Basic Trope: Adolf Hitler comes back somehow.
- Straight: Hitler gets resurrected with the goal of starting the Fourth Reich.
- Exaggerated: Not only does Hitler come back, but every member of the Nazi Party comes back as well.
- Downplayed: Hitler himself is still dead, but a dead-ringer of Hitler with similar traits starts the Fourth Reich.
- Justified:
- Hitler was resurrected by Klaus, a Nazi Mad Scientist who wants to restore the Reich.
- We Didn't Start the Führer: Hitler was a supernatural being, and can therefore come back to life on his own.
- The crazy bunch of fanatical Neo-Nazis that Klaus is part of need a proper figurehead to rally around.
- Inverted: Churchill gets resurrected.
- Subverted:
- Klaus gives a monologue about how he's going to resurrect "the greatest leader of all time, with a nice mustache to boot", and, since he's German, the viewer expects him to resurrect Hitler. Turns out he's actually a Communist, and he resurrects Joseph Stalin instead with the goal of reinstating the USSR.
- Klaus resurrects Hitler to start the Fourth Reich. Hitler, however, isn't on board with the plan, and just hangs out in Klaus's base instead.
- Klaus resurrects Hitler, but the new Hitler only looks like Hitler, and is otherwise nothing like him.
- Double Subverted:
- Klaus resurrected Stalin by mistake; he meant to resurrect Hitler. He does the procedure again, and gets the intended result this time.
- Klaus' fascist rival Johan resurrects Hitler, now that Klaus has provided proof that the procedure was feasible.
- Eventually, Hitler decides he wants to start the Fourth Reich, so he teams up with Klaus.
- Klaus used the wrong brain for the experiment, but he had one of Hitler's body parts, creating someone who looks like Hitler but has someone else's brain. He does it again with Hitler's brain, creating the real Hitler.
- Hitler's clone may start as a laid-back stoner with none of his knowledge, but he eventually develops the same types of hatred the real Hitler had on his own (maybe because the people who feared him because he was a clone of Hitler tried to kill him unsuccessfully) and he becomes as dangerous as the assassins feared.
- Parodied: Klaus resurrects Hitler; however, the resurrected Hitler is as old as he would be now. Hitler is therefore completely ineffectual, and tries to start the Fourth Reich, but is unable to do anything other than kick French poodles.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Hitler doesn't come back.
- Enforced: "Alright, we need a really evil villain. Anyone got any ideas?" "How about Hitler?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Klaus is a member of an underground organization of Nazis who want to start the Fourth Reich, and the leader of the organization orders Klaus to resurrect Hitler.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Klaus suggests resurrecting Hitler to his superiors. They say that the idea is stupid, and they shoot him down.
- Discussed: "Hey, why resurrect Hitler?" "ZE REICH SHALL RISE AGAIN!"
- Conversed: "Why is the bad guy on this show so obsessed with resurrecting Hitler?"
- Deconstructed: Hitler fails to start the Fourth Reich, since everyone knows who he is and what he'll do if he takes power again.
- Reconstructed: So he raises an army to invade Germany and take it over.
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