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* ActionPolitician: Despite having become President of Americuba, [=MacArthur=] takes an active role leading American exile troops during WWII.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: While [=MacArthur=] was the military leader of the National Salvation Front and the coup against Norman Thomas and the democratically-elected socialist government, Nicholas Longworth was always the political leader. However, Longworth's capture by the Red forces near the end of the Civil War leaves [=MacArthur=] de facto in charge of the White forces, and he maintains that position for the rest of his life.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: While [=MacArthur=] was the military leader of the National Salvation Front and the coup against Norman Thomas and the democratically-elected socialist government, Nicholas Longworth was always the political leader. However, Longworth's capture by the Red forces near the end of the Civil War leaves [=MacArthur=] de facto ''de facto'' in charge of the White forces, and he maintains that position for the rest of his life.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Comes to denounce Fascism after MacArthur's defeat, the continued nagging of his very anti-fascist wife Cynthia, and his visits to the Soviet Union and America to balance out his trips to Germany and Italy. He's often compared to OTL Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but adjusted for British sensibilities and considers himself a democrat and a progressive.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Perhaps the single biggest example in the entire timeline. Mosley, disillusioned with Fascism following MacArthur's inability to contain the 1933 American revolution, instead becoming a sort of "British Roosevelt" in favour of muscular government intervention and progressive democratic policies aimed at middle income Britons and creating the basis of a more unified western Europe to protect their colonies. He calls for intervention against Germany and Japan, and his ideology is even listed as a subvariant of "Progressive Liberalism" in the HOI4 mod.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Perhaps the single biggest example in the entire timeline. Mosley, disillusioned with Fascism following MacArthur's inability to contain the 1933 American revolution, instead becoming a sort of "British Roosevelt" in favour of muscular government intervention and progressive democratic policies aimed at middle income Britons and creating the basis of a more unified western Europe to protect their colonies. He calls for intervention against Germany and Japan, and his ideology is even listed as a subvariant of "Progressive Liberalism" in the HOI4 mod.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Comes to denounce Fascism after MacArthur's [=MacArthur=]'s defeat, the continued nagging of his very anti-fascist wife Cynthia, and his visits to the Soviet Union and America to balance out his trips to Germany and Italy. He's often compared to OTL Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but adjusted for British sensibilities and considers himself a democrat and a progressive.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Perhaps the single biggest example in the entire timeline. Mosley, disillusioned with Fascism followingMacArthur's [=MacArthur=]'s inability to contain the 1933 American revolution, instead becoming a sort of "British Roosevelt" in favour of muscular government intervention and progressive democratic policies aimed at middle income Britons and creating the basis of a more unified western Europe to protect their colonies. He calls for intervention against Germany and Japan, and his ideology is even listed as a subvariant of "Progressive Liberalism" in the HOI4 mod.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Perhaps the single biggest example in the entire timeline. Mosley, disillusioned with Fascism following
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[[folder:J. Edgar Hoover]]
Always up to his old tricks, J. Edgar Hoover switches allegiances as soon as it comes clear that the Communists and their allies are going to win the Civil War of 1933. Though distrusted by many in the new government, his competence at intelligence, both foreign and internal, means that he remains, if not a trusted, then a valuable figure.
Always up to his old tricks, J. Edgar Hoover switches allegiances as soon as it comes clear that the Communists and their allies are going to win the Civil War of 1933. Though distrusted by many in the new government, his competence at intelligence, both foreign and internal, means that he remains, if not a trusted, then a valuable figure.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Quite a few high-ranking members of the United Republics government, most prominently Premier William Z. Foster, greatly distrust J. Edgar Hoover in his position as Secretary of Public Safety; an opinion which is not entirely unjustifiable given Hoover's past as head of the NBI, and the fact that Hoover, despite having sworn fealty to the new government and the cause of Socialism, and doing his job well, is still very much up to his old, authoritarian tricks. When the Revolt of the Cadres hits Detroit in 1937, Foster is through political maneuvering able to use the crisis to force Hoover to resign and go into retirement. When the Second World War begins in 1940 and Foster resigns as a result, the UASR government agrees that Hoover, despite his character flaws, still is the best man they have to head the nation's intelligence department, something that is especially needed in time of war, and calls him back from retirement and reinstates him as Secretary of Public Safety.
* HeelFaceTurn: J. Edgar Hoover kind of qualifies; he goes from being a hardline reactionary to a hardline revolutionary, mostly because doing so allows him to maximise the amount of power available to him. His authoritarianism, however, remains essentially unchanged.
* OpportunisticBastard: While there are some implications that the Communist revolution's greater tolerance for homosexuality and queerness in general, and that these factors would allow him to live a much freer and happier life, did genuinely work to win Hoover over to the Revolutionary cause to some degree, for the most part his pivot to starting his career as the spymaster for the post-Revolution government by making a big public show out of betraying the National Salvation Front in the eleventh hour of the Civil War is viewed by most people in-universe is simply down to Hoover looking out for himself.
* HeelFaceTurn: J. Edgar Hoover kind of qualifies; he goes from being a hardline reactionary to a hardline revolutionary, mostly because doing so allows him to maximise the amount of power available to him. His authoritarianism, however, remains essentially unchanged.
* OpportunisticBastard: While there are some implications that the Communist revolution's greater tolerance for homosexuality and queerness in general, and that these factors would allow him to live a much freer and happier life, did genuinely work to win Hoover over to the Revolutionary cause to some degree, for the most part his pivot to starting his career as the spymaster for the post-Revolution government by making a big public show out of betraying the National Salvation Front in the eleventh hour of the Civil War is viewed by most people in-universe is simply down to Hoover looking out for himself.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Quite AscendedExtra: Goes from a few high-ranking members of the United Republics government, most prominently Premier William Z. Foster, greatly distrust J. Edgar Hoover in his position as Secretary of Public Safety; an opinion which is not entirely unjustifiable given Hoover's past as head of the NBI, and the fact that Hoover, despite having sworn fealty to the new government and the cause of Socialism, and doing his job well, is still very much up to his old, authoritarian tricks. When the Revolt of the Cadres hits Detroit in 1937, Foster is through Fascist without any real meaningful political maneuvering able successes to use his name OTL to arguably the crisis to force Hoover to resign primary architect of the entire Franco-British bloc after world war two and go into retirement. When the Second World War begins single most powerful man in 1940 Alliance of Free States politics and Foster resigns as a result, perhaps the UASR government agrees that Hoover, despite his character flaws, still is the best man they have to head the nation's intelligence department, something that is especially needed in time of war, and calls him back from retirement and reinstates him as Secretary of Public Safety.
entire world (his communist counterparts having significantly more dispersed power) for decades.
* HeelFaceTurn:J. Edgar Hoover kind of qualifies; he goes from being a hardline reactionary Comes to a hardline revolutionary, mostly because doing so allows him to maximise denounce Fascism after MacArthur's defeat, the amount continued nagging of power available to him. His authoritarianism, however, remains essentially unchanged.
* OpportunisticBastard: While there are some implications that the Communist revolution's greater tolerance for homosexualityhis very anti-fascist wife Cynthia, and queerness in general, and that these factors would allow him to live a much freer and happier life, did genuinely work to win Hoover over his visits to the Revolutionary cause Soviet Union and America to some degree, balance out his trips to Germany and Italy. He's often compared to OTL Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but adjusted for British sensibilities and considers himself a democrat and a progressive.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Perhaps themost part his pivot to starting his career as single biggest example in the spymaster for entire timeline. Mosley, disillusioned with Fascism following MacArthur's inability to contain the post-Revolution 1933 American revolution, instead becoming a sort of "British Roosevelt" in favour of muscular government by making a big public show out of betraying intervention and progressive democratic policies aimed at middle income Britons and creating the National Salvation Front basis of a more unified western Europe to protect their colonies. He calls for intervention against Germany and Japan, and his ideology is even listed as a subvariant of "Progressive Liberalism" in the eleventh hour of the Civil War is viewed by most people in-universe is simply down to Hoover looking out for himself.HOI4 mod.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Perhaps the
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An ardent anti-communist, General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur finds himself invited by the political and capitalist elite to lead the military arm of the National Salvation Front and head the crackdown upon the Communists in the wake of the 1932 elections. After suffering a crushing defeat in the Second American Civil War, [=MacArthur=] finds himself in charge of the government-in-exile on Cuba, soon declaring himself PresidentForLife.
An ardent anti-communist, General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur finds himself invited by the political and capitalist elite to lead the military arm of the National Salvation Front and head the crackdown upon the Communists in the wake of the 1932 elections. After suffering a crushing defeat in the Second American Civil War, [=MacArthur=] finds himself in charge of the government-in-exile on Cuba, soon declaring himself PresidentForLife.
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* HeelFaceTurn: J. Edgar Hoover kind of qualifies; he goes from being a hardline reactionary to a hardline revolutionary, mostly because doing so allows him to maximise the amount of power available to him. His authoritarianism, however, remains essentially unchanged.
* OpportunisticBastard: While there are some implications that the Communist revolution's greater tolerance for homosexuality and queerness in general, and that these factors would allow him to live a much freer and happier life, did genuinely work to win Hoover over to the Revolutionary cause to some degree, for the most part his pivot to starting his career as the spymaster for the post-Revolution government by making a big public show out of betraying the National Salvation Front in the eleventh hour of the Civil War is viewed by most people in-universe is simply down to Hoover looking out for himself.
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[[folder:Douglas [=MacArthur=]]]
An ardent anti-communist, General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur finds himself invited by the political and capitalist elite to lead the military arm of the National Salvation Front and head the crackdown upon the Communists in the wake of the 1932 elections. After suffering a crushing defeat in the Second American Civil War, [=MacArthur=] finds himself in charge of the government-in-exile on Cuba, soon declaring himself PresidentForLife.
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* HeelFaceTurn: J. Edgar Hoover kind of qualifies; he goes from being a hardline reactionary to a hardline revolutionary, mostly because doing so allows him to maximise the amount of power available to him. His authoritarianism, however, remains essentially unchanged.
* OpportunisticBastard: While there are some implications that the Communist revolution's greater tolerance for homosexuality and queerness in general, and that these factors would allow him to live a much freer and happier life, did genuinely work to win Hoover over to the Revolutionary cause to some degree, for the most part his pivot to starting his career as the spymaster for the post-Revolution government by making a big public show out of betraying the National Salvation Front in the eleventh hour of the Civil War is viewed by most people in-universe is simply down to Hoover looking out for himself.
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[[folder:Douglas [=MacArthur=]]]
An ardent anti-communist, General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur finds himself invited by the political and capitalist elite to lead the military arm of the National Salvation Front and head the crackdown upon the Communists in the wake of the 1932 elections. After suffering a crushing defeat in the Second American Civil War, [=MacArthur=] finds himself in charge of the government-in-exile on Cuba, soon declaring himself PresidentForLife.
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* ShootTheDangerousMinion: As Comintern forces advanced deeper into Belarus in 1944, Virgil Effinger began to execute the brainwashed [=POWs=] the Free American State had converted.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: William Dudley Pelley founds and edits ''Security'', an English language newspaper and Nazi mouthpiece aimed at American and British expatriates in Axis countries. The newspaper is discontinued when he becomes a war correspondant for ''Der Stürmer'', a Nazi newspaper.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: William Dudley Pelley founds and edits ''Security'', an English language newspaper and Nazi mouthpiece aimed at American and British expatriates in Axis countries. The newspaper is discontinued when he becomes a war correspondant for ''Der Stürmer'', a Nazi newspaper.
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* VillainousBreakdown: As the FAS experiences its growing decline and Comintern forces become ever closer, Effinger resorts to killing in an attempt to regain control, however his actions unsurprisingly fail to deter death, disease or discontent.
* YouHaveFailedMe: As Comintern forces advanced deeper into Belarus in 1944, Virgil Effinger began to execute the brainwashed [=POWs=] the Free American State had converted, [[TheScapegoat blaming the defeat of the FAS on their "lingering redness"]] after he ran out of Jews and Slavs to murder as "Bolshevik intruders".
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* {{Cincinnatus}}: [=MacArthur=] claims to be this but they don't nickname him the American Caesar for nothing in this timeline. After losing the Second American Civil War he remains the President of the exiled American government in Cuba until his death.
* TheGeneralissimo: [=MacArthur=] is made General of the Armies of the United States after the coup then President-for-Life and Defender of the Constitution as dictator of Americuba.
* TheGeneralissimo: [=MacArthur=] is made General of the Armies of the United States after the coup then President-for-Life and Defender of the Constitution as dictator of Americuba.
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* {{Cincinnatus}}: [=MacArthur=] claims to be this but they don't nickname him the American Caesar for nothing in this timeline. After losing the Second American Civil War he remains becomes the President of the exiled American government in Cuba until his death.
* TheGeneralissimo: [=MacArthur=] is made General of the Armies of the United States after the coup then President-for-Life and Defender of the Constitution as dictator of Americuba. The native cubans also call him ''El Generalissimo''.
* TheGeneralissimo: [=MacArthur=] is made General of the Armies of the United States after the coup then President-for-Life and Defender of the Constitution as dictator of Americuba. The native cubans also call him ''El Generalissimo''.
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* RedBaron: [=MacArthur=]'s OTL nickname of "American Caesar" takes a whole new meaning after he becomes dictator of Americuba.
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* RedBaron: [=MacArthur=]'s OTL nickname of "American Caesar" takes a whole new meaning after he becomes dictator of Americuba. He is also known as ''El Generalissimo'' among native cubans.
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* RoguesGallery: ''Commander Columbia'' benefits from an extensive one, representing tyranny and imperialism in many forms[[labelnote:List]]Siegfried (Columbia's arch-nemesis and personification of Nazi Germany) and his ally Fafnir; Lord White/White Baron and his assistants: the Blue Knight, the Scarlet Dragon, and the Golden Archer (personifications of the British Empire); the dark kami (representing the Empire of Japan); Koschei the Deathless; Herr Totenkopf/Johann von Eisenberg[[/labelnote]].
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* RoguesGallery: ''Commander Columbia'' benefits from an extensive one, representing tyranny and imperialism in many forms[[labelnote:List]]Siegfried (Columbia's arch-nemesis and personification of representing Nazi Germany) and his ally Fafnir; Lord White/White Baron and his assistants: the Blue Knight, the Scarlet Dragon, and the Golden Archer (personifications of the British Empire); the dark kami (representing the Empire of Japan); Koschei the Deathless; Herr Totenkopf/Johann von Eisenberg[[/labelnote]].Eisenberg; Viridian Demon (representing Integralist Brazil)[[/labelnote]].
* OfficialCouple: With Vladimir.
* TheHeart: The most benevolent member of Columbia's team, who looks after the emotional well-being of everyone.
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* OfficialCouple: With Amanda.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The film ''Iron Thunder'' heavily features Valiente over the others of the cast, and is often considered the film where he came into his own as a character.
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The two leaders of the [[PuppetState Free]] [[GovernmentInExile American]] [[TheDictatorship State]]: William Dudley Pelley, perennial fascist presidential candidate turned Nazi collaborator and President of the Free American State. And Virgil Effinger, former Klansman and White paramilitary, who becomes the ruthless enforcer of the Free American State.
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The two leaders of the [[PuppetState Free]] [[GovernmentInExile American]] [[TheDictatorship State]]: William Dudley Pelley, perennial fascist presidential candidate turned Nazi collaborator and President of the Free American State. And Virgil Effinger, former Klansman and White paramilitary, who becomes a Gestapo officer and the ruthless enforcer of the Free American State.
* CultOfPersonality: Pelley starts his own in the Free American State, particularly through Silver Christianity, depicting himself as the "savior" of America.
*** After joining the Silberne Legion he is eventually transferred out because too extreme ''even for the SS''.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Pelley and Effinger are confused that most American [=POWs=] refuse to join them after giving them a tour of their recreation of pre-revolutionary America and subjecting them to propaganda and torture.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Pelley and Effinger are confused that most American [=POWs=] refuse to join them after giving them a tour of their recreation of pre-revolutionary America and subjecting them to propaganda and torture.
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: William Dudley Pelley founds and edits ''Security'', an English language newspaper and Nazi mouthpiece aimed at American and British expatriates in Axis countries.
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: William Dudley Pelley founds and edits ''Security'', an English language newspaper and Nazi mouthpiece aimed at American and British expatriates in Axis countries. The newspaper is discontinued when he becomes a war correspondant for ''Der Stürmer'', a Nazi newspaper.
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The two leaders of the [[PuppetState Free]] [[GovernmentInExile American]] [[TheDictatorship State]].
William Dudley Pelley, perennial fascist presidential candidate turned Nazi collaborator and President of the Free American State.
Virgil Effinger, former Klansman and White paramilitary, he becomes the ruthless enforcer of the Free American State.
William Dudley Pelley, perennial fascist presidential candidate turned Nazi collaborator and President of the Free American State.
Virgil Effinger, former Klansman and White paramilitary, he becomes the ruthless enforcer of the Free American State.
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The two leaders of the [[PuppetState Free]] [[GovernmentInExile American]] [[TheDictatorship State]].
State]]: William Dudley Pelley, perennial fascist presidential candidate turned Nazi collaborator and President of the Free American State.
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The two leaders of the [[PuppetState Free]] [[GovernmentInExile American]] [[TheDictatorship State]].
William Dudley Pelley, perennial fascist presidential candidate turned Nazi collaborator and President of the Free American State.
Virgil Effinger, former Klansman and White paramilitary, he becomes the ruthless enforcer of the Free American State.
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* AxCrazy: Virgil Effinger's tendency towards extreme violence leads to his removal of command during the Second American Civil War. When he joined the Nazis he became an auxiliary officer of the Gestapo but was demoted to a desk job due to his inability to control his temper.
* BrainsAndBrawn: In the pro-Nazi rump "Free American State" in Byelorussia, William Dudley Pelley is Brains to Virgil Effinger's Brawn. While Pelley is the political leader of the micronation and a skilled administrator, Effinger is the leader of its paramilitary arm and the main overseer of torture and executions of Soviet and American prisoners.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: They subject aryan-looking American [=POWs=] to this to turn them into soldiers for their Nazi American state.
* CantTakeCriticism: Virgil Effinger's tendency to accuse his critics of being crypto-Jews and communists got him exiled from Cuba and is part of the reason he was demoted when in the Gestapo.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Before the war they are considered so extreme they are ejected from Cuba by the [=MacArthur=] regime. Their acts during the war are so horrible the Americuban dictatorship (which enacted its fair share of atrocities during and after the Second American Civil War) refuses to shelter Pelley.
** Virgil Effinger became the commander of a White paramilitary regiment during the Second Civil War, but his unstable mental state and tendency towards extreme violence led to the dissolution of the regiment within a month of its formation and Effinger's removal from command.
* TheExile: First to Americuba after the Second Civil War then to the German Reich.
* GeneralFailure: William Pelley's performance as a leader of paramilitary troops during the Second Civil War is described as "lackluster" and his attempts to command the SS-Silberne Legion during the Czechoslovak and Polish Wars were "nothing short of disastrous". Despite granting him the rank of ''Standartenführer'' (equivalent to colonel) in the SS, the Nazis eventually removed him from any actual military command (keeping his SS rank as consolation however).
* GodwinsLaw: Sort of. Virgil Effinger is a Nazi, so instead he accuses people criticizing him of being crypto-Jews and communists.
* HateSink: William Dudley Pelley and Virgil Effinger are the worst American Nazi collaborators, they form SS troops and openly participate in the Holocaust, subjecting both Slavs and captured prisoners of war to horrific slave labor.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: William Dudley Pelley and Virgil Effinger, already in OTL committed white supremacists and the leaders of the fascist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Legion_of_America Silver Legion]] and the terroristic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legion_(political_movement) Black Legion]] respectively, become even worst through their collaboration with the Nazis and as the leaders of the "Free American State", committing some of the most horrific acts of the Eastern Front of WWII such as working black American [=POWs=] and Slavs to death under slave labor and starvation rations to maintain the parasitic lifestyle of the Free American State's leadership, and subjecting prisoners of war to torture, with [=POWs=] refusing to defect to the Nazi cause being mauled to death by Effinger's dogs.
* TheQuisling: Virgil Effinger and William Dudley Pelley, while not as prominent as Ford, are probably even more vicious than him. After the Nazis established a small puppet American state in occupied Belarus, they attempt to restore the glorious American days under the banner of Nazism, all the while prioritizing the comfort of themselves and other American exiles over the lives of the starved and genocided Belarussian population. Even some of the American [=POWs=] were treated badly, with Black American [=POWs=] becoming slaves reminiscent of the Old South. It was so bad that when UASR soldiers liberated the area, the surviving Belarussian population was terrified of them, much to their confusion until they realised the truth and were outraged by Effinger and Pelley's atrocities.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Free American State is composed of American Whites who completely embrace Nazism, going further than even Americuba finds tolerable.
* ShootTheDangerousMinion: As Comintern forces advanced deeper into Belarus in 1944, Virgil Effinger began to execute the brainwashed [=POWs=] the Free American State had converted.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: William Dudley Pelley founds and edits ''Security'', an English language newspaper and Nazi mouthpiece aimed at American and British expatriates in Axis countries.
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The two leaders of the [[PuppetState Free]] [[GovernmentInExile American]] [[TheDictatorship State]].
William Dudley Pelley, perennial fascist presidential candidate turned Nazi collaborator and President of the Free American State.
Virgil Effinger, former Klansman and White paramilitary, he becomes the ruthless enforcer of the Free American State.
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* AxCrazy: Virgil Effinger's tendency towards extreme violence leads to his removal of command during the Second American Civil War. When he joined the Nazis he became an auxiliary officer of the Gestapo but was demoted to a desk job due to his inability to control his temper.
* BrainsAndBrawn: In the pro-Nazi rump "Free American State" in Byelorussia, William Dudley Pelley is Brains to Virgil Effinger's Brawn. While Pelley is the political leader of the micronation and a skilled administrator, Effinger is the leader of its paramilitary arm and the main overseer of torture and executions of Soviet and American prisoners.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: They subject aryan-looking American [=POWs=] to this to turn them into soldiers for their Nazi American state.
* CantTakeCriticism: Virgil Effinger's tendency to accuse his critics of being crypto-Jews and communists got him exiled from Cuba and is part of the reason he was demoted when in the Gestapo.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Before the war they are considered so extreme they are ejected from Cuba by the [=MacArthur=] regime. Their acts during the war are so horrible the Americuban dictatorship (which enacted its fair share of atrocities during and after the Second American Civil War) refuses to shelter Pelley.
** Virgil Effinger became the commander of a White paramilitary regiment during the Second Civil War, but his unstable mental state and tendency towards extreme violence led to the dissolution of the regiment within a month of its formation and Effinger's removal from command.
* TheExile: First to Americuba after the Second Civil War then to the German Reich.
* GeneralFailure: William Pelley's performance as a leader of paramilitary troops during the Second Civil War is described as "lackluster" and his attempts to command the SS-Silberne Legion during the Czechoslovak and Polish Wars were "nothing short of disastrous". Despite granting him the rank of ''Standartenführer'' (equivalent to colonel) in the SS, the Nazis eventually removed him from any actual military command (keeping his SS rank as consolation however).
* GodwinsLaw: Sort of. Virgil Effinger is a Nazi, so instead he accuses people criticizing him of being crypto-Jews and communists.
* HateSink: William Dudley Pelley and Virgil Effinger are the worst American Nazi collaborators, they form SS troops and openly participate in the Holocaust, subjecting both Slavs and captured prisoners of war to horrific slave labor.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: William Dudley Pelley and Virgil Effinger, already in OTL committed white supremacists and the leaders of the fascist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Legion_of_America Silver Legion]] and the terroristic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legion_(political_movement) Black Legion]] respectively, become even worst through their collaboration with the Nazis and as the leaders of the "Free American State", committing some of the most horrific acts of the Eastern Front of WWII such as working black American [=POWs=] and Slavs to death under slave labor and starvation rations to maintain the parasitic lifestyle of the Free American State's leadership, and subjecting prisoners of war to torture, with [=POWs=] refusing to defect to the Nazi cause being mauled to death by Effinger's dogs.
* TheQuisling: Virgil Effinger and William Dudley Pelley, while not as prominent as Ford, are probably even more vicious than him. After the Nazis established a small puppet American state in occupied Belarus, they attempt to restore the glorious American days under the banner of Nazism, all the while prioritizing the comfort of themselves and other American exiles over the lives of the starved and genocided Belarussian population. Even some of the American [=POWs=] were treated badly, with Black American [=POWs=] becoming slaves reminiscent of the Old South. It was so bad that when UASR soldiers liberated the area, the surviving Belarussian population was terrified of them, much to their confusion until they realised the truth and were outraged by Effinger and Pelley's atrocities.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Free American State is composed of American Whites who completely embrace Nazism, going further than even Americuba finds tolerable.
* ShootTheDangerousMinion: As Comintern forces advanced deeper into Belarus in 1944, Virgil Effinger began to execute the brainwashed [=POWs=] the Free American State had converted.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: William Dudley Pelley founds and edits ''Security'', an English language newspaper and Nazi mouthpiece aimed at American and British expatriates in Axis countries.
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** Herr Totenkopf/Johann von Eisenberg is the leader of "the Black Order", Germany's primary supernatural detachment, and the adjutant of Himmler.
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* RoguesGallery: ''Commander Columbia'' benefits from an extensive one, representing tyranny and imperialism in many forms[[labelnote:List]]Siegfried (Columbia's arch-nemesis and personification of Nazi Germany) and his ally Fafnir; Lord White/White Baron and his assistants: the Blue Knight, the Scarlet Dragon, and the Golden Archer (personifications of the British Empire); the dark kami (representing the Empire of Japan); Koschei the Deathless[[/labelnote]].
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* RoguesGallery: ''Commander Columbia'' benefits from an extensive one, representing tyranny and imperialism in many forms[[labelnote:List]]Siegfried (Columbia's arch-nemesis and personification of Nazi Germany) and his ally Fafnir; Lord White/White Baron and his assistants: the Blue Knight, the Scarlet Dragon, and the Golden Archer (personifications of the British Empire); the dark kami (representing the Empire of Japan); Koschei the Deathless[[/labelnote]].Deathless; Herr Totenkopf/Johann von Eisenberg[[/labelnote]].
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* RoguesGallery: ''Commander Columbia'' benefits from an extensive one, representing tyranny and imperialism in many forms[[labelnote:List]]Siegfried (Columbia's arch-nemesis and personification of Nazi Germany) and his ally Fafnir; Lord White and his assistants: the Blue Knight, the Scarlet Dragon, and the Golden Archer (personifications of the British Empire); the dark kami (representing the Empire of Japan); Koschei the Deathless[[/labelnote]].
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* RoguesGallery: ''Commander Columbia'' benefits from an extensive one, representing tyranny and imperialism in many forms[[labelnote:List]]Siegfried (Columbia's arch-nemesis and personification of Nazi Germany) and his ally Fafnir; Lord White White/White Baron and his assistants: the Blue Knight, the Scarlet Dragon, and the Golden Archer (personifications of the British Empire); the dark kami (representing the Empire of Japan); Koschei the Deathless[[/labelnote]].
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* AlmightyJanitor: Siegfried is a knight.
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* AlmightyJanitor: Siegfried is a knight.knight, not a leader, but one of the most powerful characters in the franshise.
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* Ghostapo: The Nazis are very involved in the occult, this being how they revive Siegfried.
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* Ghostapo: {{Ghostapo}}: The Nazis are very involved in the occult, this being how they revive Siegfried.
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* Abandoned War Child: The Second American Civil War left her an orphan.
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* Abandoned War Child: AbandonedWarChild: The Second American Civil War left her an orphan.
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* Ambiguously Bi: In the beginning, Amanda has often flirtatious interactions with women as well as men, leading to her character becoming an icon for the bisexual community. This is later expanded by subsequent writers removing the ambiguity.
* Ambiguously Christian / Ambiguously Jewish: Amanda is stated to be Catholic Irish on her father's side and Ashkenazim Jewish on her mother's side but she is not seen outright attending either Church or Synagogue.
* Arch-Enemy: Siegfried.
* Blood Knight: Amanda likes to fight and looks forward to it, she enjoys the challenge of a good fight for a good cause.
* Ambiguously Christian / Ambiguously Jewish: Amanda is stated to be Catholic Irish on her father's side and Ashkenazim Jewish on her mother's side but she is not seen outright attending either Church or Synagogue.
* Arch-Enemy: Siegfried.
* Blood Knight: Amanda likes to fight and looks forward to it, she enjoys the challenge of a good fight for a good cause.
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* Ambiguously Bi: AmbiguouslyBi: In the beginning, Amanda has often flirtatious interactions with women as well as men, leading to her character becoming an icon for the bisexual community. This is later expanded by subsequent writers removing the ambiguity.
*Ambiguously Christian AmbiguouslyChristian / Ambiguously Jewish: AmbiguouslyJewish: Amanda is stated to be Catholic Irish on her father's side and Ashkenazim Jewish on her mother's side but she is not seen outright attending either Church or Synagogue.
*Arch-Enemy: ArchEnemy: Siegfried.
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* Genki Girl: Amanda is very energetic, always bouncing around from one idea to the next.
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* Genki Girl: GenkiGirl: Amanda is very energetic, always bouncing around from one idea to the next.
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* Secret Identity: Averted. Commander Columbia and Amanda Aaron are one and the same and she attaches no separate persona to her war-clad self.
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* Secret Identity: SecretIdentity: Averted. Commander Columbia and Amanda Aaron are one and the same and she attaches no separate persona to her war-clad self.
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* Husky Russkie: Purposefully subverted by Samanthe Waver. Vladimir is a lean, soft-spoken intellectual who enjoys stereotypically feminine pursuits and less active pursuits such as writing, singing, dancing, botany, and playing chess.
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* Husky Russkie: HuskyRusskie: Purposefully subverted by Samanthe Waver. Vladimir is a lean, soft-spoken intellectual who enjoys stereotypically feminine pursuits and less active pursuits such as writing, singing, dancing, botany, and playing chess.
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* Nice Guy: He is kind, compassionate and supportive.
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* Nice Guy: NiceGuy: He is kind, compassionate and supportive.
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* Blood Knight: Even moreso than Amanda. To the point that often he needed to be reminded that the proper place of someone who wishes to be a hero is to help the needy more than to destroy the wicked.
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* Abstract Apotheosis: His resurrection made him an embodiement of Qliphoth, the forces of evil in the Jewish Kabbalah.
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* Abstract Apotheosis: AbstractApotheosis: His resurrection made him an embodiement of Qliphoth, the forces of evil in the Jewish Kabbalah.
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* Badass Cape / OminousOperaCape: Wears a long black cape as part of his garb.
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* Badass Cape BadassCape / OminousOperaCape: Wears a long black cape as part of his garb.
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* Black Knight: Siegfried is encased in a black armor and the most powerful villain of the franchise.
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* Black Knight: BlackKnight: Siegfried is encased in a black armor and the most powerful villain of the franchise.
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* TheBrute: Siegfried is enslaved to the wishes of his Nazi masters.
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* TheBrute: Siegfried is the most powerful villain but enslaved to the wishes of his Nazi masters.
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* DarkIsEvil: Siegfried's costume is mostly made of black and feldgrau.
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* DarkIsEvil: Siegfried's costume is mostly made of colored in black and feldgrau.
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* Glowing Eyes of Doom / OccultBlueEyes: He has glowing blue eyes radiating energy.
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* Glowing Eyes of Doom GlowingEyesOfDoom / OccultBlueEyes: He has glowing blue eyes radiating energy.
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* Human Sacrifice: The ritual to resurrect him involved one.
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* Human Sacrifice: HumanSacrifice: The ritual to resurrect him involved one.
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* Ghostapo: The Nazis are very involved in the occult, this being how they revive Siegfried.
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* ScarySkeleton: The villain Koschei from ''Commander Columbia'' has a skeletal frame and skull face meant to evoke death.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Amanda, Vladimir, Yang and Miguel gain their powers in a moment where they put themselves in danger to save others.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Amanda, Vladimir, Yang and Miguel gain their powers in a moment where they put themselves in danger to save others.
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* ScarySkeleton: The villain Koschei from ''Commander Columbia'' has a skeletal frame and skull face meant to evoke death.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Amanda, Vladimir, Yang and Miguel gain their powers from Pandora's box in a moment where they put themselves in danger to saveothers.others despite being ordinary people themselves.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Amanda, Vladimir, Yang and Miguel gain their powers from Pandora's box in a moment where they put themselves in danger to save
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* ActingForTwo: In the original cast Creator/MelBlanc plays Henry Strauss, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Iosif Stalin and William Z. Foster.
* AllGermansAreNazis: Averted. Germany is personified by Fraulein Germania rather than Siegfried precisely to avoid portraying the national personifications of other cultures as inherently evil.
* AllGermansAreNazis: Averted. Germany is personified by Fraulein Germania rather than Siegfried precisely to avoid portraying the national personifications of other cultures as inherently evil.
* EvilSorcerer: Werner von Koehlberg is a Nazi sorcerer.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Henry Strauss, an American bourgeois exile working with Nazi Germany is obviously based on this timeline's Henry Ford, who's also working with the Nazis.
* OnlySaneWoman: Gesine Oswalt is a Nazi scientist but also the sole voice of reason among the villains.
* OppositesAttract: Amanda and Vladimir were created to be complimentary so that the two could have the sort of strong chemistry that would be necessary to embody the United Republics' newfound eternal friendship with the Soviet Union.
* OnlySaneWoman: Gesine Oswalt is a Nazi scientist but also the sole voice of reason among the villains.
* OppositesAttract: Amanda and Vladimir were created to be complimentary so that the two could have the sort of strong chemistry that would be necessary to embody the United Republics' newfound eternal friendship with the Soviet Union.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Amanda, Vladimir, Yang and Miguel gain their powers in a moment where they put themselves in danger to save others.
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[[folder:Commander Columbia]]Columbia / Amanda Aaron]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JudyGarland
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JudyGarland
* AmazonianBeauty: Amanda is strong, built like a soldier and no less beautiful.
* TheLeader: She is the leader of the group of heroes.
* SeriesMascot: The franchise is named after her.
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Vladimir Valentinovich Volkov
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->'''Voiced by:''' Andrei Abrikosov
Vladimir ValentinovichVolkovVolkov, Tovarishch Slava, embodiment of the Soviet Union and perennial heart throb.
Vladimir Valentinovich
* BadassAdorable: He is both a powerful hero and a baby-faced cute guy.
* BadassBookworm: Both an intellectual and a fighter.
* BespectacledCutie / CuteBookworm: He is a bespectacled intellectual with a baby face.
* Husky Russkie: Purposefully subverted by Samanthe Waver. Vladimir is a lean, soft-spoken intellectual who enjoys stereotypically feminine pursuits and less active pursuits such as writing, singing, dancing, botany, and playing chess.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He whole heartedly embraced many feminine pursuits such as knitting (making his own scarfs) and carving out nesting dolls.
* NamedWeapon: Wields the Hammer of the Earth.
* NerdActionHero: He is certainly a nerd, but also capable of
* NerdGlasses / SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Vladimir is a glasses wearing intellectual.
* Nice Guy: He is kind, compassionate and supportive.
* PowerArmor: Vladimir fights in a heavy industrial-looking armoursuit with an heavier hammer.
* ScienceHero / TheSmartGuy: The smart intellectual in Commander Columbia's squad who fights in a power suit of his own making.
* BadassBookworm: Both an intellectual and a fighter.
* BespectacledCutie / CuteBookworm: He is a bespectacled intellectual with a baby face.
* Husky Russkie: Purposefully subverted by Samanthe Waver. Vladimir is a lean, soft-spoken intellectual who enjoys stereotypically feminine pursuits and less active pursuits such as writing, singing, dancing, botany, and playing chess.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He whole heartedly embraced many feminine pursuits such as knitting (making his own scarfs) and carving out nesting dolls.
* NamedWeapon: Wields the Hammer of the Earth.
* NerdActionHero: He is certainly a nerd, but also capable of
* NerdGlasses / SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Vladimir is a glasses wearing intellectual.
* Nice Guy: He is kind, compassionate and supportive.
* PowerArmor: Vladimir fights in a heavy industrial-looking armoursuit with an heavier hammer.
* ScienceHero / TheSmartGuy: The smart intellectual in Commander Columbia's squad who fights in a power suit of his own making.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AnnaMayWong
YangYanyuYanyu, Koshih (革士)
Yang
* TechnicolorEyes: Has purple eyes.
* WaterIsWomanly: Yang embodies the water element.
* WaterIsWomanly: Yang embodies the water element.
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Miguel MateoMoralesMorales, El Valiente
Miguel Mateo
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* NamedWeapons: Miguel's rifle is named the Judicator.
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* NamedWeapons: Blood Knight: Even moreso than Amanda. To the point that often he needed to be reminded that the proper place of someone who wishes to be a hero is to help the needy more than to destroy the wicked.
* DashingHispanic:
* NamedWeapon: Miguel's rifle is named theJudicator.Judicator.
* TechnicolorEyes: Has orange eyes.
* DashingHispanic:
* NamedWeapon: Miguel's rifle is named the
* TechnicolorEyes: Has orange eyes.
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FritzLang
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* Badass Cape: Wears a long black cape as part of his garb.
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* Badass Cape: Cape / OminousOperaCape: Wears a long black cape as part of his garb.
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* DarkIsEvil: Siegfried's costume is made of dark colors, black and feldgrau.
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* DarkIsEvil: Siegfried's costume is mostly made of dark colors, black and feldgrau.
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* TragicVillain: Siegfried may have once been noble, but since he was resurrected using dark magic he has become a servant of the Nazis' designs.
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* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His armor has both black and a pale red.
* TragicVillain: Siegfried may have once beennoble, a noble man, but since he was resurrected using dark magic he has become a servant of the Nazis' designs.designs.
* VillainousFriendship: Fafnir his former nemesis became his ally as Siegfried no longer sees anything wrong with the Dragon's Greed.
* TragicVillain: Siegfried may have once been
* VillainousFriendship: Fafnir his former nemesis became his ally as Siegfried no longer sees anything wrong with the Dragon's Greed.
