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  • The Imperial Union from AMC Squad is a mix of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, in that they are a fascist political movement that has taken over Russia. Citizens are openly shot in the streets and left to starve in their homes, the leader is a Social Darwinist who left the country to rot out of pure selfishness, and their soldiers openly patrol the streets looking for dissenters.
  • The Xylvanians from Battalion Wars are a theme park version of it and WWI Imperial Germany. All of its military are modeled off of Nazi infantry, vehicles, and aircraft and the same feeling of superiority and inferior races exists between Xylvania and other countries.
  • In Bayonetta, Father Balder reveals that he spurred on the Witch Hunts and attempted to gain control over the Red Eye so he can resurrect Jubileus in order to destroy and recreate the universe in the image of the old. Luka ends up calling him out and calls his plan "diarrhea of the mouth", mentioning that he's no different from several infamous genocidal figures just like him from the past.
    Luka: History is littered with famous genocidal figures just like you... Or should I say infamous genocidal figures.
  • BioShock Infinite is basically what would happen if the Ku Klux Klan got ahold of time-travel technology, and used it to emulate the Nazis but with 1900's American culture. They're super-racists who enjoy stoning interracial couples with baseballs, forcing inhumane conditions on the working class, indoctrinating/imprisoning their own children until they believe in the cause, et cetera. They also worship their leader to the point of forking over 50% of all economic profits to him, and will sit down and pray while a terrorist is busy gunning them to death just because their leader told them to, and despite their secessionist origins they are obsessed with conquering the world. By the 1980's, they've devolved into sexism as well, persecuted their own elites for having reasonable opinions about the overly-violent conquest, and have used said time travel to torture prisoners with 'quantum imprisonment' and conquer other Earths.
  • Gary Smith, the villain from Bully could definitely be an example of this. His sideswept crew cut, SS Halloween costume, his mania for taking over the school, his desire to rule a large empire, and the way he convinces the Townies to set the school Gym on fire much like the Reichstag are definitely taken from Nazi ideology.
  • Ciel nosurge has Revelt, the leader of the Tenmon. He believes all Genom are trash and pushed the Cielnotron to starve the Genom out. Later, he decides to migrate from their dying planet with his "elite 1%" of humanity, a plan which would very likely have destroyed the planet and killed everyone else living there, humans and Genom alike.
  • Die Spinne in Crimson Skies. 1. They're German; 2. They're Fascists; 3. The game series is set in the thirties. It looks like somebody wasn't really trying to hide the obvious here.
  • de Blob: The INKT Corporation are a fantasy group of Commie Nazis hailing from outer space, conquering the planet Raydia in order to enslave and homogenize its people. The sequel shows visible parallels to other fascist governments, with a recreation of the Tiananmen Square "Tank Man" image occurring in one cutscene.
  • The Templars of Kirkwall in Dragon Age II have elements of this, with the most blatant example being Ser Alrik and his "Tranquil Solution" to give magical lobotomies to all mages. After it turns out the higher-ups rejected the idea (which didn't stop Alrik from forging ahead on his own), one companion cheerfully tells the resident mage rights activist that it turned out not to be the holocaust he thought it was.
  • Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG: President Zazz is an unusual example in that he believes in human supremacy, is fanatical about humanity's past glory, seeks to turn non-humans into third-class citizens, and is repeatedly called a fascist, but since he's the only human alive, he doesn't really have a Cult of Personality based on these ideals. Instead, he relies on his corporate power and political connections to coerce people into doing what he wants and manipulate greedy non-humans into betraying their people for profit.
  • The Elder Scrolls:
    • During the 200 year Time Skip following the events of the Oblivion Crisis and before Skyrim, the Thalmor, an Altmeri (High Elf) religious extremist organization, seized control of the Altmeri government and re-formed the Aldmeri Dominion of old. The Nazi parallels of the Thalmor are impossible to miss, to note:
      • Militarily and diplomatically, the Thalmor initiated an aggressive policy and, through various machinations, robbed the declining Cyrodiilic Empire of numerous provinces. The Dominion outright annexed Valenwood, home of the Bosmer (Wood Elves) (in a way very reminiscent of the Anschluss), and later used Blatant Lies and/or Stealing the Credit to get Elsweyr, home of the Khajiit, to join as a vassal nation. They assassinated Potentate Ocato, the de-facto leader of the Empire and very much a Reasonable Authority Figure in order to (successfully) destabilize the Empire. They practice Divide and Conquer tactics, and initiated Enemy Civil Wars, first by goading the Argonians into attacking Morrowind, home of the Dunmer, in revenge for thousands of years of slavery. After initiating the Great War with the Empire, they found that the Empire was not as weak as they thought. They settled for the White-Gold Concordat, a peace treaty with terms heavily favorable to the Dominion. It included the Empire ceding large parts of Hammerfell, home of the Redguards, to the Dominion, which caused Hammerfell to immediately secede. Another provision, banning Talos worship, caused a rift and eventual Civil War in Skyrim, homeland of the Nords. The Concordat also gives the Thalmor the right to enforce its terms anywhere within the Empire. All the while, the Dominion has been building up their strength in anticipation of dealing the killing blow to the Empire in the inevitable second Great War.
      • Culturally and in terms of policy, the Thalmor espouse the belief that the Altmer, being the only true descendants of the Aedra, are the Superior Species. Any Altmer who do not support the Thalmor are not "true" Altmer. The other races of Mer (Elves) are the result of "degeneration", but service to the Thalmor could save them. Finally, they believe that the races of Men are the worst of all, with pitifully short lives filled with violence and savagery and who seem to exist just to disrupt everything the Altmer try to accomplish. The Thalmor are also accused of embracing eugenics, euthanizing as many as nine out of every ten Altmeri children born in the Dominion in a bid to maintain the genetic purity of the Altmer race. (This particular figure comes from the heavily Imperial-biased Pocket Guide to the Empire so it is unclear if it is true, exaggerated, or a misconception born from anti-elf propaganda spread during the early days of the Cyrodiilic empire.) There are suggestions among Elven sources that, owing to their belief in Reincarnation, the Altmer may "cull" "undesirable" offspring in order to release the spirit so that it can be reincarnated in a better form, lending the idea some credence.
      • Religiously, the Thalmor play up the old Aldmeri religious belief that the creation of the mortal world was a cruel trick by a Jerkass God that robbed their divine ancestors of their pre-creation divinity. Said god, known to them as the Lorkhan, then specifically created the races of Men out of the "weakest souls" to spread Sithis (chaos) in to "every corner" of creation, ensuring that there could never again be the pure stasis of pre-creation. Thus, in order to undo creation, they must not only Kill All Humans, but kill the very idea of humanity. In order to accomplish this, they must wipe out the worship of Talos, a Deity of Human Origin who was once the mortal man Tiber Septim, possibly among others, and who is possibly (in-part) the re-ascended form of Lorkhan. It's implied that they don't just hunt down, but also execute Talos worshippers outright.
      • Historically, the Thalmor-led Dominion is the Dominion's third incarnation, arising in the wake of a continent-spanning crisis that gave them opportunity to ride a populist wave and arise from the ashes of a group of extremists previously marginalized, and dissatisfied with their status quo and perceptions of unfair treatment at the end of the second incarnation of said empire generation(s) ago.
      • In terms of appearance, their wandering Justiciars and agents have a visual and operative resemblance to the Einsatzgruppen, which was a squad consisting of an SS officer and several soldiers. It was their job to patrol around occupied territory and execute "undesirables" with impunity, much as the Thalmor Justicars do in the lands of the Empire to the surviving Blades and Talos worshipers. And though the Thalmor lack a symbol like the Swastika, the animal they use as their symbol is the Eagle, which was also favored by the Third Reich.
    • In Skyrim, the Stormcloaks are a Downplayed version. They are a group of nationalistic Nords who want to rebuild Skyrim as an independent power, with a "Skyrim for the Nords!" mentality, and they're all led by a charismatic man with a knack for loud, hammy speeches. Even their name is an evocation of the Nazis' love of storm imagery (see the SS's lightning bolt logo, or the modern neo-Nazi group Stormfront). Nonetheless, the player can still join them even if s/he is not a Nord. Doing so will result in being told that You Are a Credit to Your Race a lot.
  • Eternal Twilight has Empress Verona and her unnamed country. She desires the genocide of the Magi, stokes anti-Magi sentiment and paranoia among her army, turns several settlements into police states dedicated to hunting Magi and Magi sympathizers, has a dangerous Cult of Personality, and had a fort built that utilizes poison gas to kill Magi prisoners.
  • Fallout:
    • The Enclave originated as an association of powerful Americans who formed a "shadow government" that would survive after nuclear war. Aside from Putting on the Reich, in Fallout 2 they consider themselves and themselves alone to be the absolute Master Race, and intended to kill off the entire population of America out of a belief that all of the surface-dwellers were tainted by radiation and mutations. They tested their method by using it on the residents of the player character's home of Fallout and the inhabitants of the player character's village in Fallout 2, which have common ancestries. The East Coast Enclave in Fallout 3 were more Well-Intentioned Extremists, but their AI President Evil concocted a Final Solution involving tainting the water supply.
    • Fallout: New Vegas has Caesar's Legion, although they are much more akin to Fascist Italy than Nazi Germany. They follow a totalitarian, collectivist, Might Makes Right ideology inspired by The Theme Park Version of The Roman Empire, their leader Caesar has built a Cult of Personality around himself, and instead of a Master Race ideology like the Enclave, they believe in the forced assimilation of conquered tribes into the superior culture. Caesar himself has enough parallels to be considered a post-apocalyptic Benito Mussolini.
  • In Final Fantasy VI, Gestahl wants to breed Kefka and Celes together to form a master race, and Imperial uniforms are Nazi-like. They also do a Nazi salute in Terra's flashback. And yes, they do commit genocide. Repeatedly.
    • Quite ironically (compared to other examples), Gestahl does seem to stand for and be a good example of the order he seeks to implement. That is, until said mad clown kicks him off a flying continent. Germany could only spawn Knight Templars, Blood Knights, and Corrupt Corporate Executives due to its avaricious nature, and the fact its leader was too blinded by his own ego and importance to see the decay directly beneath. There is no one in the upper land-based echelons who resembles Leo. (There was always a large gap between the beliefs and actions of the kriegsmarines and intelligence agencies with the general army, however.)
  • The Garlean Empire from Final Fantasy XIV are like the Gestahlian Empire, but even more Nazi-like, with some Roman Empire aesthetics thrown in: they believe in 'racial purity' and that pure-blood Garleans have a right to conquer other lands and civilize the 'savages' of other nations. For bonus points, a significant, though not all, amount of pure-blood Garleans are blue-eyed blondes. If you're part of the 'Spoken' races of the setting (that is to say, any playable race), then they will just colonize and brutally oppress your land and enslave your people, with the only way of becoming a citizen being serving in the military for dozens of years, similarly to the Roman Empire. However, if you're part of a Primal-worshipping Beast Tribe? The Garleans have only one solution for you.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
    • Those Who Slither In The Dark have a lot in common with the Nazis. They carried out at least one genocidal world war in the distant past, they consider everyone not part of their civilization to be subhuman beasts, and they're really into torturous human experimentation. They dress all in black, and have quite a lot of power in Adrestia, the country whose colours are black and red and whose animal is the eagle, plus they have a thing for Indic names.
  • The Floda Lederhosen company in Flight of the Amazon Queen is actually a front for a group of blue-eyed, blond-haired soldiers with German accents whose goal is to create a master race (of dinosaur people).
  • Fuga: Melodies of Steel's main antagonistic force is The Berman Empire, a not-so-subtle reference to Nazi Germany, as the game itself was stated to be heavily inspired by WWII-era Europe. The main villain leading the faction is obviously based on Adolf himself (with M. Bison influence), the strictly Caninu soldiers themselves have Fantastic Racism against the magic-abled Felinekos, and one of the bosses of the game is a scientist hiding his heritage who not only blames his own kind for all of the misfortune in his life, but also performs inhuman experiments on them with sadistic glee and attacks with lethal gas weapons.
  • Taygen in the 5th Geneforge game, who plans to annihilate all nonhumans, even has concentration camps. It shall be left as an exercise to the player whether those who consider his faction the optimal choice constitute a Misaimed Fandom or are a consequence of the series's Grey-and-Gray Morality.
  • The Great Gaias: Validus was already established to be a human supremacist empire, but when the party infiltrates the capital, they find that the state makes heavy use of propaganda to scapegoat the elves as the source of their problems and prevents citizens from knowing the other side of the story. Emperor Grindelwald Maultor has a Cult of Personality built around him and is presented as a benevolent strongman, and those who criticize him or the government are disappeared. The social caste system is designed to glorify the military, to the point where only those in the military or are in a military family can live in the higher end districts while everyone else lives in poverty. To drive this trope home, one of the mottos of the Validians is "Strength through unity, unity through faith," which is a reference to the fascists in V for Vendetta.
  • Hearts of Iron
    • Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg
      • In a broader sense, the National Populist ideology from Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg is this — game-mechanically, in the pre-HOI4 versions, it is the Nazi ideology of vanilla Hearts of Iron renamed to National Populistnote . In terms of ideology, it is described in terms suggesting that, insofar as any ideology can be described within the broad categories used in the game, it is essentially Nazism/Fascism shorn of the ideological focus on a totalitarian state (that is instead picked up by the ideology mentioned below). Examples include Boris Savinkov, leader of the People's Republican Party in Russia, William Dudley Pelley of the America First Party, and Corneliu Codreanu, leader of the Romanian Iron Guard (which was also Fascist in real life).
      • The Totalist ideology also qualifies — for a start, two of its founding members are Benito Mussolini and Oswald Mosley.
    • In The New Order Last Days Of Europe, the National Socialist ideology, while used for actual Nazis, is also used for people who are not connected with the Nazis. Some examples of this are the Ordosocialists in Komi under Ivan Serov and Francis Yockey's NPP-Y in the United States.
  • The Helghast from Killzone. Their history is "Nazis In Space". Plus their whole superiority complex.
    • Weirdly, the Helghast are much more popular with the fanbase than the ISA despite their Nazi overtones, probably due to their interesting and sympathetic backstory, hammy leader that can deliver one hell of a Rousing Speech, and awesome technology.
    • Although by the time Shadow Fall kicks in, the Helghast are analogous to East Germany, being separated from the ISA by a wall and having some villains that style themselves as anti-imperialists. That being said, they still retain their fascistic autocrat and belief in racial purity. (Note that East Germany was frequently subjected to the Commie Nazis trope due to their military's uncanny resemblance to the Third Reich's.)
      • One of the last missions in Shadow Fall has the player controlling a Helghast trying to prevent a war, with a rouge ISA general planning to use the war to wipe out the Helghast completely. Mercenary had the player taking missions from both sides, with some Helghast being sympathetic and some ISA being racist. Honestly, the main reason the Helghast are considered Nazi-like is their look, aggressiveness, and their leaders going on about purity. Differences aside, they're still pretty similar.
  • The Empire of Magnagora in Lusternia. While nominally democratic, their aristocracy consists of a Decadent Court, with backroom politics, assassinations and smear campaigns regarded as valid methods of advancement. They are highly racist towards elfen and merian, and regard The Taint — a mutagenic Psycho Serum cross between Atomic Superpower and Lovecraftian Superpower — as highly desirable in creating a mutated master race of super-hardy, poison-breathing undead. Their ultimate goal is to conquer and Taint the known world and murder all merian and elfen. Fantasy Nazism, through and through.
  • The Reapers in Mass Effect 3. The Codex details how people are rounded up and placed into death camps where they await eventual extermination depending on whether Reapers see them fit to be melted down as construction material, or mutilated into zombie mooks. It turns out the thing perpetrating this is a glitched AI using faulty reasoning to do what it was programmed — preserve organics at any costs. "Preserve organics" in this case being "kill as many as possible and use their corpses as living ships".
    • An even more glaring example is Cerberus, the human-supremacist organization introduced in the first game (marginally) but really fleshed out in the second. In the second game, they were portrayed as Well-Intentioned Extremists who merely wanted to look out for humanity rather than crush all other species and place humanity at the top. Then comes the third game. Charismatic, evil leader? Check. Distinctive color scheme and three-headed dog logos everywhere? Check. Racist belief system and a willingness to stamp on the "others" to ascend their idea of a Master Race to absolute power via control of Eldritch Abominations? Triple check.
  • In Mega Man Zero, because of an energy crisis, the ruling body of Neo Arcadia ends up instituting genocidal and racist policies towards Reploids supposedly for humanity's betterment, and one of the people in charge of Neo Arcadia's policies is Copy X, who himself is an actual Reploid and not even X. This sounds very similar to how Nazi Germany came into effect, as well as the rule of Adolf Hitler.
  • Who would have thought it? Even Pokémon of all games went for it in Pokémon Platinum, by inserting a cutscene in which Team Galactic leader Cyrus address ranks upon ranks of assembled Team Galactic Grunts: he tells them about creating a world for Team Galactic, free of the "imperfections" of past world along with such lines as "Let there be glory for Team Galactic!" The grunts answers with chants of "Master Cyrus is the greatest!" And to top it off, the character spying on the rally with you goes out of his way to remark how mesmerizing but unthinkable the whole speech was.
    • Team Flare in Pokémon X and Y are an even straighter example. Their goal is happiness for themselves and themselves only, and their leader seeks to create a more "beautiful" world by killing everyone who isn't a member of Team Flare. Also, to remove any semblance of subtext, their leader invented a hologram-projection machine called the Holo-Caster!
  • The Movement from Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy fits this trope. The meat puppets (basic irreversibly mind-wiped and rewritten soldiers) even have a red armband with the movement symbol on it and jackboots. What really cements it is their belief that psions should rule over the normal humans and the fact that the leader of it all is a general who staged a failed coup who really isn't a psion until he gets the artefacts he needs. For irony points, the main character is blonde and blue-eyed and none of the bosses are.
  • Umbrella and Tricell in Resident Evil. The Social Darwinism that Wesker is spouting in 5. Code: Veronica's insanity, up to and including the experimentation on prisoners. In Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, the Nazi vibes of Umbrella are stronger than in Code: Veronica. If you look at the rendering of Steve, he has a barcode tattoo on his left forearm. In the same place that concentration camp prisoners had theirs. Oh, and their leader, Spencer, also intended to create the perfect human by giving children who had superior intelligence genes and molding them into becoming his proxies, and of whom two survived being injected with a virus, one of the survivors, Albert Wesker, also possessing blond hair and blue eyes as well, which also significantly enhanced their strength, speed, and endurance to superhuman levels, very similar to the Aryan ideal of the Nazi Regime.
  • In StarCraft, the United Powers League, forerunner to the United Earth Directorate, definitely invoked images of the Nazis, only more successful. Religion and unsanctioned languages were erased from existence to make way for the "divinity of mankind" while the "impure" members of humanity — 400 million cyborgs, mutants, and criminals — were either executed or used in experiments.
    • The symbol of the UED, their successor, contains an eagle on a red background. Sound familiar?
  • Suikoden has several Nazi groups.
    • The Godwin family preaches the "virtues" of a strong militaristic regime, has soldiers in really snappy gray uniforms with red berets, and tries to make a "Falena for Falenans." They also employ an assassin named Dolph, in case you still haven't gotten it by that point.
    • Even weirder, parts of the game hint that while Gizel would somewhat prefer to remain in charge, he's deliberately creating a persona as a Hilter-ite villain, so that all the peoples of Falena will unite against him. Gizel comes off as more interested in simply seeing how it'll turn out than in guaranteeing victory for his side. His father is this trope played straight, though not as charismatic.
    • Similarly, the Kingdom of Highland had always been an aggressive military power since its formation, but it really started to become similar to this after Luca Blight came into power, leading to thousands of people being needlessly tortured and slaughtered.
    • There's also Harmonia, an expansionist empire with a strictly segregated society that condones slavery, treats non-human sentients as property rather than people, and seeks in the long term to conquer the world. Oh, and the most privileged caste of citizens, who are the only ones who can currently take any position of real authority? Invariably blond-haired and blue-eyed.
      • The ruler of Harmonia, Hikusaak, is never seen. But we know that (like Hitler in Nazi Germany) he doesn't fit the blond-haired and blue-eyed standard, because Luc and Sasarai, brown-haired and brown-eyed twins who play major on-screen roles in Suikoden II and Suikoden III, are clones of Hikusaak.
  • The Desians from Tales of Symphonia are very Nazi-like. They torment and kill people over overblown ancient historical grudges, stripping them of their wealth, dignity, and lives in Concentration Camps Human Ranches, obsess over their racial purity (which, abnormally, is their desire for racial impurity), and think of themselves as "Superior" (or really, humans are "Inferior Beings!!"), in addition to a slew of other parallels.
  • Team Fortress 2's Medic visual design evokes the aesthetic (in Beta, he even wore his symbol on a team-colored armband), an unreleased trading card claims that he was "raised in Stuttgart, Germany during an era when the Hippocratic oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion", and his voice clips contain gems such as "Heil us!", "Raus! Raus!" and "I am ze ubermensch!" Fandom is deeply, deeply divided over whether he is an ex-Nazi, a practicing Nazi, or just a very, very fucked up Mad Doctor with a funny accent.
  • In Tropico 4, the nationalist faction (or at least their leader) is this, if not just a skin head. They dislike any policy that allows people to move to the island, even when the island is facing crippling underpopulation and the closest thing the island has to college is the pub.
    • The player actually can be this. It is quite possible to set up a nationalistic dictatorship that teaches militarism in preschool, openly kill any rioter, use your clinics to increase the birth rate, and use your science academy to clone yourself.
  • The Empire in Valkyria Chronicles is both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in one. Led by an emperor.
    • The Gassenarl rebels in Valkyria Chronicles II are rebelling against the Gallian government for having been lied to about the Archduchess' Darcsen heritage, and have the "genocidal agenda" and "drab brown uniforms" parts down pat.
  • Interestingly used in Vandal Hearts. The game starts out with Stalinesque Scary Russian Analogues. Then Stalin himself (Hel Spites) is assassinated by his chief advisor, DOLF, and the overall theme switches gears. Two evil empires for the price of one!
  • The Project (commonly referred to as the Black Lance), from Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom is a none too subtle 27th century Nazi analog, complete with a nanomachine-based bioweapon designed to target "undesirable" individuals, a la the Final Solution.
  • Xenogears had the Solarians, people that lived in the sky and looked down upon the other nations, even going so far as to call anyone who was not Solarian a Lamb.
  • In Xenosaga Episode 2, there were the mass produced URTVs, all of which had blonde hair, blue eyes, were essentially flawless, and hive-minded. While not necessarily 'evil', their behavior is disturbing and they eventually succumb to madness and commit mass murdering sprees once infected with UDO.
  • Call of Duty tends to invoke this with any enemy who is NOT an actual Nazi. Dragovich has it, though the most egregious example is in Call of Duty: Ghosts, with the Federation of the Americas, who are basically Venezuelan Nazis. Their original leader, General Almagro, even tried to imprison or execute all US-born citizens on Federation soil. This trope is also invoked in Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare, where the SDF are Mars-born supremacists who consider themselves superior for living in an hostile planet and think Earth-born citizens are "lazy fat cats" who had everything handed to them. In one of the optional missions, some SDF soldiers can be heard talking about wanting to "shed foul Earthborn blood.".
  • The Pigmask Army from Mother 3. Their commonly seen salute is easily comparable to that of the Nazis, among other things.
  • Warframe has this in two flavors:
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt:
    • The Empire of Nilfgaard is a Culture Chop Suey of Ancient Rome and Nazi Germany with a predilection for wearing black, sun-associated imagery, policies of ethnic and cultural purity, and disdain for "degenerate" outsiders that led them to Take Over the World.
    • Novigrad's local Corrupt Church is being encouraged by The Caligula King Radovid to seek out and arrest and harass any magic users they find. Public burnings of books, fetishes, and other magic-associated items are a common sight in the city. Eventually, they do go full Nazi and try to round up all the magic users to slaughter them — Geralt and Triss are able to evacuate a good number of survivors on a boat to Kovir, but then the church begins targeting non-humans as well... Even Nilfgaard is disgusted by them.
  • Empire Earth: Novaya Russia eventually degenerated into a fascist nightmare, despite most of their ideology being based on the glory days of the Soviet Union.
  • In Civilization: Beyond Earth, the Purity affinity is all about glorification of the past, celebration of the human race, and clearing the native alien life to make way for settlers from Earth, with an undercurrent of bigotry against those who have followed the other two affinities and modified their own bodies. One of the quotes for a high-end Purity level-up outright states that those who reject their birth form are no longer part of the human family, and thus anything can be done to them. A militant Purist colony has Nazism written all over it.
  • Piratez: Taken to a comical extent with the Humanist faction, a human-supremacist group that holds mutant pogroms, dresses in what looks like Nazi uniforms, inexplicably wields World War II-era German weaponry, and flies ships shaped like giant swastikas.
  • Handsome Jack, the villain of Borderlands 2, is repeatedly called a fascist by a number of characters, and for good reason. Cult of Personality centered on him, Sigil Spam everywhere, A God Am I complexes, monumental building projects including golden statues of himself to feed his vanity, a personal army slavishly devoted to him, wanton genocide to the point of full-blown ethnic cleansings... it's like he's deliberately checking off all the items on the "How to become Adolf in Space" list.
  • Rise of the Third Power: Noraskov took advantage of social and economic unrest after the Great War in order to sell himself as a leader and the game description states that the setting is based on Europe in the late 1930s, making it clear that Arkadya is meant to represent Nazi Germany. Under his rule, the Arkadyan Empire preaches nationalist loyalty and strength while condemning disloyalty and weakness. This gets to the point where people are purged not only for political dissent, but also for being impoverished or disabled, which is seen as a sign of weakness unbefitting of a "true" Arkadyan. Of note is the Arkadyan scouts organization, which both spreads propaganda to kids and gives them military training to prime them to serve Noraskov, which is eerily similar to Hitler Youth.
  • The cat empire from Shadow of the Wool Ball. As the game takes a lot of inspiration from Wolfenstein 3-D, there are occasional blatant references to Nazism — in particular the red banners with a black symbol in a white circle, and the officer cats who wear all black and speak in faux-German.
  • Any number of empires in Stellaris can be this, possibly including the player. Military dictatorship with cult leader? Check! Xenophobic ethos? Check! Wiping out populations or even entire species by various means, from displacement to extermination to soylent green? Check! They can range from Hegemonic Imperialists (who "just" want to conquer everything) to Fanatic Purifiers who want to "cleanse the galaxy of the mistake of other life". There's a reason the game is nicknamed "Space Hitler Simulator".
  • Prophesy of Pendor has the Order of the Ebony Gauntlet, knights clad in red and black armour who roam the countryside killing anyone suspected of remotely being related to the Noldor elves while promoting the importance of human blood purity. In a parallel with the real life Nazis' "stabbed in the back" theory, they believe the Noldor were responsible for a plague that spread across Pendor in the past and killed much of the human population.
  • Timespinner has Vol Terrilis, the villain in the Past section of the game. He runs his country as The Magocracy, with anyone who lacks magical abilities treated as second-class citizens, banished to another world to die, and subject to eugenics restrictions intended to eradicate them entirely. The game goes so far as to have him quote a slightly modified version of the Fourteen Words (a real-world neo-Nazi / white-supremacist slogan) in one of his edicts.
  • XCOM 2: The ADVENT administration, hands down. The ruling caste, the Elders, are portrayed by propaganda as compassionate, infallible, divine beings, but they're the exact opposite. Every facet of life is accompanied by military officers toting future-tech assault rifles and constantly shouting in Starfishese. All acts of 'self-defense' and 'counter-terrorism' are rife with constant collateral damage and intentional weapons-free slaughter of non-combatants. Propaganda with Sigil Spam plasters half the cities while surveillance plasters the other half. Anyone who thinks they have 'genetic deviance' goes to a gene-clinic to turn themselves into shiny supermen, only to be kidnapped, shipped en-masse to a blacksite laboratory, and executed by the state so their bodies can be used For Science!. And all of this is continually blamed on some paranoid fear that a nebulously-described, unstoppable threat is going to destroy everyone in the galaxy unless they exterminate the human species despite their dependence on them.
  • Star Trek Online gives us the Vaadwaur Supremacy. Favouring beige trenchcoats and menacing metal masks in a spin on Putting on the Reich, the vaguely serpentine Vaadwaur are hell-bent on wiping out every other species in the Delta Quadrant, treating even the most minor of slights as a reason to condemn an entire species to death. Whilst their hatred towards the Kobali is not entirely unreasonable initially (as the Kobali 'reproduce' by reanimating the dead, and have been using Vaadwaur bodies without consent), the Vaadwaur are completely unwilling to negotiate — and in the one instance they seem to be, the whole thing is in bad faith anyway. Most of their leadership is revealed to be puppets for the Iconians (explaining their sudden advances in technology), but their actual leader has not been taken over and genuinely buys into all of the nonsense, with the Vaadwaur rallying against the puppeted Vaadwaur using notions of purity as their battlecry whilst the whole lot descends into an Enemy Civil War. Even after he's offed, the remaining Vaadwaur remain insular and xenophobic at best.

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