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2	->'''N. Italy:''' At least the Fascists have parties too. Hey! That was a really nice joke, fratello!
3	->'''S. Italy:''' It's really not a joke.
4	->'''N. Italy:''' No, no. It's a joke because they're the Fascist party and they're having a parade. It's surreal.
5	->'''S. Italy:''' Surrealism isn't a joke either.
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7	Considering that webcomic and anime ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' requires PoliticallyCorrectHistory in order to keep the series as [[LighterAndSofter lighthearted]] and satirical as it is, the fandom's come up with some [[DarkerAndEdgier downright]] [[DarkFic disturbing]] things in the way of Fanfic.
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9	''[[http://community.livejournal.com/all_he_ever/profile All He Ever Wanted]]'' takes the premise and conceit of ''Hetalia Axis Powers'' (namely, [[NationsAsPeople personifying the Nations of the world]]) and uses it to [[ButterflyOfDoom explore the events]] of an AlternateHistory where England kept its 50-year alliance to Japan and joined the Axis Powers (which is not that farfetched a historical possibility). ''All He Ever Wanted'' follows the Nations through a prolonged UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the often-painful choices that this time of conflict forces them to make. Where Hetalia itself would HandWave the darker parts of a Nation's history for the sake of the story that's being told, ''All He Ever Wanted'' approaches them head-on, and has the characters do the same. However, your mileage WILL vary in regards of how well-done it is or not. And this is all that should be said about it in the main page.
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11	The [=AHEWniverse=] project is ongoing, and as such this page contains only tropes that have already been exhibited in the stories. Please keep it spoiler-free!
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14	!!This Fanfic provides examples of:
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16	%% commented out as inaccessible to non-fans * AccidentalMurder: You shouldn't have loaded the gun, Italy.
17	* AllThereInTheManual: Having the historical background for the events usually helps you to understand the fics.
18	* AlternateHistory: “What if the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was kept?” anong others.
19	%%* AnachronicOrder: Written like this.
20	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: While often the author has ShownTheirWork, when there are gaps, they can be big enough to to drive a ''Maus'' Panzer through.
21	** The deal with [[spoiler: France]], for many.[[labelnote:note]]This is especially egregious due to the fact that [[spoiler:Canada is ''literally right there'', grieving at the funeral precisely because of his connections to France, and there is no indication that Québécois just stopped speaking French for no reason.]][[/labelnote]]
22	-->''Anon commenter'': "Ah, AHEW realism... I only read way in the beginning so maybe they fixed this, but did you know that it's totally easy for [[spoiler: the Nazis to erase the French language from the world]]? Just take over a few European countries and bang! No more [[spoiler: French]]!"
23	** Additionally, the authors once implied that in their fic, the Latin American countries "are still Spanish colonies". Except that the fanfic begins in the early 20th century... and [[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence Spanish American Wars of Independence]] ''started in 1810 and were mostly finished around 1840'', with only Puerto Rico and Cuba staying under Spanish rule... until 1898 (being transferred to the American sphere of influence). Uhm, even if this is an AlternateUniverse, history does NOT work that loosely. And, while this isn’t as important, one huge chunk of Latin America (Brazil) was never under Spanish control.
24	%%** Not to mention, ''Prussia'' as the most Nazi between himself and Germany? And [[spoiler: staging the Preussenschlag]]?! [[FlatWhat Wha --]]
25	** It should also be noted that due to how nationalism works (Austrians still thought themselves as “German” at the time), [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss most real world Austrians in 1938 welcomed the Anschluss with open arms]]. They also made up [[https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=q3oLu8I8hVMC&pg=PA43&dq=&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=&f=false a disproportionately large amount of high-ranking Party members (including Adolf Hitler himself), SS members, and especially the staff of their infamous death camps and their commanders, on top of Austrian civilians apparently being violently, frighteningly gung-ho about this anti-Semitism thing from the get-go even by Nazi standards]]. Plus, as noted below, the vast majority of Austria is and always was Catholic. As such, ''Austria of all people’s'' role as the apparently Jewish AuthorAvatar who resists Nazism doesn’t make any sense whatsoever from a historic standpoint, and to history buffs can be somewhat amusing due to the sheer irony of the situation.
26	** Japan being the ManipulativeBastard between him and England is pretty ridiculous if you think about it; you know, the [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan novice, fanatical empire]] that had a reputation for IWillFightSomeMoreForever to the point of insanity and reckless war crimes, was plagued with more InterserviceRivalry than you could shake a stick at, DidntThinkThisThrough logistics of epic proportions, an army [[BottledHeroicResolve literally addicted to meth]], and a bad habit of burning through even elite soldiers and especially pilots due to a horrible combination of the above mentioned IWillFightSomeMoreForever, HonorBeforeReason propaganda, WeHaveReserves, AttackAttackAttack tactics and not having the population to sustain it (unlike, say, the Soviet Union or Korean War era China), manipulating TheChessmaster of world politics, the empire on which the sun never set, who [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire had been doing this for centuries by now?]] Especially when the point of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in the first place was so Japan could protect the British Empire’s interests in the Far East and in turn keep Japan safe? Yeah... sure.
27	** The... ''treatment'' of Lichtenstein. The tiny principality populated almost if not completely exclusively by GERMANS. If Lichtenstein would have ever been invaded by the Nazis, it would have been for similar reasons as Austria above, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_ins_Reich Heim ins Reich]]. As she is a pure German, she would have been seen as part of the “master race”, so mistreating her like that makes little sense unless she actively dissents. Especially egregious as, if the author absolutely needed to include it, Belarus and/or Ukraine would have been much more plausible targets considering Slavs were almost if not as low on the totem pole as Jews according to the Nazis. This is on top of said invasion making no strategic sense by any stretch of the imagination; the lunacy of the idea of invading a neutral principality under the protection of another neutral country which just happened to be preparing to fight the Nazis since day 1 (Switzerland) - unlike, say, Luxembourg was - who would surely see said invasion as a threat to their sovereignty at the very least, on top of and despite the fact that said principality at the time was dirt poor and had literally nothing of value, can only really be explained by ForTheEvulz and KickTheDog.
28	** The innocence of certain characters, even outside of the abovementioned Austria. Even if this were an alternate universe, it’s unlikely that anti-Semitic sentiment in Hungary and Lithuania for example would just be conveniently gone, or that the Nazis wouldn’t still try to use it and/or bribe the latter at least with protection from the Soviet Union to get tons of LesCollaborateurs like in our timeline. Even if this were the case, it isn’t explained.
29	* AuthorAvatar: Austria, apparently. A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicism_in_Austria mostly Catholic]] (and formerly VERY antisemitic) country has a Jewish nation-tan, despite his IdiotHair ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariazell even representing a Marian pilgrimage site]]'' in Hetalia canon? And one of the authors is Jewish? Hmmm...
30	* AuthorTract: This fic is essentially the author's soapbox for complaining about what he sees as the Hetalia fandom's tendency to trivialize the atrocities of the Axis Powers in general UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in particular during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
31	%%* BigBrotherIsWatching: In Communist America, movies watch you.
32	* BilingualBonus:
33	** Also, though the installments are written mostly in American English, the characters' voices follow anglicized grammatical structure of their own languages. Japan uses no contractions, Russia uses short sentences but long paragraphs, France always inflects upward, etc.
34	** When Austria tells Messaien [[MoeAnthropomorphism what he is]], Messaien thinks he means to say that he is Austrian and says "Your French needs work." Austria clarifies: "No, [[UsefulNotes/LEtatCestMoi I am the State]]".
35	* BittersweetEnding: Romano, aka. South Italy [[spoiler: leaves his brother, with the implication that there will eventually be fragmentation and an Italian civil war. However, in doing so he "attains" Spain's respect and love.]]
36	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BlingOfWar: Everyone by 1960.
37	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BloodKnight: Prussia. Oh, Prussia.
38	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BoundAndGagged: [[{{Chickification}} Vietnam.]]
39	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ButtMonkey: Poor Korea.
40	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ByronicHero: England, when he's not being a VillainProtagonist instead.
41	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * CallingTheOldManOut: America to England.
42	%% cont. commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample ** "Then stay out of my sky, ''[[ShipSinking Dad]]''."
43	* CameBackWrong: WordOfGod says four characters will die. Three already have, and the authors have left tracks stating that they, being Nations, are not gone for good. [[spoiler: Greece has already been reincarnated, and Switzerland is a poltergeist. But as for France, [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies well...]] ]]
44	** [[BilingualBonus Cerveauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuux.]]
45	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ChekhovsGun: Isn't loaded!
46	* {{Chickification}}: Pulled on Hungary, a fearless ActionGirl in canon... [[spoiler: whom Prussia easily captures, then brutally tortures and rapes to "teach a lesson" to her beloved ex-husband Austria, whom Prussia is holding hostage..]]
47	** Vietnam. In UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vietnam#20th_century Vietnam the country]] had already started fighting for its independence from France. In Hetalia canon, Vietnam the MoeAnthropomorphism is mentioned to be a PluckyGirl who follows the example of the many emotionally/physically strong women in her history. In the fic, Vietnam the MoeAnthropomorphism is... BoundAndGagged.
48	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * LesCollaborateurs: Hungary and Liechtenstein. [[spoiler: Or are they?]]
49	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Fascists wear greyscale, the communists and socialists wear blood and gold.It is implied that civilian Nations wear colors, mostly those not associated with either side; when Austria is let out of his glass box, he wears first a red, then a blue scarf.
50	** Also, the Fascists wear gloves.
51	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * DarkFic
52	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * DarkerAndEdgier: As usual, [[WriterOnBoard considering the authors.]]
53	* DeadGuyJunior: After Italy kills the Greece we know, the new personification of the country shows up in the form of a [[CreepyChild little girl]].
54	** "Heathen! Traitor! Loser! ...Are you my mommy?"
55	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * DeconstructionFic
56	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * DeconstructorFleet: Of several fanfic genres.
57	* DistressedDude: Austria is imprisoned for most of the continuity, both because of the Austrian Anschluss and [[InferredHolocaust his ethnicity]].
58	%% * DrinkBasedCharacterization: Italy drinks all the colors of the world!
59	* DrivenToSuicide: At some point around the time England [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went mad]], hundreds of citizens of the Empire and Commonwealth engaged in mass suicides, many hurling themselves off the White Cliffs of Dover. Those who couldn't get to the British Isles did the same thing in Calcutta. By 1949, several thousand have killed themselves.
60	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TheDeterminator: Poland.
61	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Austria.]]
62	* EnemyMine: France and England, because it's canon FoeRomanceSubtext.
63	* FauxActionGirl: Hungary. She's supposed to be competent like she is in canon, but her main role is to [[spoiler:get captured, tortured, and raped by Prussia to "teach Austria a lesson"]].
64	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TheFettered: Germany. (Ouch.)
65	* ForWantOfANail: That was one ''very'' special relationship.
66	-->''For want of Japan, poor France was lost;\
67	For want of poor France, America was lost;\
68	For want of America, his mind was lost;\
69	For want of his mind, the Empire was lost;\
70	For want of the Empire, the war was won,\
71	Though not by the Nation who started it all.''
72	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * FourIsDeath: Who knows four? -- [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness I know four!]]
73	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * FromBadToWorse:
74	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TheGreatDepression: In "Conceit and Inception".
75	* GreyAndGrayMorality: Neither the Fascists nor the Communists are immune from atrocities, but neither is presented as completely monstrous. May be BlackAndGrayMorality if you give the Communists the benefit of the doubt.
76	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * HiddenElfVillage: China.
77	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdr FDR]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_churchill Winston Churchill]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward_VIII King Ned]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussolini some Italian guy with a nice pair of shoulders]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler some Austrian guy with an evil moustache]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Beck Herr Beck]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaien Olivier Messaien]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beniamino_Gigli Beniamino Gigli]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gamelin General Gamelin]], and that's just so far.
78	** Churchill gets an HistoricalVillainUpgrade based on his personal politics.
79	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * HistoricalInJoke: Too many to list.
80	* IHaveYourWife: Prussia uses Austria to force Hungary to collaborate. And by "force", we mean [[spoiler: he kidnaps, rapes and tortures her in front of Austria.]]
81	* LyricalDissonance: ''Fratelli d'Italia'' in "All The Rest Have Thirty One", ''Vesti la giubba'' in "Put on the Costume", "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze," and pretty much the entirety of "FULL STOP", or whenever England sings at all.
82	* MadOracle: In the second half of the continuity England is either this or a TalkativeLoon. The one thing that stands in the way of his being purely a MadOracle is that he can't see the future; he can see the ''story'', because he can see ''all'' stories right now, and all of them are true.
83	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * MagicalRealism
84	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * MalevolentArchitecture: Switzerland's House.
85	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ManipulativeBastard: England and Japan.
86	* MeaningfulFuneral: France has an entire installment devoted to one, complete with England [[DeadPersonConversation getting drunk and hallucinating him]], Canada [[TheDutifulSon organizing the ceremony through his tears]], and MagnificentBastard Prussia [[TheFunInFuneral telling a touching story about a one-legged whore]].
87	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * MightyWhitey: Discussed, as the perpetual thorn in Japan's side.
88	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Japan to Korea, England to China.
89	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The United States of America, the Northern Territories, and the Subequatorial States.
90	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ThePlague: Fuck you, Stalin.
91	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * PropagandaMachine: On every continent.
92	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, character page material? * PsychopathicManchild: Italy.
93	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * RapeAsDrama: Specially Hungary and Liechtenstein, the only two AHEW-important female nations.
94	* TheRashomon: So what happened during the German-Russian conflict on the (former) Polish border (or was it?) in September 1939? "The Left Hand Doesn't Know" and "What The Right Hand Is Doing" [[UnreliableNarrator give us about four different accounts]], and by the end of "What The Right Hand Is Doing," Russia ''still'' hasn't figured out what went on, or even [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn what the Party line about what went on should be]]. Germany gives the situation as much resolution as it's going to get when he declares war on Russia, though.
95	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * LaResistance: Greece.
96	* ScarpiaUltimatum: Prussia forcibly brings Hungary to the captured Austria's cell and violently rapes her saying that it's for [[ForcedtoWatch Austria's]] "benefit".
97	* ShoutOut: All over the place.
98	** "Excepting February" is written in homage to ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', with Switzerland's house getting [[color:red:wall]]ed in.
99	%** In England's arc in particular, there are excessive references to his literature and culture: "Lavender's Green" is a particularly long string of references.
100	** During "The Seventh Door", Prussia and Hungary only speak in the rhythm of Bela Bartok's ''Duke Bluebeard's Castle'': "Judith, tell me, will you follow?" "I will follow, Kekzakallu." The title of the installment also comes from that opera.
101	** "City of Light" follows and uses Dreyer's ''Joan of Arc'' as a focal reference.
102	** Of all things, Japan unconsciously references WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in "It is my Very Humane Endeavor": ''"He believes he is hunting rabbits, so please be quiet."'' Australia [[LampshadeHanging attempts to point out what he just said]], but Japan doesn't quite get it.
103	** Count the references to Jewish culture in "Fly, Thought, on Wings of Gold", very few of which are made explicit. Also, the word ''Jew'' is almost never actually used.
104	** The entire fic "Inherit the Earth" is a dark-mirror remix of the popular canonverse Hetalia fic ''Fanfic/KingdomOfHeaven''.
105	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ShotAtDawn: France
106	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TakeThat: To everyone who forgot that APH's Prussia is a fucking Nazi.
107	* ThemeNaming: Not the characters, but the installments.
108	** Every fic that has to do with the death of a Nation takes its title from the poem, ''Thirty Days Hath September''.
109	** The fics that deal with Central Europe, particularly the German nations, take their titles from famous opera excerpts.
110	** If a fic is part of a companion set, their titles will be directly related, such has "The Left Hand Doesn't Know" followed by "What the Right Hand is Doing".
111	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ThoseWackyNazis: Subverted to hell and back.
112	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TheUnFavorite: Canada, Australia.
113	* UnreliableNarrator: All of them. Seriously. The Nations don't always believe their ''own'' recounting of events.
114	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, inaccessible to non-fans * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What drove England mad?
115	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, inaccessible to non-fans * WhatIf: What If England hadn't dissolved the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
116	%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
117	%% commented out as inaccessible to non-fans * WriterOnBoard: All three authors have distinct styles and opinions on what they are writing.

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