History Characters / WolfensteinBJBlazkowicz

* ImAHumanitarian: Played with, in that he's not exclusively a cannibal and taking the circumstances he is in, it's more likely out of desperation. If his health is below 10% in ''Wolfenstein 3D'' he can actually ''eat viscera off the floor'' [[HyperactiveMetabolism just to to give himself more health]].

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:In ''The New Colossus'', his father Rip had sold out his mother to the Nazis because "this is a white man's world" and Rip wanted a place in it. B.J. undergoes some TranqulFury about how [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore he feels "not a goddamn thing" when looking at his father now]], knocks away his gun, and slices of Rip's arm with his axe.]]

* SurvivalMantra: A very mild example, with "Count to four, inhale. Count to four, exhale". He teaches it to Wyatt when he's going through a panic attack, and uses it himself at the end of New Order's prologue when making his SadisticChoice.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Averted as of ''The New Colossus'' - B.J.'s Jewishness was speculated at for most of the Wolfenstein games, but it was finally confirmed after all these years (ethnically Ashkenazi at least. His mother was Jewish, which makes him too by the laws of Judaism. His religious beliefs, if any, remain up in the air).

* BadBadActing: [[spoiler:To infiltrate a Venus base, he disguises himself as an actor, auditioning for the role of ''himself'' in a propaganda flick. He can't remember a single line, reads what he jotted down in a neutral monotone, those lines are ''really'' badly smudged (in his defense, it was pretty poorly written to begin with, and his acting as an ''actor'' is pretty good).]]

* BerserkButton: Nazis, and bigotry in general, natch. Also, do ''not'' insinuate that he or his government was little better than the Nazis in ''The New Order''.

* ByronicHero: Blazkowicz has shades of these in ''The New Order''. Though charismatic, handsome, and [[WarriorPoet eloquent in his monologues]], he's clearly damaged goods by all of the sufferings he's endured throughout the war, whether it'd be all of the horrors committed by the Nazis or the deaths of those under his command. He even fears that once his fight with the Nazis will be over, he may never be fit to live a normal life ever again. [[spoiler:''The New Colossus'' gives him a new purpose: Anya is pregnant with his twins, and B.J. is gonna make damn sure he'll kill every last Nazi so that his kids won't be born into a living hellhole run by goose-stepping, jackass fascists and [[DirtyCoward spineless]] greedy [[TheQuisling Quislings]]. He also promised himself to be a far better father than his own piss-poor, waste-of-space, sorry-ass excuse of a sperm donor Rip ever was; when confronting his dad, B.J. notes he expects to be dead soon, and he'd still be a better father than Rip was. Unfortunately, despite killing Dethshead, Engel, ''and Hitler'', and liberating America, he and Anya had to raise their daughters with the knowledge that they'd need to fight when needed. While those Nazi jackasses are very much a VestigialEmpire, they still control parts of Europe in the 1980s, and Hitler secretly started a climate-destroying doomsday machine before his death as a TakingYouWithMe act on the world. Only a literal ResetButton will make things right for B.J. and his family.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: He goes from a blank slate in ''Wolfenstein 3D'' and ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein'', to a cocky badass in ''Wolfenstein (2009)'', to a shell-shocked fatalist in ''The New Order'' and in the beginning of ''The New Colossus'', before finding a new will to live and fight after becoming a father-to-be [[spoiler:and getting a new SuperSoldier body]] and becoming a wisecracking {{Determinator}}.

** That said, in ''The New Order'' he's not always the best with long-term strategy. After [[spoiler:giving Wyatt/Fergus a MercyKill]] and defeating Deathshead's mech, the general retreats from the roof into a factory. Instead of hitching a ride on the helicopter that's rescuing the prisoners on the ground and letting a nuclear bomb just eradicate the entire fortress as planned, he opts to finish Deathshead personally with his knife. [[spoiler:Deathshead anticipates this and nearly pulls off a TakingYouWithMe with a primed grenade he's holding in his hand]]. The decisions he made [[spoiler:during his inflitration of the moon base]] are also very dumb. [[spoiler:He enters the base with a Nazi disguise and a cover identity, but the first thing he does is to ditch the disguise and shoot anything that moves; he eventually leaves the base by hijacking a shuttle ''while the pilot was already putting in a distress call''.]]

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Somewhat of a subversion. While Blazkowicz is a [[AxCrazy mildly unhinged]] mass-murdering Nazi hunter, he shows a lot of compassion and care for Anya as well as other members of the resistance.

** Throughout ''The New Colossus'', B.J.'s a lot more reserved and down to earth rather than high-strung about killing Nazis, and readily accepts Sigrun's aid rather than hold bad blood over her being a former Nazi (likely thanks to Klaus and his own childhood abuse). He also is surprisingly tolerant ''and'' accepting of all nationalities and races when it comes to the resistance, only angered by individuals he feels let the nation down by draft dodging and anti-nationalist viewpoints - [[TurnTheOtherCheek and even then he's over such things with little bad blood.]]

** Easy to think of in ''The New Order''. Why can he fit himself into such small spaces? Why's he a OneManArmy? Why's he (almost) ImmuneToBullets and MadeOfIron? Who knows?

* JustAStupidAccent: [[JustifiedTrope Excused]] with the fact that he knows German fluently, but can't work out accents. {{Averted|Trope}} in ''The New Order''. ''The Old Blood'' demonstrates that his use of verbal German is absolutely terrible and a friendly NPC even berates him for it.

** Comes to [[IncrediblyLamePun a head]] in ''The New Colossus'', where he flat out breaks down at least once and is running on fumes after all he's been through. [[spoiler:Getting a new body]] and the help of his teammates helps him pull out of this, [[HesBack with spectacular results]].

* GutturalGrowler: In ''The New Order'', courtesy of Brian Bloom.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Averted as of ''The New Colossus'' - B.J.'s Jewishness was speculated at for most of the Wolfenstein games, but it was finally confirmed after all these years (ethnically at least, his mother was a Jewish woman. His religious beliefs, if any, remain up in the air).

* ActionDad: Subverted during The New Colossus as he has two unborn daughters on the way.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Averted as of ''The New Colossus'' - B.J.'s Jewishness was speculated at for most of the Wolfenstein games, but it was finally confirmed (ethnically at least, his mother was a nice Jewish woman. His religious beliefs, if any, remain up in the air).

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Averted as of ''The New Colossus'' - B.J.'s Jewishness was speculated at for most of the Wolfenstein games, but it was finally confirmed (ethnically at least, his actual religious beliefs, if any, are still up in the air). In the New Order, before stepping on the journey to Berlin, B.J., Anya and her grandparents prayed for the Lord's grace in the house.

* AnimalMotif: Wolves. He patiently stalks his prey like a wolf chasing its target and waits for the opportunity to strike nazis when they are at their most vulnerable. Also, while he gives his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[BigBadWannabe Frau Engel]] as he brutally kills her with a hatchet, he tells the dying nazi that she is "among wolves now."

** That said, in ''The New Order'' he's not always the best with long-term strategy. After [[spoiler:giving Wyatt/Fergus a MercyKill]] and defeating Deathshead's mech, the general retreats from the roof into a factory. Instead of hitching a ride on the helicopter that's rescuing the prisoners on the ground and letting a nuclear bomb just eradicate the entire fortress as planned, he opts to finish Deathshead personally with his knife. [[spoiler:Deathshead anticipates this and nearly pulls off a TakingYouWithMe with a primed grenade he's holding in his hand]]. The decisions he made [[spoiler:during his inflitration of the moon base]] are also very dumb. [[spoiler:He enters the base with a nazi disguise and a cover identity, but the first thing he does is to ditch the disguise and shoot anything that moves; he eventually leaves the base by hijacking a shuttle ''while the pilot was already putting in a distress call''.]]

* MadeOfIron: This is [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded a few times]], especially in ''The New Order'', to the relief of allies and pure, absolute shock by enemies. As a testament to this there's a sequence where a nazi ambushes B.J. as he's opening a door, grabbing him and stabbing him repeatedly. By that point in the level even without full health and armor B.J. can survive getting stabbed over two dozen times, while the nazi goes down in just two stabs to the chest from [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Terror Billy]]. It seems that his muscles are so dense that they pull double-duty as natural body armor.

* {{Manchild}}: Despite being a veteran nazi killer and borderline superman in his 40s, he still has immature moments. In ''The New Order'' during a mission to clear out a checkpoint, B.J. can find a half-disassembled car; he can sit in it, pretend to drive it (complete with his own engine and horn sound effects) and pretend-hit on a girl. Later on, he gets genuinely jealous of Max's toy blocks, robot, and truck, huffing out "All I had was a pinecone and a box of matches".

'''Voiced in European French by''': Creator/PatrickBethune (Wolfenstein 2009, The New Order, The New Blood), Creator/PatrickPoivey (The New Colossus, Youngblood)

* HeroicMime: In ''Wolf-3D'', ''Spear of Destiny'' and most egregiously in ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein''. He is SuddenlyVoiced for further games in the series, though it takes until ''The New Order'' before he starts speaking outside of the occasional cutscene. Even then, in both ''The New Order'' and ''The New Colossus'', the only speaking he does is an internal monologue during gameplay. BJ is only shown actually talking during cutscenes.

* RatedMForManly: Particularly by ''The New Order'', B.J. is a OneManArmy of Nazi-crushing force with the broad shoulders, chiseled jawline, IcyBlueEyes, and tree trunk-like arms to match.

** Anyone familiar with Poland's military history - and the Holocaust - won't be surprised that this American soldier of Polish and Jewish blood mows down Nazis by the hundreds.

* NaziHunter: The TropeCodifier. As of ''The New Order'', there no shortage of them to hunt down. Even so, BJ has made it is life's mission to destroy the Nazis, saying that "I'll be damned if I'm going to raise [my kids that are on the way] in a world run by these Nazi assholes".

* ImplacableMan: He is an absolute killing machine, able to go OneManArmy on entire armies of Nazis and just never stops from there. [[spoiler:For fuck's sake, the man got his head cut off with a sword during a public execution, and he STILL comes back.]]

* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Not only is B.J's very existence infuriating to the Nazis, it's outright impossible. B.J. and his background fly in the face of the Nazi creed of Aryan superiority -- he's an American, born from two Polish immigrants, and is half-Jewish because of his mother. And yet, B.J. is a brick wall of a man, a OneManArmy who can mow down his enemies with little effort, is tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed, and white. He is, in essence, a superior Jew. In short, the fact he's even alive and walking is antithetical to the Nazi's garbage, which is one more reason why he's hated. [[spoiler:It's also a subtle clue that the Nazis ideology is complete crap when General Engel sits directly across from B.J. at a table, who says that she can "just tell" who's an Aryan and who isn't. If there were any credence to this, Engel would have picked up on B.J. immediately, but she doesn't.]]