| 1 | Characters set in the WebVideo/{{Jreg}} series ''Centricide.'' |
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| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | !!Anti-Centrists |
| 6 | Seemingly-incompatible ideologies united by a desire to change the status quo and seeing centrists burn. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 9 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ug8hdwgb_400x400.jpg]] |
| 10 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"The Centrists got to go!"'']] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | ->''"I've been trying to tell the people for so long\ |
| 13 | That centrists are destroying the world, that they are wrong"'' |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: They are the personifications of the four extreme ideologies along the economic and civil political axes; Communism (Totalitarian-Left), Nazism (Totalitarian-Right), Anarcho-Communism (Anarchist-Left) and Anarcho-Capitalism (Anarchist-Right). |
| 16 | * BlackAndGreyMorality: Despite all of them being comically unhinged and evil to a degree, they tend to make a lot of VillainHasAPoint statements to show why someone would support them. |
| 17 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Each of them are tinted a different color that represents their section of the political compass: Commie is red, Nazi is Blue, Ancom is green and Ancap is yellow (though it is brought up that while he ''should'' be purple, yellow is more aesthetically pleasing and that a compromise solution would result in him looking like Wario). Since they are all extreme examples of each quadrant, they are tinted stronger than their respective moderate counterparts. |
| 18 | * ChromaticArrangement: The four extremes are red, blue, green, and yellow, like the quadrants of a political compass. |
| 19 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: While all four extremists are at least somewhat evil, they all have at least ''some'' lines they won't cross. |
| 20 | * PyrrhicVictory: At the end of Episode 8, Part 3 [[spoiler: the extremes have reunited and defeated all the centrists and Accelerationism, and decide not to betray each other. However, this means that they've enacted a form of centrism by returning to the status quo, of their friendship anyway.]] |
| 21 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Being the AnthropomorphicPersonification of extreme political ideologies, the Extremes are fundamentally opposed to one another to varying degrees and only work together because they possess a common enemy in the Centrists. [[spoiler: {{Deconstructed}} in Centricide 6: anti-centrism isn't a sufficient cause to keep these disparate and mutually contradictory ideologies working together, and the extremists fall apart to pursue their own interests. By the end of that episode, Commie is the only one still working with Jreg.]] |
| 22 | -->'''Jreg''': Are you telling me that [[spoiler: a group of disparately connected ideologies that have more in common with centrists than with each other aren't capable of working together for a common goal?]] |
| 23 | ** Episode 8 then [[spoiler: subverts this, as they reunite to take down Accelerationism and ''not'' turn on each other afterwards, concluding that working with other extremes towards a similar goal isn't the most impossible thing out there.]] |
| 24 | * VillainProtagonist: Communist threatens people with torture and death by gulag [[spoiler: and kills Socialist with his bare-hands for being a pacifist]], Ancom has a HairTriggerTemper and likes to threaten people with quis baseball bat and throw bombs into banks, Ancap has admitted to various human rights violations under the idea that he can literally buy anything with his wealth and Nazi is... well, a Nazi. They are only protagonists in that they are brought together against a group of ideologies that support the status quo and want social change, even if some of that change isn't necessarily for the better. |
| 25 | * VillainTeamup: Due to acknowledging that their biggest threat is the status quo and Overton window instead of each other at the moment, these four incompatible ideologies have put aside their differences to end centrism once and for all. [[spoiler:This is brought to its [[{{Deconstruction}} natural conclusion]] by the end of "Centricide 6", where Ancom, Ancap and Nazi have all-but abandoned the centricide when better opportunities presented themselves and it slowly dawns on the Jreg that their incompatibility made the Anti-Centrist movement an inherently lost cause. Subverted when they reunite in episode 8]] |
| 26 | * VisionaryVillain: While how "villainous" any one of them is depends on one's personal opinion, each of the extremists has their own idea of how the world should be. |
| 27 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Literally. Each of the extremists believe wholeheartedly in different causes that in some way comes with their own pros and cons. Ancom believes in fighting for equal rights for minorities (even if he is willing to do it violently and is really annoying about it), Commie wants to create a post-scarcity society (even if he has to kill all capitalists, anarchists and pacifists to do it), Nazi believes in protecting his people from foreign threats (even if that protection comes at the cost of everyone else's lives and rights) and Ancap is completely confident in the benefits of free-market capitalism (even if it benefits few and exploits many). Whether or not they are entirely honest in their agendas or if it's [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist a self-serving façade]] depends more on the viewer than the text and subtext. |
| 28 | * WideEyedIdealist: A twisted deconstruction. All four major anti-centrists are what they are as a result of embracing idealism over cynicism, but not only does this mean that they've also embraced ideological purity over common human decency, with no qualms about getting their hands dirty and/or bloody in the pursuit of bringing their ideals to fruition, it's made clear that the human mind is more than capable of holding to ''evil'' ideals as well as good ones. |
| 29 | [[/folder]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Jreg]] |
| 32 | !!Jreg, Greg Guevara, Anti-Centrist |
| 33 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_94744_pm.png]] |
| 34 | [[caption-width-right:350:"We need do get rid of the center"]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | ->''"Soon, I will be a real political ideology."'' |
| 37 | |
| 38 | A political [=YouTuber=] who started the movement to defeat the true political enemy: The Centrists. |
| 39 | ---- |
| 40 | * AuthorPowers: [[spoiler:While Jreg has not shown to possess any abilities outside of the usual ideology superpower grab-bag, Greg Guevara on the other hand seems to possess some level of control over the fictional nature of Centricide's world. In "Centricide 7.0", when Radical Centrist brings Greg's personality to the forefront through physical abuse, Greg was able to edit out footage of the Radical Centrist so that he could have time to talk to the viewer. Since he does not seem to have conscious control over some of these abilities -- footage from other videos bleeding into the video when Radical Centrist hits him and expressing surprise when his hand is healed, his handcuffs replaced with a tie and the video ending prematurely when Radical Centrist continues abusing him -- it is likely a case of PowerIncontinence and/or PhlebotinumOverload.]] |
| 41 | * BombThrowingAnarchist / CommieNazis: As an anti-centrist, Jreg is every extreme simultaneously and as an advocate of Centricide he's certainly not averse to violence. |
| 42 | * EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: In Centricide 8, it's revealed his true endgame was becoming Accelerationist, a being which destroys political ideologies.]] |
| 43 | * FunWithAcronyms: The centrists theorize that his name is an acronym based on the various ideologies held by the spirits possessing him. J stands for the Juche ideology of North Korea (espoused by the Kim dynasty), R stands for Randian (as in Ayn Rand), E for Evolan (after fascist theorist Julius Evola) and the G is for Guevaran (as in Che). |
| 44 | * GrandTheftMe: Is supposedly possessed by Kim Il-Sung, Ayn Rand, Julius Evola, and Che Guevara, the four most extreme extremists of all time. |
| 45 | * KnightTemplar: Believes the world needs to change and does not care how, but is willing to use drastic, violent means to bring change about it. |
| 46 | * TheLeader: He coordinates the extremes together to fight the centrists. |
| 47 | * ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: Jreg was created from the combined spirits of Kim Il-sung, Ayn Rand, Julius Evola, and Che Guevara. |
| 48 | * MetaGuy: While Jreg is very much the VillainProtagonist of the series, Greg possesses MediumAwareness and is convinced that the epic plot between the Extremists and the Centrist is just an AuthorFilibuster and Jreg is just a character he's playing, though it is quite obvious that Jreg is a separate entity wanting to enact a SplitPersonalityTakeover. [[spoiler:In "Centricide 7.0" however, it becomes clear that Greg [[AuthorPowers has some form of control over the fictional universe they inhabit]], altering the reality that they live in by [[MetafictionalDevice removing parts of Radical Centrist's footage in the video]] after he hits him and ending the video entirely when his abuse continues.]] |
| 49 | * NotInThisForYourRevolution: Well not just ''your'' revolution. He wants the world to change and is fine with it changing in whichever way rather than favoring any one specific extremist vision-in fact he favors all of them simultaneously. |
| 50 | ** [[spoiler: Centricide 7/8 indicates that Jreg's true motivation was becoming Accelerationist, a being capable of destroying any political ideology's meaning.]] |
| 51 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: While the Extremes under his banner all have [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] for waging war against the centrists (from their perspective, anyway), Jreg doesn't seem to have much of an end goal outside of culling the centrists, despite all his rhetoric about changing the world. Ancap [[VillainHasAPoint rightfully points out]] that he doesn't appear to really have a motive or game-plan outside of "blind political chaos" and Radical Centrist seems to think that he has [[HiddenAgendaVillain something even more nefarious ready and waiting]]. [[spoiler: This turns out to be true, as his end goal was becoming Accelerationist.]] |
| 52 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: Ancap accuses him of being this in Centricide 4, pointing out that he seems to spend most of his time editing Website/YouTube videos while ordering him, Nazi, Commie and Ancom to go out and do his dirty work for him. |
| 53 | * PaperThinDisguise: When speaking as the extremists that possess him, he simply says that they are speaking and makes no attempt to sound like the people in question. The Extremists don't question it. |
| 54 | * SplitAtBirth: It is strongly implied that Jreg and Radical Centrist where a single entity in "Centricide 6", having split to represent Extremism and Centrism when ideologies diversified into what would become the political compass. |
| 55 | * SplitPersonalityMakeover: Since Jreg was created from the combined spirits of Kim Il-sung, Ayn Rand, Julius Evola, and Che Guevara, each of them are able to take over the body independently. The differences in their appearances are shown in Centricide 4. |
| 56 | ** When Julius Evola takes over, a circle is made over his left eye with his left hand, representing his monocle. [[DoubleMeaning It also makes the 4chan "white power" symbol]]. |
| 57 | ** When Kim Il-sung takes over, [[CrossesTheLineTwice his eyes are pulled upward]]. Although just for a second before a real-life picture of his face overlays Jreg's. |
| 58 | ** When Ayn Rand takes over, [[BreastExpansion Jreg's chest is inexplicably larger]] to represent... uh... |
| 59 | * SplitPersonalityTakeover: While Greg thinks Jreg is just a character he plays for [=YouTube=], Jreg has an independent existence and will of his own. |
| 60 | * VillainousCrush: His song 'A C C E L E R A T E' seems to imply he has one on right-accelerationist writer Nick Land. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Nazi]] |
| 64 | !!Totalitarian Right, Nazi, National Socialist, Fascist, Wacky Frank, White Identitarian, [[spoiler:Jewish Fascist]] |
| 65 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rightyjpg.jpg]] |
| 66 | [[caption-width-right:350:"My race is clearly superior!"]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | ->''"I'm not a Nazi! I just want to tell you about my theories on race and IQ!"'' |
| 69 | |
| 70 | A Naz- uh... ''"[[InsistentTerminology White Identitarian]]"'' who seeks an ethnostate and a strong state. He is united with the other extremists against the centrist menace. |
| 71 | ---- |
| 72 | * AbsoluteXenophobe: If you're not straight, cisgender, white, male and far-right, he wants to liquidate you. |
| 73 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Nazism, or at least the general idea of Authoritarian Right-Wing Extremism. |
| 74 | * AtLeastIAdmitIt: In Centricide 4, he says that unlike Ancap, he makes no pretenses about respecting other peoples' rights and freedoms. |
| 75 | * BaitTheDog: In "A Neo-Nazi With They/Them Pronouns", he expresses a willingness to use other people's preferred pronouns... but then it's revealed that this isn't Nazi talking, just a regular guy temporarily possessing him. The real Nazi is still unabashedly queerphobic. |
| 76 | * BastardUnderstudy: He seems to be loyal to Jreg, but he's implied in a conversation with Ancap that he's willing to overthrow him if he thinks it would serve his interests to do so. |
| 77 | * BerserkButton: |
| 78 | ** Calling him a Nazi "boils [his] blood". He only seems to think that for PR reasons though, so it's a downplayed example. |
| 79 | ** Don't call him a left-wing ideology. The last guy who called him left-wing got the bullet. |
| 80 | * BloodKnight: He really loves fighting and warfare and has expressed a desire to die in combat. |
| 81 | * BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:In "Centricide 6", Conservative reveals to Nazi that he is ethnically Jewish, making his anti-Semitism a case of this.]] |
| 82 | * TheBrute: Radical Centrist claims that what he brings to the Extremists is ruthlessness. |
| 83 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Blue |
| 84 | * CommissarCap: Wears one. |
| 85 | * CompositeCharacter: From an ideological perspective. While he's mostly Nazism, he also has some aspects of Italian Fascism, such as atheism. This makes him distinct from the other three extremists, who represent the general idea of their basic ideologies, while he selectively combines aspects of certain schools of thought derived from his basic ideology. |
| 86 | * TheCorrupter: Nazi is ''really'' good at getting those around him to embrace their worst selves even if he doesn't get them to agree with him; he later realizes this is his main talent. |
| 87 | * DesignatedHero: Invoked. He's an objectively terrible person, but he's among one of the four main protagonists. |
| 88 | * DrugsAreBad: He thinks all drugs are degenerate, except alcohol for some reason. |
| 89 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 90 | ** While Nazi makes it clear that he's a sadist who likes watching others suffer and has no reservations about committing genocide, deep-''deep'' down he genuinely believes that this is for the benefit of those he considers his "people". In "Centricide 4" he calls Ancap out for his HolierThanThou morality, calling him SecretlySelfish because the system he wants is built on exploitation of the many to service the few. |
| 91 | ** When Pan-Africanism is turned into an [[TheCorruption impossible ideology monster]] and proclaims that all other continents other than Africa should be annihilated in "Centricide 8.0", Nazi calls him insane. While Nazi isn't above committing genocide, he won't do it for its own sake; all he really wants is an ethnostate, not [[TakeOverTheWorld world-domination]] or [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world-annihilation]]. |
| 92 | * EvilIsPetty: He tends to KickTheDog constantly seemingly for no other reason than sadistic satisfaction, like when he took all of the sugar in the house and put it in his cup just so the others couldn't have it regardless of whether he wanted any. |
| 93 | --> '''Nazi''': There is nothing wrong with a slur here and there... and there and there, and there and there... and pretty much all the time. I like making people feel small. |
| 94 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He is desperate to appear as as a reasonable and polite "advocate" for the white race, but any deeper analysis of his views by the other character quickly reveals the sheer contempt he feels for them and anybody not like him. |
| 95 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Commie and Ancap are embarrassed by how much they agree with him, and Ancom despises him. [[spoiler: In "Centricide 4", he takes advantage of Commie's grief and forms a friendship with him, although he manages to frustrate Commie OncePerEpisode until his seeming death at the Horseshoe Centrist's hands, and manages to be so outrageously racist on the way out that Commie admits it's helping him get over his grief by realizing he's not missing much.]] |
| 96 | * TheGadfly: Once beat up Ancom for stealing one of Ancap's bagels (even though Communist was the one who took them)... only to eat it right in front of them all. |
| 97 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: Jury's out on the "[[VillainProtagonist Heroic]]" part, though. |
| 98 | * HollywoodAtheist: In "Centricide 3", Nazi finds the Conservative's religiosity annoying and notes how Christianity's praise towards the meek is in direct conflict with his MightMakesRight[=/=][[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] philosophy. |
| 99 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Being a ControlFreak, a ConsummateLiar and a sociopathic opportunist, he often contradicts himself with no attempts at hiding this. |
| 100 | ** He insists not to be called a Nazi, saying that it "boils [his] blood" when people calling something he isn't (though that is exactly what he is). When asked if he is willing to respect other people's pronouns if others respect his, he laughs at the concept and says that he won't. |
| 101 | ** He thinks that all drugs are degenerate and advocates banning them... except alcohol. Even he doesn't know why. |
| 102 | ** When asked about free speech, he says that it is the cornerstone of society and should be allowed. When the other three extremists start espousing their beliefs, he declares that none of them are allowed free speech. |
| 103 | ** He insists that he doesn't want genocide, only to immediately say that he wants state-backed genocide. |
| 104 | ** In Centricide 8, he has a YoureInsane reaction to [[spoiler: corrupted Pan-Africanism wanting to wipe out all continents except for Africa despite the fact he has championed genocide of undesirables for a while.]] |
| 105 | * IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler:In "Centricide 6", Conservative reveals to Nazi that he is ethnically Jewish. Rather than having a real moment of self-reflection after his very brief [[GoMadFromTheRevelation meltdown]], he winds up switching gears and immediately starts taking an identitarian position as a Jew and accuses the Conservative of being an anti-Semite when he calls him out on this]]. |
| 106 | --> '''Nazi''': [[spoiler:Do you know what this means? My race is clearly superior! Jews have the highest IQ, they're controlling the banks, they're controlling the world, I have the most power in my genes! My race has singlehandedly out-maneuvered every other race! We annihilate opposing cultures while keeping ours intact! Holy Shit! Jewish-Fascism... I can work with it!]]\ |
| 107 | [[spoiler:'''Conservative''']]: [[spoiler:Yikes. I was hoping you would become ''less'' racist after I told you that.]] |
| 108 | * ImmediateSelfContradiction: To present himself as a mere "White Identitarian" who's amenable to reason, he claims in the Political Compass Rap that he doesn't want genocide, just a white ethnostate. But when he's asked what he'd do if the people he doesn't want in his planned ethnostate have no intention of leaving, the solution he suggests is one of the "[[FinalSolution final]]" variety. |
| 109 | * InsistentTerminology: [[SarcasmMode He's not a Nazi, he's just a white identitarian]]! |
| 110 | * ItIsDehumanizing: When he meets Homonationalist, he demands to know "what" he is and asks Conservative "why is this thing talking to me." |
| 111 | * MagneticHero: If you think he's a hero. He manages to (rather horribly) pull Commie out of his funk after [[spoiler: Ancom becomes Post-Left]] by appealing to their shared indifference to human suffering in the face of realizing their visions for the world. [[spoiler:In "Centricide 6", it slowly dawns on Nazi that he is actually really good at radicalizing people, recruiting Conservative (who sees benefits in pooling resources with fascists), Homonationalist (who has an irrational attraction to him) and Moderate Lee (who cowers to Nazi's demand to join him without a fight) all under the span of a few minutes.]] |
| 112 | * NationalismIsDestructive: He is literally Ultranationalism personified and he's the TokenEvilTeammate of the Extremists. |
| 113 | * NaziProtagonist: He believes in the ideology of Nazism, and is one of the Anti-Centrists. |
| 114 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's quite reminiscent of Richard Spencer in his avowed atheism (though Spencer is less contemptuous of organized religion) and his attempts to present himself as a "respectable" and "reasonable" advocate for the collective interests of white people. |
| 115 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Most of the stuff he actually does is PokeThePoodle, but he also [[spoiler: shoots Conservative in the chest twice. While Conservative turns out to have survived (due to a copy of 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson in his shirt pocket), it was by random chance and the intent was definitely there.]] |
| 116 | * OddFriendship: |
| 117 | ** Centricide 4 sees him becoming surprisingly friendly with [[spoiler: Commie, treating him far better than he treats Ancap, in the name of authoritarian unity.]] |
| 118 | ** Later on, he ends up aligning with Pan-Africanism despite being a white supremacist. This is admittedly TruthInTelevision given that there have been a few cases of black nationalists and white nationalists collaborating (for instance, George Lincoln Rockwell once shared a stage with Malcolm X and the KKK-aligned Senator Theodore G. Bilbo endorsed Marcus Garvey's push for African-American migration to Liberia). |
| 119 | * OmnicidalManiac: Nazi is itching for the chance to start a genocide. |
| 120 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: |
| 121 | ** Is frustrated by Conservative's fondness for the Jewish community and religious sensibilities. |
| 122 | --->'''Conservative:''' "Uh, Jews are our brothers and sisters."\ |
| 123 | '''Nazi:''' "... I need to process that." |
| 124 | ** Also is annoyed by Ancap's lack of racism, opposition to statism and focus on profits. |
| 125 | * PokeThePoodle: While openly genocidal and in favor of violence, thus far most of the things he has done onscreen are stuff like use all the sugar in the extremist household to piss off Commie and eat some of Ancap's bagels. Though he did also [[spoiler: shoot Conservative after failing to sway him to his beliefs]]. |
| 126 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He's basically a walking copy of ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries''. |
| 127 | * PsychopathicManchild: He describes his view of what he ultimately wants to happen as taking his ideology and other ideologies and smashing them together like action figures to see who wins. |
| 128 | * RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin far-right, militant]] and hateful. |
| 129 | * TheSocialDarwinist: Sees all non-whites as lesser than him. Also justifies his PokeThePoodle offenses on the basis of MightMakesRight. He even encouraged people to read "[[UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin On the Origin of Species]]" (a book that the Nazis hated, by the way). |
| 130 | * SplitPersonality: He was possessed by a Gender-Queer person, Wacky Frank, a demon who only said "I am legion" and [[spoiler: a normal guy.]] |
| 131 | * StrawmanPolitical: Of Totalitarian-Right political ideologies, most notably Nazism. |
| 132 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Well, all the extremes are evil to a degree, but he doesn't even get the frequent cases of StrawmanHasAPoint that they're given, and lacks the redeeming qualities of even his brother authoritarian Commie. Whether it's due to Jreg invoking EveryoneHasStandards since even in-universe the other 3 extremes see him as TheFriendNobodyLikes or due to Youtube's actions against even satirical depictions of certain flavors of far-right politics (or both) is up for debate. |
| 133 | * YouAreACreditToYourRace: When he [[spoiler:nearly dies in Centricide 6]], he tells Commie that he is an "honorary Aryan". |
| 134 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:He's a virulent anti-Semite, but Conservative reveals in Centricide 6 that he has significant Jewish heritage.]] |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Ancap]] |
| 138 | !!Anarchist Right, Anarcho-Capitalist, Ancap, Kulak. |
| 139 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ancap_0.png]] |
| 140 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Worst case scenario, I'll just hide underground in my luxury bunker!"]] |
| 141 | |
| 142 | ->''"Wait a second... FREE speech? We're just giving it away? Somebody really needs to monetize this."'' |
| 143 | |
| 144 | An Anarcho-Capitalist businessman who seeks to abolish the state and have society determined by the market. He is united with the other extremists against the centrist menace. For his Pink Capitalist persona, see below in Ancapistan folder |
| 145 | ---- |
| 146 | * AffablyEvil: Is rather amicable and personally pleasant, you can almost forget that he has child sex slaves and owns private recreational nukes. |
| 147 | * AffectionateNickname: ''"Kulak"'' by Commie, though not really affectionate. Doubles as MeaningfulName, since Kulak is a derogatory Russian term for landowners who own large swathes of land. Ancap offhandedly mentions having a luxury bunker and by Centricide 4.5, [[spoiler:owns the large and wealthy nation of Ancapistan]]. |
| 148 | * AntiVillain: [[NobleDemon Noble type]]. Ancap is an ultra-greedy narcissist who owns child sex slaves, but he has moral reservations about killing people, (unlike the rest of the Anti-Centrists) and will generally not harm you unless you try to harm him. |
| 149 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Anarcho-Capitalism, or at least the general idea of Libertarian Right-Wing Extremism. |
| 150 | * BerserkButton: He ''loathes'' communism; his second verse in "Welcome to Ancapistan" has him outright saying that [[{{dehumanization}} he doesn't consider commies human]] and will ''nuke'' them just for holding the beliefs they do. In the context of the actual story, though, he's content with just nickel-and-diming Commie and Nazi with tolls as they walk through his property. |
| 151 | * BigDamnHeroes: Ancap arrives with a [[GatlingGood big machine gun]] just in the nick of time to [[spoiler: save Nazi from the corrupted Pan-Africanism and the Impossible Ideology Monster.]] |
| 152 | * BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: When he appears in "Political Compass Rap", he insists that trying to buy a 15-year-old girl as a sex slave is ''ephebophilia'', not pedophilia. |
| 153 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: |
| 154 | ** Is very much against murder or assault or theft against others, but sees nothing wrong with using his control of town water supplies to extract tribute from neighboring towns or buying child brides as long as he pays them for their time. |
| 155 | ** While he strongly believes in maximizing his profits, he also insists on paying Ancom for the DMT Ancom gave him. |
| 156 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Yellow. Used to be purple. |
| 157 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: His business practices are... ''questionable'' to say the least. |
| 158 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He used to be colored purple. |
| 159 | * EveryManHasHisPrice: The first thing we see him doing when he's introduced is attempting to [[SexSlave buy a child bride]] for $15 (one dollar for every year she's been alive). |
| 160 | ** He justifies having child brides by saying he pays them for their time. |
| 161 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 162 | ** He finds Nazi's racism and desire to commit genocide appalling. |
| 163 | ** Despite proclaiming that he will discriminate by race if it's profitable, he attempts to downplay and distance himself from Hoppean's racism in Centricide 4.5. |
| 164 | ** He owns stock in Jreg Inc., and fires Posadist when he makes a video "ironically" calling for murdering people by deliberately infecting them with the coronavirus. |
| 165 | ** For the most part, he disdains violence except in self-defense. |
| 166 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: While the Extremes are volatile by their very natures, the other three are shown to like Ancap the least, with "Centricide 4" giving him a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling him monstrous by both Commie ''and'' Nazi standards. [[spoiler: This is the reason why he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere defects from the group]] to go do business with Libertarian.]] |
| 167 | * GoKartingWithBowser: Plays cards and does drugs with Ancom sometimes. Which of them is Bowser depends on your ideology. |
| 168 | * {{Greed}}: Being the embodiment of an all-capitalism/no-government political system, everything he says or does is geared towards flaunting his wealth, squeezing whatever wealth he can from others to add to his own and considers such practices to be virtuous. |
| 169 | * GunsAkimbo: Wields a revolver and a pistol in Centricide 4, [[spoiler:which he uses to kill Anti-Extremist]]. |
| 170 | * HaHaHaNo: In Centricide 4.5, he has this reaction twice: once when [[spoiler:Libertarian suggests there might be a place for some limited government in Ancapistan (since he's a full-blown anarchist)]], and once when [[spoiler:Nazi suggests an alliance (since he no longer sees the need to work with statists or murder centrists due to having already established his ideal society).]] |
| 171 | * HeelRealization: [[spoiler: In Centricide 4, is subject to multiple [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech speeches condemning him]] by Commie and Nazi, accusing him of being more monstrous than they are and comes out of them depressed.]] |
| 172 | * HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: In Centricide 4, he becomes the first extremist to explicitly question the notion of the Centricide and displays considerable agony over whether he is a good person or not, which is something the other extremists tend to take for granted about themselves.]] |
| 173 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 174 | ** Is regularly accused by Ancom of not being an actual anarchist, on the grounds that unregulated capitalism inevitably leads to hierarchies (which classical left-wing anarchism fundamentally opposes). And his second verse in "Welcome to Ancapistan" has him crowing that communists should be killed on sight, since they aren't people and the [=NAP=] shouldn't protect them. |
| 175 | ** For all his insistence that he respects people's rights and his dealings are consensual, he genuinely sees nothing wrong with owning and trading slaves. |
| 176 | * IdiotHero: Shown to be less competent than Nazi, Commie or Ancom. Even the centrists don't see him as a threat. |
| 177 | * InsistentTerminology: In "Political Compass Rap", he insists that wanting to sleep with a 15-year-old is merely "ephebophilia", not pedophilia. |
| 178 | * KillThePoor: His least likable quality (apart from his [[PaedoHunt pedophilia]]) is his contempt for the poor. In "Centricide 3", his solution for Libertaria's homeless population is to have drones "peaceably relocate" them into the ocean, and in "Centricide 4.5" he gets mad when the poor people in Ancapistan appear in his IAmSong number, upset that his private police aren't there to arrest them and tells them to "go starve on the streets like [they're] supposed to." |
| 179 | * LetsGetDangerous: [[spoiler: When Anti-Radical attacks him with his knife, Ancap responds by pointing out that while he respects the NAP, by attacking him he is now justified in defending himself. He then proceeds to shoot Anti-Radical numerous times.]] |
| 180 | * MartialPacifist: Ancap will do everything he can to avoid actually involving himself in a fight to uphold the non-aggression principle (NAP). When Anti-Radical attacks him, though, [[ScrewTheRulesTheyBrokeThemFirst he considers this a violation of the NAP and literally guns him down]]. |
| 181 | * MillionairePlayboy: Ancap has [[Fiction500 a lot of money]], and will flaunt it in everyone's faces. Among other things, he owns several child sex slaves, the water supplies of several neighboring settlements, the house the other extremists live in and an underground luxury bunker. |
| 182 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's depicted as being less dangerous than the other three extremists, to the point where the centrists don't consider him a real problem, and the fact that he disdains violence except in self-defense only strengthens this impression. Moreover, he's the sole Anti-Centrist to [[spoiler:refuse to kill his more moderate counterpart, letting Libertarian go despite Jreg's orders]]. But he shows signs of being more of a threat than he appears when [[spoiler:he kills Anti-Radical for violating the NAP]]. Later on, [[spoiler:he [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embraces his ideology's less pleasant aspects]] and teams up with other anti-government rightists and right-wingers to found a country/society called Ancapistan that oppresses the poor and threatens people with nukes, and also expresses a willingness to murder political dissidents by having them thrown out of helicopters]]. |
| 183 | * OddFriendship: Is depicted as being on relatively good terms with Ancom. He also gets along the best with his more moderate counterpart Libertarian compared to the other extremists, [[spoiler: which helps explain why he spares him rather than kill him on Jreg's orders.]] After all, there hasn't exactly been a notable instance of Ancaps murdering their more moderate counterparts, which can't be said about the other three extremes and their moderate versions. Ultimately, the two go on to jointly found [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Ancapistan]]. |
| 184 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: Expresses annoyance with the way Libertarian talks about how full anarcho-capitalism is bad for business by asking if this is how he sounds to the others. |
| 185 | * PaedoHunt: A RunningGag (if you could call it that) is his sexual attraction to minors. In "Centricide 2", it is mentioned that he has eight child-wives and that he "pays them for their time". While it is left vague if he is genuinely attracting to kids or if its a "[[ForTheEvulz because I can]]" by-product of his ConspicuousConsumption life-style, the fact that he calls being caught ogling online pictures of children which he is "looking at things [he] is not allowed to look at" and claims that he tried abolishing the age of consent once in "Stop Asking If I'm Okay" hints at the former. |
| 186 | * PetTheDog: |
| 187 | ** [[spoiler: He allows Libertarian to escape despite Jreg ordering him killed.]] |
| 188 | ** He actually [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=h2J6ffSXLis gives Commie some money]] and sets him up an investing account, and is genuinely happy and congratulatory when Commie proves to be unexpectedly good at stock trading. |
| 189 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: |
| 190 | ** Not to the same extent as Nazi, but he occasionally sells slur cards to people. Though he at least justifies his actions by saying that a portion of the profits goes to minority-owned businesses. |
| 191 | ** While he doesn't seem to actually hold racist views and is prone to being uncomfortable with Nazi and Hoppean when they are openly racist, he does say in Centricide 4.5 that he would discriminate against minorities if it were profitable and is undeniably classist as demonstrated by his disregard for Ancapistan's poor. |
| 192 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: In Centricide 4, abandons the Extremists to focus on business with Libertarian.]] |
| 193 | * SecretlySelfish: Nazi accuses him of this, stating that Ancap claims he respects other people's rights and is [[MartialPacifist unwilling to break the NAP under this idea]] to distract from the fact that he encourages a system built on exploitation and suffering. |
| 194 | --> '''Nazi''': Your moral code is a blatant contradiction and maybe if you ignored it and started being a selfish person like you know you are, you would actually be a service to this team. |
| 195 | * SexSlave: Owns several apparently, all teenaged. He doesn't see anything wrong with this. |
| 196 | ** SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It's indicated through dialogue that he deals in other types of slaves as well. Even Nazi is astonished by his blasé attitude about it. |
| 197 | * TheStoner: Not to the extent of Ancom, but he's admitted to using cocaine and is shown buying DMT. |
| 198 | * StrawmanPolitical: Of Libertarian-Right political ideologies, mainly the complete absence of a state in-place of unregulated free-market capitalism. |
| 199 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: Nazi calls him out for being SecretlySelfish in "Centricide 4" and it clearly has an effect on him, something that is only exacerbated by Commie who mocks him for thinking otherwise. By "Centricide 4.5", he gathers the other right-wing libertarian ideologies - Libertarian, Minarchist and Hoppean - and embraces his political beliefs at their fullest in the form of [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Ancapistan]], basically taking Nazi's advice to be upfront with his selfishness. |
| 200 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Is the least violent of the extremists. [[spoiler: Additionally, Centricide 4 features him becoming distraught over the possibility that he is a bad person, which indicates a concern with being good that isn't really shared by the other Extremists. He then finds Ancapistan with the other Lib Right ideologies who he has no intention to purge and while's he's embraced ThenLetMeBeEvil about a completely free market being hell for a lot of people, he makes it clear he won't go out of his way to harm people who don't cross him.]] |
| 201 | * VillainSong: Centricide 4.5 gives us the Ancapistan song, which largely serves as one for him though other members of the libertarian right get verses. |
| 202 | * WingdingEyes: While it may or may not just be an artistic flourish for the purposes of the song, the only time he removes his shades is during the Ancapistan musical number, revealing that he literally has dollar signs for eyes. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Ancom]] |
| 206 | !!Anarchist Left, Anarcho-Communist, Ancom, Anarkiddie, [[spoiler:Anarcho-Syndicalist]] |
| 207 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/green_jreg.png]] |
| 208 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Banks get the Molotov! Racists get the Molotov! White people get the Molotov! Wait- is that racist? Do I get the Molotov?"]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | ->''"WE GOTTA GET KIDS ON LSD!"'' |
| 211 | |
| 212 | An Anarchist who seeks a communal society of horizontal leadership and no hierarchies. Ancom is united with the other extremists against the centrist menace. He uses que/quem pronouns.[[spoiler: For Ancom’s later Post-Left personality see below in the Anarchists folder.]] |
| 213 | ---- |
| 214 | * AddledAddict: Ancom is a habitual drug user who frequently has violent outbursts, is mentally unstable, relies on welfare checks to get by and has tens of thousands in debt. |
| 215 | * AffectionateNickname: ''"Anarkiddie"''by Communist, though how affectionately it's used varies. |
| 216 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Anarcho-Communism, or at least the general idea of Libertarian Left-Wing Extremism. |
| 217 | * TheAntiNihilist: Expresses this attitude on a few occasions, believing that political engagement helps offset the lack of meaning que has in quer personal life. |
| 218 | * AntiVillain: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned type]]. Ancom is insanely violent and willing to beat the shit out of anyone he views as being racist, homophobic or transphobic (even if they really aren't), but is generally presented as the most well-intentioned of the group otherwise despite being quite radical. |
| 219 | * AxCrazy: Qui is deeply unhinged and loves committing brutal acts of violence. |
| 220 | * BatterUp: Ancom’s signature weapon is a baseball bat. |
| 221 | * BerserkButton: FUCKING NAZIS! Meaning anyone who disagrees with the Anarchist Left, including moderates. |
| 222 | * BombThrowingAnarchist: “Banks get the Molotov. Racists get the Molotov. White people get the Molotov. Holy shit, was that racist? Do I get the Molotov” |
| 223 | * BoomerangBigot: Ancom has shades of this, given that he gleefully talks about wanting to "beat up a white person" despite being white. |
| 224 | * TheBusCameBack: Ancom had not appeared in any videos for several months before returning...[[SubvertedTrope in Jreg's OnlyFans launch video and saying que would only be present there from now on]]. [[DoubleSubversion However]], Ancom has made several appearances in videos on the main channel since then, and eventually made an appearance in Centricide 6.5, [[spoiler: and returning to their previous form in Centricide 8: Part 2.]] |
| 225 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Green, [[spoiler:and as Post-Left Anarchist, grayscale.]] |
| 226 | * DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:After being hit Political Nihilist's nihilism beams and beaten within an inch of his life by Ape Political, he emerged as Post-Left Anarchist: an Anarchist in values only but with no more hope for revolution or political change. More or less confirmed [[https://twitter.com/mc_swm/status/1242507083628580871 by Jreg that as a personality, Ancom is dead even if the person isn't]]. Ancom doesn't also reappear [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ3l0pzl5mk in the Leftists for Trump Video]] while even Nihilist spoke from hell, although ''Post-Leftist'' wouldn't have a reason to say anything about Bernie dropping out.]] |
| 227 | ** [[spoiler: Ancom later returns, albeit under the term Anarcho-Syndicalist now.]] |
| 228 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The spelling of Ancom’s que/quim pronouns are inconsistent within the series. The [=YouTube=] captions spell it "quee/quem", the pronouns shown in "Leftist Infighting" are spelt qi/qim, {{Fanon}} seems to spell it qui/quem (or quim), and [[spoiler: Post-Left's]] caption reads "Quem's parents don't understand"[[note]]The equivalent of "them's parents don't understand", which is grammatically incorrect[[/note]] in "Anarchist Infighting". There's never been an official pronunciation or spelling of Ancom’s possessive pronoun either. WordOfGod [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Polcompball/comments/hgfy9k/jreg_ama/fw3zibo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 says the spelling is left intentionally ambiguous]], as the canon spelling is whatever the viewer wants. Website/ThisVeryWiki uses que/quem/quer, although it might be inconsistent due to the reasons stated above. |
| 229 | * DistinctionWithoutADifference: [[spoiler:After many episodes as Post-Left Anarchist, Ancom makes a comeback as Anarcho-Syndaclist. He's identical to his original self as the Anarcho-Communist, but with a different name. Even Commie, who is usually respectful of Ancom when it comes to pronouns to the point of having told Nazi “you will call him, que/quim pronouns or I will send you to the gulag”, still calls quem "Ancom" rather than “An-Syn”.]] |
| 230 | * FreudianExcuse: Ancom had a bad relationship with quis father, which is implied to be part of the reason for quis extreme politics and violent behavior. |
| 231 | * GoKartingWithBowser: Ancom plays cards and does drugs with Ancap sometimes. Which one is Bowser depends on one's ideology. |
| 232 | * GreenAndMean: Colored green and a violent extremist. |
| 233 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 234 | ** Ancom claims to be opposed to bigotry, but has expressed a willingness to attack members of dominant demographics apparently just for existing. |
| 235 | ** Despite wanting to abolish government, Ancom is perfectly willing to accept money from the government in the form of welfare. |
| 236 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 237 | ** Despite being an embodiment of militant leftism (Commie is too, but is more collected) and generally being presented as the most radical and adamant about imposing his beliefs, [[spoiler: Ancom is the first to bail]]. |
| 238 | ** [[spoiler:In "Centricide 8 (Part 3/3)", when he finds out that Nazi was Jewish, Ancom admits that he had a DNA test done and found out he was 100% Aryan.]] This revelation causes Nazi to put a gun to his own head in frustration. |
| 239 | * KnightTemplar: Ancom is convinced that his ideology is the morally correct one, and that all others are wrong and hideously racist. |
| 240 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: [[spoiler: Ancom is transformed into Post-Left by Nihilist and Ape-political at the end of episode 3 relatively early on in the series.]] |
| 241 | * MotiveRant: Towards the end of Centricide 3, Ancom gives one where he explains how he’s concerned that the world is going to rapidly move towards either far-right wing nationalism or authoritarian-left populism, and wants to create a society where everyone is free by rejecting electoral politics and smashing people's kneecaps. |
| 242 | * OddFriendship: Ancom notes that despite having differences with both, he works quite well with both Commie and Ancap at times. |
| 243 | * PoliticalOvercorrectness: Ancom is often portrayed as a particularly deranged Social Justice Warrior. |
| 244 | ---> '''Ancom:''' I keep telling you Nazi, I use Qui/Quim pronouns. |
| 245 | ---> '''Nazi:''' I will not call you Que/Quem pronoun! |
| 246 | ---> '''Commie:''' You will call him quui/quem pronouns or I will send you to the gulag! |
| 247 | ---> '''Ancom:''' He shouldn’t be forced to use my pronouns, he should want to. |
| 248 | ---> '''Nazi:''' What next? Is he going to identify as an attack helicopter? |
| 249 | ---> '''Commie:''' That is very offensive. |
| 250 | ---> '''Ancom:''' I know. Some of my best friends are copter kin. |
| 251 | * PsychopathicManchild: Not nearly as psychopathic as Nazi, but displays a sort of childish glee towards the idea of participating in riots and beating up “Nazis” with a baseball bat. According to the "riots" video, Commie even has a bedtime for Anarkiddy. |
| 252 | * TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Ancom will beat your skull in to achieve an Anarchist utopia. |
| 253 | * ShipTease: With [[spoiler: Commie]] in Centricide 4, the Leftist Unity song being similar to [[spoiler: a romantic duet.]] |
| 254 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Nazi, to the point where Ancom accuses moderates of being Nazis to justify assaulting them. Ancom is shocked and horrified to learn that he is expected to work with him. |
| 255 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Qui may come of as a screechy, dysfunctional maniac, but qui's still intelligent and fairly well-versed in political theory. |
| 256 | * SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: Some of Ancom’s best friends are copter-kin, which is why he takes offense to Nazi's "attack helicopter" comments. |
| 257 | * TheStoner: Is on all sorts of drugs, but weed and LSD are quis go-tos. |
| 258 | * StrawmanPolitical: Of Libertarian-Left political ideologies, mainly those pertaining to the complete destruction of hierarchies they consider oppressive. |
| 259 | * TookALevelInBadass: Episode 8 has [[spoiler: Ancom return as Anarcho Syndicalist, and is much less whiny, screechy or wimpy, also being able to deliver a rousing speech.]] |
| 260 | * TokenGoodTeammate: At least in the Political Compass Rap, Ancom is framed as having the least morally objectionable positions of any of the extremists. Considering his counterparts favor things like ethnic cleansing, class warfare, and child sex slavery, it's not that hard. Though this is relative, since even Ancom has out-there moments like suggesting giving kids LSD and assaulting anyone to the right of Noam Chomsky for being “Nazis”. This is somewhat deconstructed as Ancom has a clear case of BlackAndWhiteInsanity, with a ''very'' big and arbitrary list of who is on the evil side, whilst not being able to see the good in them due to ideological disagreements. |
| 261 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Started using LSD at the age of twelve, which explains a lot. |
| 262 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Ancom considers mass death and destruction is a small price to pay for a society without oppression or discrimination. |
| 263 | * VillainousFriendship: |
| 264 | ** Even though communists have a habit of [[DeadlyEuphemism turning]] on anarchists, Commie and [=AnCom=] were very close. [[spoiler: After Political Nihilist and Apepolitical turn [=AnCom=] into Post-Left, even Nazi comments on how distraught Commie seems by the loss of his comrade.]] |
| 265 | ** Ancom and Ancap are also prone to getting along, largely since an ancom and ancap society door to door tend not to pose threats to each other as opposed to authoritarian ideologies that are actively expansionist. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Commie]] |
| 269 | !!Totalitarian Left, Communist, Tankie. |
| 270 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red_jreg.png]] |
| 271 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Hello, I am Communist. Real one, not revisionary."]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | ->''"It is the institution that hosts the far-right, so it should be the institution that gets rid of the far-right... and the right... and the liberals... and the moderate left..."'' |
| 274 | |
| 275 | A Communist with the goal of creating a global revolution for working-class people everywhere. He is united with the other extremists against the centrist menace. Fond of secret police and gulags. |
| 276 | ---- |
| 277 | * AffectionateNickname: "Tankie" by Ancom, though how affectionately it's used varies. |
| 278 | * TheAloner: Unlike his Extremist brothers, Commie never forms a subfaction of other authoritarian leftists to explore the fullness of his ideology. This may be a reflection of his rejection of "revisionism" and the real-life problems communist movements experience with [[NoTrueScotsman ideological infighting]]. |
| 279 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Communism, or at least the general idea of Authoritarian Left-Wing Extremism. |
| 280 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: When he tries to prove to Ancap that he isn't just against capitalism because he is bad at it, he ends up earning a LOT of money from the stock market. He initially tries burning it...but makes the money back charging people to view it. |
| 281 | * BigEater: Even when rations are low, he makes sure he gets enough to eat... [[BlatantLies purely for the good of the state of course]]. He also steals and redistributes Ancap's bagels. |
| 282 | * TheBrute: Physically seems to be the strongest of the extremists, capable of [[NeckSnap snapping the necks of his enemies]] and [[spoiler: beating up Ape-Political with his bare hands]]. |
| 283 | * ChummyCommies / DirtyCommunists: He hates both Nazi and Ancap, but is a good friend of Ancom despite their disagreements. |
| 284 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Red. |
| 285 | * DrowningMySorrows: Is shown to be drinking at the start of Centricide 8 to [[TearJerker cope with the loss of his friends]]. |
| 286 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While Commie idolizes Joseph Stalin, he doesn't share the latter's beliefs about Jews[[note]]Stalin was noted by historians and his colleagues to privately hold an antagonistic view of Jews despite creating an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast Autonomous Oblast]] just for them as an alternative to Israel.[[/note]] as shown in ''Centricide 5'', where he briefly gets into an argument with Nazi when he says that Jews are behind Capitalism. |
| 287 | * GeniusBruiser: Not only is he strong enough to [[spoiler:kill a gorilla with his bare hands]], he's also intelligent enough to hold a thorough understanding of complex political and socioeconomic concepts. While all the extremists are fairly cerebral to one degree or another, this trait is arguably most prominent in him. |
| 288 | * GloriousMotherRussia: Has a noticeable Russian accent. |
| 289 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: While all his allies have a weapons, Commie prefers bare-knuckle brawling, and is strong enough to kill gorillas with his bare hands and punch down doors. |
| 290 | * GratuitousRussian: Occasionally uses Russian words as nicknames for the other extremists (sans Ancom, whom he calls "Anarkiddie"). |
| 291 | * HammerAndSickle: His hat has the logo on it. |
| 292 | * TheHeavy: While Jreg is the one in charge of the extremists, it's Communist whose actions play the most direct role in shaping the plot. |
| 293 | * HeelRealization: After [[spoiler: Ancom becomes Post-Left]], he starts doing some soul-searching, reading about left-communism and wondering if his old friend has a point. It's implied he might be mellowing into a less-brutally authoritarian version of himself, before [[TheCorrupter Nazi]] talks him out of it by appealing to authoritarian unity. |
| 294 | * HuskyRusskie: Physically speaking, he appears to be the strongest extremist. |
| 295 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 296 | ** One of the reasons he has problems with Ancom is because he considers quem a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism_(Marxism) revisionist]]. However, he gets angry at Socialist in part for saying they shouldn't be supporting China and North Korea, neither of which follow an orthodox view of Marxism.[[note]]China has adopted elements of state capitalism in a system they call "socialism with Chinese characteristics", while North Korea's Juche ideology explicitly embraces ultranationalism and racial supremacism.[[/note]] |
| 297 | ** Despite his anti-capitalist views, he expresses support for censorship by tech companies in "Leftist Infighting". |
| 298 | * {{Irony}}: While Commie is a collectivist ideology, by the end of "Centricide 7" he becomes the only ideology that doesn't end up joining a collective of his own, Nazi making an International Union of Nationalists, Ancom (Post-Left at the time) joining the Left-Wing Anarchist Commune and Ancap founding Ancapistan with the Right-Wing Anarchists. This is presumably due to his hatred of revisionism causing him to reject other forms of Marxism or Leninism, an [[WeAreStrugglingTogether infamous issue real-life communist movements frequently face]]. |
| 299 | * MoralMyopia: He has no problem with Ancom making unsubstantiated accusations of racism... until said accusations are directed at him. |
| 300 | * MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: While he lacks the "boorish roughneck" characterization this trope usually implies, Commie is otherwise the only Extremist with an obvious national identity via his Russian accent, and a fearsome fighter with his bare hands while all his allies rely on weapons. |
| 301 | * NeckSnap: Inflicts this on Socialist [[spoiler: and Progressive]]. |
| 302 | * TheNicknamer: Calls Ancom 'Anarkiddie' and Ancap 'Kulak'. |
| 303 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Gave one to [[spoiler:Ape Political]] to try and save Ancom. [[spoiler: He was too late.]] |
| 304 | * NoTrueScotsman: He holds that true communism has yet to be fully realized and that all of the modern and historical examples are all plagued with impurities of capitalism and/or revisionism. This is probably why, while all his brother extremists have various other forms of themselves explored (as in Ancapistan or the Anarchist commune), the closest thing he has to a sub-ideology is Posadism, who's explicitly a joke. |
| 305 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Mostly seems to just be dramatic and actually fairly AffablyEvil, but [[spoiler: he personally kills two of the moderates--for comparison, [[OmnicidalManiac Nazi]] only tried killing one and actually failed to do so.]] |
| 306 | * OddFriendship: He and Ancom get along fairly well in spite of Commie's unfortunate tendency to start killing anarchists and Ancom's outspoken opposition to statism and hierarchies. When [[spoiler: Ancom turns into Post-Left Anarchism and leaves the cause]], Commie is visibly shaken by his absence. |
| 307 | * OffingTheAnnoyance: Kills Socialist out of irritation. |
| 308 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: |
| 309 | ** Gets frustrated by his more moderate counterpart Socialist and so he kills him. |
| 310 | ** Also finds some of Ancom's antics annoying as well and strongly disagrees with his fixation on identity politics and opposition to government. |
| 311 | * RedIsViolent: He's colored red and shown to be a savage killer. |
| 312 | * TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilised: Communist will be sure that the rich will be eaten in his utopia, something that he shares with Ancom. When the Socialist explained that he believed in a long-term, peaceful form of revolution, Commie was so disgusted with him that he snapped his neck instantly. |
| 313 | * RussianFashion: Wears a long coat and an ushanka. |
| 314 | * RussianGuySuffersMost: He is the one that takes the most damage in battles with the Centrists [[spoiler:and by Centricide 8, has lost of all his friends one way or another]]. |
| 315 | * ShipTease: [[spoiler: With Ancom in Centricide 4, the Leftist Unity song being similar to a romantic duet.]] |
| 316 | * StrawmanPolitical: Of Totalitarian-Left political ideologies, mainly Marxist communism. |
| 317 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Openly admits to supporting Ancom's social justice crusading only to look good. |
| 318 | * VillainousFriendship: |
| 319 | ** Even though communists have a habit of turning on anarchists, Commie and [=AnCom=] were very close. [[spoiler: When Political Nihilist and Apepolitical turn [=AnCom=] into Post-Left, Commie is clearly distraught by it.]] |
| 320 | ** [[spoiler: Ends up on rather friendly terms with Nazi in Centricide 4 as a result of authoritarian unity after Ancom leaves.]] |
| 321 | * WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: He's sad that the Soviet Union capitulated, but he's got a good feeling about the next time communism (particularly Marxism-Leninism) is tried. |
| 322 | * WorkingClassHero: Though it's debatable how "heroic" he actually is, he certainly sees himself as a shining example of the archetypal Soviet hero. |
| 323 | * YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: When [[spoiler: Nazi, on the brink of death, says he's an 'honorary Aryan,' Commie sardonically remarks that he's making it easier to not be sad about his death]]. |
| 324 | [[/folder]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[folder:[=JReg Gaming=]]] |
| 327 | !![=JReg=] Gaming, [=JReg=] |
| 328 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sqiw1_iv_400x400.jpg]] |
| 329 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Once the centrists are gone, everybody will have no choice but to watch me play ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''."]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | A largely unrelated gaming channel mentioned several times who shows up in "Centricide 6", which reveals he is the true leader of the anti-centrists. Except not really. |
| 332 | ---- |
| 333 | * AdamWesting: He actually plays himself in "Centricide 6" and is the first other [=YouTuber=] to cameo on the channel. |
| 334 | * BaitAndSwitch: During Jreg's silver play button unboxing, Jreg becomes despondent on realizing the button spells his name as [=JReg's=]. |
| 335 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: His cameo appearance in "Centricide 6" has him initially identified by Jreg as the true leader of the anti-centrist movement. Though this is ultimately subverted. |
| 336 | * JokeCharacter: Despite being the Anti-Centrists' true leader, he does not last long, getting killed off by Radical Centrist with ease. This makes more sense when Jreg reveals that his claim of being the real mastermind was a deception intended to buy time until the Wackies arrive. |
| 337 | * NotInThisForYourRevolution: He doesn't have much of an ideological stake in the anti-centrist cause; his reason for supporting anti-centrism is so that, in a centrist-free world, everyone will be free to not care about politics and watch his gaming content instead. |
| 338 | * NotSoSimilar: To Apepolitical oddly enough in a weird way. Both want to destroy a political group due to not wanting to care about politics in some way. Apepolitical wants to destroy the extremes as they tend to be more politically charged while centrists and moderates don't tend to make politics a huge part of their life since they're content, and thus an extreme-free world means less people talking about politics. [=JReg Gaming=] meanwhile wants to eradicate the centrists because once centrist politics are gone, which the majority of the world adheres to (at least in the West), a large segment of the population will be instead have nothing better to do than watch his gaming videos. |
| 339 | * ThePowerOfApathy: Unlike Apepolitical who wants to use this power against a minority of rowdy extremes, he instead believes that this should be used against the centrists which most of the world adheres to, as depriving them of their politics means a massive audience who will instead occupy their time watching his gaming videos. |
| 340 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Occupies this role in most videos he comes up in. |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:The Yale Journal on Regulation]] |
| 344 | !!The Yale Journal on Regulation, [=JREG=] |
| 345 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yalejournal.png]] |
| 346 | [[caption-width-right:350:"It's me, the Yale Journal on Regulation. Bow before my prowess."]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | A biannual student-edited law review covering regulatory and administrative law published at Yale Law School. It is revealed to be the ''truly'' true leader of the anti-centrists. Except, again, not really. |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * JokeCharacter: Slightly exaggerated. Its purpose is to further stall for time. |
| 351 | * RedShirt: Only exists to get killed by Radical Centrist. It serves as the final stall before Commie and the Wackies arrive. |
| 352 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Is introduced in Centricide 6. Is killed by Radical Centrist 10 seconds later. |
| 353 | [[/folder]] |
| 354 | |
| 355 | !!Centrists |
| 356 | Ideologies who represent Centrism who rule the world by way of the status quo. They are the enemies of the Anti-Centrists and of the Council of Wacky Ideologies. |
| 357 | |
| 358 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 359 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: All serve as the personifications of the various centrist ideologies, all of them united in StatusQuoIsGod for one reason or another. |
| 360 | * GoldenMeanFallacy: The one thing that unites them all. |
| 361 | * MyopicConqueror: While the Extremists [[WellIntentionedExtremist each have actual ambitions that are arguably looking to improve the world in their own way]], all the Centrists care about is staying in power and doing nothing with it other than maintaining the status quo. |
| 362 | --> '''Radical Centrist''': One by one we are going to dismantle Team Extreme, and then we will tighten Centrism's grasp around the world. \ |
| 363 | '''Libertarian''': Tighten your grasp? And then what?\ |
| 364 | '''Radical Centrist''': Oh, Libertarian. Once we are in power, we are going to enact a wide sweeping plan we have been planning for millennia. \ |
| 365 | '''Libertarian''': Tell me!\ |
| 366 | '''Radical Centrist''': Once the world is under Centrist command, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis we. Are going to do. Nothing!]]\ |
| 367 | '''Libertarian''': [''gasp''] Oh, wait, no. Yeah, that makes sense actually. |
| 368 | * ThePowerOfApathy: Considering Political Nihilist, Apepolitical and Anti-Radical have the power to make opposing ideologies more centrist by different means, it can be reasoned that all of the centrists are able to do this. |
| 369 | * SkewedPriorities: With the exception of Radical Centrist - an ideology that exists to make sure the other ideologies work together - all of the other Centrists are often too caught up in their [[TemporarilyExaggeratedTrait one defining character quirk]] that it is a miracle that they've stayed in power this long. Horseshoe Centrist only ever says that two different things are actually exactly the same and never contributes anything else, Moderate Lee is obsessed with correcting other people on what they say regardless if it is important, Anti-Radical is such a total slave to his BerserkButton that he will threaten anything he dubs too extreme (even if it's Radical Centrist's call to arms with the other centrists) and both Political Nihilist and Ape-political are more interested in letting you know that they don't care about the cause they signed up for. |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | |
| 372 | [[folder:Radical Centrist]] |
| 373 | !! Radical Centrist |
| 374 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/radical_centristpng.png]] |
| 375 | [[caption-width-right:350:"We're faced with certain doom and all you can do is sit around and bicker about nothing? This is exactly how we deal with climate change and immigration!"]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | ->''"If we're gonna beat them, our centrism... is gonna have to be radical."'' |
| 378 | |
| 379 | The head of the League of Anti-Anti Centrists. While overall a centrist, he is willing to take strong positions and decisive action when he deems it necessary. |
| 380 | ---- |
| 381 | * AllYourPowersCombined: In "Centricide 6", he is shown to have the power to use all of the collected powers of the other centrists. “Centricide 6.25” shows he can steal other ideologies’ powers, [[spoiler: which is how he defeats the Wackies]]. |
| 382 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Radical Centrist is the embodiment of Radical Centrism, or political activism with interchangeably left and right values. He flat-out admits that he exists specifically to whip the other centrists into action. |
| 383 | * EvilCounterpart[=/=]GoodCounterpart: To Jreg depending on whose side you support. |
| 384 | * FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:In "Centricide 6", it is revealed that ''he'' killed the Dead Centrist in order to rally the other centrists into-action when he foresaw the threat of Anti-Centrism.]] |
| 385 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In the end of Centricide 7/start of Centricide 8, Radical Centrist decides to merge with Jreg to form Accelerationist, the ultimate BigBad of the series.]] |
| 386 | * TheLeader: He is in charge of the League of Anti-Anti Centrists. |
| 387 | * MakingASpectacleOfYourself: He wears [[TriangleShades triangular]] bright pink and green sunglasses. |
| 388 | * MrExposition: Most of the information about Jreg's nature in the Centricide series is based on what he tells the other centrists. |
| 389 | ** In "Centricide 4", [[spoiler: he explains to Libertarian how the Centrists are in fact upholding the ideology of neoliberalism and that by becoming the avatar of that ideology, Libertarian will far exceed the centrists or the Extremists in power due to it being both a centrist and extremist ideology.]] |
| 390 | * NecessarilyEvil: Being the embodiment of utilizing radical means to enforce moderate ends, it's no surprise that Radical Centrist is willing to do some bad for what he sees as a greater good, much like the radicals his faction opposes. [[spoiler: Notably, this extends to drawing first blood ''on his own side'', by killing Dead Centrist to galvanize the others into action.]] |
| 391 | * PersonalityPowers: Being the personification of ideological flexibility from the center, his signature ability is to [[PowerCopying copy the powers and weapons of other ideologies]], whether they're extremists out to get him or his fellow centrists. |
| 392 | * PowerCopying: In "Centricide 6.25", Radical Centrist is shown to have this ability, taking on the various characteristics and powers of the Wacky Ideologies to beat the wackies. |
| 393 | * SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:By the end of "Centricide 6", he is the only member of the Centrists still active, with the others being killed off or forced to convert.]] |
| 394 | * SplitAtBirth: It is strongly implied that Jreg and Radical Centrist where a single entity in "Centricide 6", having split to represent Extremism and Centrism when ideologies diversified into what would become the political compass. |
| 395 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Has this attitude towards the rest of the centrists. |
| 396 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Especially ironic in this case. [[spoiler:When it is revealed in "Centricide 6" that he [[FalseFlagOperation killed the Dead Centrist to spur the other Centrists into action]], he claimed that he did it because he saw it as the only way to protect centrism from the incoming Extremist threat, seeing the sacrifice of the rest of his allies dying as NecessarilyEvil.]] |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Horseshoe Centrist]] |
| 400 | !! Horseshoe Centrist |
| 401 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/horseshoe_centrist.png]] |
| 402 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Well, the way I see it, there's no difference between ____ and ____."]] |
| 403 | |
| 404 | ->''"Can't you see? You're all the same to me!"'' |
| 405 | |
| 406 | The embodiment of Horseshoe Theory. Looks like a cowboy and regards any two extremes as identical no matter how illogical that is. |
| 407 | ---- |
| 408 | * AlmightyIdiot: In "Centricide 4", Radical Centrist offhandedly remarks that the Horseshoe Centrist is the "most powerful of us all", yet in action, he seems to be the most useless. He never contributes anything to the conversations he is a part of other than saying two things are the same and he was the only Centrist sent to recruit a Moderate that never even attempted to do their job. [[spoiler:His power is later demonstrated in "Centricide 5" when he is able to fight off Commie and Nazi by himself with minimal effort, Nazi and Commie have to summon Nazbol to fight him off.]] |
| 409 | * {{Catchphrase}}: "The way I see it, there's no difference between [X] and not [X]" is said a lot by this character. |
| 410 | * {{Cowboy}}: Dresses and talks like one. |
| 411 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: For most of the series comes off as a ridiculous, incompetent buffoon who is generally useless and relies on InsaneTrollLogic, but in Centricide 5 [[spoiler: he reveals he has vast power because the very notion of the Centricide where every extreme is on the same team has proven him right]]. |
| 412 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Well, only sort of, but [[spoiler:his true power is able to be exploited because the very notion of all extremists teaming up to defeat centrism proves his point right.]] |
| 413 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Communist ends up begrudgingly accepting that he and Nazi are similar in many respects, which demonstrates that Horseshoe Centrist's ideas do have ''some'' validity, even if he uses Horseshoe Theory where it really doesn't apply. |
| 414 | * GrayAndGrayInsanity: For him, every kind of opposite or extreme action/ideology is the same thing when it boils down to it. Naturally, this becomes complete insanity when he describes having no civil rights as the same thing as having civil rights, for no rational explanation beyond the fact that they stand in "''opposition to each other''". |
| 415 | * TheHorseshoeEffect: Strongly believes in this idea and takes it to ludicrous extremes. [[spoiler:Or maybe not quite so ludicrous, given later events.]] |
| 416 | * InsaneTrollLogic: How else can you describe believing that there is no difference between having civil rights and not having civil rights? [[spoiler: This turns out to be to his benefit when he is able to attack both remaining members of Team Extreme because he literally believes there is no difference between them before being defeated via LogicBomb by Nazbol.]] |
| 417 | * LetsGetDangerous: In "Centricide 5" he reveals his true potential power level when Nazi and Commie invade the Centrist Center. |
| 418 | * LiteralMinded: Actually has a horseshoe on him at all times. |
| 419 | * ManlyFacialHair: Sports a literal horseshoe mustache, both to underscore his beliefs and to reinforce his masculine cowboy image. |
| 420 | * MindOverMatter: His horseshoe can function like a magnet/tractor beam, [[spoiler: which he uses to pull Nazi's gun out of his hand and into his own before emptying it into the extremist, while claiming there's absolutely no way to tell whether he's shooting a Nazi or a communist because they're exactly the same. He also throws Commie around, wiggling his horseshoe in direct opposition to the direction Commie is being flung.]] |
| 421 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He mostly comes off as a goof who thinks any two opposites are actually basically the same thing, no matter how blatantly untrue that might be. [[spoiler:But then he turns out to be far more dangerous than he seems, as Nazi and Commie find out the hard way]]. |
| 422 | * ThePowerOfApathy: His musical number, giving him whatever nuance he deserves, explains that his incarnation of centrism comes from seeing extremist aggression as repulsive, and a reason to lump in anyone and everyone using it as all the same. |
| 423 | * StrawmanPolitical: Takes [[TheHorseshoeEffect Horseshoe Theory]] up a notch by outright saying that he does not see the difference between any two ideals -- or even between attending a meeting and not attending it. |
| 424 | * TooDumbToLive: He never gets around to trying to convince the Conservative to join the centrists because he thinks that Conservative and Nazi are both conservatives and dubs them irrelevant. |
| 425 | * VillainSong: "All The Same To Me" is Horseshoe Centrist pointing out how similar Nazi and Commie are as he [[CurbStompBattle easily kicks their asses]]. |
| 426 | [[/folder]] |
| 427 | |
| 428 | [[folder:Dead Centrist]] |
| 429 | !!Dead Centrist |
| 430 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/he_dead.png]] |
| 431 | |
| 432 | The first casualty of the Centricide. R.I.P. |
| 433 | ---- |
| 434 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: In multiple ways. When alive, he embodied centrists whose positions are exactly in the middle. As of the time of the series, [[ExactWords he is quite literally dead.]] |
| 435 | * PlotTriggeringDeath: His death begins the Centricide. |
| 436 | * PosthumousCharacter: By the time he gets mentioned, he's already dead, but said death is what starts the events of the series. |
| 437 | * StrawmanPolitical: He's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of centrism found within the [[{{Pun}} dead]]-center of the political compass. Or he did when he was alive. |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Moderate Lee]] |
| 441 | !! Moderate Lee |
| 442 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moderate.jpg]] |
| 443 | [[caption-width-right:350:''LET'S NOT BE TOO HASTY HERE'']] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | ->''"Radical Centrist, that plan is so reasonable, it might just maybe potentially work, probably, I don't know, don't quote me on that."'' |
| 446 | |
| 447 | A centrist who unfailingly insists upon adopting the middle ground in regards to anything and everything. |
| 448 | ---- |
| 449 | * ActualPacifist: Being the embodiment of compromising centrism, Moderate Lee will find every excuse not to involve himself in conflict, whether it involves de-escalation by way of meeting both sides halfway, pretending there isn't a problem, proposing to [[NotYourProblem wait for someone else to take care of it]] or just flat-out running away. |
| 450 | * DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:He joins Nazi's Right-Wing solidarity group the moment Nazi threatens him without a fight, claiming that he was only a part of the Centrists because he was too afraid to fight back against them.]] |
| 451 | ** CowardlyLion: [[spoiler:To be fair to him, he later shows up with an M16 to help the Extremists defeat Accelerationism]]. |
| 452 | * GoldenMeanFallacy: While all centrists have this problem to some extent, he seems especially prone to insisting that the middle ground is always automatically the best solution. |
| 453 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: According to him, his full name is actually "Moderate Lee". |
| 454 | * NotInThisForYourRevolution: As shown in Centricide 6, [[spoiler: he didn't really care for the centrists cause of fighting against the extremists, joining them out of fear from retaliation and quickly joins up Nazi's team the second his life is threatened by him.]] |
| 455 | * NotSoSimilar: To Anarcho-Pacifism, who refuses to engage in violence out of high-minded principle and idealism rather than rank cowardice. |
| 456 | * NotYourProblem: Shrugs off the threat posed by the extremists by reasoning that somebody more capable than him or his fellow centrists will take care of the problem. |
| 457 | * PunnyName: His name is a pun on "Moderately", with "Lee" being his last name. |
| 458 | * SoleSurvivor: By ''Centricide 8'', [[spoiler: he's the last member of the Centrists still alive, as he chose to collaborate with Nazi instead of attempting to help Radical Centrist.]] |
| 459 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Has this reaction when Nazi and Commie show up at the Centrist Center [[spoiler: and again when the Impossible Ideology Monster gets into the International Union of Nationalists' headquarters.]] |
| 460 | * StrawmanPolitical: Of those who prefer to compromise on the fence over actually picking a side. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:Political Nihilist]] |
| 464 | !! Political Nihilist |
| 465 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_94208_pm.png]] |
| 466 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Stop caring about shit!"]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | ->''"If you kept up with all of his videos over all of his platforms, you'd know that his political ideology was exactly the same as mine."'' |
| 469 | |
| 470 | An apathetic, moody figure who believes politics is pointless because nothing ever will really change. |
| 471 | ---- |
| 472 | * BigNo: [[spoiler: When Ancom defeats him and he disappears into oblivion.]] |
| 473 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While disaffected, when he gets off his ass to actually do something he can [[spoiler: shoot lightning beams at his opponents, which he uses to push Ancom into becoming Post-Leftist.]] |
| 474 | * EmoTeen: Aesthetically resembles this trope. |
| 475 | * {{Guyliner}}: Fitting for his "emo" look. |
| 476 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Ancom kills him, and one appearance later has Jreg confirm he was speaking from hell.]] |
| 477 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: He describes Jreg as being a character who is layered in irony as he is in real life and claims Greg is actually a fellow political nihilist. In-universe, however, he is mistaken. |
| 478 | * ThePowerOfApathy: Coupled with Ape Political's attacks, Political Nihilist's nihilism beams were able to suck Ancom of all of his passion and turning him into Post-Left. |
| 479 | * PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler: Jreg states that the Political Nihilist was speaking from {{Hell}} in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ3l0pzl5mk #LeftistsForTrump]]", confirming his KilledOffForReal fate.]] |
| 480 | * StrawNihilist: Embodies this trope. |
| 481 | * StrawmanPolitical: To those who believe that engaging directly into politics in any way is a fruitless endeavor and is best not-engaged. |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:Ape Political]] |
| 485 | !!Ape Political |
| 486 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_94215_pm.png]] |
| 487 | [[caption-width-right:350:''(Animalistic groaning and grunting)'']] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | A large gorilla-like ape who is against discussing politics and ideology and has a tendency to beat up people who express opinions on such matters. |
| 490 | ---- |
| 491 | * BerserkButton: Anyone expressing a political belief at all is this for him. |
| 492 | * TheBrute: Physically the strongest of the centrists, though which trope he falls under better is a matter of perspective. |
| 493 | * ThePowerOfApathy: He seems to share this power with Political Nihilist, Nihilist's nihilism beams and Ape Political's physical assaults robbing Ancom of his passion and turning him into Post-Left. |
| 494 | * StrawmanPolitical: His [[PunnyName name is an obvious pun]] on "Apolitical", or the rejection of being involved with politics. Considering his main thing is violently beating up anybody who expresses their political opinions, he seems to represent the militant side of this. |
| 495 | * TokenNonHuman: While he is an ideology like the rest of the characters of Centricide, Ape Political is the only one of the centrists to be not represented by a human, instead he's, well, an ape. |
| 496 | * TheUnintelligible: Communicates solely in ape-like grunts. |
| 497 | [[/folder]] |
| 498 | |
| 499 | [[folder:Anti-Radical]] |
| 500 | !!Anti-Radical, Anti-Extremist |
| 501 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/antiradicalpng.png]] |
| 502 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Did you just say ''extreme?'' I'll gut you like a fish!"]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | ->''"I was the brave force telling those people looking for civil rights that they were looking for civil rights too extremely!"'' |
| 505 | |
| 506 | A rather irritable centrist. Rejects any form of an extreme idea or thought on principle alone. |
| 507 | ---- |
| 508 | * AwesomeAussie: A knife-wielder from down under who has the power to make ideologies less extreme. |
| 509 | * AxCrazy: He is willing to pull his knife on anyone who is the slightest bit extreme regardless of context. Judging by his reaction when Ancap invades the Overton window, he takes great pleasure in killing them and welcomes the chance to meet extremists just to kill them (or at least make them less extreme with violence). |
| 510 | * BerserkButton: Anything he regards as extreme makes him angry. Including the word 'extreme'. |
| 511 | * TheBogan: Crude, violent, and has an Australian accent. |
| 512 | * EyepatchOfPower: Has one of these. |
| 513 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: In his quest to battle extremism, he engages in some very extreme tactics. |
| 514 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He despises extremism, yet he himself is willing to commit extreme violence in order to prevent it. |
| 515 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In Centricide 4 after violating the NAP against [=Ancap=].]] |
| 516 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Has an UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent, and not a very good one at that. |
| 517 | * ThePowerOfApathy: Much like Political Nihilist and Apepolitical, Anti-Radical has the power to make ideologies more centrist. In his case, his knife is lined with venom that makes any ideology less extreme, nearly turning both Ancap and Libertarian into Neo-Liberals [[spoiler: before Ancap kills him]]. |
| 518 | * PsychoKnifeNut: He's a deranged, violent maniac who won't hesitate to use his blade against anyone and everyone he considers too extreme. |
| 519 | * StrawmanPolitical: Of those with a knee-jerk opposition against extremist ideologies or extreme actions, regardless of why they would act "extreme" or who in the conflict is acting in such a way. |
| 520 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Notably more violent and bloodthirsty than the other centrists, who are usually too apathetic/confused/contradictory to do anything and don't have particularly violent instincts. |
| 521 | [[/folder]] |
| 522 | |
| 523 | !!Moderates |
| 524 | The ideologies who stand at the edge of the Overton window. |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 527 | * AllPowerfulBystander: A case can be argued that the Moderates are some of the most powerful of the ideologies due to how overwhelmingly popular the political views they embody are, hence why both the Centrists and Anti-Centrists were so invested in recruiting them for their war. However, they all have a live/let live position in contrast to the other groups - the Centrists hellbent at maintaining the status quo and the Anti-Centrists running on various shades of BlackAndWhiteInsanity - and are uninterested in joining with either cause. [[spoiler:Libertarian is the only exception to this, and he only joined the Centrists out of self-preservation.]] |
| 528 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: The Four moderates are the personifications of the most favored universal ideologies; Conservatism, Progressivism, Libertarianism, and Socialism. Because they are so universal, both the Anti-Centrists and the Centrists all try and buy their support in the Centricide. |
| 529 | * {{Egopolis}}: The Conservative lives in Conservatopia and Libertarian lives in Libertaria. Odds are the same applies to the Progressive and the Socialist. |
| 530 | * TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: No two moderates are ever seen which each other, undermining the idea they are even a faction. In real life, the four of them represent the main political parties one can vote for in a conventional liberal election, and given the divisive nature of electoralism, they never feel the need to cross paths with each other. Extremists and other fringe ideologies tend to interact or form fronts with each other to expand their already small numbers. |
| 531 | * GoodCounterpart: Each of them are counterparts to each extremist and are depicted as being more reasonable than their counterparts. Socialist is this for Commie, Conservative for Nazi, Progressive for Ancom and Libertarian for Ancap. |
| 532 | * NeutralityBacklash: [[spoiler: When Conservative, Progressive, and Socialist refuse to join either side in the Centricide, Commie and Nazi have them all killed under Jreg's orders. Since Ancap lacks the violent tendencies that are shared by the other extremists, he lets Libertarian go when he is ordered to kill him too.]] |
| 533 | * TakeAThirdOption: Are neither centrists nor extremists, instead embodying the world's more mainstream ideologies. |
| 534 | [[/folder]] |
| 535 | |
| 536 | [[folder:Conservative]] |
| 537 | !!Conservative, Christian Conservative |
| 538 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/conservative.png]] |
| 539 | [[caption-width-right:350:"God is where I find my strength, although right now I'm actually just praying to Jordan B. Peterson."]] |
| 540 | |
| 541 | ->''"I don't care what the left thinks. I'm a conservative, I want to conserve."'' |
| 542 | |
| 543 | The embodiment of conservative ideology. Religiously devout and right-wing, but unlike Nazi, he tolerates the existence of people of different religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. |
| 544 | ---- |
| 545 | * BaitAndSwitch: He's introduced praying in a Church. It's revealed shortly after he's praying to Dr. Jordan Peterson rather than the Christian God. |
| 546 | * ChurchOfSaintGenericus: There's never any mention of what denomination he is. It's likely that he is White Protestant considering it is the #1 Christian denomination practiced by Conservative North Americans and the rest of the Anglosphere, though it's also equally likely that he adheres to a fictional denomination that treats Jordan Peterson as one of its saints. |
| 547 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Blue, though he isn't tinted nearly as harshly as Nazi. |
| 548 | * EnlightenedSelfInterest: Despite being a homophobe and finding Nazi's [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] talking-points disturbing, he is fully willing to work with Nazi and Homonationalist so they could all benefit from their collective solidarity. |
| 549 | * EntendreFailure: Mistakenly believes that Homonationalist and Nazi are related because the former keeps calling the latter "Daddy." |
| 550 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While he's not exactly fond of Muslims, blacks or LGBT people, he's still opposed to Nazi's desire to persecute them. |
| 551 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 552 | ** He is Nazi's moderate counterpart. They are both fundamentally against the left (Conservative even accusing Fascism of being a left-wing ideology to justify his own disagreements with it), they support maintaining culture and have a general dislike towards black people and the LGBT community. Where they disagree is that Conservative prefers a live/let live stance towards blacks and gays, and also considers Jews to be his "brothers and sisters" while Nazi wants to exterminate them and Conservative is a devout Christian while Nazi is a HollywoodAtheist. |
| 553 | ** In general, Conservative highlights the more positive elements of traditionalism unlike culturally far-right ideologies like Hoppean and Anfash. |
| 554 | * {{Hypocrite}}: While he claims to be a devout Christian, he literally worships Jordan Peterson, a clear violation of one of Christianity's most basic tenets. |
| 555 | * InsaneTrollLogic: He plans to march in the Straight Pride Parade because people are accusing him of being a Nazi for having pro-life views. |
| 556 | --> '''Nazi''': Oh my dead-god, I forgot that moderate's culture warring was the worst kind of culture warring. |
| 557 | * InsistentTerminology: If you are talking about Jordan Peterson, you better call him ''Dr.'' Jordan Peterson. |
| 558 | * KilledOffForReal: Nazi kills him after failing to sway him. [[spoiler:Or at least he thought that, both his copy of ''12 Rules for Life'' and the Bible blocking the bullets.]] |
| 559 | * TheMedic: [[spoiler:He was able to heal Nazi when he was on the brink of death in "Centricide 6".]] |
| 560 | * MoralityPet: Jewish people are this for him--the earliest point where he makes clear he strongly disagrees with Nazi is when he declares that the Jews are his brothers and sisters. |
| 561 | * NobleBigot: He has negative views of LGBT people, Muslims, and black people, but still respects their right to exist in society and hates Nazi's desire to genocide them. |
| 562 | * PetTheDog: Is a bigot, but is content to let people live as they wish in a democracy. This is what separates him immensely from Nazi. |
| 563 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Nazi explaining that he will never give in to him given that it would just prove his opponents right to liken him to Nazi already. |
| 564 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: Nazi points out that many leftists will call him a Nazi no matter how he chooses to identify or how different his actual policy ideas are from Nazism, and suggests he just become one since they'll never accept him anyway. Conservative, however, [[DefiedTrope refuses to let other peoples' dislike of him make him a worse person]]. |
| 565 | * TokenGoodTeammate: The only culturally right-wing ideology that doesn't want to exterminate the people he hates, although that's easy for him to achieve given that the other ideologies are just annoying when culturally-left, culturally apathetic or genocidal if culturally-right. |
| 566 | * TokenReligiousTeammate: The only right-wing ideology depicted as being religious. The Conservative-world is full of churches. Though apparently many of them are dedicated to Dr. Jordan Peterson rather than Jesus Christ. |
| 567 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Subverted on all accounts. He actually has a solid debate with Nazi to show how different they are before getting shot, and it's revealed in Centricide 6 that he survived.]] |
| 568 | [[/folder]] |
| 569 | |
| 570 | [[folder:Libertarian]] |
| 571 | !!Libertarian |
| 572 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_94547_pm.png]] |
| 573 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I'm in the middle of selling arms to a foreign government and abolishing all governments would be very detrimental to my profits."]] |
| 574 | |
| 575 | ->''"Riiiight, and who's gonna enforce that non-aggression pact you like so much?"'' |
| 576 | |
| 577 | Ancap's more moderate counterpart. Eager to make money, but still wants a minimal government to handle law, order, and defense. |
| 578 | ---- |
| 579 | * BeleagueredAssistant: He has essentially been turned into this by "Centricide 4.5", having been scammed into buying Ancap's old clothes at a premium price, the nation they co-founded having been named after Ancap and not him and being run as a PrivatelyOwnedSociety (something that he has expressly said he did not want in "Centricide 3"). |
| 580 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Yellow, though not nearly as harshly as Ancap. |
| 581 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sells weapons to foreign governments and has shredded the welfare state in his realm. |
| 582 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: Centricide 4 reveals he has the power to become the avatar of neoliberalism, the world's dominant ideology. If he does so, he will have more power than any extremist or centrist as neoliberalism simultaneously is extremist and centrist in nature.]] |
| 583 | * DirtyCoward: Openly says he's worried that homeless people (which his society has a lot of, likely due to the lack of welfare) will stab him if police are privatized. |
| 584 | * EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Joins forces with the Centrists after Jreg attempts to have him killed. Of course, in some political spectrums Libertarians are centrists due to being socially center left and economically center right. And sure enough, the Centrists are ultimately aiming to transform him into Neoliberal, the embodiment of the status quo they are seeking to uphold.]] |
| 585 | * {{Foil}}: He is Ancap's moderate counterpart. While Ancap believes that all governments should be abolished and replaced with a PrivatelyOwnedSociety, Libertarian finds profit in established governments (mainly selling weapons to foreign states) and benefits from some socialized institutions (like having state-funded police keeping the homeless from attacking him). |
| 586 | * HighClassGlass: Wears a monocle. |
| 587 | * NeutralNoLonger: [[spoiler:Joins the Centrists after Ancap allows him to escape death for not joining the extremists.]] |
| 588 | * PragmaticVillainy: He opposes Ancap's PrivatelyOwnedSociety dreams because he worries private police won't be able to protect him and because he profits from selling arms to governments. |
| 589 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: Since Neoliberals are more socially leftist and a little more interventionist than he'd like to be, he has some second thoughts about being the Avatar of Neoliberal and escapes the Centrist Center with Ancap after he rescues him and goes on to join him in founding Ancapistan.]] |
| 590 | * TokenEvilTeammate: [[DownplayedTrope While not all that evil]], he's this to the Moderates, considering he's a CorruptCorporateExecutive just like his extremist counterpart, just with a more {{pragmatic|Villainy}} approach, while Progressive and Socialist are more peaceful versions of Ancom and Commie respectively and Conserverative is a NobleBigot. |
| 591 | * VillainousFriendship: Strikes one [[spoiler:with Ancap, because even though they disagree on having a state, the two of them don't find that enough of a reason to hate and purge each other, especially when there's shady money to be made]]. |
| 592 | * VillainSong: The Ancapistan song verse he sings is about the inhabitants of Ancapistan exploiting their workers. |
| 593 | [[/folder]] |
| 594 | |
| 595 | [[folder:Progressive]] |
| 596 | !!Progressive, Libertarian-Socialist |
| 597 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/progressivepng.png]] |
| 598 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Dude, I have got to stop smoking so much."]] |
| 599 | |
| 600 | ->''"Do you have something you maybe wanna work out over a cup of tea?"'' |
| 601 | |
| 602 | The moderate counterpart to Ancom. Favors gradual reform and peaceful means to achieve social change rather than violence. |
| 603 | ---- |
| 604 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Green, though not as intensely as Ancom. |
| 605 | * ADayInTheLimelight: He appears with Socialist in "Here's How Bernie Can Still Win". The two try to figure out a way Bernie Sanders can become president. |
| 606 | * {{Foil}}: He is Ancom's moderate counterpart. While Ancom believes in implementing social equality through fast, violent revolution, the Progressive believes in more gradual, peaceful methods. |
| 607 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Says he needs to get high after witnessing the beginning of the fight between Political Nihilist and Ancom. |
| 608 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Is caught and killed by Commie after escaping Political Nihilist and Ancom.]] |
| 609 | * NotSoAboveItAll: In his appearance in 'Here's How Bernie Can Still Win', he ends up assassinating Joe Biden on Socialist's orders. |
| 610 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Decides to leave during the confrontation between Ancom and Political Nihilist. [[spoiler: It leads to him getting caught and killed by Commie.]] |
| 611 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Gets killed off without much development compared to the other characters, especially the moderate rightists.]] |
| 612 | * YankTheDogsChain: Avoids harm at the hands of Ancom or Political Nihilist, [[spoiler: only to be caught and executed by Commie.]] |
| 613 | [[/folder]] |
| 614 | |
| 615 | [[folder:Socialist]] |
| 616 | !!Socialist |
| 617 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_94755_pm.png]] |
| 618 | [[caption-width-right:350:"While we should have a government to help people out, it's not really reasonable to be praising places like North Korea and China."]] |
| 619 | |
| 620 | ->''"Just because I'm less extreme than you doesn't mean I don't have values."'' |
| 621 | |
| 622 | Commie's more moderate counterpart. Wants to ultimately abolish capitalism, but opposes violent, rapid revolution due to the suffering it would cause. |
| 623 | ---- |
| 624 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Red, though not as harshly as Commie. |
| 625 | * ADayInTheLimelight: He appears with Progressive in "Here's How Bernie Can Still Win". The two try to figure out a way Bernie Sanders can become president. |
| 626 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In his original debut [[spoiler: (and death)]] in Centricide 3, he wore just a red shirt. When he returns in "Here's How Bernie Can Still Win", he wears two red roses behind his ears. Red roses are symbols of socialism. |
| 627 | * {{Foil}}: He is Commie's moderate counterpart. While Commie wants to abolish capitalism with brute force, the Socialist is willing to admit that capitalism has some good things going for it and that a quick and violent revolution against it would only lead to needless bloodshed. |
| 628 | * KilledOffForReal: Is offed by Commie before he's even introduced. The one segment he is given is Commie relaying what he said provoking Commie into killing him. |
| 629 | * NotSoAboveItAll: When he returns in 'Here's How Bernie Can Still Win', he proves to be considerably more violent and out there than he was in his initial appearance. His solution to the problem of Sanders' age preventing him from running again is to try to kill Joe Biden with Covid and then when that fails builds a robot Bernie (though it [[KillAllHumans goes wrong very quickly]]). He then seemingly accepts that Sanders will not be president but then has Progressive assassinate Joe Biden. |
| 630 | * NiceGuy: Seems to be a very civil, polite individual. Not that it helps him much. |
| 631 | * OnlySaneMan: His brief moment of screen time in Centricide 3 only featured him actually providing sound arguments... Too bad they didn't perfectly align with Commie's hardline ideal of dogmatically rejecting capitalism and killing millionaires, otherwise he would still be alive right now. |
| 632 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Gets axed by Commie rather quickly without much development, even compared to Progressive.]] |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | !!Council of Wacky Ideologies |
| 636 | An alliance of fringe (and highly eccentric) ideologies who join the Anti-Centrists in the war against the Centrists. |
| 637 | |
| 638 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 639 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: They are all the personification of fringe ideologies, each of them unique (and very weird) off-shoots of the four extremists who have started gaining power with the Centricide. |
| 640 | * GoldfishPoopGang: While they get along very well (to a point), it is made very clear that each of them are all (at least initially) rather superfluous in the grand scheme of the Centricide. On-top of all of them being various flavors of {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, them being fringe-ideologies mean that they are inherently less powerful than the Centrists, Extremists, and Moderates. While Posadist is the most focused on the task at hand, Anarcho-Monarchist is an incestuous ditz with delusions of grandeur, all Transhumanist talks about is getting a robot dick, Anarcho-Primitivist is a technophobic brute with ''ludicrously'' out of date ideas, and Homonationalist only cares about ogling hot men. |
| 641 | ** [[spoiler:This is proven to be the case in "Centricide 7.0", where it is revealed that [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Radical Centrist defeated them all himself]] after Communist signaled them.]] |
| 642 | * InsaneTrollLogic: The main feature of these ideologies is that they are inherently wacky, so a lot of this is in effect. |
| 643 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: They are all thoroughly wacky in very different ways, but get along with each other far better than the more normal ideologies do. |
| 644 | [[/folder]] |
| 645 | |
| 646 | [[folder:Posadist]] |
| 647 | !! Posadist, Pandemic-Posadist |
| 648 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_94943_pm.png]] |
| 649 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Do you know what this means? As the Centrists die, we grow in strength. And I don't know about you, but I know what I'm gonna do when I get the power."]] |
| 650 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:As a "Pandemic Posadist"]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pandemic_posadism_7.png\ |
| 651 | "As the corpses pile up I will take control and guide us to glorious utopia!"[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 652 | |
| 653 | ->''"Excuse me, how much for the nuke?"'' |
| 654 | |
| 655 | A variant of communism that believes in odd things like an interstellar society of communist aliens, human-dolphin communication, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the idea that nuclear war is the best way to spark global revolution]], although he's also considering using global pandemics. |
| 656 | ---- |
| 657 | * ADayInTheLimelight: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLbXt30hcs B I O A C C E L E R A T E || Pandemic Posadism]]" features the Posadist changing his weapon of choice from nuclear weapons to COVID-19 and instructing people how to spread it more efficiently. |
| 658 | * AffablyEvil: He is an OmnicidalManiac and is ''literally'' the AnthropomorphicPersonification of extremist-left populism via nuclear annihilation, but he is always smiling and seems to get along really well with his fellow Wackies. |
| 659 | * AtomicHate: Favors nuclear war as a means to bring about global revolution. That's not to say he isn't flexible about methods, since he suggests using ThePlague to create mass disorder instead when the Coronavirus becomes a pandemic. |
| 660 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: While all the Wackies are this to one degree or another, him believing in weird things like commie aliens and communication with dolphins puts him squarely in this category. |
| 661 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Yellow and Red. |
| 662 | * DeadlyEuphemism: Calls the Coronavirus the "Good News". |
| 663 | * DirtyCommunist: A communist ideology that is openly for nuclear war. It gets worse once he becomes Pandemic Posadism, and is willing to use global pandemics for Leftist revolution. |
| 664 | * EnemyMine: Despite his diametric opposition to the principles of Anarcho-Capitalism, he shows up in "Centricide 4.5" willing to pay good money for one of Ancap's recreational nukes. |
| 665 | * HairTriggerSoundEffect: Nuclear air raid sirens start blaring whenever he says something particularly ominous. |
| 666 | * HumanoidAbomination: While none of the ideologies were ever human, Posadist is the least human-like among them, having antennas on his head and his body made to look like it is seen through a thermographic lens. It is likely that this was done because Posadism as an ideology espouses the idea of "Communist Aliens" and thus the Posadist would have an alien appearance. |
| 667 | * LaughablyEvil: His default mood is [[LaughingMad either giggling menacingly or holding back his menacing giggles]] as he plots joining the Extremist's war with the Centrists at best, causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt at worst. |
| 668 | * TheLeader: Is this for the Council of Wacky Ideologies, or at least was the one who has the authority to call meetings. |
| 669 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Following the coronavirus outbreak, Posadist outlines plans of bioterrorism to upend the status quo. |
| 670 | * {{Foil}}: NotSoSimilar. Commie is Posadist's favorite extremist and they are both extremist-left philosophies that want to destroy capitalism but having vastly different methods to do it (Commie by revolution, Posadist by nuclear war and/or bioterrorism). |
| 671 | * OmnicidalManiac: Downplayed. His end-game is global revolution, not the complete genocide of mankind, but his ''methods'' to get there would involve at the very least the deaths of billions in a nuclear war. He's even willing to spread pandemics globally such as the Coronavirus outbreak in order to spark his revolution. |
| 672 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: When he is introduced, Posadist is established as being the default of his ideology, i.e. inciting communism with nuclear weapons. He even tries buying Ancap's nuke from him in "Centricide 4.5". In March 2020 when the Coronavirus became a global pandemic, his weapon of choice changes to [[ThePlague spreading the virus and letting that kill everyone instead]]. |
| 673 | * TheSociopath: While everyone in the series is subject to [[HeroicComedicSociopath Heroic Comedic Sociopathy]], deliberately getting infected with a wide-spread illness so that you can kill the infirm and elderly to spark a global revolution is a length that almost nobody would be willing to go to. The fact that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Ancap thought that was a bridge too far]] speaks volumes. |
| 674 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: If reaching an interplanetary communist utopia requires the destruction of billions of human lives, then so be it. |
| 675 | -->'''Anarcho-Primitivism''': "And you, Posadist, it very clear ''you'' want to use technology to destroy world, for no reason!" |
| 676 | -->'''Posadism''': "Huh, what? No, don't be ridiculous!"'' [[HairTriggerSoundEffect *Nuclear Air Raid Siren*]] ''"[[FalseReassurance There's a reason!]]" |
| 677 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: Talks with one of these. |
| 678 | * WouldHarmASenior: Discusses his desire to get infected with the coronavirus and spread it to elderly people in the hopes that they die. |
| 679 | [[/folder]] |
| 680 | |
| 681 | [[folder:Homonationalist]] |
| 682 | !!Homonationalist, Homofascist, Gay Nazi |
| 683 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_95248_pm.png]] |
| 684 | [[caption-width-right:350:"It's pretty degenerate and I'm getting turned on."]] |
| 685 | |
| 686 | ->''"Mass immigration? Not so great for the gays."'' |
| 687 | |
| 688 | A far-right ultranationalist who advocates ultra-nationalism and the preservation and regression of Western culture, alongside the rights of LGBT people. |
| 689 | ---- |
| 690 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: He has a crush on Nazi, who's not only (presumably) [[IncompatibleOrientation straight]], but homophobic enough to consider him a "[[ItIsDehumanizing thing]]". |
| 691 | * AffablyEvil: Even though he has a friendly demeanor and gets along well with most people, he's still a bigoted ultranationalist. |
| 692 | * AllGaysArePromiscuous: Homonationalist is implied to ''really'' get around. He playfully flirts with multiple characters throughout the series. |
| 693 | * AlphaBitch: His mannerisms are characteristic of this trope. |
| 694 | * BoomerangBigot: The very ideology he embodies is [[InsaneTrollLogic contradictory by nature]], so this is a given. As a fascist, he wishes to enact mass purging of degeneracy, yet he himself is sexually aroused at the thought of degeneracy and is himself degenerate by the standards of most forms of fascism. In "Centricide 6", he says one of the reasons he joins Nazi is because Western culture gives him the right to ''be'' degenerate without fear of being stoned to death, [[TooDumbToLive yet he joins the one extremist who would most definitely have him stoned to death for existing]]. Even when Nazi flat-out tells him that he'll be the first to go if Fascism takes root, Homonationalist admits to being perfectly okay with it. |
| 695 | * CampGay: Very much so. He acts coquettishly (especially towards Nazi) and behaves very femininely. |
| 696 | * CampyCombat: He's just as campy while in battle. When he goes up against Radical Centrist, his weapon of choice is a [[WhipOfDominance whip]]. |
| 697 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Pink. |
| 698 | * DoubleEntendre: Drops a few of these. |
| 699 | * {{Foil}}: To Nazi. Nazi is the Extremist that Homonationalist is rooting for the most and clearly has a crush on him. But Nazi rejects everything he sees as degenerate, whereas Homonationalism gets turned on by the 'degeneracy'. |
| 700 | * HasAType: He has a thing for being "unreasonably dominated", allowing the Anprim to destroy his phone and having a VillainousCrush on Nazi. |
| 701 | * HypocriticalHumor: He is turned on sexually by a number of things he openly identifies as degenerate according to his ideology. And of course, he is a gay Nazi when Nazis are known for having killed gay men in concentration camps. |
| 702 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's more than a little bit similar to Milo Yiannopoulos, an openly gay media personality known for his alleged ties with the alt-right. |
| 703 | * NotSoSimilar: To Pink Capitalist. Even though Pink Capitalist is also an LGBT-centered ideology with far-right aspects, he's a culturally far-left ideology who wants a hands-off government out of a desire for profit, while Homonationalist is culturally far-right aside from being pro-LGBT and wants a strong ethnostate out of concern for his safety. |
| 704 | * OddballDoppelganger: He's Nazi's queer counterpart. |
| 705 | * SissyVillain: When you're talking about a CampGay Nazi, this is pretty much inevitable. |
| 706 | * TooDumbToLive: As he explains, he wants to defend the Western world and its values because it gives him rights that let him be "degenerate", and he fears that the Third World would kill him if it takes over. However, he's perfectly willing to team up with Nazi, who flat-out says he wants to purge him. |
| 707 | * TurnTheOtherCheek: He doesn't mind that Anarcho-Primitivist smashed his phone. |
| 708 | * VillainousCrush: On Nazi, expressing eagerness to align with the more mainstream Extremists to see him. |
| 709 | * WhipOfDominance: When he goes up against Radical Centrist, he wields a whip, fitting for an extremist SissyVillain with a domineering personality and a CampyCombat style. |
| 710 | [[/folder]] |
| 711 | |
| 712 | [[folder:Anarcho-Monarchist]] |
| 713 | !!Anarcho-Monarchist |
| 714 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anarcho_monarchy.png]] |
| 715 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Every man a king! Except for the serfs."]] |
| 716 | |
| 717 | ->''"Wait until I tell my sister-wife about this!"'' |
| 718 | |
| 719 | An advocate of both absolute monarchy and anarchy. A member of the wackies. |
| 720 | ---- |
| 721 | * BrotherSisterIncest: Refers to having a 'sister-wife,' implying this trope is in effect. |
| 722 | * CoolSword: Is always seen carrying a sword. He finally gets to use it in Centricide 8, [[spoiler:killing numerous Impossible Ideology Monsters with it.]] |
| 723 | * FeudalFuture: What he wants, but with added anarchy. |
| 724 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He finds Homonationalist calling his VillainousCrush "daddy" disgusting, yet he is married to his own sister. |
| 725 | * NotSoSimilar: To [=AnCap=]. [=AnCap=] is the Anarcho-Monarchist's favorite of the four extremes, both being anarchist ideologies that believe in a separation of elites and working class, but while [=AnCap=]'s belief is based around economic superiority with no government establishment, Anarcho-Monarchist believes in the idea of political superiority based on succession of power through bloodlines (i.e. a monarchy). Though ironically in Centricide 4.5, Ancap declares Ancapistan is a land where every man can be a king, which pretty much is Anarcho-monarchist's exact ideal (right down to it being BlatantLies for the lower classes). |
| 726 | * OxymoronicBeing: Absolute monarchy and anarchism? Even among the Wackies, that's pretty far-out. He is notably absent when Ancap gets other like-minded ideologies together to create Ancapistan. |
| 727 | * PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler: With Anprim at the end of Centricide 8 Part 2, complete with a BigNo.]] |
| 728 | * RoyalInbreeding: He considers himself a king and is mentioned to be married to his sister. |
| 729 | * SelfDeprecation: In a meta-sense. He voices amusement at those that follow his ideology (or his "vassals") who all think that if his ideology were to be implemented [[OriginalPositionFallacy they would be the monarch benefiting from it]]. |
| 730 | * VillainousIncest: Should one consider him evil, of course. |
| 731 | [[/folder]] |
| 732 | |
| 733 | [[folder:Transhumanist]] |
| 734 | !!Transhumanist, Anarcho-Transhumanist, [[spoiler: Posthumanism]] |
| 735 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_95144_pm.png]] |
| 736 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Beep boop. I'm a robot."]] |
| 737 | |
| 738 | ->''"The stronger I get, the closer I get to getting that robot dick."'' |
| 739 | |
| 740 | An advocate of transcending the physical form and merging with machines. |
| 741 | ---- |
| 742 | * BerserkButton: Destroying technology or pointing out that he's not ''actually'' a {{Cyborg}}, but just a guy dressing up as one. |
| 743 | * ChekhovsGun: Delivers one in the Council of Wacky Ideologies, remarking that he aided one of the surviving moderates by conducting a DNA test. It turns out that this surviving moderate is [[spoiler: Conservative, and that DNA test he conducted demonstrates that [[BoomerangBigot Nazi is, in fact, Jewish]].]] |
| 744 | * EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture: [[spoiler:As Posthumanism, his body is made up of [=iPhone=] charging stations.]] |
| 745 | * FaceHeelTurn: For a certain definition of "face". [[spoiler: He quickly betrays the wackies in Centricide Part 8 and becomes Posthumanism.]] |
| 746 | * {{Foil}}: While Anarcho-Primitivist is the personification of regression to the hunter-gatherer stage of humanity, Transhumanist represents the advancement of technology to improve humanity on a fundamental level. |
| 747 | * IronicLastWords: [[spoiler:His last words end up being a CallBack to his interactions with Anprim]] |
| 748 | ->[[spoiler:''”You Luddite [[ElectronicSpeechImpediment Bitccchhhh]]...”'']] |
| 749 | * OddballDoppelganger: Subverted. He and Anarcho-Transhumanism are the same person, he just ''pretends'' to be his own anarchist-counterpart. |
| 750 | * PaperThinDisguise: In "Anarchist Infighting", there is an offshoot of the Transhumanist called the Anarcho-Transhumanist. It is basically Transhumanist pretending to be a different ideology and none of the actual anarchists are buying it. |
| 751 | * RunningGag: Says he wants 'that robot dick' several times in his debut appearance. |
| 752 | * SpecialEffectsFailure: [[invoked]] He wears a box wrapped in foil on his head and wraps his arms in foil to look like a robot. Nobody buys it. Even he admits that he'd rather have actual robot arms instead of arms covered in tinfoil. |
| 753 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He shoots and kills Anarcho-Primitivism in his dying moments.]] |
| 754 | * TokenGoodTeammate: His compatriots want nuclear war, neo-feudal anarchy, the destruction of all post-Stone Age technology (including reading), or a gay ethnostate. In comparison, his desire to merge with technology and get that robo-dick is far less objectionable. [[spoiler: Harshly subverted when he turns on everyone else and sides with Accelerationism to become Posthumanism out of anti-humanist disgust, ending in a MutualKill with Anarcho-Primitivism.]] |
| 755 | * {{Transhumanism}}: What he wants to happen. |
| 756 | [[/folder]] |
| 757 | |
| 758 | [[folder:Anarcho-Primitivist]] |
| 759 | !!Anarcho-Primitivist, [=AnPrim=], Grug |
| 760 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_95346_pm.png]] |
| 761 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Ooga, booga, industrial revolution bad!"]] |
| 762 | |
| 763 | ->''"Rain God, please punish Unabomber for his use of bombs."'' |
| 764 | |
| 765 | An ideology committed to the destruction of all modern technology to return to a more puritan lifestyle. |
| 766 | ---- |
| 767 | * AmbiguouslyGay: His interaction with Homonationalist shows him being offended that the latter does not find him attractive. Whether this indicates an attraction to other men or is just a matter of pride is a matter of debate. |
| 768 | * BerserkButton: Modern technology is this for him to the point he smashes Homonationalist's phone. |
| 769 | * ChaoticStupid: He talks like a caveman and wants to abandon all technology and medicine, therefore leading to billions of deaths, because he feels like they have led to a decline in human quality of life. You know, on a micro-level, as opposed to the macro level where a population of billions relies on them. |
| 770 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Green and black. |
| 771 | * ContemporaryCaveman: Not a literal example, but acts like one. |
| 772 | * ADayInTheLimelight: He and his tribe are spotlighted in the Anprim_irl video, which features him speaking with the tribe elder (who's 25) about the Wacky Ideologies meeting and doing the 'Dance of Mourning' with the rest of the tribe when the tribe elder is killed by a tiger. |
| 773 | * DumbassHasAPoint: As a coherent, if harsh, ideology compared to, say, [[OxymoronicBeing Anarcho-Monarchism]], Anarcho-Primitivism often makes salient points despite, as he himself admits, having his primary personality trait being a comically large dinosaur bone held as a club. |
| 774 | ** He calls out that Transhumanist is just a guy wearing tinfoil and cardboard, rather than an actual robot ("That the only reason I'm here!") |
| 775 | ** He is the only one to question why [[OmnicidalManiac Posadist]] is leading the group. |
| 776 | ** And as he points out in Centricide 8, he "called it," as [[spoiler: Transhumanism's lust for robotic transformation leads him to outright anti-humanism, siding with Accelerationism against everyone else]]. |
| 777 | * EvilLuddite: If you view him as a bad guy, of course. As Jreg himself has noted, his ideas would result in countless preventable deaths if implemented in society as a whole. |
| 778 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 779 | ** To Ancom. Ancom is [=AnPrim's=] favorite among the four extremists, both of them being anarchist ideologies that support annihilating modern society; but while [=AnCom=] is a progressive who wants to create an entirely new world with no hierarchies, [=AnPrim=] is a reactionary that wants to go back to the stone age, potentially still having some hierarchies. |
| 780 | ** To Transhumanist. While Transhumanist embodies the acceleration of technology to fundamentally change humanity, [=AnPrim=] embodies the belief that technology only makes things worse and that humanity was better off in the hunter-gatherer stage. |
| 781 | * HulkSpeak: He refers to himself using "me" instead of "I" and tends to drop articles. |
| 782 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Dies in Centricide 8 as a result of Transhumanism making a FaceHeelTurn and killing him in the process, though he gets the last laugh by helping to destroy Posthumanism.]] |
| 783 | * {{Loincloth}}: The only clothing he wears. |
| 784 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Not in the Centricide series itself, but Jreg noted in another video that a world without modern refrigeration, medicine, or agriculture would easily cause billions of deaths, making him one of the most potentially lethal ideologies featured in the series. |
| 785 | * PrimitiveClubs: Fittingly for a man who thinks technological advance should've stopped at some time during the Stone Age, he wields a large wooden or [[BadWithTheBone bone]] club. |
| 786 | * RunningGag: His reaction to members of his tribe dying from (generally preventable with technology) causes like infected cuts or tiger attacks is to say "very sad, no way to prevent this". There's even a song accompanying the tribe's "Dance of Mourning" that alternates between saying this and "AYAYAYAYA". |
| 787 | * ScienceIsBad: Believes this trope is in effect. His tribe apparently stoned the inventor of stoning to death for inventing stoning and [[TheScottishTrope actively stones people for using the word 'agriculture']]. |
| 788 | * TokenReligiousTeammate: For a given value of "religious", but he invokes the Sun and Moon gods frequently. [[spoiler: He even tells the Moon god he's coming as he dies.]] |
| 789 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He's never seen with any shirts, or any clothing besides his necklace for that matter. Luckily, [[SceneryCensor the camera never moves to a position]] where we see his more... ''private'' parts. |
| 790 | [[/folder]] |
| 791 | |
| 792 | !!Ancapistan |
| 793 | Anarcho-Capitalist community created by Ancap and Libertarian. |
| 794 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 795 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bois.png]] |
| 796 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Welcome to Ancapistan, where every man can be a king."]] |
| 797 | |
| 798 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: They are all the personification of Economically Right-Wing ideologies (both libertarian and authoritarian) that in some way, shape or form support laissez-faire capitalism and a PrivatelyOwnedSociety. |
| 799 | * AristocratTeam: They are all different kinds of rich and besides [[TokenGoodTeammate Minarchist]] all display varying degrees of contempt for the impoverished unfortunate enough to live there. |
| 800 | * {{Countrystan}}: It shares the naming pattern of some Central and South Asian countries, the main difference being that it's named after an ideology rather than a people. Though considering it's implied to have no government, whether it qualifies as a "country" is debatable. |
| 801 | * {{Egopolis}}: Ancap clearly named it after himself. |
| 802 | * {{Foil}}: To the extremists. Despite basking in unrestrained capitalism, they have no desire to fight other ideologies and factions, more concerned with their own gains and territories and instead preferring to profit off of them. They also get along generally well despite their disagreements due to occupying the same quadrant and the fact that their profit-centric ideology doesn't motivate them with a grand narrative to fight for ideological purity. They're even this to the Lib-Left ideology group, because they can at least agree what the central edict of their quadrant is and not waste time. |
| 803 | * IAmSong: "Welcome to Ancapistan." Can double as a VillainSong depending on what side you're on. |
| 804 | * PragmaticVillainy: Despite being ultracapitalists, [[spoiler: when Accelerationism shows up, the Ancapistanis form an EnemyMine with Commie rather quickly]]. |
| 805 | * PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Having been founded by and named after the Anarcho-Capitalist, this is essentially what Ancapistan is. |
| 806 | * RedScare: Unsurprisingly for a community based entirely around free enterprise, they are strongly anti-communist. Even [[NiceGuy Minarchist]] openly regards Commie with suspicion. |
| 807 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Ancapistan is basically [[Literature/AtlasShrugged Galt's Gulch]] come to life, but they don't consider communists people (or deserving of the right to live) and their solution to the homeless problem their society inevitably creates is to have their privately-owned police forcibly segregate them from the wealthy. |
| 808 | [[/folder]] |
| 809 | |
| 810 | [[folder:Minarchist]] |
| 811 | !!Minarchist |
| 812 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minarchist.jpg]] |
| 813 | [[caption-width-right:350:"We treat our trade partners as if they were brothers."]] |
| 814 | |
| 815 | ->''"No government tyranny here, we're finally free!"'' |
| 816 | |
| 817 | An advocate for a minimal state and a resident of Ancapistan. |
| 818 | ---- |
| 819 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Yellow (his upper half) and Blue (lower half). |
| 820 | * HonestCorporateExecutive: Declares proudly that he treats his trade partners like they were his own brothers and seems to mean it. |
| 821 | * NiceGuy: Just as friendly as [[AffablyEvil Ancap]] on a personal level while lacking his more unsavory traits. |
| 822 | * TokenGoodTeammate: His solo portion of the Ancapistan song emphasizes the more positive aspects of Ancapistan and he declares that the residents of Ancapistan look out for each other. He also displays visible discomfort when Ancap shoos the cripplingly poor away. |
| 823 | [[/folder]] |
| 824 | |
| 825 | [[folder:Hoppean]] |
| 826 | !!Hoppean |
| 827 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hobbean.jpg]] |
| 828 | [[caption-width-right:350:"We don't have poors, and by poors I mean blacks."]] |
| 829 | |
| 830 | ->''"Degenerates get forcibly removed into the ocean."'' |
| 831 | |
| 832 | The embodiment of Hoppeanism, a form of paleolibertarianism (which combines ultracapitalism with traditionalism) that believes societies should have the right to exclude certain people by force. A resident of Ancapistan. |
| 833 | ---- |
| 834 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Curiously, his body is not dyed any color like the other ideologies, though he does wear a yellow shirt with the Hoppean flag (upper-half yellow, lower-half black) with the Imperial Eagle in the background. |
| 835 | * CompositeCharacter: He combines Hoppean paleolibertarianism with white nationalism. |
| 836 | * EvilSoundsDeep: The most overtly genocidal resident of Ancapistan and has the deepest voice of all its residents. |
| 837 | * {{Foil}}: To Nazi. Both are right-wing extremists who support a white ethnostate, but Nazi disdains individualist economics and wants a totalitarian government, while Hoppean is a hypercapitalist who wants a society with little or no government. |
| 838 | * KubrickStare: His default posture is this to emphasize his sinister nature. |
| 839 | * ANaziByAnyOtherName: Given the way he wants his PrivatelyOwnedSociety run, the area under his control is a ''de facto'' ethnostate. He also boasts about killing "degenerates" by having them thrown into the ocean. Nazi himself realizes the potential Ancapistan can have to achieve his goals during his visit. |
| 840 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He takes a few cues from paleolibertarian author and thinker William S. Lind, best known for ''Literature/{{Victoria}}''. |
| 841 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: Nazi comments that, despite their opposing views on economics and government power, the two are actually very alike. He even considers allying with Hoppean before Tankie tells him that's not what they're there for. |
| 842 | * NotSoSimilar: |
| 843 | ** To Nazbol. Both of them combine far-right authoritarianism with something from a different corner of the political compass, but Hoppean adds right-libertariansm rather than authoritarian communism. Some fans have summed up the essence of the differences between them by saying that Hoppean wants ''freedom'' but only for his people while Nazbol wants ''equality'' but only for his people. |
| 844 | ** To Anfash, both are culturally far-right libertarian ideologies whose social views are at home with Nazi, but Anfash wants a communal economic system and Hoppean wants unrestricted free market capitalism. |
| 845 | * ObviouslyEvil: You can tell just by looking at him that he is not a good dude. |
| 846 | * PokeThePoodle: When Commie shows up in Ancapistan his initial reaction is to call for him to be [[DeadlyEuphemism physically removed]]... only to say he'd also be fine with just charging him exorbitant prices for a hamburger. |
| 847 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: During the Ancapistan song, he expresses that they've gotten rid of the poor "and by poors I mean blacks" in his territory. Despite Ancap's protestations to the contrary, he also wants to forcibly remove minorities into the sea. |
| 848 | * SpreadWingsFrameShot: The wings of the eagle on the Hoppean flag have this effect. |
| 849 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Much like Nazi is to the Anti-Centrists, Hoppean is the most overtly evil of the Ancapistanians, giving a perpetual KubrickStare as he sings about equating poverty with black people and dumping minorities into the ocean. Whether this is due to Jreg invoking his beliefs or the fact that [=YouTube=] targets Hoppean rhetoric to the same extent as fascist rhetoric is unknown. |
| 850 | [[/folder]] |
| 851 | |
| 852 | [[folder:Pink Capitalism]] |
| 853 | !!Pink Capitalist, Pink Capitalism, Rainbow Capitalism |
| 854 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_06_24_at_75640_am.png]] |
| 855 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I'm gay too and I'm profiting from it."]] |
| 856 | |
| 857 | ->''"Besides, I'm not just superfluously pink, I'm also superfluously gay!"'' |
| 858 | |
| 859 | The embodiment of the incorporation of LGBT Movement and queer/gender politics into Capitalism. As per Jreg, he's just another persona of Ancap who acts like an exaggerated gay stereotype. |
| 860 | ---- |
| 861 | * CampGay: Invoked, given that he's Ancap trying to appeal to the LGBT market. He claims that he is different from [=AnCap=] because he's "superficially pink for no reason" and he lets his wrists flop around to show that he's "superfluously gay." |
| 862 | * ColorCodedCharacters: He's predominantly pink with bits of [=AnCap's=] yellow color motif spliced in. |
| 863 | * EnlightenedSelfInterest: Yes, he supports gay rights, but it's primarily because he thinks he can profit off their cause. |
| 864 | * FauxYay: While he indulges in gay stereotypes, he's only pretending to be gay for his own reasons. |
| 865 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 866 | ** To Anarcho-Capitalist, his true identity. The personas are functionally similar to each other, but while Anarcho-Capitalist is predominantly yellow and seeks profit in a more general sense (even if it means he has to be discriminatory), Pink Capitalist is pink and focuses more on profiting off of LGBT rights and the promotion there-of. |
| 867 | ** To Nazbol. While Nazbol is an Authoritarian ideology who sees himself as economically far-left and culturally far-right, Pink Capitalism is a libertarian ideology who considers himself economically far-right and culturally far-left (basically like Neo-Liberalism). Nazbol therefore declares Pink Capitalism the worst thing ever when the two meet. |
| 868 | ** To Anarcho-Communist, as Ancom wants to get rid of all hierarchies, including capitalism's, and doesn't want to profit off anything. Ancom is also less concerned about economics compared to social issues, while Pink Capitalism is economically minded. |
| 869 | *** Also post-left anarchism: Both are different personas of the same person, but while post-left is defeatist in the face of the modern-day's state, Pink Capitalism is optimistic in his ability to profit off of contemporary socially left causes. |
| 870 | ** To Hoppean. While he's also a very capitalist ideology with defined social views, he's very pro-LGBT (albeit for rather self-serving reasons) while Hoppean is quite open about wanting to kill anyone he considers "degenerate". This reaches its logical conclusion in "Pink Capitalism Month 2", where Hoppean exiles Ancap from Ancapistan and will only let him come back should he stop acting like that for money. |
| 871 | ** To Queer Anarchist. While both are queer counterparts to preexisting anarchist ideologies, he's mainly interested in the economic ramifications of LGBT rights, while Queer Anarchist is more interested in the social implications. |
| 872 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Hardly anyone likes him, even the explicitly queer ideologies due to him obviously trying to make a buck off of them. |
| 873 | * NotSoSimilar: To Homonationalist. While Homonationalist is the LGBT counterpart to Nazi, Pink Capitalist is the LGBT counterpart of Anarcho-Capitalist, focusing his marketing on profiting off of queer people and their cause, that and while Homonationalist at least is his own person and is genuinely (if stereotypically and paradoxically) gay, Pink Capitalist seems to be just Ancap in a persona attempting to profit off of people in the LGBT+ community. |
| 874 | * OddballDoppelganger: He's Ancap's gay counterpart. Or at least that's what he tries telling everybody. |
| 875 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: He looks and acts gay solely to pander to an LGBT market. He casually admits it to Libertarian in "Pink Capitalism Month 2". He only tells Libertarian off for homophobic language ("That's really gay") because "it's still pride month after all." |
| 876 | * SeparateButIdentical: He's functionally the same as his normal [=AnCap=] persona, but his color scheme is pink instead of yellow (ironically making him closer to the [=AnCap=] persona's original political compass color purple), he lets his wrists go limp to show that he's gay and he focuses his marketing pursuits on profiting off of supporting LGBT rights. |
| 877 | [[/folder]] |
| 878 | |
| 879 | !!International Union of Nationalists |
| 880 | An alliance of various nationalist ideologies created by Conservative and Nazi. |
| 881 | [[folder: In-General]] |
| 882 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_04_18_at_34827_pm_3.png]] |
| 883 | |
| 884 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: They are all (except for Moderate Lee) ideologies that are on the authoritarian-right quadrant of the political compass, representing the idea of nationalism in its various forms. |
| 885 | [[/folder]] |
| 886 | |
| 887 | [[folder:Pan-Africanism]] |
| 888 | !! Pan-Africanism |
| 889 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/panafricanism.jpg]] |
| 890 | [[caption-width-right:350:"And don't forget about me! Pan-Africanism!"]] |
| 891 | |
| 892 | An African Identitarian ideology that joins Nazi and the other Right-wing ideologies (and Moderate Lee) in "Centricide 6". He prioritizes Africa being free of foreign rule and a home for Africans first, alongside opposition to colonialism and empire building. |
| 893 | ---- |
| 894 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: Lampshaded in "Centricide 8.0", where he is the first to be assimilated by Accelerationism. |
| 895 | * {{Blackface}}: Parodied. The only aspect of his "costume" is a sign on his face that says "Blackface" because [[EverybodyHasStandards even Greg wouldn't go that far]]. Of course, since he is supposed to be a black character (being a black identitarian ideology) and his actor is a white man, this is still ''technically'' a form of blackface. |
| 896 | * ColorCodedCharacters: He is overlaid with the Pan-African flag (top to bottom red, black and green). |
| 897 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite his ideology being the establishment of a black-first state, his anti-colonialist stance means that he's opposed to invading other nations and having other nations getting invaded for the sake of empire building. Of course, given that modern Nazis tend to prioritize isolation, with Jreg's ''Black Nationalist'' video also parodying real cases of black and white nationalists collaborating, Pan-Africanism is still giving Nazi what he wants. |
| 898 | * EveryoneHasStandards: ''Jreg'' is certainly more deliberately offensive than most political satire shows, but even Jreg (the actor) acknowledges that actually wearing blackface would be taking it too far. |
| 899 | * HiddenDepths: His first appearance was as a JokeCharacter and is implicitly just black supremacist. His second appearance, however, has him attempt to explain the nuances of his ideology before being drowned out by Nazi, since any nuances are unimportant to Nazi's goal of propping him up to rally blacks for their own ethno-state. |
| 900 | * JokeCharacter: As soon as Pan-Africanism appears, the sign on his face falls off and Greg breaks character, begging the audience to forget this character ever existed. Subverted when he reappears in the ''Black Nationalist'' video. |
| 901 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Jreg breaks character and tells the audience to forget he created Pan-Africanism after abandoning the concept. |
| 902 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: One of the main reasons why he's associated with the Auth Right despite it also hosting white supremacist ideologies is because he'd pretty much create an ethnostate for black people in Africa, which would finally give white supremacists in western countries their dream of emptying their lands from people of color. Also serves as a call back to a video where left anarchists take over the world and ship all white people to their own state to not bother people of color anymore, even though this makes white supremacists very happy at the fact they have their own state isolated from non whites. Not to mention, the actual functioning of the politics and economics of said ethnostate would just be what Nazi would do albeit for another race. |
| 903 | * NotEvilJustMisunderstood: He resents the fact that people think he represents "white supremacy for black people" and that it gets in the way of the anti-colonialist nuance of the ideology. The fact that he has aligned himself with Nazi doesn't help matters, and his attempts to deconstruct the idea of him being auth-right are undercut by the notion that a nation for black people to migrate to would be exactly what the white nationalist types would want. |
| 904 | [[/folder]] |
| 905 | |
| 906 | !!The Anarchists |
| 907 | Libertarian Left ideologies who believe in the abolishment of the state. |
| 908 | |
| 909 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 910 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anarchists.jpg]] |
| 911 | |
| 912 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: They are all the personification of economically or socially left ideologies that in some way, shape, or form, support the abolishment of the state. |
| 913 | * BombThrowingAnarchists: With the sole exception of Anarcho-Pacifism, all of the anarchists are just different flavors of this, all of them willing to resort to violence for some overarching cause (or in Insurrectionary Anarchism's case, for the hell of it). |
| 914 | * TheCavalry: They are called in by Anarcho-Monarchism during the second part of Centricide 8, helping to the defeat Post-Humanism (save for [[ActualPacifist Anarcho-Pacifism]] who is functionally useless). |
| 915 | * {{Commune}}: Their home is one. |
| 916 | * {{Foil}}: To Ancapistan. While the Ancapistanians represent right-wing anarchism and believe in the abolishment of the state for economic reasons, their left-wing counterparts are against statism for cultural reasons. While the Ancapistanians have their own PrivatelyOwnedSociety and are more interested in enjoying the benefits of what is essentially an oppressive institution, the Anarchists all share a bunker and fight ''against'' both public and private oppressive institutions. While Ancapistan operates on a Non-Aggression Principle and only resorts to violence in self-defense, the Anarchists (with the exception of Anarcho-Pacifism) seem to think MurderIsTheBestSolution. And while the Ancapistanis all get along even when they disagree, their chapter is literally called "Anarchist Infighting," and sees most of them picking different kinds of fights with each other. (Though they also all have sex with each other in the end.) |
| 917 | * MenOfSherwood: With the exception of [[TheLoad Anarcho-]][[ActualPacifist Pacifism]], [[spoiler: they all do a pretty good job of killing the Impossible Ideology Monsters.]] |
| 918 | * {{Polyamory}}: According to Queer Anarchism, they're also a polycule and they all have sex with each other. The narration text basically confirms it, though Anfash wasn't involved at the time. |
| 919 | [[/folder]] |
| 920 | |
| 921 | [[folder:Anarcho-Pacifism]] |
| 922 | !! Anarcho-Pacifism |
| 923 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_06_07_at_15104_am_3.png]] |
| 924 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Yes, 'the state is violence', we all agree on that, but... you know, I think if we start using violence against the state, you know, I think maybe that, maybe that makes us look a little bad..."]] |
| 925 | |
| 926 | ->''"And maybe if we just... ask the government to go away, maybe... maybe it will."'' |
| 927 | |
| 928 | An ideology based around anarchism through peaceful protest. |
| 929 | ---- |
| 930 | * ActualPacifist: It's in his name, after all. |
| 931 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the rejection of the state through non-violent methods. |
| 932 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: He firmly believes that using violence makes somebody no better than the state since the state using violence as a method of control is what anarchists hate about the state so much. |
| 933 | * ColorCodedCharacters: He's dressed predominantly in white. |
| 934 | * DumbassHasAPoint: "Dumbass" is probably a bit strong, but while the series all-but treats his idealism as hopelessly naïve and ineffectual, it also draws a line between Anarcho-Pacifism's high-minded and sincere refusal to use violence as a political tool and Moderate Lee, his closest counterpart, who is only a pacifist because he's too much of a coward to believe in anything, let alone stand up for it. And he is not wrong about the inherent hypocrisy of hating state control for its use of violence to create unjust power structures while endorsing the use of violence themselves. Especially considering the reasons some of his compatriots are willing to use violence. |
| 935 | * TheLoad: When he's called to help Anarcho-Monarchist and Anprim in Centricide 8 Part 2, his BossSubtitles explicitly say he'll be useless and he questions why he's even here. |
| 936 | * NotSoSimilar: To Moderate Lee. While both are {{Actual Pacifist}}s, Anarcho-Pacifism is a pacifist because he believes in taking the moral high ground over governments and refuses to compromise his beliefs while Moderate Lee is only a pacifist because he's a DirtyCoward and would switch sides without a fight when he can't make a compromise. |
| 937 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Among the anarchists, he is the least violent (that being his primary defining trait) and most even tempered by far. |
| 938 | * WideEyedIdealist: He holds a rose-colored view of the world at large despite living in a setting populated largely by people who are assholes, insane, or both. |
| 939 | [[/folder]] |
| 940 | |
| 941 | [[folder:Anarcho-Fascist]] |
| 942 | !!Anarcho-Fascist, Anfash |
| 943 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_06_25_at_25726_pm_1.png]] |
| 944 | [[caption-width-right:300:"Yep, it's Anfash time!"]] |
| 945 | |
| 946 | ->''"All cops are bad! Because when I try to assault a minority, a cop stops me!"'' |
| 947 | |
| 948 | The embodiment of the ideology of anarcho-fascism/national anarchism, an ideology embracing the abolition of the state and separation into ethnically homogeneous communities. |
| 949 | ---- |
| 950 | * ColorCodedCharacters: He's dresses in black and white, but his body is tinted cyan blue. |
| 951 | * CopHater: Really doesn't like the police because they usually stop him from committing hate crimes. |
| 952 | * EarlyBirdCameo: In TheStinger of the "Anarchist Uprising" video. |
| 953 | * EvilerThanThou: Combines Ancom's unhinged attitude towards people he hates with Authright's bigotry towards those he considers inferior. Unlike Hoppean he at least believes in an economic system where people would at least try to help each other, but he'd still act as unhinged as Ancom in maintaining it. |
| 954 | * {{Foil}}: Like Insurrectionary Anarchist, he's a very unsavory form of anarchism known for being ultraviolent. Unlike Insurrectionary Anarchist, who thinks a better world is impossible and doesn't care about identity politics, Anfash thinks his ideal society is achievable and holds very racist views. |
| 955 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Despite being an anarchist, the other anarchists don't consider him one of them, seeing him as more of a right-wing accelerationist that ''calls'' himself an anarchist. Considering he lacks the emphasis in economically-right economic policy, this is probably why he didn't leave for Ancapistan like the other right-wing anarchists either. That spot is taken by Hoppean anyway. |
| 956 | * NotSoSimilar: |
| 957 | ** Much like Nazbol, he is incapable of reaching solidarity with other ideologies due to his contradictory nature. The difference is that Nazbol is rejected by the Authoritarians for being both left and right, the Centrists for being too Extreme, the regular Extremists for being too wacky, and the Wacky ideologies for still making sense, whereas Anarcho-Fascist is rejected by his fellow anarchists [[EverybodyHasStandards because his brand of anarchy is directed towards those already marginalized]]. |
| 958 | ** He's also one to Hoppean, both having far right views more in line with Auth-Right despite being politically anarchist. Hoppean however is an ultracapitalist while Anfash doesn't seem to care for the free market and holds more communal views on economics. |
| 959 | * ObviouslyEvil: Wears a bandanna with a skull on it and sounds gleefully psychotic. It's clear he's not a good dude even before you know that he wants segregated communes. Ancom and Authright meanwhile at least don't look ''as'' menacing when you first see them. |
| 960 | * PetTheDog: His endgoal {{commune}} is not a totalitarian state like Nazi and it's implied that his people would help each other and live a friendly communal life. However, his goal still requires Nazi's extreme methods and he's willing to commit genocide if necessary. |
| 961 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He hates ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as [[CopHater cops]] for protecting them from his violence. |
| 962 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Almost became this for the Anarchist-Left quadrant, but that spot got taken by Insurrectionary Anarchist given that Anfash doesn't really fit the quadrant. Regardless, his views are genocidal, but he can at least think of a better world for his people, unlike Insurrectionary Anarchism. |
| 963 | [[/folder]] |
| 964 | |
| 965 | [[folder:Queer Anarchism]] |
| 966 | !! Queer Anarchism, Queer Anarchist, Anarcho-Queer |
| 967 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_06_24_at_80113_am.png]] |
| 968 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Pride month isn't about ''me'' getting included into ''your'' cisnormative systems of oppression. It ''should'' be about QUEER LIBERATION!"]] |
| 969 | |
| 970 | ->''"If there is a god, they're gender non-conforming, bitcheees!"'' |
| 971 | |
| 972 | The embodiment of supporting anarchist revolution for queer liberation. |
| 973 | ---- |
| 974 | * AffablyEvil: If one sees him as a villain, anyway. He's a friendly guy for a violent anarchist and generally comes off as more chill than one may expect, but he's perfectly willing to kill people for being in the way of his goals or holding views he considers bigoted. |
| 975 | * ColorCodedCharacters: He is tinted pink. |
| 976 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 977 | ** To Anarcho-Communist. They are both anarchist-left wing ideologies and are both queer characters (Anarcho-Communist not adhering to gender binary), but while Anarcho-Communist embodies the general idea of non-statist anarchy to demolish all hierarchies, Queer Anarchism does it specifically for LGBT rights, and doesn't seem to have any other stances besides a mild anti-capitalist streak. |
| 978 | ** To Pink Capitalist. Both are queer counterparts to preexisting Extremist ideologies, but while Pink Capitalist is anarchist-right, Queer Anarchism is anarchist-left. While Pink Capitalism only cares about the economic ramifications of LGBT rights, Queer Anarchism cares more about the social implications. |
| 979 | ** To Homo-Nationalist. While Homo-Nationalist makes Nazi less comfortable with being a Nazi, Queer Anarchism actually helps Ancom understand anarchism better and strengthens him. |
| 980 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: While the Anarchists in Centricide 8 all use various weapons against [[spoiler: the Impossible Ideology Monsters]], Queer Anarchism instead opts to use his fists. |
| 981 | * MaskOfSanity: While he comes off as one of the more grounded and rational ideologies, this is at least partly a persona he puts on to conceal his violent tendencies. |
| 982 | * NotSoAboveItAll: As noted by Jreg in his R/Polcompball AMA, Queer Anarchism might give off the veneer of sanity due to avoiding a lot of campy tropes and a sincere front, but it's still a front. Queer Anarchism still has violent urges and is insistent on people following his line of thought on a cumbersome list of oppressions, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6m9hptgroI and in a timeline]] where Jreg removes all "problematic" characters of his show and just leaves Queer Anarchism to read theory, Jreg starts going insane for how boring and ridiculous his methods and line of thought is. |
| 983 | ** Furthermore, Jreg stated any opposition to Pink Capitalism that Queer Anarchism has is based on him simply not having the money to consume as much as he wants, hearkening back to Ancap's (who ''is'' Pink Capitalism when not disguised) statement in the Political Compass Rap that some liblefts label the free market a system of oppression because they're bad at it. |
| 984 | * NotSoSimilar: To Homonationalist. Both are queer counterparts to preexisting Extremist ideologies, but while Homonationalist is statist-right, Queer Anarchism is anarchist-left. |
| 985 | * OddballDoppelganger: He is basically Ancom's queer counterpart. While Ancom is quemself gender-queer, Queer Anarchism is LGBT centered while Ancom (was) all about anarchism in a general sense. |
| 986 | * SkewedPriorities: Spends so much time naming all oppressions and ensuring that everyone is on the same page for every little detail, despite doing little to actually achieve these goals. |
| 987 | * SoftSpokenSadist: While Queer Anarchism seems to be the most level-headed of the Anarchist Commune's members and sincerely believes in defending the rights of the wide range of people in the LGBT+ Community, that doesn't mean he isn't [[AxCrazy perfectly willing to snap and kill someone for minor slights]], having killed Anarcha-Feminism because she was a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and is reported to repeatedly threaten death to cisgendered people. |
| 988 | * StraightGay: While he may dress radically, he is ironically the least stereotypical of the queer-centered ideologies, Homonationalist being CampGay and Pink Capitalist trying evoke CampGay stereotypes for marketing purposes, especially since Pink Capitalism is just Ancap putting on a queer friendly persona. Even his poly side isn't framed as that campy after all. |
| 989 | [[/folder]] |
| 990 | |
| 991 | [[folder:Insurrectionary Anarchism]] |
| 992 | !! Insurrectionary Anarchism, Insurrectionary Anarchist |
| 993 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_06_25_at_25514_pm_1.png]] |
| 994 | [[caption-width-right:350:"And why shouldn't things get too violent, huh?"]] |
| 995 | |
| 996 | ->''"Did I tell you about that time I kneecapped this government official, and then I just kept smashing and smashing until his head was just pulp?"'' |
| 997 | |
| 998 | The embodiment of anarchism for anarchism's sake. |
| 999 | ---- |
| 1000 | * ApocalypseAnarchy: Part of why he does what he does is because he thinks the world is doomed, so there's no point in trying to make something better of it. |
| 1001 | * AxCrazy: For him, the only thing that matters in anarchism is the opportunity to destroy and use violence for the sake of violence itself (And [[BloodKnight the pleasure that comes with it]]). [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Ancom starts to get disturbed]] when he describes his love of throwing molotovs at the police and seeing them burn. |
| 1002 | * BloodKnight: He's the only anarchist with no real end goal and he seems to take an obscene amount of pleasure in violence and murder. |
| 1003 | * ColorCodedCharacters: He is dressed and tinted in a neutral grey-scale. |
| 1004 | * DeadpanSnarker: When Queer-Anarchism describes his whole deal, Insurrectionary Anarchism mocks his optimism as though [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids he was claiming that the Easter Bunny was real]]. |
| 1005 | --> '''Insurrectionary Anarchism''': Oh ''yeah''. A better world definitely exists if you keep reading your fucking queer-theory, and then god will emerge from the Heavens and say he loves all his children, global warming will reverse and all the oppressive institutions will just go away. |
| 1006 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 1007 | ** To Political Nihilist. Both are {{Straw Nihilist}}s who believe that praxis of any kind is not worth pursuing, but while the Political Nihilist is all about doing nothing under the belief that taking action is an exercise in futility, Insurrectionary Anarchism is a BloodKnight who likes committing violence for the sake of schadenfreude and thinks that anyone who does it for a noble cause is kidding themselves. |
| 1008 | ** To Anfash. While both are very unsavory forms of anarchism associated with extreme violence, Anfash's violence is goal-oriented and he wants ethnic homogeneity, whereas Insurrectionary Anarchist isn't prejudiced and commits violence just because he enjoys it. |
| 1009 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Never seen without a cigarette in his mouth and enjoys wreaking havoc for its own sake. |
| 1010 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: He mocks his fellow anarchists' desires to create a better world through their revolution, believing that such a thing doesn't exist and as such the only thing left to do is cause chaos and destruction against the state with no aim whatsoever. |
| 1011 | * ShadowArchetype: He's basically a DarkerAndEdgier version of the Anarcho-Communist, having the same predisposition towards violence and hatred of the state, but without quer morals or ''[[TerroristsWithoutACause any]]'' [[BloodKnight end goal]]. One could even argue that he is basically everything that Post-Left (who shares his color scheme) lacks compared to quer original self. |
| 1012 | * StrawNihilist: He thinks morality is bunk and the world is doomed, so there's no reason for him not to cause destruction and carnage for the hell of it. |
| 1013 | * TerroristsWithoutACause: More like ''Anarchists'' Without A Cause but still applies. Unlike his fellow anarchist ideologies and fellow TokenEvilTeammate Anfash, Insurrectionary Anarchism seems to be engaging in violence against the state for its own sake, believing that morality is all relative and [[StrawNihilist that none of it matters anyway]]. |
| 1014 | * TokenEvilTeammate: A more proper one for the Lib-Left quadrant once Anfash leaves, given that he wants to engage in violence for the sake of it. Even Anfash's tendencies will rest once he achieves his ethno-commune, and Anfash is at least capable of imagining a better world for his people. [[ALighterShadeOfBlack At least he isn't racist though]]. |
| 1015 | [[/folder]] |
| 1016 | |
| 1017 | [[folder:Mutualism(s)]] |
| 1018 | !! Mutualism(s) |
| 1019 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mutalism.png]] |
| 1020 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Anarchy should just mean the dismantling of the state. We can still have markets."]] |
| 1021 | |
| 1022 | ->''"Wait a second. Guys, does anyone actually know what anarchy is?"'' |
| 1023 | |
| 1024 | The embodiment of creating mutual cooperation between people over the institution of a state. |
| 1025 | ---- |
| 1026 | * ColorCodedCharacters: He is varying shades of orangish-yellow. |
| 1027 | * NotSoSimilar: To Ancap. Mutualism(s) also views anarchism as purely being the absence of the state and favors markets in an anarchist society. However, unlike Ancap, he does not consider the free market his main focus and favors community solidarity rather than capitalist hierarchy. |
| 1028 | * SecretlySelfish: While they do seem to genuinely believe their ideas would benefit the world as a whole, they also seem to be more self-serving than they would care to openly admit. They define anarchism as "people who want to help each other out", the example citing that since his neighbor has been out of the house for two weeks, it would "really help [them] out" by giving them his house. |
| 1029 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: He speaks with an echoing voice. |
| 1030 | [[/folder]] |
| 1031 | |
| 1032 | [[folder:Anarcha-Feminism]] |
| 1033 | !! Anarcha-Feminism, [=AnFem=] |
| 1034 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/violet_anarcha_feminism.png]] |
| 1035 | [[caption-width-right:350:"It's me, Anarcha-Feminism. I'm alive and I'm coming for you, Queer-Anarchism."]] |
| 1036 | |
| 1037 | The embodiment of supporting anarchist revolution for women's rights. |
| 1038 | ---- |
| 1039 | * BadBadActing: [[spoiler:When she appears in TheStinger.]] |
| 1040 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Black and purple. |
| 1041 | * TheCameo: [[spoiler:Is played by Jreg's fellow [=YouTuber=] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Seminormalness existential hiccup]], who has also appeared in a few other videos in various unnamed roles.]] |
| 1042 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Maybe. Queer Anarchism claims she was transphobic, but whether he's right isn't clear at the moment |
| 1043 | * PosthumousCharacter: First time we ever hear about her Queer-Anarchism killed her because she was a TERF. [[spoiler:Except TheStinger shows she's still alive.]] |
| 1044 | * StrawFeminist: Implied by Queer Anarchism calling her a Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist, though she doesn't display any misandry in her brief appearance. |
| 1045 | [[/folder]] |
| 1046 | |
| 1047 | [[folder:Post-Left Anarchism ('''UNMARKED SPOILERS''')]] |
| 1048 | !!Post-Left Anarchism, Post-Left Anarchist |
| 1049 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_07_06_at_35636_pm.png]] |
| 1050 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Uh, you know, I haven't really been feeling very coherent recently."]] |
| 1051 | |
| 1052 | ->''"I mean, I thought I knew what anarchy was: the abolishment of all unjust hierarchies. But now... I'm not really so sure. Can you guys explain it to me?"'' |
| 1053 | |
| 1054 | The embodiment of strains of anarchism that reject leftism, or at least traditional forms of it. Was originally the Anarcho-Communist before quis fight with the Political Nihilist and Ape Political turned quim into Post-Left in "Centricide 3". |
| 1055 | ---- |
| 1056 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of anarchism that rejects leftism and leftist theory. |
| 1057 | * ColorCodedCharacters: While Ancom was tinted green, Post-Left is DeliberatelyMonochrome. This is symbolic of him losing his leftist leanings, the color green evocative of the Libertarian-Left on the political compass. |
| 1058 | * TheDitherer: While Ancom had a clear picture of what que was fighting against, Post-Left is nothing more than a bag of nerves unable to decide whether or not if que is a leftist or an anarchist or what either ideology even means. This is best illustrated in quer interactions with Anfash. While Ancom considered Nazis to be the worst thing ever and used it as a slur against people who disagreed with quem, when Anfash asked quem why when Post-Left tried to pick a fight with him, all it led to was Post-Left having an emotional breakdown. |
| 1059 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Anarchist Infighting", it is shown that ever since becoming Post-Left Anarchism, que has developed an inability to perform praxis and has developed the belief that being an anarchist and being a leftist are unreconcilable, basically suffering from depression brought on by an identity crisis. |
| 1060 | * TheEeyore: Seems outright unable to be happy except in brief moments. |
| 1061 | * NotSoSimilar: To Pink Capitalism, given that both of them are queer ideologies (Post-Left still going by "que/quem" pronouns) and alternate personas of the main extremist characters, Pink Capitalism being Ancap's alter ego while Post-Left anarchism is Ancom's altered form. Both are the result of being confronted with the modern world and a deconstruction of their ideology. Pink Capitalism however has embraced the modern political landscape and markets to "woke" socially left causes to make profit, while being quite the idealist. Post-Left Anarchism meanwhile is dejected and unable to think of how anarchist communism can come about. |
| 1062 | * OneSteveLimit: The former Anarcho-Communist is the second Post-Left to make an appearance, an ideology calling himself Post-Left appearing as a moderator in "Leftist Infighting" while Ancom and Commie are arguing with each other. The "regular" Post-Left appears to reject anarchism however. |
| 1063 | * WalkingSpoiler: Talking about quem without revealing Ancom's fate is downright impossible. |
| 1064 | [[/folder]] |
| 1065 | |
| 1066 | !!Independent Ideologies |
| 1067 | |
| 1068 | [[folder:Nazbol]] |
| 1069 | !!National Bolshevik, Nazbol, Authoritarian Center, Auth Center, Authoritarian Unity, Auth Unity |
| 1070 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_26_at_95443_pm.png]] |
| 1071 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I fight for the class rights of those that are white!"]] |
| 1072 | |
| 1073 | ->''"I am far-left and far-right at the same time!"'' |
| 1074 | |
| 1075 | A strange ideology who is far right socially and far left economically. Practically no one knows what to do with him. |
| 1076 | ---- |
| 1077 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Gets a song explaining his ideology that is a parody of Lil' Nas. |
| 1078 | * AffablyEvil: Generally cheerful and friendly even to ideologies he is extremely opposed to like Pink Capitalism, but embodies an ideology that endorses [[FinalSolution genocide on the basis of both class and race]]. |
| 1079 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of National Bolshevik ideology and possibly related ones like Ba'athism and Strasserism that advocate left-wing collectivist economics but also right-wing reactionary social views. Essentially the embodiment of a traditionalist workers' state. |
| 1080 | * BerserkButton: Downplayed. He declares Pink Capitalism, the literal opposite of his ideology, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV7zoT6ZcSkandlc=Ugy7rD2D9DDq0E4Wn7J4AaABAg the worst thing he has ever seen,]] but without losing his cheery tone or getting violent. |
| 1081 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite being regarded as wacky, he and the other wacky ideologies conclude that he doesn't truly belong since it's still possible to be far-right socially and far-left economically. He's also capable of being a highly effective ideology when he takes over the world in a BadFuture moment and [[spoiler: defeats Horseshoe Centrist.]] |
| 1082 | * CallOnMe: In "Centricide 5", it is revealed that [[AllYourPowersCombined Nazi and Commie are capable of summoning him]] whenever they want (not that they usually would). |
| 1083 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His particular ideology is too weird even for the wackies, the extremists don't take him seriously and don't accept him, and his existence alone [[spoiler: leads to the defeat of a centrist]]. Despite him seemingly fitting in nowhere, he's constantly upbeat and smiling, with a generally friendly, bubbly, if slightly off-putting attitude. |
| 1084 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Nazbol is tinted magenta, a mix of Nazi (blue) and Commie (red). |
| 1085 | * CommieNazis: His political ideology. Calls both Hitler and Stalin his bros. |
| 1086 | * DisabilityImmunity: He is simultaneously far-right authoritarian and far-left authoritarian which makes him centrist in the absolute loosest of terms. He is far too extreme for the Centrists, the regular Extremists hate him for contradicting them (since communists hate fascists and fascists hate communists) and he refuses to be involved with the Wacky Extremists. [[spoiler: It turns out that the very thing that makes him a pariah gives him an immunity to Horseshoe Centrist's overwhelming power by legitimizing his [[TheHorseshoeEffect fallacious argument]] (thereby connecting the horseshoe), making him the only ideology capable of fighting him.]] |
| 1087 | * EatTheRich: While Nazi disdains individualist economic models because he believes they result in people prioritizing profit over the good of the state and the people, he doesn't have much in the way of class prejudice and is willing to utilize private enterprise for his own gain. Nazbol, however, despises the bourgeoise and wants to wipe them out. |
| 1088 | * {{Foil}}: To Pink Capitalism. While Pink Capitalism is a libertarian ideology who considers himself economically far-right and culturally far-left (basically like Neo-Liberalism), Nazbol is an Authoritarian ideology who sees himself as economically far-left and culturally far-right. Therefore, when the two meet, Nazbol declares Pink Capitalism the worst thing ever. |
| 1089 | * FoeYayShipping: [[invoked]] An InUniverse case of this. As per his theme song, he ships Hitler and Stalin. |
| 1090 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Is kicked out of the Centrist Center due to the fact he is only a centrist in the most technical sense. Beyond that, fascists call him a communist while the communists call him a fascist and he has a spat with the Wacky Ideologies, especially when he realizes he technically does make sense to a degree. [[spoiler: Commie and Nazi summon him when desperate to defeat Horseshoe Centrist, and ''just'' when Nazbol thinks he's made friends, Nazi rejects him for his Marxist economic views and Commie rejects him for getting in the way of internationalism.]] |
| 1091 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: One video on the question of if the channel's satire could go too far features a flashforward where Nazbol is elected Chancellor and proceeds to commit genocide on both the bourgeoisie and minority groups. |
| 1092 | ** He invokes this trope on the Council of Wacky Ideologies, claiming his ideology is far from wacky and daring them to laugh when he actually takes power. |
| 1093 | * TheHorseshoeEffect: Claims that it proves him rather than the other way around. Of course, it's somewhat averted as the fascists loathe his views on economic equality (and the fact that he doesn't seem to stand for any race) while commies hate his social views. Nazbol highlights the main way to achieve his ideology is to actively betray the fundamentals of either extreme. [[spoiler: He literally fights Horseshoe Theory with the revelation that he's capable of being summoned by Nazi and Commie, which requires both to give up core tendencies of their ideology, creating a new one to prove Horseshoe Centrist right. Ironically, he believes that all moderates are the same.]] |
| 1094 | * LethalJokeCharacter: Despite others regarding him as wacky and not being able to fit in anywhere, being far left economically and far right socially aren't ''technically'' mutually exclusive positions and thus a future that actually accepts him as Chancellor has him create a totalitarian state. [[spoiler: It is later shown in "Centricide 5" that he is the only being capable of fighting off the Horseshoe Centrist when Nazi and Commie were getting their asses handed to him, as he embodies Horseshoe Centrist's fallacious argument that Fascism and Communism are the same thing and is thus immune to his power.]] |
| 1095 | ** His power is hinted to be the result of not just being between two totalitarian militaristic ideologies, but because he's the inverse of the Western Neoliberal status quo, being authoritarian, culturally rightist, and economically leftist. |
| 1096 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His name is a pun on Lil Nas X and he sings a parody of one of his songs. |
| 1097 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Makes a point of how the other ideologies won't take him seriously until it's too late and he's become too powerful to be stopped. |
| 1098 | * NotSoSimilar: |
| 1099 | ** To Anfash. Both are far-right socially and far-left economically, but Anfash is an anarchist that hates the state while Nazbol believes his traditional worker's state must be maintained via authoritarianism. Nazbol also tends to act more restrained like his Authoritarian brothers, while Anfash is as unhinged as Ancom was. |
| 1100 | ** Like Ecofacsist, he combines far-right social views with an ideology more traditionally associated with left-wing politics. Unlike Ecofascist, he combines his fascism with communism rather than environmentalism. |
| 1101 | ** To Sex Communist. Both combine communism with severe bigotry and fierce chauvinism, but Nazbol hates both minorities and the bourgeoise and wants to wipe them out, whereas Sex Commmunism is all about turning commodified women into involuntary sex slaves and distributing them among the "sexual proletariat", rather than killing off the supposed sexual elite that are hoarding the "poon". And while Sex Communism's entire worldview is based on [[InsaneTrollLogic openly flimsy and hole-ridden logic to justify misogyny]], Nazbol's ideology does make internal sense, in as much as genocidal authoritarianism ever does. |
| 1102 | * OddballDoppelganger: The wacky equivalent of both Commie and Nazi. |
| 1103 | * OxymoronicBeing: Viewed as this by the other ideologies due to being simultaneously a Nazi and a communist. |
| 1104 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Wants equality, but not for Jews and promises to fight for the class interests of white people. Then again he seems to be politically incorrect towards everyone. |
| 1105 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: Being far left economically and far right socially technically makes him a centrist, but the understanding of the political compass would awkwardly put him between democratic moderates. |
| 1106 | * ThrowTheDogABone: Is allowed to take part in the final fight in episode 8, where his blurb reveals that others might fear him due to the fact that he might make too much sense. Also, while it's presented as a possible BadFuture, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63HYccCfYg he did]] TakeOverTheWorldOnce. |
| 1107 | * VillainSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2BZyD7HdW0 Lil]] [[Music/LilNasX nas(bol)]]. Gets another [[spoiler: in Centricide 5, a duet against Horseshoe Centrist]]. |
| 1108 | * YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler: After demonstrating his true power level in defeating Horseshoe Centrist, he asks if this means he can finally join the anti-centrist cause... only to be firmly rejected by both Nazi and Commie.]] |
| 1109 | [[/folder]] |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 | [[folder:Post-Left]] |
| 1112 | !! Post-Left, Post-Host, Filthy Lifestylist |
| 1113 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/microphone_boye.png]] |
| 1114 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I'm your host Post-Left, but you can just call me 'Post-Host'!"]] |
| 1115 | |
| 1116 | An ideology who seems to exist solely to complain about the left, only appearing in "Leftist Infighting." |
| 1117 | ---- |
| 1118 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: He represents general contempt for the left (whether it is from insiders, from the center or from the right) in theory and praxis, routinely voicing his disapproval of both Commie and Ancom's beliefs and behavior. |
| 1119 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted. Post-Left is the first ideology to appear with his name, the second being [[spoiler:Post-Left Anarchism, an ideology Anarcho-Communist was turned into with Political Nihilist and Ape Political's [[ThePowerOfApathy centrist powers]]. Regular Post-Left appears to even complain about the idea of anarchism, while Post-Left Anarchism still wants the end of the state.]] |
| 1120 | [[/folder]] |
| 1121 | |
| 1122 | [[folder:Monarchist]] |
| 1123 | !!Monarchist |
| 1124 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/monarchist.png]] |
| 1125 | [[caption-width-right:300:"I hate libtards!"]] |
| 1126 | |
| 1127 | An ideology that advocates for sovereignty granted to one individual to rule a society. He only appears in "Leftist Infighting" as Post-Host shows off rightist infighting. |
| 1128 | ---- |
| 1129 | * AristocratsAreEvil: If one views him as evil. His only appearance is proclaiming how much he hates "libtards". |
| 1130 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Monarchist very briefly appears in a video before the first ''Centricide'' video debuted. Seeing as how he's one of the most well-known authright ideologies and one of the most important systems of government in history, you'd expect him to reappear on Jreg's channel. Nope. Monarchist is never mentioned or alluded to again. Even when his anarchy counterpart, Anarcho-Monarchist, has a prominent role in the web series. |
| 1131 | * EnemyMine: The "Rightist Infighting" contains little fighting, with all the right wingers agreeing they hate libtards. Even with ideologies he probably doesn't agree with, such as Ancap. |
| 1132 | [[/folder]] |
| 1133 | |
| 1134 | [[folder:Eco-Fascist]] |
| 1135 | !!Eco-Fascist |
| 1136 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_01_29_at_103644_pm.png]] |
| 1137 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I was at the climate strike to show my concern about climate change. By which I mean: climate migrants, who are going to get displaced because of climate change."]] |
| 1138 | |
| 1139 | ->''"The climate strike was simply not inclusive enough... to ecofascists, such as myself."'' |
| 1140 | |
| 1141 | An ideology similar to authoritarian right but claims he cares more about the environment and climate change. |
| 1142 | ---- |
| 1143 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Green. |
| 1144 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Not only does he think that poor countries and China should be left out of the discussion when combatting climate change, but he seems to think that making his nation's environment a bigger priority than everywhere else is imperative. He even acknowledges the argument that the environment is ''everyone's'' problem and dismisses the notion. |
| 1145 | * NotSoSimilar: |
| 1146 | ** To Nazi. They look virtually identical to one another (though Nazi is blue while Eco-Fascist is green and has a leaf on his hat) and are both FauxAffablyEvil with a paper-thin veneer of charisma and reasonableness. And let's not forget that they both follow forms of ''fascism''. But while Nazi is focused on the "threat" supposedly posed by domestic minorities, Eco-Fascist is more concerned about China and climate migrants. |
| 1147 | ** To Nazbol. Both of them combine fascism with a left-wing ideology, but Nazbol adds communism and Eco-Fascist adds environmentalism. |
| 1148 | * OddballDoppelganger: He's basically a more eco-friendly Nazi. |
| 1149 | * SkewedPriorities: While claims to be for fighting global warming, he seems to find the diversity in his fellow environmentalists distracting and thinks that disenfranchising climate refugees is more important. |
| 1150 | --> '''Eco-Fascist''': It's like we're being chased by a giant bear. Sure we could all team up and fight the bear, [[ItsAllAboutMe but if I run a little faster, then maybe I'll get away]]. |
| 1151 | [[/folder]] |
| 1152 | |
| 1153 | [[folder:Just-Me Statist]] |
| 1154 | !! Just-Me Statist |
| 1155 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/just_me_statist_0.png]] |
| 1156 | [[caption-width-right:350:"It's been so long since I've heard another human voice..."]] |
| 1157 | |
| 1158 | A hypothetical ideology based around the creation of a state where he exists as the the lone and only living being. |
| 1159 | ---- |
| 1160 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: While not stated outright, he seems to be a personification of Solipsism (Specifically, the Metaphysical Solipsism variation, where your own mind is the ''only'' thing that exists in the universe). He can also represent autarchy, a system of rule over only yourself. |
| 1161 | * BeneathTheMask: During the "Just-me-thnostate" video, he acts very self-serving and affirming that he doesn't require anyone else in his state. After a few moments, however, it becomes clear that he is in denial of his desire to meet someone and ends up creating tulpas to have someone to interact with |
| 1162 | * TheHorseshoeEffect: He describes his ideology as "Both an anarchy with no rules, and a totalitarian dictatorship". Given that he is the sole person living in it and thus is bound by no rules and is still the only "leader" of his state, he [[DumbassHasAPoint technically isn't wrong]]. |
| 1163 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In spite of saying he only needs "him" to create his society, he insists in creating Tulpas so that he won't feel lonely. |
| 1164 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Taken to a ludicrous extreme. He doesn't just care only about himself, he believes in a state where only he exists as the sole inhabitant of it. |
| 1165 | * LonersAreFreaks: His "state" is described as a world where he exists as the only person living there, and he is a borderline paranoid weirdo with a huge dose of ItsAllAboutMe. |
| 1166 | [[/folder]] |
| 1167 | |
| 1168 | [[folder:Egoist]] |
| 1169 | !! Egoist, Anarcho-Egoism, Hyper-Anarchist, Individualist |
| 1170 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grej_3_5.PNG]] |
| 1171 | |
| 1172 | An off-compass philosophy that embodies pure Libertarianism on the social axis, and self interest on the economic axis. |
| 1173 | |
| 1174 | For tropes that apply to Egoist's character in his series of origin, visit the WebAnimation/{{Grej}} character page [[Characters/{{Grej}} here]]. |
| 1175 | ---- |
| 1176 | * CanonImmigrant: He originates from the fanmade spinoff series "Realicide", confirmed to share a universe with WebVideo/{{Jreg}}'s Centricide series in "Anarchist Infighting". |
| 1177 | * TheGhost: He never actually appears in the Centricide, only mentioned in "Anarchist Infighting" by Insurrectionary Anarchism to have left to join the other series because he thought the anarchists' ideologies were all "spooks." |
| 1178 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Hated sharing the Lib-Left quadrant as everyone in it consisted of "spooks" fighting for some arbitrary cause or for violence for violence's sake. As per Grej, he's happy to have left. |
| 1179 | [[/folder]] |
| 1180 | |
| 1181 | [[folder:Sex Communist]] |
| 1182 | !! Sex Communist |
| 1183 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sex_communist.jpg]] |
| 1184 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Hi. It's me, the Sex Communist. I'm a lot like the regular communist, but on top of being upset about [=r/MoreTankieChapo=] getting banned, I'm also upset about [=r/incel=] getting banned."]] |
| 1185 | |
| 1186 | -> ''"Sexually dispossessed of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your virginity!"'' |
| 1187 | |
| 1188 | A communist ideology with an emphasis on the sexual activities of the bourgeoise and proletariat. |
| 1189 | ---- |
| 1190 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Like other auth-left ideologies, his color is red. Unlike the regular Communist, his body isn't tinted red, but instead he wears his red coat. |
| 1191 | * InsaneTrollLogic: He seems to think that Neo-liberalism is to blame for the creation of incel culture in the same way that others would view it as responsible for the rise in poverty, and he outright [[LampshadeHanging refuses to elaborate on his ideology at several points to emphasize the holes in his logic]]. |
| 1192 | * MrFanservice: Spends his entire debut video shirtless. |
| 1193 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Reminiscent of Hugh Hefner in some aspects, with the main difference being that he outright views women as property. |
| 1194 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: He blatantly admits that the "sex-gulags" are not that different from the regular ones. |
| 1195 | * NotSoSimilar: Like the Nazbol, he mixes far-left economic values with reactionary social values, but his prejudices are targeted at women rather than minorities. Also, while Nazbol's ideas are in line with an unusual but coherent and internally consistent ideology, Sex Communist's ideas are based largely on InsaneTrollLogic. |
| 1196 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He views sex in economic terms, seeing incels as proletariat robbed by the bourgeoise chads and brads, and that an ideal society will give everyone "state-mandated poon" (i.e. involuntary state-enforced prostitution). |
| 1197 | * StrawMisogynist: Outright sees women as a commodity to be "redistributed," and argues for literally forcing all women to be publically-available {{Sex Slave}}s. |
| 1198 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Wears a suit jacket with no shirt underneath. |
| 1199 | [[/folder]] |
| 1200 | |
| 1201 | [[folder:State-Primitivist]] |
| 1202 | !! State-Primitivist, Authprim |
| 1203 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_09_03_at_90205_pm.png]] |
| 1204 | [[caption-width-right:350:"All this 'democracy' malarkey is just layers of separation between you and the primal desire to follow whoever's biggest and strongest."]] |
| 1205 | -> ''"Logic has no place in politics. Politics isn't about reason. It's about the tribe and emotion."'' |
| 1206 | |
| 1207 | State-Primitivism, or Authprim, is a political ideology that believes political candidates should fight to the death in displays of strength instead of debating. |
| 1208 | |
| 1209 | ---- |
| 1210 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: His entire ideology is based on this. You bashed the dictator’s head in? Well, ''you’re'' the dictator now. |
| 1211 | * BloodSplatteredWarrior: He's covered in blood presumably from the duels. |
| 1212 | * TheDictatorship: An Authprim society would be run based on who's the strongest. The strongest one would get to make all the decisions and no one would disagree because if they disagree they'd die. Then someone would come along and bash the former dictator's head with a big rock and then ''that'' person becomes the new leader and the cycle starts anew. |
| 1213 | * DuelToTheDeath: How Authprim believes political debates should be held. No more bickering; they just fight. According to Authprim, this system is quicker, simpler, and more entertaining. |
| 1214 | * {{Foil}}: To Anprim. Authprim is the authoritarian counterpart to Anprim. Both advocate for forms of primitivism (represented by wielding a comically large dinosaur bone). But while Anprim is focused on technology reverting back to pre-Industrial revolution society, Authprim is focused on bringing brutal primitive morals into a modern society. |
| 1215 | * ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: According to Authprim, "true peace can only be achieved once the opposition is in literal pieces." |
| 1216 | |
| 1217 | [[/folder]] |
| 1218 | |
| 1219 | !!Other ''Centricide'' Characters |
| 1220 | [[folder:The East]] |
| 1221 | !!The East |
| 1222 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/theeast.png]] |
| 1223 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Stand down! It is I: The East! We have a military, and you do not!"]] |
| 1224 | |
| 1225 | The physical embodiment of Eastern society who shows up in the Anarchist Uprising video intending to conquer the communes that have seized control of America. |
| 1226 | ---- |
| 1227 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Unusually not one for any given ideology, but rather the collective embodiment of non-western society. |
| 1228 | * CompositeCharacter: Seemingly embodies the entirety of non-Western and non-Anglophone states. |
| 1229 | * EasyEvangelism: [[spoiler:The East immediately reacts to [=AnCom=] asking why they can't all just get along by saying he had never considered that before, stops his attack and joins in chanting 'Hail Anarchy!' with the anarchists at the end of the video.]] |
| 1230 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Initially intent on taking advantage of the destruction of western militaries to conquer the disarmed communes, only to decide to join them and spread leftist anarchy across the globe.]] |
| 1231 | * InNameOnly: Does not display any specific characteristics of Eastern nations beyond a sign saying 'The East' on his head. |
| 1232 | * TakeThat: An indirect one, but he's meant to represent a mockery of the "Eastern" boogeyman that has plagued western politics for generations, with no defining characteristics other than being supposedly authoritarian and not culturally progressive, laughing at western decadence and self-hating liberalism. Although "Eastern" nations are diverse with conflicting agendas amongst themselves, uses him to mock the idea of a faceless boogeyman. |
| 1233 | ** He also does have his shit together however, which works for him in a boxing match with The "West" as The West just punches himself, likely referring to how on average, Western nations are slightly more prone to self hatred. |
| 1234 | * WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: In both videos he appears in, he ends up triumphing over his western opponents without doing anything-the anarchists take over without his intervention in Anarchist Uprising [[spoiler: though he ends up joining them in the end]] and in his boxing match with The West, The West [[EpicFail knocks themselves out before the East throws a single punch]]. |
| 1235 | [[/folder]] |
| 1236 | |
| 1237 | [[folder:The West]] |
| 1238 | !!The West |
| 1239 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_08_16_55428_pm.png]] |
| 1240 | |
| 1241 | The physical embodiment of Western society. He appears in "The East vs The West" where he has a boxing match with The East. |
| 1242 | ---- |
| 1243 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Western society and culture. |
| 1244 | * CompositeCharacter: He represents all countries considered to be part of "The West". |
| 1245 | * InNameOnly: Does not display any specific characteristics of Western nations beyond a sign saying 'The West' on his head. |
| 1246 | * KickingMyOwnButt: In the boxing match with The East, he spends the entire time punching himself in the face until he's knocked out, without The East doing anything. This represents the in-fighting between and within Western countries. |
| 1247 | * TooDumbToLive: He never gets to throw a punch at The East due to beating himself up, causing the East to [[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing win by default]]. |
| 1248 | [[/folder]] |
| 1249 | |
| 1250 | [[folder:The CIA]] |
| 1251 | !!The CIA, Central Intelligence Agency |
| 1252 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cia_0.png]] |
| 1253 | [[caption-width-right:350:"A terrorist organization?!"]] |
| 1254 | |
| 1255 | ->''"Hey buddy! Whatcha doin' there?"'' |
| 1256 | |
| 1257 | The physical embodiment of the Central Intelligence Agency. Not a fan of most extremist ideologies for obvious reasons. |
| 1258 | ---- |
| 1259 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Appears in ''Insane Conspiracy Theories Dumb People Actually Believe'' with a PaperThinDisguise, “disproving” numerous conspiracy theories. |
| 1260 | * BerserkButton: Hearing the word 'socialism' will cause him to show up gun at the ready. |
| 1261 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: When this character first appeared, it was in the song "Hi, FBI" and he was not labeled as the CIA, implying that he originally was the FBI. |
| 1262 | * FauxAffablyEvil: If one sees him as evil. He has a huge smile on his face and greets Nazi politely, but once Nazi expresses his plan for an ethno-state, he shoots Nazi like no tomorrow. |
| 1263 | * IFightForTheStrongestSide: Despite being a US government agency, in the Anarchist Uprising video the CIA only takes action against Nazi when he plans to set up an ethnostate, implying he has sided with the anarchists. That or the video was mocking the American far-right fear that the CIA was only after them and would turn a blind eye to anarchism. |
| 1264 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: Tends to emphasize shooting extremist ideologies as his solution to radicalization. |
| 1265 | * PaperThinDisguise: Sports one in ''Insane Conspiracy Theories Dumb People Actually Believe'', appearing without his signature sunglasses and has his sign tucked into his waistcoat. |
| 1266 | * WhileRomeBurns: Seems to have much more time hunting down Nazi in the Anarchist Uprising Video while ignoring said Anarchist Uprising burning down America. |
| 1267 | [[/folder]] |
| 1268 | |
| 1269 | [[folder:Accelerationism ('''UNMARKED SPOLIERS''')]] |
| 1270 | !!Accelerationism, Hyper-Nihilist Post-Humanism |
| 1271 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_10_10_at_72607_pm_2.png]] |
| 1272 | [[caption-width-right:350:'''"Once I'm done with you, there will be no human aspect left!"''']] |
| 1273 | |
| 1274 | The monstrous entity summoned by the Radical Centrist and the Anti-Centrist. |
| 1275 | ---- |
| 1276 | * AbstractEater: Merely existing wanes the political spectrum that the other ideologies exist in, essentially making it the socio-political equivalent of a PlanetEater. |
| 1277 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of sudden ideological radicalism to enact social-change. |
| 1278 | * BigBad: Of "Centricide 8", and probably the rest of the series. |
| 1279 | * BrownNoteBeing: The moment he comes into being, the other ideologies feel a sharp pain, its very existence effecting them on an existential level. |
| 1280 | * TheDreaded: Commie and Ancap recognize it for what it is (implying that the Extremists have encountered it before) and drop everything to try and stop it. |
| 1281 | * EvilCounterpart: Much like Nazbol, Accelerationism can be summoned by two opposing ideologies, but unlike Nazbol it isn't a clear mix of its parent ideologies and is a HumanoidAbomination instead of a normal (if wacky) ideology. |
| 1282 | * EvilVersusOblivion: Accelerationism is definitely on the side of Oblivion and having to deal with this ''thing'' is what reunites the Extremists. |
| 1283 | * HumanoidAbomination: While he is basically another Jreg like the other ideologies, here Accelerationism is a ''giant'' CGI Jreg who's mere existence sparks TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 1284 | * MookMaker: Its very existence spawns the Impossible Ideology Monsters. |
| 1285 | * LogicalExtreme: Accelerationism is basically an ideology that exists beyond the political compass, his minions assimilating the other ideologies because they weren't extreme enough (including the Extremists themselves). |
| 1286 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: He talks in this kind of voice....''without moving his lips.'' |
| 1287 | * WalkingSpoiler: You cannot talk about him without revealing Jreg's real goals. |
| 1288 | [[/folder]] |
| 1289 | |
| 1290 | [[folder:Impossible Ideology Monsters ('''UNMARKED SPOILERS''')]] |
| 1291 | !!Impossible Ideology Monsters |
| 1292 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2020_10_10_at_74229_pm.png]] |
| 1293 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Centrists Detected."'']] |
| 1294 | |
| 1295 | ->''"We will make Literature/NineteenEightyFour...'''look like The Conquest of Bread'''!''" |
| 1296 | |
| 1297 | Entities who came into being alongside Accelerationism, mindlessly assimilating other ideologies. |
| 1298 | ---- |
| 1299 | * AssimilationPlot: The Impossible Ideology Monsters are robotic entities that infect ideologies and turn them into more of their horde. |
| 1300 | * BlackBlood: When Ancap shoots down two Impossible Ideology Monsters (one of which was Pan-Africanism), they both bleed black, fitting with their DeliberatelyMonochrome nature. The same thing happens when Anarcho-Monarchism slashes one of them with his sword. |
| 1301 | * TheCorruption: They appear to be ideologies that have been BrainwashedAndCrazy, able to turn them into impossibly extreme versions of themselves, including a dark-grey static affect and a mindless desire to radicalize their non-infected peers. |
| 1302 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: In a series where nearly all of the characters are in colour, these characters are completely devoid of any colour. |
| 1303 | * EvilerThanThou: The first of these monsters describes ethnonationalist fascism as too moderate and vows to make ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' look like ''[[UsefulNotes/{{Anarchism}} The Conquest of Bread]]''. |
| 1304 | * HatePlague: Those turned into Impossible Ideology Monsters are turned into warped, uber-extreme caricatures of themselves. For example, Pan-Africanism turned into an ideology that desires the total annihilation of all other parts of the world except for Africa. |
| 1305 | * LogicalExtreme: The Impossible Ideology Monsters see all other ideologies, including those who exist beyond the overton window and on the edge of the compass, as moderates and centrists that must be made more extreme. |
| 1306 | * SuperStrength: The first instance is introduced smashing through the Nationalist's steel doors like it was a cracker with one punch. |
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