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  • Iron Sky, a 2014 song by Paolo Nutini, features an audio excerpt from the final speech in The Great Dictator.

  • Idiocracy pays minor homage to The Great Dictator when the main characters ride a time travel-themed attraction misspelled The Time Masheen presenting ridiculously inaccurate depictions of history including one with "Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime."

  • The graphic novel Nemo: The Roses of Berlin, set in the universe of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen depicts Hynkel's regime in a more serious way, and also mentions an American comedian named "Addie Hitler" who mocks it.

  • Sean McArdle and Jon Judy's Eisner Award-nominated comic book, The Führer and the Tramp, is set during the production of The Great Dictator.

  • The 2000 album Wat by Slovenian music project Laibach features the track Tanz mit Laibach (en. "Dance with Laibach") which mentions Adenoid Hynkel (ger. Ado Hynkel), Benzino Napoloni and a direct hint on Hitler ("Schiekelgrüber", the slightly altered name of his grandmother Maria Anna Schicklgruber) in the lyrics.

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