite}}
* IconicItem: An olive green sling bag, with a [[BiggerOnTheInside frankly surprising capacity]].
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Of course, what I think would be good for me would hardly be any good for others...
* TheIllegible
* InformedLoner: Inverted in real life.
* JerkAss: More prominent in real life than on internet, actually. Which might say a lot.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* LargeHam: Though this has largely disappeared in real life, but still occasionally show up in the fora.
* LazyArtist: Eleven deviations in two months[[hottip:*:I pretty much forgot my DeviantArt account for a month after I signed up.]].
** Also guilty of the overuse of GIMP's Oilify function.
* LevelGrinding
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Yes, there is one. Yes, this makes me a pathetic person.
* LonersAreFreaks
* MainstreamObscurity: Actually quite familiar with ''CitizenKane'', ''{{Casablanca}}'', ''TheBirthOfANation'', and Disney comics. Beyond that... not much.
* NightmareFetishist
* {{Omniglot}}: Faaar from it, but Arabic and Russian aside, I currently possess functional knowledge of three languages.
* {{Pride}}: ''[[{{U2}} In the naaaaaaame]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint of looove.......]]''
* {{Pyromaniac}}
* RalphWiggum [[InsultToRocks Would Be Appalled]]
* RidiculousProcrastinator
* TheQuietOne
* {{Twitter}}: [[http://twitter.com/btstrawberry Happy snarking.]]
* SchoolOfHardKnocks: Year 7, to some degree...
* SerialTweaker
* ShamelessSelfPromotion
* SmallNameBigEgo: Look no further than this page.
* SmugStraightEdge
* SoundtrackDissonance: Some people's reaction upon discovering that I wake up to ''[[{{U2}} Zoo Station]]'' at 0430 everyday, oddly enough.
* SpeechImpediment: Ah, secondhand smoke, how I love you and what you've done to my throat...
* StealthHiBye: I'm generally completely silent outside of conversations, frequently invoking this trope.
* StrawberryShorthand: [[CaptainObvious Yeah...]].
* TalkativeLoon
* DarthWiki/ThatTroper
* TooDumbToLive
* TranquilFury: I throw my personal problems in the face of the people I like the most and all too often act the nicest to the ones I want to see dying painfully. [[RealityEnsues Not as cool as it sounds.]]
* UngratefulBastard
* {{Wangst}}
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: I know ''why'', I just [[EvilCannotComprehendGood didn't know what the "why" is]].
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Non-Australians tropers apparently think that it sounds Australian, while Australian tropers think that it's either German or Russian. Admittedly, English is a secondary language in my household...
* {{Yandere}}: Have been on the less pleasant end of a non-romantic variant. Currently trying to prevent self from falling into this.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Many fora-goers initially mistook me for a college student, for some reason.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tropes that other people think apply to me]]
* ADarkerMe (inverted)- @/{{rmctagg09}}
** Subverted, possibly multiple times, I think...
* {{Adorkable}} - I can't believe I'm the first person to say this. <_< - @/{{Noaqiyeum}}
* AmbiguousGender
* ApologizesALot: And quite unnecessarily. :) - @/StolenByFaeries
* BadassAdorable: ...Well, ok, not sure if badass counts or not...But you're still adorable. :3 -@/{{MegaMagikarp}}
* BeyondTheImpossible - How is it possible to be SO LIKE ME? -@/{{XiphonIII}}
* BewareTheQuietOnes - Seriously, you could [[{{Ninja}} easily get someone before they know it....]] - [[@/VoidsEmpathy a Ninja...]][[RecycledINSPACE ...FROM THE VOID!!!!]]
** In accordance to the previous beware stuff...[[BewareTheNiceOnes This is now hand-in-hand]] [[BewareTheQuietOnes with this...]] It's good thing you aren't [[BewareTheHonestOnes this one....I hope]] - @/VoidsEmpathy
* BlasphemousBoast: To claim than one is better than strawberries is heresy of the highest order! [[BurnTheWitch BURN THE WITCH!]] -@/{{Moerin}}
* BraggartBoss: Since you really like strawberries, and given your handle... - @/{{Balmung}}
* BrilliantButLazy - I know that this true. You should know this by now.... - [[@/VoidsEmpathy A fellow BBL Troper ]]
** Uh... [[BookDumb brilliant?]]
* CelibateHero: You need relationships like a fish apparently needs a bicycle. - @/{{Premonition45}}
** Sex does not equal affection, as I discovered quite recently...
* CharacterDevelopment: Judging by your page. -- @/LiberatedLiberater
* [[{{ChaoticGood}} Chaotic This]], [[{{ChaoticNeutral}} Chaotic That]], you're[[{{ChaoticEvil}} Chaotic Something]] as far as I can tell from you - [[@/VoidsEmpathy A Confused Chaotic Good Troper]]
* [[CrazyAwesome YES!!!]]: Because yes...- [[@/VoidsEmpathy An]] ''[[{{Understatement}} odd]]'' [[@/VoidsEmpathy Troper]]
* CoolLoser: Judging from your alternate description of yourself - @/{{Mort08}}
* DeadpanSnarker - I always envisage you as this. Haha. [[{{@/Inhopelessguy}} Hopey]]
* DitzyGenius -@/{{Milos Stefanovic}}
* [[color:forestgreen: :33 < EdibleThemeNaming - and now im hungry :((]]

* EverythingsBetterWithIndexes. Though as the name suggests, there is better than strawberries. --@/EarlOfSandvich
* TheFaceless: Your pic on the Photos thread comes to mind. -@/{{Milos Stefanovic}}
* FanBoy: of {{Coraline}}, evidently. --[[@/MsieurLapin Not a Coraline fan boy]]
* FanNickname: Berr, strawberry, raspberry, teletubby, Coraline fanboy = @/CommanderObvious
* FootnoteFever - not unexpected, given that you're a known {{Pterry}} fan.[[hottip:*:Nesting them several-deep, however, is sadly unsupported by the wiki.]]
* FragileSpeedster - You seem like you would be one. - @/{{Junfez}}
* FragileFlower - If the cuddlepile is anything to go by. But we're always there for ya, berry ^^ @/{{Haldo}}
** That was actually about something really bad I did >_<. I view myself as one of the cold insensitive types... but thank you!
* GeniusBruiser - [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Fear the power of books!!!]] - [[@/VoidsEmpathy The Eternal Void]]
* {{GIRL}} - Your nigh-continuous use of Coraline ''keeps throwing me off'', even after I've read your page. o_O @/{{Noaqiyeum}}
* GoMadFromTheRevelation
* HeroicBastard - I have seen none of the "bastard" that is professed in your self-applied tropes :) - @/StolenByFaeries
** I fear that certain fora-goers have seen too much of it by now...
* HeroicSelfDeprecation - and you know it. ''[[TheBourneIdentity Vous êtes un soldat]]'' and a good friend, too. @/SabresEdge
** o[[pink:\\\]]o
*** YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre - [[@/VoidsEmpathy The Void]] knows this out of understanding from the cuddlepile...
* HeroicSociopath - Oh you and your Pyromania and whatnot....meh... - @/VoidsEmpathy
* HeWhoFightsMonsters - @/{{Noaqiyeum}}
* HiddenDepths - your expertise on matters military, maritime, and aeronautical is only ever hinted at. --@/SabresEdge
** I have probably researched more things for my webcomic project than what is good for me. Nonetheless, your knowledge of all three will always be the one to commend.
* {{Informed Flaw}} - I still need to see proofs of the alleged stupidity. -@/{{Tropers/MilosStefanovic}}
* JerkassFacade: As far as I know, you're not as jerky as you seems to believe. ~@/DhanaRagnarok
* KindheartedCatLover - Kittehs! - @/{{risingdreams}}
* LetsGetDangerous - It's all part of you becoming a greater {{Badass}}! -[[@/VoidsEmpathy The Void]]
* LongList - Look at all those tropes that apply to you! - @/{{Premonition45}}
* LovableNerd - If I had known about this trope before 10 minutes ago it would have been the first thing I applied to you :) - @/StolenByFaeries
* MadArtist - @/{{StolenByFaeries}}
* TheMario: You seem to have lots of talents. @/{{Chihuahua0}}
** Lots of interest alright, but talents... not so much. But thanks!
* MilesGloriosus- @/MrW
** *tries to look innocent*
* ModernMajorGeneral: I've got a feeling somehow - @/{{Balmung}}
** Remove "competent at everything", and you're about right.
* {{Moe}}: don't you even try to deny it. --@/SabresEdge
* MotorMouth: The imaginary voice I hear when reading your posts -@/{{MilosStefanovic}}
* MrExposition
* NiceGuy
* NinjaEditor - You got me. - @/{{Balmung}}
** I plead guilty. Very, very much so.
* NonIndicativeTitle - You do, in fact, really like strawberries. - @/{{Noaqiyeum}}
* OneOfUs - @/{{Juancarlos11}}
* OneTruePairing: @/SabresEdge trolololol = @/CommanderObvious
* OnlySaneMan: In a town of lynch-happy fundamentalists -- @/{{Annebeeche}}
* OstentatiousSecret - Your location. - @/{{Noaqiyeum}}
* PrettyCoolGuy
* RealMenWearPink - I can't believe you're a guy, either. - @/{{Premonition45}}
* SelfDeprecation
* StupidSexyFriend - @/{{Premonition45}}
* TheSmartGuy - @/{{risingdreams}}.
* TheWoobie - @/{{Milos Stefanovic}}
** Um... [[SpoiledBrat not really,]] it seems... :/
* TedBaxter - =P @/{{Bisected8}}
* TrademarkFavoriteFood - Somewhat averted when it comes to strawberries, judging from the name. -@/EarlOfSandvich
** [[BrevityIsWit Long story short]], I'm a huge fan of strawberries.
* TropeOverdosed: On this page. You've got a lot of tropes. (Did I apply this correctly?) ~@/{{Theindefiniteone}}
* {{Troperiffic}}: Wow... look how you've grown! - @/StolenByFaeries
* ViewerGenderConfusion - You're a '''guy'''!? --[[@/{{sgrunt}} a vandal]]
** What, do I sound like a girl at the fora?
*** It's a combination of the nickname and the avatar. [[@/{{sgrunt}} I]] think.
* WeaponOfChoice - Strawberry, I'm a little concerned about your expenditure of [[SuperiorFirepower Minutemen missiles]]... --@/SabresEdge
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper Worry no more.]]
* WordSaladTitle - For your avatar title. - @/{{Premonition45}}
[[/folder]]

!Vandals! Supressive MG fire from the front! [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Betterthanstrawberry?action=edit Flank left]]! Go go go!
* Since you asked: I saw this page and thought you were a reasonably cool person. With fairly good taste. Point at a mirror and tell yourself you're awesome because I told you to do so. Tropers/{{Icewolfklaske}}
* In Soviet Russia strawberry better than you! @/{{wannabeotaku}}
* A wild [[@/GameSpazzer DUMBASS]] appeared! [[@/GameSpazzer DUMBASS]] used VANDALIZE! Critical hit!
** DUMBASS evolved to MAGIC DUMBASS!
* Gee, I wonder if you like Coraline... ;-) ~{{Tropers/Fuzy2K}}
* Thank you for enjoying my new game! ~ {{Tropers/Pastylover2}}
* Dropping bye and saying "hi". You're a pretty cool [[strike:[[MemeticMutation guy]]]] person yourself. ~ @/SabresEdge
* This vandalization is brought to you by StrawberryShorthand. ~{{Tropers/KuroFox}}
* Have a trope. Coffee? *raises flask* - @/{{Bisected8}}
** Ta. *toss*
* The faeries made me do it. - @/{{StolenByFaeries}}
** No problem!
* [[{{@/Snicklin}} Dun tsh-tsh dun p-tsh psh tuh-tuh tsh sht-sht psh psh p-tsh.]]
* -Divebomb done in return!- @/{{HellmanSabian}}
* WAI HELO THAR! The compliment you gave me in the forum games thread made me feel warm and fuzzy, so I'm vandalizing your page with SUNSHINE, RAINBOWS AND LOLLIPOPS!- @/{{Sakan4k}}
* I am appalled at the fact that I have not [[{{Pyromaniac}} set your page on fire yet.]] :P -@/{{Nekoalexa}}
** -sets page on fire- :P -@/{{Nekoalexa}}
* LAKKA LAKKA LAKKA- @/MrW
* [[TheBeatles I WANNA TAKE YOU DOWN CUZ I'M GOING TO STRAWBERRY FIELDS NOTHING IS REAL]]~-Vanthebaron
* I stumbled upon your DeviantArt page and saw your fan art of me. Two words: FUCK YES! Thank you! ''-glumps-'' -- @/{{A Crack In Time}}
* Don't forget, actually, as a matter of fact, what really happened is that I was vandalizing this page. --@/{{jcruz}}
* I stealth stalked you before I was a troper myself. Fans of Coraline, unite!-- @/{{Caroklim}}
** A stalker? [[ProperlyParanoid I am oddly not surprised...]] but anyway: (fist bumps)
* ''Like a fish needs a bicycle...'' When the two get together, uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh... - @/{{Premonition45}}
* We finally meet, Mr. Strawberry ! Looking forward to meet you again ;) ~@/DhanaRagnarok
** Fantastic to meet you too! :P

And don't forget your PUFFIN FLAVORED ICE CREAM![[hottip:*:Thanks a bajillion, @/{{Noaqiyeum}}.]]

I also did fan arts[[hottip:*:As in artworks made by a fan, which they are.]] of Troper Cuddlepile participants, [[ShamelessSelfPromotion viewable at my deviantArt]]. Production has unfortunately been indefinitely halted by technical difficulties.

!To do: (please put your name here if you want one!)

* @/MilosStefanovic

--> '''HelenKeller'''

->''First they came for the communists,''
-->''and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.''
->''Then they came for the trade unionists,''
-->''and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.''
->''Then they came for the Jews,''
-->''and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.''
->''Then they came for me''
-->''and there was no one left to speak out for me''
---> '''Martin Niemöller'''