Line #106 WMG/InglouriousBasterds


1	[[WMG:The Basterds aren't ''just'' commandos...]]
2	They're [[VideoGame/BionicCommando Bionic Commandos]]. This is how Brad Pitt was apparently able to survive his hanging/slashed throat/all-purpose neck injury: he's Rad Spencer, just given an AdaptationDyeJob and an awesome accent (and 'stache). One of the other dudes is probably Super Joe, too.
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4	[[WMG:The whole film is a dream Lt Aldo Raine has as he dies due to his throat being cut]]
5	Seriously, did you notice that scar? Nasty. It's all something he dreams up to comfort himself as he bleeds out. A world where he not only lives, but also wins the war almost without the assistance of anyone not answering to him. Thus, the film isn't an AlternateHistory at all.
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7	* Fine, except his scar is probably from a noose that someone tried to hang him with.
8	** He did mention bootlegging.
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10	* Unlikely, just because the majority of the movie is arguably told from Col. Hans Landa's perspective. Landa would know enough about Shosanna's story in order to recount it, whereas Raine has no interaction with her. It's unlikely that his vision would have included a fully fleshed-out, parallel B-plot with which he had no direct interaction.
11	** What about it being Landa's dying dream?
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13	[[WMG: Lt. Aldo Raine was hanged for trying to save or defend the victim of a racially motivated lynching that took place in Tennessee before the War.]]
14	The [[http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Inglourious-Basterds.html script]] makes reference to the rope burn across Raine's neck as possibly being the result of a lynching. If this is the case, then the exact nature of the lynching, as was common in the DeepSouth of that era, was likely race-related. The victims of lynchings included whites as well as blacks, oftentimes Jewish businessmen from northern states and immigrants -- notably Italian-Americans. Further speculating, given Raine's apparent sense of racial justice (to the extent of airdropping into France for the purpose of "one thang and one thang only: killing Nazis" in return for their being "Jew-hatin, mass-murdering maniacs"), he may have tried to intervene in the lynching of a Jew or Italian-American and was consequently hanged. But because Raine is not Jewish or Italian himself, they cut him down and let him go.
15	* That, or he [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat survived his "lynching"]] by being a MadeOfIron badass. [[CurbStompBattle And then performed a]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard reverse lynching]] [[AssholeVictim on the lynchers]].
16	* The victim of the lynching he tried to prevent was the grandson of a [[Film/DjangoUnchained certain Mr. Freeman and Mrs. von Shaft]].
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18	[[WMG: It's all real, but not AlternateHistory]]
19	The various Nazi High Command in the cinema were all body doubles. Everything happened, but it had no impact on the war's ending.
20	* That makes a lot of sense. Apparently Hitler did use body doubles to prevent being assassinated. Plus, it would explain why the Nazis didn't look much like their true selves.
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22	[[WMG: It's all real, and [[spoiler: Hitler DID die in the cinema]]]]
23	But the remaining Nazi command lied and said that they were doubles to keep morale up. [[spoiler: The one that committed suicide in the bunker was the ''real'' body double.]]
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25	[[WMG: InUniverse, ''inglourious'' is the correct spelling of the word.]]
26	Notice the use of "gloury" in the trailer for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0lTVDyg4us Nation's Pride]]''.
27	* But "basterd" is still wrong. Interestingly enough, "basterds" is the correct spelling of the plural. English is funny in parallel universes.
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29	[[WMG: It all happened, but Nazi Germany is still intact afterward]]
30	[[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Hitler is replaced by the Red Skull.]]
31	* It is intact, and it wins the war. The new German leaders demand that the U.S. try Lt. Raine for war crimes, knowing that they are asking the impossible. America is embarrassed into withdrawing its support for the war. Without [[spoiler:Hitler surviving]], Germany has [[spoiler: more competent leaders who don't insist on things like invading Russia in winter.]] It's GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel applied to alternate history.
32	* Maybe America is so embarrassed about the whole situation that Aldo and the rest of the Basterds are incarcerated to save face. Of course, America wouldn't imprison their own war heroes, so under cover they do experiments. Maybe give Aldo a little serum...
33	** And he became ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Captain America, who is far more willing to use guns and explosives than his mainstream counterpart. Marcelle also escaped to the U.S., only losing an eye in the process and was another test subject.
34	* Or, maybe they froze Hitler to save him, and [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Vandal Savage]] took over instead...
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36	[[WMG: In the power vacuum formed by the destruction of the Nazi High Command, Erwin Rommel forms a military dictatorship and takes over Nazi Germany]].
37	That MagnificentBastard.
38	* Wait, wouldn't Rommel already be dead by the time ''Inglourious Basterds'' happened?
39	** No, the later part of ''Inglourious Basterds'' take place in the summer of 1944 -- the Allies are still in Normandy, and the Germans are still in Paris. The year itself is also mentioned.
40	** Hitler mentioned D-Day as a fairly recent event.
41	*** Even if Rommel himself doesn't take over, a military-dominated dictatorship is likely so long as the events take place before or supercedes the events of July 20th in our timeline - the deaths in the theatre are extensive enough that Operation Walküre can legitimately be put in effect, and the plotters of July 20th have already modified that continuity-of-governance plan to their needs by the summer of 1944. Granted, several of the plotters may be dead in the theatre as well, but many of them wouldn't.
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43	[[WMG: Lt. Aldo Raine, after the war, becomes a mercenary for [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 a demolition company]].]]
44	His hatred of Nazis was so great that he didn't care if the war was over. Specifically, he didn't stop the killing until four years after the war. He shaved his head and mustache, and pulled out the rocket launcher and shovel.
45	* If you believe the WMG/TeamFortress2 WMG that the Scout is either Donny's son or nephew, then Aldo has worked with two generations of Donowitzes.
46	** Or if you believe the 'Donny's a WMG/TimeLord and regenerates into the Scout' theory, then Aldo and Donny team up again.
47	* If you look at the [[WMG/NoMoreHeroes WMGs for]] ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', then that would mean that Holly Summers is Aldo's daughter and Bad Girl is the Scout's daughter.
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49	[[WMG: ''Film/KillBill'' takes place in the same alternate universe as ''Inglourious Basterds.'']]
50	In both films, there are events and concepts that have no place in the real world, such as airplanes having special holders for Katanas (you can't even bring fingernail clippers aboard an airplane) or Hitler dying in an Allied plot.
51	* The characters insist the war will be over once Hitler and the Nazi High Command are wiped out. Japan might be neutral.
52	* On the other hand, there doesn't appear to be evidence of encroaching Russian forces, nor any mention of the Russians on the allied forces. It's possible that in the IB/KB-verse, Russia joined the Axis and Japan joined the Allies.
53	** Either might explain the fanatical martialism present in ''Film/KillBill'''s version of Japan. The emperor was never stripped of his power, and Japan was never demilitarized.
54	* Raine, being familiar with a certain degree of criminal element and coming from the southern United states, may have been a friend or colleague of Bill or Esteban.
55	* Sophie Fatale is no doubt a relative of Francesca Mondino.
56	* Shoshanna showed such flair and talent for revenge that one might wonder if she has relatives in America who changed their name to Kiddo to sound less Jewish.
57	* Although it doesn't relate to ''Film/KillBill'', a more subtle break from reality in ''Inglourious Basterds'' would be Lt. Aldo Raine's apparent knowledge of the Holocaust, as shown when he refers to the Nazi high command (probably specifically, Hitler) as "mass-murderin' maniac." Would an American lieutenant in 1944 have known of the true extent of the Holocaust? Later, Sgt. Donowitz asks the German sergeant whether he received a particular medal for killing Jews.
58	** People outside of the Reich were hardly ignorant of the Nazi Party's policy on Jews; the full extent of the concentration camp system/Final Solution hadn't been grasped, but people did certainly know that Jews were being targeted, rounded up and imprisoned, "disappearing" or even just being executed. Wicki was a European Jew himself, who "got out while the getting was good", it's quite possible that he was targeted himself before he fled or witnessed other Jewish people being targeted, and carried those stories back. The deleted scenes from the script and the names on Donny's bat bear out that, as in reality, American Jews were worried for their family members in Europe. The Basterds were probably not aware of the full extent of the Holocaust, but they certainly knew the score. It also makes more sense in-story to send out a crack team of commandos against what was still perceived by Aldo et al. to be just some serious anti-Semitic thuggery in Germany. (And though in a Watsonian sense, Aldo might be responding to a different sort of "mass murder" than the industrialized horror of the concentration camps, Doyleistically if you're making a revenge film about the Nazis, it makes sense to go with the biggest and plainest offense rather than merely those that a group of highly concerned Jewish-American men might be aware of in 1944.) It's also possible word got out some other way, either in a way that could have happened in the real world, or as the above troper says, in a way that indicates an AlternateUniverse.
59	* An AlternateHistory where Japan remains a dictatorship fiercely devoted to honor? [[Literature/BattleRoyale This sounds familiar.]] Could this make ''Inglourious Basterds'', ''Film/KillBill'', and ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' part of the same canon?
60	** Tarantino was offered the role of US President for ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', but couldn't take part due to scheduling conflicts.
61	* Donny Donowitz's son is Lee Donowitz of ''Film/TrueRomance'', who made a war film called ''Coming Home in a Body Bag''.
62	* (Blinks) Are you kidding me? This is Quentin [[{{precision F strike}} fucking]] Tarrantino we're talking about, EVERYTHING that [[{{Sir Swears a Lot}} fucker]] makes is supposed to be in the same [[{{cluster F bomb}} universe.]]
63	* Incidentally, there's a theory on the ''Kill Bill'' page stating Bill and Budd were taken on as new members of the Basterds [[spoiler: to replace the losses in this mission]].
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65	[[WMG: Lt. Aldo Raine can read subtitles.]]
66	In the theater scene where the Basterds pose as von Hammersmark's Italian posse, it's obvious that Raine doesn't know a lick of Italian except for a few key phrases. But he seems to understand when Aldo keeps asking him in Italian to pronounce his name. Now, it's possible that he DOES know Italian like he said. But the more likely solution? He glanced at the subtitles on the screen.
67	** So either he has special eyes akin to [[Manga/DeathNote shinigami eyes]] where he can see what everyone else is saying in languages not his own...or he can [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall.]]
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69	[[WMG: Lt. Aldo Raine does speak Italian, but he's still a beginner.]]
70	He knows enough Italian to follow the thread of a conversation, but not enough to converse fluently. He learned Italian "organically" by hanging around Italians; he usually understands what they say just fine, but his speech is still broken because he doesn't know the grammar yet.
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72	[[WMG: Bridget von Hammersmark is Anti-Nazi, but she's still a Far-Right German Nationalist.]]
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74	We never learn ''why'' she is so anti-Nazi. Her motives could be quite different from the Allies' -- "the enemy of my enemy" could be in play here.
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76	She has an aristocratic 'von,' which suggests that she belongs to the nobility like many other right-wing German Resistance members. She has an aristocratic arrogance. She also has an ''extremely'' contemptuous attitude towards the Basterds. Granted, her first meeting with Raine isn't exactly great; but she harps on about America ''a lot''.
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78	She might be a monarchist, like many of the {{real life}} July 20 Plotters.
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80	[[WMG: Due to Hitler dying early...]]
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82	The Soviet Union and American forces join up in Berlin, and so the the US can devote more forces to the Pacific theater. The Yalta Conference happens earlier, but the US doesn't make as many concessions to the Soviet Union concerning Japan, and so the balance of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar is tilted in the US's favor.
83	* A narration line in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'' implies the Cold War is over by 1969, or at least travel between Poland and the West is easier than it would've been in real life.
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85	[[WMG: Landa did ''not'' recognize Shoshanna in the coffee shop]]
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87	Some time had passed since her family had been killed. She probably looked older and made changes in her appearance, like dyeing her hair blonde.
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89	Also, when Shoshanna was fleeing, Landa would not have gotten a good look at her; he only saw her back. She was running, and so it would have been hard to see her clearly.
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91	[[WMG: Alternatively, Landa ''did'' recognize Shoshanna]]
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93	And simply chose to mess with her, feeling that she'd be too overwhelmed with maintaining her French citizen act combined with her trauma of seeing his face again to do anything serious. Which is why he ordered the dessert. Normally the cream would've been made with butter and milk, but shortages brought on by the war meant it was made with more readily available pig fat instead. This made it non-kosher for the Jewish Shoshanna, who would need to eat it to avoid suspicion.
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95	** This is probably the more likely scenario, and why he insisted she wait for the cream. What he likely didn't realize is that the Talmud explicitly allows for breaking kosher dietary restrictions if one is in mortal danger... or he did, and this was another way of messing with her.
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97	[[WMG: The title is this way because Creator/QuentinTarantino can't spell.]]
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99	No offense to Quentin Tarantino, but spelling clearly wasn't his strong suit at school. Read the scripts of some of his movies on [=IMSDb=]. He may honestly have believed that it's spelled "Inglourious Basterds". Somebody would have noticed early in the production, but they probably found it amusing enough to [[ThrowItIn keep it that way]] as an InJoke.
100	* In the script, he even spells it "Bastreds" once.
101	* Don't remember whose gun it was on, but it would likely be in character for at the least, Raine to have a poor grasp of spelling as well.
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103	[[WMG: Hans Landa was acting on Himmler's orders.]]
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105	While we are shown Goebbels, Bormann, Goering and Hitler at the cinema no mention is made of another vastly powerful lieutenant of the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler. This is especially unusual as he was the leader most clearly implicated in the Holocaust and so would have been a major target for the revenge plots of both the 'Basterds' and Shoshanna. It is also implied that the killing of the Nazi leaders in the cinema will lead to the end of the war when it seems likely that Himmler would have had the power to take over Nazi Germany in the power vacuum left by their deaths and so could have continued the war had he so desired.
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107	The answer? SS commander Hans Landa told Himmler to stay away from the premiere due to his suspicions about what would occur there. Himmler had been kept informed as to what was happening and saw the opportunity to make a deal with the Allies through Landa. This fits well with his real historical behaviour. Himmler became increasingly anxious to reach an accomodation with the Allies towards the end of the war, initiating communications with the Swiss Count Bernadotte and arranging the infamous Jews for trucks deal that some historians have seen as an attempt to start negotiations.
108	* This works if you don't buy into the interpretation that Landa ''is'' Himmler-or rather his {{Expy}}.
109	* Bernadotte was Swedish and so were the white buses not Swiss.
110	* Landa is not a good Himmler expy. To be blunt, Landa is far too much of a small fry compared to Himmler.
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112	[[WMG: The assassination was a success because a shinigami wrote [[spoiler: Hitler's name in his/her Manga/DeathNote.]]]]
113	Well, more specifically, [[spoiler: ''Adolf Hitler, assassinated''.]] Other names could possibly have been written in there as well, and everyone else? Well, their lifespans had run out anyway, the shinigami just picked off the names of the ones who should have escaped.
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116	[[WMG: Lt. Aldo Raine is actually [[Film/LegendsOfTheFall Tristan Ludlow.]]]]
117	He's a former bootlegger that scalps Germans and would be about the right age. With his kids old enough to start their lives on their own, he hears the voice of the bear in him again and gets his desire to kill in his Native manner that he was raised with. He faked his name and origin to keep cover on his identity as the culprit of the sheriff's murder in Montana, after a close call while hiding out there had him hanged and nearly killed, leaving a permanent scar on his neck.
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119	[[WMG: Landa is a necrophile]]
120	Von Hammersmark mentions "conquests", Zoller says Landa has a "reputation". So he's a "lady killer" or is he actually a lady killer. He likes to throttle women then have sex with them.
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122	After strangling Von Hammersmark how much time passes before Landa picks up the phone? If he isn't a sexually motivated murderer why does he kill Von Hammersmark the way he does? Why not stab her? Or shoot her? The cinema audience wouldn't hear the shot and his Mooks would not question his actions if they heard the report.
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124	Landa already knows, after looking at the aftermath of the basement shootout, something is afoot and with Hitler due to arrive, Landa (the wily fox he is) deduces that the Basterds are on an assassination mission. So taking Von Hammersmark and Aldo to "negotiate his terms of surrender" would better his standing with the Allies. Wouldn't it?
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126	Not if you're Landa, being a sexual deviant, who decides that this is his opportunity to murder and have sex with a famous actress. SS Col. Hans Landa the Jew Hunter; Hans Landa the Salzburg Strangler more like.
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128	Watch the film now with this theory in mind. It makes sense.
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130	[[WMG: Landa is dead]]
131	I find it hard to believe that just Raine and Utivitch were able to hold down Landa to carve in the swastika. Considering how stable the angle is when we see him cutting it, and see how he's pretty much the most evil basterd they met in the film, it makes sense to believe they killed him then carved in the swastika out of principle.
132	* Dead men don't scream.
133	** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Well, they do BEFORE they die]]. [[ThatsGottaHurt Especially when they get]] [[AbsurdlySharpBlade a huge-ass Bowie Knife]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice jammed into their skull, right into the brain.]] They might not have killed him before they carved the Swastika, but cutting a hole for all of Landa's brain juice to pour out meant that basterd ain't getting to his little place on Nantucket Island...
134	*** I'm...not sure if you're serious or not. I see what you're saying about only two men holding down Landa and the knife angle, but everything else you're saying either makes no sense or can easily be ascribed to misinterpreting what's happening on screen.
135	*** It's explicitly stated that Aldo needs Hans alive. He has also been carving swastikas into thousands of nazis, most of whom end up alive if Han's mention about interrogating survivors is any indication.
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137	[[WMG: The film takes place in the same universe as ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'']]
138	With the Nazi High Command destroyed the Western Allies make it to Berlin before the Russians. Germany is not split in two, however the American influence causes the adoption of the dollar and Germany becoming completely bilingual.
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140	[[WMG: "Lt. Archie Hicox" was actually a Jew who managed to escape before the Nazi takeover.]]
141	* Although his family was Polish, which explains both his odd German accent and his ridiculously posh British accent. Years later, his death would be one of the things that leads his younger brother, Erik, to follow his Nazi-killing footsteps. His brother is more successful than he was, thanks to a handy little [[Film/XMenFirstClass mutation…]]
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143	[[WMG: Aldo Raine and [[Film/KillBill Beatrix Kiddo]] are somehow related.]]
144	Both of the opponents they were seen sparing in their respective massacres were young, inexperienced boys who only wanted to go home to their mothers.
145	* They're also both blonde, attractive, EXTREMELY competent ass-kickers who can take a bullet (or a knife to the throat, or a lynching, or whatever the hell happened to Raine) and live to tell the tale. Maybe survival and badassery are in their blood.
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147	[[WMG: The scar Raine gave Landa is somehow "worse" than the one he gave the private.]]
148	Raine declares the scar his "masterpiece", indicating it's different somehow from the other on-screen one. Also, Raine isn't a [[EvenEvilHasStandards ''total'']] extremist psychopath; given his actions regarding Wilhelm, it's likely he went a little easier on the terrified private who only wanted to live than on the Jew Hunter.
149	* See above theory on [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Raine just flat-up murdering Landa]], [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by carving the Swastika THROUGH his skull]].
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151	[[WMG: In Tarantino's alternate universe, Erwin Rommel is not German, he is British instead.]]
152	Rommel's nickname is "Desert Fox", or "Wüstenfuchs" in German, which is also a German term for the fennec fox. Thus, General Ed [[MeaningfulName Fenech]] is Erwin Rommel!
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154	[[WMG: Two of the Basterds had different nicknames before the time of the movie's main plot in 1944.]]
155	The scene in the tavern proves the existence of German author Karl May and his works in the Tarantino-verse, as well as their popularity among the Germans, just as it is the case in RealLife. Thus, after word of his Apache heritage has spread among the Wehrmacht soldiers, the original nickname of Aldo Raine was of course ''Literature/{{Winnetou}}'', after the Apache protagonist in May's novels. [[ThemeNaming In order to keep up the theme]], Donny Donowitz was named after Winnetou's best friend ''Old Shatterhand'', this way also alluding to what he uses his baseball bat for. The bat itself got the nickname ''Bärentöter'' ("bear killer") after one of Old Shatterhand's two trademark guns. (The [[{{BFG}} bigger]] one.)
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157	However, because these names carry very positive connotations for most Germans, the Nazi high command disapproved of them of course, and forbade their usage. The result: Aldo ''Winnetou'' Raine was renamed to ''The Apache'', and Donny ''Old Shatterhand'' Donowitz, deriving from his weapon's nickname, to ''The Bear Jew''.
158	* Also, we never learn the nickname of Omar Ulmer, but an obvious choice would be ''Hadschi Halef Omar'', the name of the protagonist's sidekick in May's novels set in the Middle East. Likewise, if Hugo Stiglitz was recruited by the Basterds while they were still in this "May character nickname" phase, he could have been named ''Hugo Ben Nemsi'' (meaning "Hugo, son of the Germans"), after Kara Ben Nemsi, the aforementioned protagonist of the Middle Eastern novels.
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160	[[WMG: Hans Landa is [[Theatre/SpringAwakening Hanschen Rilow]].]]
161	* The slick blond perfectionist who jerks off to a fictional woman about to be smothered? The timeline's a little off, unless Landa is older than his actor in 1941, but Hanschen may have done very well for himself.
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163	[[WMG: Some of Landa's eccentricity is due to the fact that [[DrugsAreBad he's a functional cocaine user.]]]]
164	* Probably by injection, a la Franchise/SherlockHolmes, perhaps even to emulate him. He wouldn't be the only high-ranking drug user in the Nazi Party, and his status as a functioning addict would indicate it's not interfering with his work performance or acuity of mind.
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166	[[WMG: Stiglitz's parents were killed by Nazis, prompting him to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge]]
167	* Based on the fact that during his flashback we hear a song from the movie 'Slaughter', which is about a Vietnam veteran getting revenge on the criminals who killed his parents.
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169	[[WMG: Alternatively, Stiglitz is gay or bisexual, had a male lover who was killed by the Nazis and attempted to bring down the Nazis from the inside for it]]
170	* It would explain both his apparently shaky grip on sanity and his vicious hatred for the Nazis.
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172	[[WMG: The person Aldo tried to save from being lynched was a romantic partner.]]
173	* Based on the a WMG toward the top of the page. He was in a relationship with a Jewish person, and if it was a woman, was converting to Judaism so they could get married. Somehow he survived the lynching and being the kind of man he is, eventually gets revenge on the person who killed his beloved. This doesn't bring him the closure he hoped for, so when WWII breaks out, he joins the military with the express purpose of killing as many Nazis as possible.
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175	[[WMG: Eli Roth and Omar Doom's characters in ''[[Film/{{Grindhouse}} Death Proof]]'' are the grandsons of Donny and Omar.]]
176	* Eli Roth's character is even called 'Dov', which is Hebrew for 'bear'. It's already been confirmed that Lee Donowitz in True Romance is the son of Donny Donowitz, so perhaps Dov is Lee's son. We don't find out either character's surname, either.
177	** Michael Bacall, who played one of the lesser-known Basterds (Zimmerman, to be precise), also played a character in Death Proof. Perhaps the same could be said for his character.
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179	[[WMG: Von Hammersmark was ''never'' a good spy, she was TheFool whose luck ran out.]]
180	* Von Hammersmark is built up as a master spy who made the Basterds plot possible, yet every onscreen call she makes turns out to be the wrong one. Some of this is sheer bad luck (the party being thrown in the tavern) but she firmly carries the IdiotBall for most of the film (such as not taking ten minutes to think up a semi-plausible reason for her cast.)
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182	[[WMG: The three-finger gesture didn't give Lt. Hicox away.]]
183	* In the bar scene, Major Hellstrom already knew those unfamiliar soldiers were spies. \
184	[[https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/2v349b/inglourious_basterds_the_unorthodox_3finger/ Read the whole thing here.]] (All due credit belongs with the Redditor OP)
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186	[[WMG: Landa deliberately let one person get away from each of his killings to set up the Nazi's downfall]]
187	* The opening scene was carried out in similar fashion across many dairy farms across the region, and for each one he left out one target and let them escape, so their already intense resentment towards the Nazi regime would boil even more. He didn't recognize Shoshanna specifically, but given her reactions in their scene together, knew she was one of his escapees and could be relied upon to lock up the theatre and spring a trap even if she had to sacrifice herself to do it, giving himself the opportunity he takes advantage of at the end of the film.
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189	[[WMG: Lt. Aldo Raine caught wind of Operation Paperclip.]]
190	* And Space Race be damned, he would not stand for pardoned Nazis hiding in America and went out forehead carving.
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